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• Harvard-Smithsonian Study: Avatar’s Pandora Could Exist In Reality

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 570
  Avatar, the latest creation from Hollywood legendary director, James Cameron has created ripples across the entertainment industry with its cutting edge graphics and because of the creation of a whole new world called Pandora, which has been depicted as an alien moon, far away from earth. But this science fiction ...
  23 hours ago

• in the beginning, there was the black hole

  
  weird things — Authority: 537
  Just for a little astrophysics fun, let’s imagine that we’re back in the early days of the universe and the very first generation of stars is about to be born. Since the entire hot and dense universe is filled with gas, those stars will be enormous by today’s standards. While most modern stars tend to stay under ...
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• How Santa gets round the world in just one night

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 739
  London, December 27 (ANI): Ever wondered how Santa Claus manages to take one full circle of the world in just one night? Well, a researcher feels that it can only be possible if Santa has mastered theories of astrophysics. Professor John Brown, tenth Astronomer Royal for Scotland, believes only quantum mechanics and ...
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• How to use your new telescope

  
  Sciencedude — Authority: 425
  Getting a telescope for Christmas can be as frustrating as it is exciting. Some people don’t take enough time to learn the basics of using one, so they’re unable to do things like keep the moon in their field of view for more than a minute or two. The resulting frustration leads many people to simply give up. You ...
  2 days ago

• How Santa gets round the world in just one night

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 739
  London, December 24 (ANI): Ever wondered how Santa Claus manages to take one full circle of the world in just one night? Well, a researcher feels that it can only be possible if Santa has mastered theories of astrophysics. Professor John Brown, tenth Astronomer Royal for Scotland, believes only quantum mechanics and ...
  4 days ago

• Fog Found On Saturns Moon Titan

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 150
  The northeast just had its first big snow of the season. Meanwhile, on Titan, it was foggy. That weather report brought to you by researchers publishing in the journal Astrophysical Journal Letters . The scientists found that Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, is covered with puddles of liquid methane, which give rise ...
  4 days ago

• Reset

  
  Federico Pistono - Blog — Authority: 116
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  5 days ago

• Planets may assemble around stars more quickly than anyone thought possible

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 739
  Washington, December 23 (ANI): An international team of astronomers has said that two brown dwarf-sized objects orbiting a giant old star show that planets may assemble around stars more quickly and efficiently than anyone thought possible.The researchers were from the Torun Center for Astronomy, Poland and the Center ...
  5 days ago

• Brown dwarf pair mystifies astronomers

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 593
  Two brown dwarf-sized objects orbiting a giant old star show that planets may assemble around stars more quickly and efficiently than anyone thought possible, according to an international team of astronomers.“We have found two brown dwarf-sized masses around an ordinary star, which is very rare,” said Alex ...
  6 days ago

• Water Blankets Forming Planets

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 150
  In 2008 astronomers discovered surprising amounts of water molecules where planets were forming near young stars. But how, they wondered, could those molecules survive? They should have been destroyed by ultraviolet radiation. In theory, planetary dust could block out UV rays, but the dust was bound up in the creation ...
  6 days ago

• The solstice (in a two-sphere cosmos).

  
  Adventures in Ethics and Science — Authority: 473
  Here in the Northern Hemisphere (of Earth), today marks the Winter Solstice. Most people have some understanding that this means today is the day of minimum sunlight, or the longest night of the year. Fewer people, I think, have a good astronomical sense of why that is the case. So, in honor of the solstice, lets ...
  6 days ago

• Debating the Kalam argument in a YouTube thread

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 557
  A new reader to the blog read my article on the Kalam argument, and he decided to try it out on youtube here. He presented the argument PERFECTLY, and then he got some responses. He asked me to comment, so I will below. But I want you guys to comment, too! Anyway, here’s the page . (I didn’t watch the video) ...
  1 week ago

• The Known Universe

  
  Kasama — Authority: 505
  Thanks to Jed for passing this on.From the highlands of Asia to the edge of the known universe (and back….)Posted in >> Science, astrophysics, cosmology, physics, video
  1 week ago

• Six minutes to the edge of the universe and back

  
  John Connell: The Blog — Authority: 121
  The American Museum of Natural History and the Rubin Museum of Art have produced an animated journey that takes us from the roof of the world in the Himalayas to the edge of the known universe and back again. The film manages to squash 13.7 billion years into just 6 minutes or so. The blurb on YouTube says: ...
  1 week ago

• Avatar’s Moon Pandora: could leap from science fiction to reality soon

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 570
  The current movie hit Avatar shows humans visiting ‘the habitable – and inhabited – alien moon called Pandora.’ Such ‘life-bearing moons like Pandora or the Star Wars forest moon of Endor are a staple of science fiction.’ Soon, what science fiction used to offer in the realm of habitable moons may just ...
  1 week ago

• Your Weekend "Wow!"

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 153
  As youre sitting down this morning enjoying your Saturday morning coffee, be sure to check out this new short film from the American Museum of Natural History, "The Known Universe" -- a mind-blowing six-minute tour taking us from the peak ...
  1 week ago

• Saturday science project: Magnetic levitation

  
  Sciencedude — Authority: 425
  This week’s science project involves magnetic levitation, a favorite of many school children.  We again drew our lesson from freescienceproject.com, which offers both free and easy experiments, and more sophisticated kits. As their website notes, “The fact that the same magnetic poles repel each other is the ...
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• Black Hole Powered Craft

  
  Bruceleeeowe's Blog — Authority: 423
  Louis Crane has come up with an idea for an interstellar drive: black-hole powered spaceships, fueled by singularities made in robot-run solar power laser factories hovering just over the sun. It’s fantastic science fiction, but unfortunately some seem to have forgotten the second word in that phrase.The starship ...
  1 week ago

• Water and fog found on Titan, Saturn’s moon

  
  ZME Science — Authority: 121
  As I was writing in a previous post , Titan is quite unique, in that aside from our planet it’s the only place in our solar system where significant quantities of liquid are to be found (though most are liquid ethane and methane). That doesn’t seem to make much of a difference considering the chemistry of it, but ...
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• The weirdest public speaker youve ever seen? 4 lessons from Clifford Stoll

  
  Public Speaking Advice and Commentary — Authority: 117
  For my holiday blog and present to readers and thosepassionate about good public speaking, here is Clifford Stoll:   http://tinyurl.com/djsg9v .   Stoll may be the weirdest public speaker Ive ever seen, but you probably have seen weirder ones.  Let me know your nominations for the title, and Ill blog on the best ...
  1 week ago

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