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Star power pulls fans of astronomy to Keys
Tue, 05 Feb, 2013 10:21 PM PST
Hundreds of professional and amateur astronomers are focusing telescopes on southern constellations, stars, planets and even the International Space Station in the lower Florida Keys.
Friends of Prosper Library to host evening stargazing session Tuesday
Tue, 05 Feb, 2013 10:09 PM PST
The Friends of the Prosper Community Library are looking skyward on the evening of Tuesday, Jan. 22 and invite stargazers of every age to join in an astronomy program that includes breathtaking views through a high-powered telescope and a conversation with an amateur astronomer.
Rugby welcomes local stargazers
Tue, 05 Feb, 2013 04:22 PM PST
STARGAZERS are being urged to look to the heavens. Local Facebook group Astronomy for Fun will be hosting a free event on Saturday January 12 linked to the popular BBC tv show Stargazing Live.
Sphere gives lessons in weather, astronomy, more at Science Museum
Tue, 05 Feb, 2013 03:54 PM PST
The South Florida Science Museum has the world in its hands. Crews have installed Science on a Sphere, a 6-foot globe developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, in the museum. Using four projectors and a set of computers, the 200-pound suspended fiberglass globe synchronizes and blends animated images of topography, climate change, ocean temperature, animal migration ...
Earth Safe From Asteroid’s Close Flyby Next Week
Tue, 05 Feb, 2013 03:05 AM PST
An asteroid will give Earth a historically close shave next week, but there’s no chance that the space rock will slam into our planet on this pass, experts say. The 150-foot-wide (45 meters) asteroid 2012 DA14 will zoom within 17,200 miles (27,700 kilometers) of our planet on Feb. 15, coming nearer than the ring of [...] More About: Asteroid , astronomy , NASA , space
 
Space News: Unmasking galaxies’ hidden black holes
Sun, 03 Feb, 2013 04:00 AM PST
Most astronomers suspect that a massive black hole lurks at the center of most if not all galaxies, but only a few dozen examples are known out of billions of galaxies in the cosmos. Now astronomers have developed a quick technique that could potentially uncover and weigh 10 times more massive black holes than are now known. Using the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy ...
Natelson named one of the top 20 scientists under 40 by Discover
Sun, 03 Feb, 2013 03:15 AM PST
Astronomy and Physics Professor Doug Natelson stands by a function generator in his laboratory. Natelson was named one of the top 20 scientists under 40 by this month's Discover magazine.
 
 
 
International Space Station patch designed by astronomy buffs at Granada Hills' Valley Academy of Arts and Sciences
Wed, 30 Jan, 2013 04:29 PM PST
Narek Baghosian and Florian Storz, members of the Astronomy Club at Valley Academy of Arts and Sciences in Granada Hills, have designed a patch that will be carried on a privately funded flight to the International Space Station.
Astronomy event at school
Wed, 30 Jan, 2013 08:31 AM PST
A CHESTER-le-Street school is inviting people to an evening of stargazing.
Astronomy: February astronomy highlights
Wed, 30 Jan, 2013 06:01 AM PST
February 2013 sky guide
 
 Five New researchers join Science at York
Mon, 28 Jan, 2013 07:20 AM PST
Five new researchers have joined the Faculty of Science & Engineering. The first to be introduced here is Christopher Bergevin.   Christopher comes to the Department of Physics & Astronomy following a postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery at Columbia University. “York provides fantastic potential for interdisciplinary collaboration given the wide range of
Stellar performances finally gain the limelight
Mon, 28 Jan, 2013 03:44 AM PST
In Heart of Darkness, Jeremiah P. Ostriker and Simon Mitton add new stars to the constellation of astronomy to tell the subject's full history
 
Hubble to Look Deeper into the Cosmos
Thu, 17 Jan, 2013 09:06 PM PST
The Hubble Space Telescope's iconic "Deep Field" photo wowed the world in 1996 by revealing a huge collection of galaxies hiding inside a patch of the sky that looked like nothing more than blank space. Now NASA plans to image six more "empty" bits of sky for a whole new set of deep fields that could revolutionize astronomy once again. Hubble captured the Deep Field by staring at the same point ...
 
Astronomy Teacher Josh Lake Finds Hubble Image Of Large Magellanic Cloud
Mon, 21 Jan, 2013 06:07 PM PST
A Connecticut astronomy teacher has uncovered a dazzling view of a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way while exploring the "hidden treasures" of the Hubble Space Telescope.
 
