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Moons | Planets | Space Station Align Tonight May 16 2010

| May 16, 2010 | 1 Comment

If skies are clear enough tonight, look low in the west after sunset for a pretty conjunction of a thin crescent moon, just a day past “new,” and the bright planet Venus. At 9 p.m., just below the zenith (straight up), high above the southwest horizon, is reddish Mars. And halfway between Mars and the [...]

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The Death Star Research Facility

| September 9, 2009 | 0 Comments

The Death Star Research Facility , 999 , wus The Death Star,The Death Star Research Facility:The Death Star was a moon-sized Imperial military battlestation armed with a planet-destroying superlaser. The Death Stars were the first in a long series of superweapons developed to execute the Tarkin Doctrine, but whose concept had been explored even before [...]

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