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Phil Plait writes Slate’s Bad Astronomy blog and is an astronomer, public speaker, science evangelizer, and author of Death From the Skies!  

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July 25 2016 9:00 AMMore Evidence That Dinosaurs Suffered a One-Two Extinction PunchPhil Plait
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July 23 2016 9:00 AMWhen Rosetta Comes to Rest: Cometary Final Destination ChosenPhil Plait
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July 21 2016 9:15 AMThe Antiheroes We Don’t Deserve: Climate Inaction FiguresPhil Plait
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July 20 2016 9:00 AMThe GOP Fiddles While America BurnsPhil Plait
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July 18 2016 12:00 PMRosetta Sees Its Own Shadow on a Comet, Three More Months of Its Mission LeftPhil Plait
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July 17 2016 9:30 AMAstrophoto: A Moment of Clarity in the Milky WayPhil Plait
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July 15 2016 9:30 AMWho Knows What Evil Lurks at the Hearts of Galaxies? Hubble Knows.Phil Plait
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July 13 2016 11:58 AMWhat Do You Do With a Problem Like Space Debris?Phil Plait
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July 12 2016 11:45 AMA NASA Satellite Watched as the Moon Photobombed EarthPhil Plait
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July 11 2016 11:40 AMMeasles Outbreak in Arizona Likely Fueled by Vaccine RefusalsPhil Plait
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July 10 2016 9:30 AMTricky Astrophoto Looks Like It Shows Stars During the DayPhil Plait
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July 8 2016 8:00 AMWe Have to Be Better Than ThisPhil Plait
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July 6 2016 9:00 AMDid a Lonely Galaxy Undergo an Immaculate Conception?Phil Plait
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July 5 2016 1:53 AMJupiter Has a New Moon. And We Put It There.Phil Plait
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July 3 2016 9:00 AMHubble Sees a Galaxy Like a Time Machine Into Our Own PastPhil Plait
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July 24 2016 9:00 AMEver Heard of Dry Tortugas National Park? Watch This Time-lapse Video and You’ll Want to See It for Yourself.Phil Plait
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July 22 2016 9:00 AMAmazing NASA Time Lapse Shows a Year on Earth From SpacePhil Plait
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July 20 2016 11:30 AMYou Just Lived Through the Hottest June on Record. And May. And April. And March. And February. And January. And December. And ...Phil Plait
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July 19 2016 9:00 AMHubble Took a Spectacular Photo of the Heart of the Crab NebulaPhil Plait
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July 18 2016 9:00 AMGreenland Lost a Trillion Tons of Ice in Four YearsPhil Plait
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July 16 2016 9:30 AMWatch an Intense Time-Lapse Video of Storm CloudsPhil Plait
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July 14 2016 8:30 AMOne Year Ago Today, Pluto Became a World.Phil Plait
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July 13 2016 9:00 AMJuno Takes Its First Photo of Jupiter and Its Moons from OrbitPhil Plait
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July 12 2016 9:30 AMGOP Redefines “Dirty” as “Clean” and Hopes You’ll Believe ThemPhil Plait
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July 11 2016 9:30 AMAn Alien Planet Orbits in a Triple-Star System … and We Have PhotosPhil Plait
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July 9 2016 9:00 AMPhoto: Anvil-Topped Thunderhead Storm Cloud Over ColoradoPhil Plait
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July 7 2016 8:45 AMLandsat Photos of Earth Get Photobombed by the Space StationPhil Plait
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July 5 2016 12:58 PMFollow-Up: Jupiter’s Moons Dance as Juno ApproachedPhil Plait
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July 4 2016 9:00 AMPlease Keep Pets in Mind Tonight if You Celebrate the FourthPhil Plait
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July 2 2016 9:15 AMOne Does Not Simply Jump off the Cliffs of MordorPhil Plait

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