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by Jeff Poor   Even though U.S. Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA-55) would win the House Speaker’s race, it may have been overshadowed by an incident moments earlier on the U.S. House of Representatives floor involving U.S. Reps. Mike Rogers…

It never stops. Consider today’s headline from a Fight for Schools press release: ABC7: Fairfax County Public Schools Sex Education Changes Will Refer to Boys as “assigned males at birth” and Girls as “assigned females at…

Debris from the most spectacular comet outburst ever is visible from Earth this month and astronomers hope the observations might shed some light on the puzzling event that brightened up the sky in 2007. When the faint Comet 17P/Holmes…

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New for 2022, the tau Herculid meteor shower may make an appearance on the night of May 30-31. Sometimes, astronomy can be full of surprises. Take the case of a tiny comet, normally far too faint to be seen without the help of a…

AG Carinae shines with the brilliance of 1 million Suns, making it one of the brightest stars in the Milky Way. But that brilliance doesn’t come without its costs. The star is burning through its fuel at a rapid pace, causing it to erupt…