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A year's worth of (bad) astronomy facts

For most of 2012, Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy tweeted a random astronomy fact every day. To kick off 2013, you can read all of those facts in one place.

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Globular cluster NGC 6934, a ball of stars on the edge of our galaxy.
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For most of 2012, Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy tweeted a random astronomy fact every day. To kick off 2013, you can read all of those facts in one place.

Starting on 4 January 2012, Plait set himself a challenge: one astronomy fact that could fit into 140 characters for every day of 2012. He succeeded. Categorised under the hashtag #BAFacts are 367 facts, running from 4 January 2012 through to 4 January 2013: 366 for every day of the leap year, plus one extra for the last day of the tweets.

Even better, he has compiled them all in one handy Slate magazine post.

We like the series on weird moons:

Head over here for the rest, but make sure you've got some time to spare. They're pretty fascinating facts.

Via www.slate.com