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Get Out: A Maya celebration at the Chabot Space and Science Center
Madrid :: Spain | 2 days ago
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You'll be surrounded by Maya sights and sounds in the center's new show, "Tales of the Maya Skies," which focuses on science, art and mythology of the region. The 33-minute story, narrated by Grammy Award-winner Lila Downs, was produced by Chabot and...
Tags: Mayan, Spain, Madrid, Maya civilization, Mayan languages, Fulldome, Telescopes, Planetaria, Chabot Space and Science Center, Chichen Itza, Itza, Maya, Oakland California
Tucson firm's mirrors to be tested at space station
Cape Canaveral :: FL :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility Department of Defense for potential use in downward-looking spy satellites, said Bob Romeo, the company's president. The mirrors will be exposed to the space environment in hopes that they can be used as a less-expensive, lighter and sturdier alternative...
Tags: Bob Romeo, NASA, Arizona Daily Star Tucson, intern space, Cape Canaveral, Space technology, Optical devices, Telescopes, International Space Station, Materials International Space Station Experiment, Mirror, Technology Internet
Untested group now gets its turn
Warsaw :: Poland | 4 days ago
Credibility at NorthWood Jan ...Jan. 19 : at Whitko Jan. 23 : Plymouth Jan. 26 : at Tippecanoe Valley Jan. 30 : at Concord, 2:30 p.m. All games at 7:45 p.m., unless noted Jenna Henderson, Lauren Tait and Kaytie Woodard havent been in the spotlight. That can happen...
Tags: Warsaw, Poland, Telescopes, Carina constellation, Exoplanetology, Gravitational lensing, Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment, allnews, College ice hockey, Women's ice hockey
Part of Big Island under wind advisory
Honolulu :: HI :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility The National Weather Service in Honolulu said a wind advisory is in effect for parts of the Big Island until 8 p.m. tonight. Strong trades with sustained wind speeds of 30 mph or higher with gusts up to 45 mph are expected today near South Point and...
Tags: Big Island, Hawaii County, Honolulu, Hawaii, Hawaii County Hawaii, Gale warning, Wind, Weather, Information technology management, Marketing, Spam, Charles Ponzi, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Confidence tricksters, Cybercrime, Electronic commerce, Social Issues, Mauna Kea, Thirty Meter Telescope, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Observatory, Telescopes, Astronomical observatories, Technology Internet, Underwater diving, Scuba diving, Disaster Accident
Record-breaking radio astronomy project to measure sky with extreme precision
Sydney :: Australia | 5 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
Isle-linked mission alters view of Earth's celestial neighbor
Honolulu :: HI :: USA | 8 days ago
Credibility It's still very dry by terrestrial standards. "But that kind of water vapor could be used as a resource," he said. "It's getting to a level where they could think about using this soil and heating it up and driving off water vapor." It could be cooled...
Tags: moon, LCROSS, NASA Infrared Telescope, Honolulu, Exploration of the Moon, NASA Infrared Telescope Facility, Mauna Kea Observatory, Mauna Kea, Infrared, Telescopes, Cabeus, Technology Internet
Alien calling? Signal detected
Aliens calling? Signals detected from beyond Solar System Scientists in South Africa have detected radio signals from beyond the solar system for the first time - prompting a wave of excitement over who, or what, might have sent it. The signal is the...
Tags: Solar System, Shout Africa Scientists, Telescopes, Ufo, Aliens
Radio Signal Detected from Beyond the Solar System
Durban :: South Africa | about 1 year ago
Credibility The signal, witnessed by a project volunteer, was so strong that he quickly circled the indication on a printout and scribbled the phrase "Wow!"...Dubbed the Wow! signal, it's considered by some to be the most likely candidate from an artificial, extraterrestrial...
Tags: solar system, telescopes, aliens, Radio Signal Detected
Patch-up telescope sees first detail of star beyond galaxy
Garching :: Germany | about 1 year ago
Credibility T hey trained the two telescopes on a red supergiant named WOH G64 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighbouring galaxy. WOH is about 2,000 times larger than the sun and is 163,000 light years away. Keiichi Ohnaka of the Max Planck Radio-Astronomy Institute...
Tags: telescope, telescopes
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