SPACE.com Update for August 28, 2006
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August 28, 2006
  
  TOP STORY posted: August 28, 2006 11:15 am EDT 
Strange Pulsing Star Puzzles Astronomers
Astronomers using radio telescopes from around the world have discovered a spinning neutron star with a superpowerful magnetic field, called a magnetar, doing things no magnetar has been seen to do before.
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NASA Scrubs Shuttle Launch Citing Lightning Strike, Weather
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 SCIENCE/ASTRONOMY
Pluto: Solar System's Loss is Collectors' Gain
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