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Nature 420, 740 (19 December 2002) | doi:10.1038/420740b

Why astronomy is the star of the news show

Howard A. Smith1

  1. Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA

Space science news is good news, according to the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, which tracks the "most closely followed" news stories in the United States (http://people-press.org/reports).