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Planetarium's light show to highlight holidays
Carmel :: IN :: USA | 1 day ago
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The Carmel High School Planetarium and Carmel High School Astronomy Club will present two showings of the Season of Light Saturday night at the Planetarium. Forty-minute shows will begin at 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. Cost is $4 for adults and $2 for children,...
Tags: Keith Turner, Carmel, Planetarium, Turner, Carmel School, Carmel New York, Planetaria, Astronomy, Observation, Education
High-Density Galaxy Puzzles Astronomers
Santiago :: Chile | 4 days ago
Credibility ESA, SSC, CXC, and STScI) A high-density galaxy 11 billion light-years away that has been recently discovered is found to reflect the state of galaxies in the early stage of the universe. In August this year, for the first time in history, astronomers...
Tags: billion light, Chile, Santiago, Large-scale structure of the cosmos, Peculiar galaxies, Milky Way, Galaxy formation and evolution, Astronomy, Technology Internet, Spiral galaxies, Local Group, Galaxy
Record-breaking radio astronomy project to measure sky with extreme precision
Sydney :: Australia | 4 days ago
Credibility The quasars, galaxies with supermassive black holes at their cores, are profuse emitters of radio waves, and also are so distant that, despite their actual motions in space, they appear stationary as seen from Earth. This lack of apparent motion makes...
Tags: radio telescope, reference frame, Australia, Sydney, Very Long Baseline Interferometry, Astronomy, ASTRON, Hipparcos, Technology Internet, Telescopes, Radio astronomy, Quasar
Time-lapse movie reveals hidden details in birth of super-suns
Mumbai :: India | 4 days ago
Credibility The glowing gas of the nebula is powered by a group of young massive stars, but behind it is a cluster of younger stars and clumps of gas. Still gathering together under gravity's pull, these gas clumps will eventually ignite into stars. The youthful...
Tags: massive star, lapse movie, star formation, movie reveals, hidden details, reveals hidden, India, Mumbai, Protostar, Astronomy, Star, Nebula, Accretion disc, Entertainment Culture, Stellar astronomy, Star types
Essay: Is Doomsday Coming? Perhaps, but Not in 2012
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility On the other hand, it is kind of depressing if you were looking forward to taking a vacation from mortgage payments to finance one last blowout...The announcements by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, in the form of several Web site postings...
Tags: Earth, Long Count, Dr. Morrison, Los Angeles, Astrophysics, The Universe, Ed Krupp, Star, Apocalypse, Eschatology, Apocalypticism, Astronomy
Exciting moon bombing images
A NASA sattelite that has turtled into a moon crater on an exploration last week has sent back exciting photographs of every phase of its flight and the subsequent crash. According to the US Space Agency, the images were really blowing. Related...
Tags: astronomy, Impact crater, moon, Solar System, Space
Kashmir University to have Astronomy Club
Vice Chancellor (VC) of Kashmir University (KU), Prof Riyaz Punjabi has announced the establishment of an Astronomy Club at KU. Saying that seeing science education at all levels in J&K is his dream VC asked the students to remain...
Tags: Kashmir, University, Astronomy, Club, Establishment
A Comet Gives 'Birth' ...
Holmes comet has for the second time come to the attention of astronomers. The first time was in 2007 when an outburst increased the visibility of the comet by 1,000,000 times and produced a dust cloud larger than our sun... Now the comet has done...
Tags: Holmes Comet, Astronomy
W-T-G M.I.T. !!!
Talk about "Ingenuity..." Taken at an altitude of 92,000 feet from a balloon sent up by MIT students this amazing photo shows just what you can do when you put your mind to it... Costing less than $150, they used a prepaid cell phone, a sounding...
Emo planet headed for a murder-suicide with its nearest star
Turns out we're not the only ones with a penchant for self-destruction. Astronomers have discovered a planet measuring ten times the size of Jupiter that appears to be in a dysfunctional relatiionship with its star. As the planet, known as WASP-18b, triggers...
Tags: allnews, astronomy, planet, star, suicide, suicidal, universe
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