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• How to Watch the Birth of a Black Hole for the First Time - CalTech
• Distant Blazar Is a High-Energy Astrophysics Puzzle - UC-Santa Cruz
• War of the Worlds: Who Should Name Exoplanets? - Jacob Aron, NewSci.
• Kaboom! New Type of Cosmic Explosion Found. - George Dvorsky, io9
• Why Does Easter Move Around So Much? - The Economist
• Will Humans Get to See a Supernova in the Sky? - Matt Francis, Ars Tech
• Universe-in-a-Lab: Building Black Holes & Multiverses - The Economist
• Name Your Own Exoplanet - For Only $4.99 - Michael Lemonick, Time
• New Planet Seen Forming Inside Gas Cloud - Nick Collins, The Telegraph
• Prebiotic Molecules Could Seed Planetary Life - Nancy Atkinson, U Today
• Tuning into the Sound of the Universe - Honor Harger, The Huffington Post
• What if the Asteroid Actually Hit Earth Today? - Jesus Diaz, Gizmodo
• Happy Cosmic Valentine's Day! - Phil Plait, Slate
• The Sun Will Fry the Earth - 'Sorry!' - Nana Karikari-apau, CNN Light Years
• Auroras Occur Outside Our Solar System - Science Daily
• Carbon Planets Turn Earth's Chemistry on Its Head - John Matson, SciAm
• The Mystery of the Curiously Dense Cloud - CalTech
• Galactic Pile-Up May Point to New 'Dark Force' - Adam Mann, Wired
• At Least 100 Billion Planets Populate the Milky Way - CalTech
• Want to Lose a Lot of Weight? Go to Mars. - Ben Burress, KQED
• Experts: First 'Alien Earth' Will Be Found in 2013 - Mike Wall, Space.com
• 'Comet of the Century' Coming in 2013? - David Whitehouse, Independent
• The Best, Most Beautiful Astronomy Images of 2012 - Phil Plait, Slate
• Galaxy Found at Record-Breaking Distance - Ron Cowen, Nature News
• Hypergiant Star Amazes for 30 Years - Royal Observatory of Belgium
• Famed British Astronomer Sir Patrick Moore Dies at Age 89 - BBC News
• 'Dark Core' May Not Be So Dark After All - Ohio University
• Jupiter: Earth's Bodyguard or Assassin? - Naveena Sadasivam, Scienceline
• A First Look at Dwarf Planet Makemake - Matthew Francis, Ars Technica
• Astronomers Find Most Distant Object in Universe to Date - NASA
• Doubted, Massive Exoplanet Brought 'Back from the Dead' - NASA
• Sparkling Planet Composed of Diamonds - Steve Connor, The Independent
• The Nine Most Brilliant Comets Ever Seen - Joe Rao, Space.com
• How to Escape from a Black Hole - Daniel Cray, Time
• Happy New Year, Pastafarians! - Ethan Siegel, ScienceBlogs
• Spectacular Meteor Lights up United Kingdom! - Phil Plait, Discover Blogs
• The Astronomical Unit Gets Fixed - Geoff Brumfiel, Nature News
• A Renewed Call for an African Space Agency - David Smith, The Guardian
• Astronomers Discover 'Pigtail' Molecular Cloud - Clay Dillow, PopSci
• Astronomers Watch Black Hole Eat Star - Geoff Brumfiel, Nature News
• Astronomers Utterly Baffled By Vanishing Space Dust - UCLA
• The Cranky But Remarkable Mr. Zwicky - Mark Egdall, Decoded Science
• Why I Stopped Worrying about Science Accuracy in Films - Phil Plait, SEE
• Questions Keeping Astronomers Up at Night - Matt Francis, Ars Technica
• Football Stadium Hosts Largest Solar Eclipse Party - Denise Chow, MSNBC
• 'Ring of Fire' Eclipse: Everything You Need to Know - Robert Gonzalez, io9