"Singing Stars" Reveal Their Secrets, and More – The Countdown, Episode 29
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By Eric R. Olson
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Latest SpaceX Rocket Test Successfully Goes Sideways (New York Times)
Public Naming of Planets and Planetary Satellites: Reaching Out for Worldwide
Recognitionwith the Help of the IAU [Pdf] (IAU)
Around the World in Four Days: NASA Tracks Chelyabinsk Meteor Plume (NASA)
Russian Meteor Might Have Siblings in Tow (Scientific American)
An observational correlation between stellar brightness variations and surface gravity [Preview] (Nature)
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Singing Stars (Nature Video)
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