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Planets aligning for great celestial views
Salt Lake City :: UT :: USA | 3 days ago
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The Salt Lake Tribune First Published 60 minutes ago Updated 60 minutes ago The planets are starting to align this weekend and two star parties will allow viewers to get a closer look. Mercury, Venus and Jupiter are moving toward aligning into a
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Five ways technology fails Iron Man
Adelaide :: Australia | 18 days ago
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Stark is the world's best fictional engineer but the technological mishaps are all too obvious in the third instalment of the Iron Man franchise. Australian and French scientists have manufactured a material that may prove to be a new tool against
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Jupiter, Venus and Mercury gather for Memorial Day party
Washington :: DC :: USA | 22 days ago
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EDT The Washington Post Contemplate a crowded sky at dusk in the west-northwest toward the end of May. Like Ocean City sunbathers, Jupiter , Venus and Mercury jam-pack the sundown heavens for Memorial Day weekend.
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Comet of the century? ISON has 'potential' to be visible all day.
Boston :: MA :: USA | 23 days ago
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ments Comet of the century? ISON has 'potential' to be visible all day. As sun-grazing comet ISON approaches the sun, it's getting progressively brighter and might even flare into a dazzling object bright enough to be visible in broad daylight. By
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SOFIA images reveal how massive stars form
Sofia :: Bulgaria | 1 month ago
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Researchers have captured the most detailed mid-infrared images yet of a massive star condensing within a dense cocoon of dust and gas...It is one of the most massive known protostars and is located relatively close to Earth at a distance of 8,000
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New eyes to spy highest-energy skies
Mexico City :: Mexico | 1 month ago
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The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory or Hawc, high on a Mexican plain, now holds the record for the highest-energy light it can capture...Hawc is currently made of 30 detectors, but by 2014 will comprise some 300. Each one is a 7.3m-diameter,
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NASA Captures New Photo of Potential "Comet of the Century"
College Park :: MD :: USA | 1 month ago
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Its close encounter has the potential to ignite the comet in such a way that it could be visible from Earth in the middle of the day, and even outshine the Moon at night...Comet of the Century " when it makes its closest approach to the sun in late
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Bandon votes against 'dark sky' laws
Bandon :: OR :: USA | 2 months ago
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Voters in the Southern Oregon coastal city of Bandon have rejected a "dark sky" ordinance that would have required shields on new outdoor lights so that they shine downward. The City Council passed the measure last year by a vote of 5-1. But the
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Chile unveils world's largest astronomical observatory
Alma :: Canada | 2 months ago
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Europe, the US, Japan and Chile, according to a press release. "One of our many natural resources is Chile's spectacular night sky," Xinhua quoted Pinera as saying. "I believe that science has been a vital contributor to the development of Chile in
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PanSTARRS comet: First pictures as it makes an appearance over the skies of Britain
Las Vegas :: NV :: USA | 2 months ago
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Irish Sea as it graced the western horizon trailing a blaze of fire. The pictures were taken over from near Whitehaven, Cumbria, and at St Bridget's Church in the nearby seaside village of Lowca...Yesterday MailOnline published pictures of the comet
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