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Gadget of the week - Star Theatre Planetarium (£119.95)
London :: United Kingdom | 13 days ago
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Ever since the sad day in 2006 when the London Planetarium closed its doors (and suffered the indignity of a rebranding whereby the stars on show were celebrities rather than supernovas), learning about the heavens without worrying about light pollution...
Tags: United Kingdom, London, Constellation, Planetaria, Astronomer, Astronomy, Observation, Planetarium
The universe's past, in close up
Tucson :: AZ :: USA | 14 days ago
Credibility If there were a Guinness world record for making telescope mirrors, Dean Ketelsen would likely win it. Colleagues boast that the one-time Iowa farm boy has ground and polished more square footage of optics than any human being alive. "It used to be a...
Tags: Giant Magellan Telescope, Dean Ketelsen, Chuck Steidel, Tucson, Extremely large telescope, Astronomy, Mauna Kea, Galaxy, Dobsonian telescope, Telescopes, W. M. Keck Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope, Technology Internet
Stargazing: Jupiter and the first quarter moon
Pittsburgh :: PA :: USA | 15 days ago
Credibility Our closest celestial neighbor is now alongside our planet in its orbit, and we will see the moon just above Jupiter tonight as it sits about 30 degrees above the southern sky after sunset...This pretty pairing between Jupiter and the moon is easy for...
Tags: Jupiter, Pittsburgh, Planetary science, Moon, Planetarium, Ecliptic, Moons of Jupiter, Astronomy, Observational astronomy
Urbana University to display original images of space
Urbana :: OH :: USA | 15 days ago
Credibility An event Monday includes the unveiling of the images, to be on display permanently, and presentations by astronomers. -- Springfield News-Sun via AP Story tools
Tags: Urbana University, NASA, Urbana, Astronomy, Milky Way, Infrared imaging, Spitzer Space Telescope, Space observatory, Technology Internet, Education
Planetarium's light show to highlight holidays
Carmel :: IN :: USA | 17 days ago
Credibility 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 | 20 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 | 21 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 | 21 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 | 21 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
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