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Posted on Friday, November 07, 2008 at 6:39 p.m. A northern Michigan gun shop manager is calling it a "huge embarrassment" to the company after one of his employees is quoted making racial slurs.

High-Resolution Close-up of Sun's Fiery Jets

Imagine a magnetically-bound tube of hot gas, 12,000-miles long and a hundred miles wide, moving at 30,000 miles per hour: That's what you're looking at in the picture above, in the highest-resolution image to ...

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Solar Spicules

Enough about politics! Astronomy Picture of the Day graces us with this amazing picture of solar flux tubes, or "spicules" on the surface of the sun:

What's Up: Space Place

Ah, in November the lengthening hours of night bring forth more time to see the wonders of the sky.

Image: A Close-Up of the Sun

Spicules dot the image of solar active region 10380 that crossed the Sun in June 2004, but are particularly evident as a carpet of dark tubes on the right Spicules: Jets on the Sun Imagine a pipe as wide as a ...

Enormous Prominence on Sun

The foreground is filled by a 'shag carpet' of spicules--Texas-sized jets of gas that shoot up from the sun's surface and fall back again on 10 minute time scales.

The Bald Eagle: Monarch of the American Sky

The year was 1782. It was only six years after the signing of the Declaration Of Independence when our nation adopted the American bald eagle as our national bird.

A point in Changi

With Dr. James Reimer and his entourage from the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, we went to a lesser known shore early this morning .

National Archives, Washington, D.C.

Battle of the Coral Sea Japanese-United States history Main , World War II naval and air engagement in which a U.S. fleet turned back a Japanese invasion force that had been heading for strategic Port Moresby ...