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Planetary Glass Ornament Set: Spruce, the Final Frontier

Spice up your Christmas tree this year with this Planetary Glass Ornament Set. Because your old ball glass ornaments are boring and not spacey enough. These ornaments mixed with some Star Wars or Star Trek ships and a Doctor Who TARDIS will make your tree into a science-y sci-fi scene…

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Motorized Solar System Lets You Play God

If you like to learn about space, the planets and stars, this desktop Solar System might be just for you. It’s motorized allowing the planets to orbit around a glowing lamp sun. It’s not 100% accurate, but it’s a reasonable facsimile of our little corner of the universe. The mechanism …

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Pluto Might Be a Planet Again

Some NASA scientists are proposing a new definition of what a planet is to replace the definition adopted in 2006. That change resulted in Pluto being demoted to a dwarf planet. The definition was put forward by Caltech Astronomer Mike Brown. According to the head researcher for the group proposing…

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USPS Debuts Views of Our Planets Stamps: Planet Express

To celebrate NASA’s many discoveries, the USPS has just debuted some new stamps with images from outer space. Space fans are going to love sticking some of these on postcards or just keeping them as collectibles, since most of us don’t send snail mail these days. The stamp set is…

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Cosmic Exploration Poster Shows Man’s Space Efforts in One Graphic

You might want to cue up that sappy music from the short-lived Star Trek: Enterprise show for this story. This poster is a giant graphic that shows some of the myriad spacecraft humans have sent into space from 1959 through 2015. In all there are over 100 craft from orbiters…

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Planetary Bowls Put Your Cereal in the Milky Way

If you were ever going to have a celestial themed party, you want your snacks served in these bowls. I’d totally put foods that go with each planet inside the bowls. Like Mercury would have incredibly hot salsa. Jupiter’s bowl would be filled with bean dip, Saturn with cheerios and…

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Blown Glass Solar System Ornaments Make an out of This World Tree

Growing up, we always saw this a glass blower at a booth in the mall on the weekends. It was awesome to see the guy make glass bowls and little figures. I always though it look like a lot of fun, but was very complicated to do. That said, I…

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Newly Discovered “Super-Earth” is a Really a Diamond in the Sky

Scientists have discovered a planet orbiting a sun-like star called 55 Cancri. The planet is known as 55 Cancri e and is a so-called “super-Earth”. 55 Cancri e is 40 light years from the Earth and its light is visible to the naked eye.…

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Solar System Lollipops: Eat the Planets! And Pluto.

Unleash your inner Galactus with Vintage Confections’ “Planets solar system space ball style hard candy lollipop”. SEO-riffic! The lollipops feature images of the Sun and its planets, plus dwarf planet Pluto. It’s okay dude, we love you all equally, save for Earth. It just edges you all by a tiny…

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The Real Planetary Clock

A while back, I told you about a little solar system clock from Japan. It didn’t accurately represent the positions of the planets or anything but the time of day (and I’m not even sure it did that right). If you’re looking for something with a bit more accuracy and…

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Tag: Planets

Planetary Glass Ornament Set: Spruce, the Final Frontier

Motorized Solar System Lets You Play God

Pluto Might Be a Planet Again

USPS Debuts Views of Our Planets Stamps: Planet Express

Cosmic Exploration Poster Shows Man’s Space Efforts in One Graphic

Planetary Bowls Put Your Cereal in the Milky Way

Blown Glass Solar System Ornaments Make an out of This World Tree

Newly Discovered “Super-Earth” is a Really a Diamond in the Sky

Solar System Lollipops: Eat the Planets! And Pluto.

The Real Planetary Clock

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