These are the top stories from the Digg Space category for the week ending Saturday 19th of April 2008:

• 1 Fifty Years of American Space Exploration [Slideshow]
• 2 Astronomy Picture of the Day: The Running Chicken Nebula
• 3 America in Space: NASA”s First Fifty Years
• 4 Mars radar opens up a planet’s third dimension
• 5 Great observatories of the West - PHOTO GALLERY

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These are the top stories from the Digg Space category for the week ending Saturday 12th of April 2008:

• 1 Firefox Logo Spied In Deep Space
• 2 The 1.5 Gigayear Technology Gap.
• 3 Space is full of crap
• 4 Brand New NASA Science Website Opens
• 5 APOD: At first, he couldn”t see the Moon

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Listen, I love APOD but I am a bit fed up of everyone on Digg filling up the digg/space category with endless APOD images. They’re very pretty, and we all like them, but how am I supposed to know when a really amazing one comes up if you all digg every single one? Also the presence of APOD on digg is shifting other, more worthy and original stories off of my RSS feed.

APOD does carry some awesome images, like the one shown in this post. But, like a lot of people, I check APOD almost every day and as such I don’t think it warrants digging.
Thank you, rant over.