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Monday, March 2, 2015

Book Talk: Rachel Joyce’s Inspiring Story Set in a Hospice by REUTERS

By REUTERS

British novelist Rachel Joyce’s new novel “The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy” is a curiously inspiring story set in a hospice.

Published: March 2, 2015 at 01:17AM

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Youth-Led Disaster Alerts Protect Sri Lankan Tsunami Village-TRFN by REUTERS

By REUTERS

When the Indian Ocean tsunami swept ashore on Dec. 26, 2004, Supunsara Methmani was just eight years old. But the memories are still fresh in her mind.

Published: March 2, 2015 at 12:28AM

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Ice Slows Business, Traffic on Northeast Waterways by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Waterways around the Northeast are beset by ice that is more than a foot thick in some places, making life miserable for those who make their living on the water.

Published: March 1, 2015 at 09:12PM

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Sunday, March 1, 2015

Inside the Coma Cluster of Galaxies

Almost every object in the above photograph is a galaxy. The Coma Cluster of Galaxies pictured above is one of the densest clusters known – it contains thousands of galaxies. Each of these galaxies houses billions of stars – just as our own Milky Way Galaxy does. Although nearby when compared to most other clusters, light from the Coma Cluster still takes hundreds of millions of years to reach us. In fact, the Coma Cluster is so big it takes light millions of years just to go from one side to the other! The above mosaic of images of a small portion of Coma was taken in unprecedented detail in 2006 by the Hubble Space Telescope to investigate how galaxies in rich clusters form and evolve. Most galaxies in Coma and other clusters are ellipticals, although some imaged here are clearly spirals. The spiral galaxy on the upper left of the above image can also be found as one of the bluer galaxies on the upper left of this wider field image. In the background thousands of unrelated galaxies are visible far across the universe. via NASA http://ift.tt/1Bs4u6m