Astronomy

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• Beautiful space image — Centaurus A

  
  David Kirkpatrick — Authority: 144
  Amazing … This image of the central parts of Centaurus A reveals the parallelogram-shaped remains of a smaller galaxy that was gulped down about 200 to 700 million years ago. The image is based on data collected with the SOFI instrument on ESO’s New Technology Telescope at La Silla. The original image, ...
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• International Space Station and Space Shuttle Atlantis Flew by my Neighborhood

  
  Mully410 Critical Blog — Authority: 112
  ISS Atlantis Originally uploaded by Mully410 I hope you got out to view the ISS and Shuttle tonight. I warned you yesterday . I waved at all the astronauts when they flew near my house tonight. They probably didnt see me because it was quite dark out and they were about 800 miles away. The above is the first ...
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• Books youve read; Astronomy

  
  ForumGarden — Authority: 156
  Im making this thread in the hopes everyone can share the books theyve read pertaining to astronomy and those you highly recommend. Obviously we cant be throwing out books Willy Nilly and expect just anyone can follow along so I ask that you give a brief description of what the book entails. Ill begin. Ive read ...
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• The Awesome Hypnosis Techniques – Info Barrel

  
  Hypnosis MagazineHypnosis Magazine — Authority: 151
  Though hypnosis is mainly used to treat several diseases and behavioral disorders, or to correct some negative habits, some cultures of the world have connected hypnosis with religion in some way. In their religious ceremonies, … More: The Awesome Hypnosis Techniques – Info Barrel BlogBabel Tags: astronomy , ...
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• Thus you shall go to the stars: Michæl Paukner

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 887
  Sic itur ad astra = Latin for "thus you shall go to the stars". Yet another beautiful work from artist Michæl Paukner. "I used some scans of old astronomy maps from the 17th century," he says. You can buy prints of his work now! I want the Aztec Calendar print so bad. And Luna, too. I want every single one hes ...
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• More Cassini Eye Candy

  
  Castro's Favorite Color — Authority: 141
  Lots of pretty images and data from Cassini around Saturn. Universe Today reports Infrared Saturn, Peek-a-boo Moons . Here are raw images from today of the moon Enceladus. And looking around our solar system, Cassini instruments has changed our understanding of the shape of the Heliosphere around our solar ...
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• Cassini buzzes Enceladus once again

  
  Bad Astronomy — Authority: 697
  On November 20, 2009, the Cassini spacecraft buzzed the surface of Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus once again, returning dramatic images of its water geysers and wrinkled, ridged surface : That raw image (which means it has not been processed to remove instrument/detector artifacts like bad pixels and such) was ...
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• A Little Bit of Chaos

  
  In the Dark — Authority: 128
  The era of modern physics could be said to have begun in 1687 with the publication by Sir Isaac Newton of his great Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica , ( Principia for short). In this magnificent volume, Newton presented a mathematical theory of all known forms of motion and, for the first time, gave ...
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• Rutherford Crater on the Moon

  
  Castro's Favorite Color — Authority: 141
  Bad Astronomy points to this image of a small part of Rutherford Crater on the Moon taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter: The LROC Image Browser lets you browse through some amazing images and zoom to great detail. Quite impressive.
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• ‘American megafauna not killed off by Clovis people’

  
  Dear Kitty. Some blog — Authority: 446
  This video from the USA says about itself: In 2005, fossilized mastodon remains were discovered in Pratt’s Wayne Woods Forest Preserve in Wayne. During the course of a habitat-improvement project, a contractor for the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County made an initial discovery – teeth from a mastodon . ...
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• A Winter Far Worse Than Yours

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 535
  Are you dreading the coming of winter up here in Earth’s northern hemisphere? It could be worse. You could be out where the Cassini spaceship is, skimming over the surface of Enceladus , the sixth largest moon of Saturn. Things are never very warm out on Enceladus. It’s so far out from the sun that it ...
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• See ISS and Shuttle Atlantis Over Your Neighborhood

  
  Mully410 Critical Blog — Authority: 112
  ISS and Endeavour (2) Originally uploaded by Mully410 The Space Shuttle Atlantis is currently docked with the International Space Station . There is a very good sighting opportunity on Saturday November 21st for us in Minnesota anyway. At 5:18pm CST, this pair will become visible in the North North Western ...
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• Shh! World’s largest radio telescope network goes live

  
  CrunchGear — Authority: 800
  The world’s largest array of radio telescopes are joining together for 24 hours in order to observe some quasars. In the next 24 hours, 35 telescopes on all seven continents will be linked to listen to 243 specific quasars. The point is to establish a baseline for further observations , since the quasars are ...
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• Required Viewing: “Powers of Ten”

  
  mental_floss Blog — Authority: 785
  If you’ve never seen the classic short “Powers of Ten,” I’ve got a treat for you. Created in 1968 for IBM by Charles and Ray Eames (yes, of Eames Chair fame), the film has a very simple premise: start at a static scene, then start zooming out, at one “power of ten” per ten seconds — for example, from ...
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• Black Star – Astronomy

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 160
  Found it hard to believe when I couldn’t find this song on youtube. This song and thieves in the night are among the best Mos Def and Talib Kweli have made. Regardless of what your skin color is, you have to admit these guys are two of the few guys who are conscious about society [...]
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• How Images of the Planets have Changed in Past 30 Years

  
  Castro's Favorite Color — Authority: 141
  Popular Mechanics has a fantastic post, Pictures of Planets & Solar System - How Images of Mercury, Venus, Mars & Neptune Have Changed in Past 30 Years . "Pick up a 30-year-old astronomy textbook and you will find more illustrations of planets than actual pictures; Pluto still holds onto its full planet ...
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• Worlds Largest Network Radio Telescope Powers Up

  
  Gearlog — Authority: 731
  If one telescope is good, 35 is most assuredly better. Thats the number of networked radio telescopes that just powered up to observe 243 quasars across the universe, according to Space.com . The goal, in what amounts to a record-breaking effort: "improve the precision of the reference time frame that todays ...
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• Weekend SkyWatchers Forecast – November 20 -22, 2009

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 667
  Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! Yep. The Moon is back, but this weekend can still present some great opportunities for enjoying astronomy . If youre up early or out late? Well, hey… The Leonid meteor shower is still producing activity! Why not take a few minutes to learn about a great variable star you ...
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• Hypothetical Astronomy

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 753
  How would the Earth look if it had a ring system like Saturn?
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• Lunar Ice Smack-down a Success!

  
  QUEST Community Science Blog - KQED — Authority: 125
  The view from the control room of Chabots planetarium during the live LCROSS lunar impact event Its official: NASAs LCROSS mission found water on the Moon , no bones about it. Though NASA is still analyzing all the data they reaped from the LCROSS impact event on October 9th, and will be for a long time to come, ...
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