A microquasar makes a giant manatee nebula
Fri, 18 Jan, 2013 09:21 PM PST
( National Radio Astronomy Observatory ) A new view of a 20,000-year old supernova remnant demonstrates the upgraded imaging power of the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array and provides more clues to the history of this giant cloud that resembles a beloved endangered species, the Florida Manatee.
 
www.projectrho.com [Found on Yahoo! Search]
Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
 
www.astroviewer.com [Found on Google, Yahoo! Search]
Aug 20, 2012 ... AstroViewer is an interactive night sky map that helps you to find your ... find out the names and other information about the stars, planets, ... constellations and planets,; print a sky chart,; display a 3D-map of the solar system.
www.alibris.com [Found on Yahoo! Search]
3-D Star Maps: A View of the Universe in Three Dimensions, the Whole Night Sky by John Cox, Richard Monkhouse - Find this book online from $0.99. Get new, rare & used ...
 
www.skymaps.com [Found on Yahoo! Search]
Maps of the night sky for northern and southern hemispheres, designed to be printed and used, and updated each month.
www.stellarium.org [Found on Google]
It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being ... A shooting star flashes past the Jupiter. You can ...
 
www.timeanddate.com [Found on Yahoo! Search]
The Sun's position is marked with this symbol: . At this location, the Sun will be at its zenith (directly overhead) ... Related time zone tools.
 
www.michaelmandeville.com [Found on Yahoo! Search]
Chandler's Wobble Causes Earthquakes, Volcanism, El Nino, and Global ... To measure the effect of the Sun and the Moon on earthquake ... When the position of ...
 
www.youtube.com [Found on Google, Yahoo! Search]
Nov 26, 2009 ... You need Adobe Flash Player to watch this video. Download it from Adobe. Star Spin ENE night sky time lapse in ambient light V06959 ...
 
www.wired.com [Found on Google]
Nov 18, 2012 ... Heaven meets the Earth in this moving time-lapse video showing gorgeous landscapes underneath an ever-changing night sky. ... turn to night and night to day, as overhead stars shine their beautiful light above mountains, ...
 
news.yahoo.com [Found on Google, Yahoo! Search]
Feb 27, 2012 ... He put it all together in a time-lapse video set to music by the ... Along with a star- filled sky, the photog caught the tail of a meteor and the ...
 
www.wired.com [Found on Google]
Nov 26, 2012 ... Clouds and stars sail through the sky and reflect off the telescopes at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in this breathtaking time-lapse video. ... of the best conditions to view the night sky in the Northern Hemisphere.
 
www.slate.com [Found on Google]
Nov 26, 2012... do here at BA HQ is feature beautiful, time-lapse videos of the night sky. ... the combined light of billions of stars forming a flat line and bulging ...
 
www.youtube.com [Found on Yahoo! Search]
This is my first night time video with the Canon T2i. I had a bit of a learning curve to overcome, you can see that from the first clip. Since then this ...
 
io9.com [Found on Google]
Oct 6, 2012 ... When cameras follow the paths of stars across the sky, they capture star trails, which look like glowing record grooves and give you a sense of ...
 
vimeo.com [Found on Yahoo! Search]
Time lapse video of night sky as it passes over the 2009 Texas Star Party in Fort Davis, Texas. The galactic core of Milky Way is brightly displayed. Images taken…
 
www.thisiscolossal.com [Found on Google]
Nov 26, 2012 ... Incredible Timelapse Video of the Night Sky Recorded Using a Fisheye Lens. Incredible Timelapse Video of the Night Sky Recorded Using a ...
 
www.wired.com [Found on Yahoo! Search]
An amateur astronomer from Australia created this stunning time-lapse video of the night sky over the ocean. It shows clouds streaming across the sky, star-spangled ...
 
Open ur mind & expand You knowledge & reasoning, as I make this APOD today in case this tis
My Last Chore here on Morther Earth & I's released from this worlds misery brought by TPB n all THEY with no Human Empathy
The Enemy Hidden in Plain Sight
The Enemy with the gates of
The Republic of The United States
 
Sit with Your CHILDn go thru the links-slowly
that ur CHILD may know of WONDERS
n so ur Child will never know all of what Ol Pete knows
nor that Ur CHILD is forced to learn as I
 
Pete's Farm, FTG
Liberty Acres, Est 1893
In Plena Via
to All Human BEings
Pls Be True in All Affairs
 
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