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Have you ever looked at the moon or pictures of other planets to see hundreds of impact craters and wondered why Earth doesn’t look like that? Well, it sort of does. That’s right, Planet Earth is full of 170 crater holes and meteor blast sites, and counting!
An interesting article about Earth’s craters on Space.com explains [...]

The total lunar eclipse that took place on Wednesday night, February 20, 2008 was nothing short of spectacular.
About 40 degrees high in the eastern sky, the bright full, white moon slowly darkened from Earth’s shadow over the course of a couple of hours. While it was hard to see the shadow actually creep across the [...]

The Newburyport Daily News and Boston.com report that an earthquake, measuring 1.8 on the Richter scale, struck Amesbury and Merrimac at 7:15 Monday morning while many residents were getting ready for work.
While homes in the area were not shaken, many residents did report hearing a loud bang from the earthquake. The epicenter occurred just southeast [...]

Scientists who were mapping 1,500 square miles of of an undersea mountain range in the North Atlantic Ocean discovered some new species, NationalGeopraphic.com reports.
According to Monty Priede, expedition leader and director of the University of Aberdeen’s Oceanlab research center, the area is about the size of the European Alps. It’s remoteness and depth have kept [...]

Well, this doesn’t rate a Friday cephalopod status, like those from one of my favorite science blogs, Pharyngula, but this photo of a baby stingray from Cute Overload was just awesome.

(Courtesy of CuteOverload.com/Megan F. - U.K.)
The most fascinating thing about this shot I’d like to point out is the legs. But stingrays don’t have legs, [...]

Between the bright moon and the street lights, finding asteroid VV2 was a no-go for me on Saturday night. Even using the star hopping method by locating the big dipper and moving from there to the constellation of Leo minor and then Leo turned up nothing.

(Photo courtesy of Starrynight.com)
Aside from viewing a beautiful moon up [...]

Last night was a great night for doing a little stargazing. It wasn’t too cold and it was relatively clear. Despite the street lights and the lights from a few nearby houses, the visibility was pretty darn good. So, I pulled out the old Dobsonian telescope, set her up and had a look at what’s [...]

Or is it  octopi?
According to wikipedia, either spelling, or pronunciation, is correct. There’s even a third spelling, also accepted but rarer, octopodes.
According to one of my favorite blogs, Pharyngula, the octopus is a cephalopod, an amazing class of sea creatures. Pharyngula, the blog of PZ Myers, a biologist and associate professor at the University of [...]