Astronomy

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• Black Hole Caught Zapping Galaxy into Existence!

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 598
  Which come first, the supermassive black holes that frantically devour matter or the enormous galaxies where they reside? A brand new scenario has emerged from a recent set of outstanding observations of a black hole without a home: black holes may be “building” their own host galaxy. This could be the long-sought ...
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• Puzzling Lake Asymmetry on Titan Explained

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 598
  Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) suggest that the eccentricity of Saturn’s orbit around the sun may be responsible for the unusually uneven distribution of lakes over the northern and southern polar regions of the planet’s largest moon, Titan. A paper describing the theory appears in ...
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• dotAstronomy Conference

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 660
  Im attending the . Astronomy (dotAstronomy) Conference this week Leiden, The Netherlands, where we are discussing novel concepts of thinking and working in astronomy today . Well be discussing the data deluge that will be produced by upcoming surveys and instruments, how citizen science is making a real impact, and ...
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• Astronomy Question of the Week: Is there a photograph of the universe?

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 598
  If the question means “Has anyone stepped outside of the universe with a camera and taken a picture of it?” then the answer is, of course, no. The concept of ‘universe’ means the totality of all things, including space and time. So logically, there can be no ‘outside’ to the universe. (Although speculative ...
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• Apple A Day: Pocket Universe

  
  Macgasm — Authority: 442
  Pocket Universe is a $2.99 astronomy application for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
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• participate in dotAstronomy

  
  astropixie — Authority: 423
  if you would like to participate in this dotAstronomy technothon, you can follow the action LIVE from the dotAstronomy workshop thru UStream everyday this week: http://tinyurl.com/dotastrotv . if youre interested, i give my talk friday morning at about 0845 UT.... quite early in the US, sorry! you can also ...
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• Massive "Dark Halo" Discovered Beyond Edge of the Milky Way

  
  The Daily Galaxy: Great Discoveries Channel — Authority: 537
  The biggest things in the universe just got bigger - or rather, theyve always been bigger and we somehow missed it up to now.  Supercomputer simulations of galactic core black holes indicate that instead of being a mere two billion times the mass of the sun, so insignificant youd surely lose them if you sneezed, some ...
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• Terzan 5! Cosmic Fossil Discovered Embedded In Milky Way

  
  The Daily Galaxy: Great Discoveries Channel — Authority: 537
  Its not the name a Japanese horror movie...Scientists have spotted stellar fossils in the center of the Milky Way, globular clusters orbiting in the central bulge which seem to have come from somewhere else.  Like all fossils these are vital evidence of the evolutionary processes which led to everything we see today. ...
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• The Galaxy Game - Harnessing the Power of Human Imagination

  
  The Daily Galaxy: Great Discoveries Channel — Authority: 537
  Thousands of people might be pouring their lives into the void of Solitaire right now, but Science has a scheme to harness their brains for good - even if their owners dont.  The "Galaxy Zoo" game lets anyone play a combination of a cosmic slot machine with an intergalactic Hot or Not.  The result is an amazing ...
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• Cell Phones and Sun Spots

  
  Cell Phone Offers — Authority: 172
  Author: slcvolcom11 Keywords: Astronomy Extra Credit Added: November 29, 2009
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• Bestsellers in Astronomy

  
  adwarriors.com — Authority: 127
  1NightWatch: A Practical Guide to Viewing the Universe106 reviewsThoroughly revised, updated and expanded. The first three editions of Night Watch sold more than 600,000 copies, making it the top-selling stargazing guide in the world for the last 20 years. The key feature of this classic title is the section of ...
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• If the Earth had rings...

  
  The Knight Shift — Authority: 140
  ...it would possibly look like what Roy Prol has cooked up in this 3D animation. Prol took into account the Roche limit for Earths mass to calculate the size and distance of the rings from the surface, and also how the rings would look from various latitudes on Earth.Check it out!Thanks to Shane Thacker for this ...
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• The Sky At Night, Abbott Astronomy, November 2009

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 161
  Video Compilation of various time lapse videos. Music From Zero Project (www.zero-project.gr) From blog.abbottastro.com Abbott Astronomy by Michael Abbott is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 2.0 UK: England & Wales License. Based on a work at blog.abbottastro.com
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• Hubble versus Peach

  
  The e-Astronomer — Authority: 402
  Last weekend I talked at a special meeting of the British Astronomical Association, celebrating 75 years since Patrick Moore joined. It was a fun day. I’d never been to the Royal Institution before. It has nice looking but horribly uncomfortable seats, and is very atmospheric. Paul Murdin and myself were the token ...
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• The Daily Habit: Science

  
  The 115- Fear and Loathing in America: Random Babble from the Red-Eyed Counterculture — Authority: 141
  Oceans on Mars http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20091123/sc_space/newmapbolsterscaseforancientoceanonmars  
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• Was the Christmas Star a Planetary Conjunction?

  
  8 Rs Net — Authority: 129
  The final idea is one or more of the 5 incandescent naked eye planets — Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, or Saturn Another Star of Bethlehem explanation could be Uranus, which orbited in the neighborhood to Saturn in 9 BC and Venus in 6 BC. This is implausible because Uranus drifts very slowly and is only remotely ...
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• Astronomy enthusiasts watch meteor shower in Beijing suburbs – CCTV

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 161
  Examiner.comAstronomy enthusiasts watch meteor shower in Beijing suburbsCCTVIn the early hours of November 18 in the cold weather of early winter, over 30 astronomy enthusiasts organized by China Science and Technology Museum came …Space 101 – What is a meteor shower?Examiner.comMake a wishImprintall 3 news ...
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• Sunday Conversation: The case for Pluto

  
  SciGuy — Authority: 517
  One of the regular themes on this blog is the 2005 decision by astronomers to demote Pluto from planethood, and the cultural impact thats had. Ive just read a fine new book, The Case for Pluto, written by MSNBC Science...
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• Meteorites Found in Maine

  
  Geology News — Authority: 513
  The Maine Geological Survey has an article that describes some of the meteorites found in Maine. Meteorites included in the article: Nobleboro Meteorite, Castine Meteorite, Searsmont Meteorite, Andover Meteorite, and the Walnut Hill Meteorite.
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• Discovery Center astronomers will eye Jupiter tonight – Ridgefield Press

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 161
  Discovery Center astronomers will eye Jupiter tonightRidgefield PressThe Discovery Center at Ridgefield will co-host an astronomy program at the New Pond Farm Observatory, 101 Marchant Road, West Redding. …read the full article
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