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Leap second added to 2016 BOULDER - You probably didn't notice, but at 5:00 p.m. in Colorado on New Year's Eve, an extra second was added to 2016. In fact, a second has been added to the clock 36 other times since 1972.
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Forget the fireworks — look for a comet in the sky on New Year's Eve NASA says as we ring in the new year, comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušáková will near the moon and be visible to those looking west (if you have binoculars).
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See Mars and Neptune get close on New Year's Eve & New Year's Day This looping animation shows the waxing young crescent Moon's nightly motion at dusk through the zodiacal constellations of Capricornus and Aquarius from 31 December 2016 to 3 January 2017, passing dazzling planet Venus and first-magnitude Mars ...
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[ January 1, 2017 ] Space station battery work starts New Year's Eve News Working over the New Year holiday weekend, robot arm operators at the Johnson Space Center will begin a complex procedure to replace 12 aging batteries in the International Space Station's solar power system with six state-of-the-art lithium-ion power ...
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Scientists Stumped By Thousands Of Dead Fish Off Nova Scotia Weeks of tests have failed to find the cause of the mysterious mass die-off of thousands of fish washing up on the southwestern shores of Nova Scotia.
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Bird watchers discuss changes in trends at annual Christmas bird count According to the Audubon Society's website, orinthologist Frank Chapman organized the first Christmas bird count in 1900. The activity was an alternative to the "side hunts" which were popular at the time, the goal of which was to shoot as many animals ...
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NEOWISE mission spies one comet, maybe two NASA's NEOWISE mission has recently discovered some celestial objects traveling through our neighborhood, including one on the blurry line between asteroid and comet.
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Hottest year in history sees election of president who questions climate science Next month, the World Meteorological Organization is expected to declare 2016 the hottest year in recorded history - just as the United States prepares to inaugurate a president who questions whether climate change is real.
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Race to save the cheetah as study reveals extinction threat Lounging in the shade of a tree, Heathcliff the cheetah oozes sleek grace and power, but he is captive behind a wire fence -- perhaps the only way that cheetahs will exist in a few decades' time.
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