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 | Planets form from the dusty disks surrounding newborn stars.
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Richard Talcott //
Published: September 24, 2012 |
 | This computer simulation gives scientists hints as to why the solar system looks the way it does.
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Liz Kruesi //
Published: September 24, 2012 |
 | Learn the details behind the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s biggest machine and the site of the recent Higgs boson announcement.
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Bill Andrews //
Published: September 24, 2012 |
 | Mineralogists so far have discovered the following 11 minerals in presolar grains.
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Michael E. Bakich //
Published: September 24, 2012 |
 | Sir Patrick Moore compiled his Caldwell Catalog to fill in the missing bright deep-sky objects from Charles Messier’s famous list.
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Karri Ferron //
Published: September 24, 2012 |