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• The New Hobby Of Astronomy

  
  Naked News — Authority: 177
  Did you know that astronomy and space is really all about education. Did you also know that astronomy is also one of the oldest subjects of study for man kind? To be straight about it, astronomy is one of the oldest sciences that has ever been studied. So the study of our universe is not new but you should remember ...
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• Could the Christmas Star Have Been a Planetary Conjunction?

  
  TN9 Blog — Authority: 131
  Explanations of the Christmas Star : The final possibility is one or more of the 5 visible naked eye planets — Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, or Saturn. Another Star of Bethlehem possibility is Uranus, which to Saturn in 9 BC and Venus in 6 BC. This is farfetched because Uranus moves very slowly and is only ...
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  YOUR NEW REALITY — Authority: 427
  This may the first image of a planet-like object orbiting a star like our Sun. Its a mere 300 trillion miles from us. Read The Full Story Here B is a terrible name for a planet. Im going to call it Zaphod.
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• ASTRONOMY PIX

  
  KICKIN' AND SCREAMIN'........... — Authority: 452
    STRIPPING A GALAXY Galaxies speeding through clusters of their neighbors were imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope being stripped of their gas. NGC 4522, the galaxy pictured (below), is traveling at 6.2 million miles per hour, astronomers estimate. It’s about 60 million light-years away in the Virgo ...
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• The Church and the Telescope, 1610-1671

  
  Ptak Science Books — Authority: 426
  JF Ptak Science Books LLC  Post 865  It is fascinating to consider the extent of change that tookplace between the time of Galileo’s first use of the telescope on the sky andthe publication of this image in Cherubin d’Orleans (Francois Lassere), La dioptrique occulaire 1 … just 60-oddyears later in 1671. ...
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• Overnight and Astronomy Thread

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 682
  APOD: 2009 December 1 - NGC 6992: Filaments of the Veil Nebula NGC 6992: Filaments of the Veil Nebula Credit & Copyright: Daniel Lopez ( Observatorio del Teide ) Explanation: Wisps like this are all that remain visible of a Milky Way star. About 7,500 years ago that star exploded in a supernova ...
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• Scientists Explain Why Uranus is Tilted

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 772
  Uranus lies on its side.  It has an axial tilt of over 90 degrees relative to the plane of the solar system.   As a result, each pole gets 42 YEARS of continuous sunlight, followed by 42 years of continuous darkness.  It has always been assumed that during the formation of the solar system, a protoplanet collided ...
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• GoogleSky

  
  Most recent windows software from SWDB.net — Authority: 452
  Google has made another leap into the techno-future with their monumental addition to famous satellite software Google Earth, the much touted GoogleSky.Google satellite Earth has successfully been one upped with the addendum of Sky.
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• Once You Start Thinking. . . .

  
  A Feather Adrift — Authority: 423
  Whenever I get caught in some queue or other, and having nothing to read or otherwise occupy my time, I often turn to insoluble questions as a means to pass the time. These questions or ideas if you will, have no answer, and aren’t meant to, but they give pause, and more than once,no doubt you have exclaimed, “I ...
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• Could the Secret of the Star of Bethlehem Involve Jupiter and Venus?

  
  The Lobscouse Net — Authority: 130
  Could the secret of the Star of Bethlehem lie with Jupiter and Venus? But possibly no other planetary grouping can be equivalent to that of the two most twinkling planets Venus and Jupiter for the explanation that we seek. And if we acquire the only famed explanation of the Star literally, as given in St. Matthew, ...
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• 10 Amazing Augmented Reality iPhone Apps

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 169
  While Lawnmower Man may have led us to believe the future was a virtual one, it seems that in fact augmented reality (the overlaying of digital read more
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• Wal-Mart now sells cult literature.

  
  Defending. Contending. — Authority: 522
  A few days ago I entered the book section of a local Wal-Mart and was shocked to see a large section of books on Mormonism. And no, this Wal-Mart was not in Utah. I then checked the internet and discovered they even sell Mormonism’s plagiarized piece of fiction known as the Book of Mormon online . (To understand ...
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• Death of the Biggest Star Ever Reads Like a Comic Book [Space]

  
  F-Default — Authority: 469
    This ain’t your standard supernova. A while ago, astronomers noticed an exploding star that was about 50 to 100 times brighter than normal Read more here: Death of the Biggest Star Ever Reads Like a Comic Book [Space]
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• New York exhibition of books and manuscripts

  
  Medieval Material Culture Blog — Authority: 130
  Sotheby’s New York is displaying items from an upcoming auction — which will feature a first-edition copy of the “medieval Euclid,” along with 17th century editions of works by Shakespeare and Cervantes — through December 10.
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• Milky Way Posters

  
  osage + orange — Authority: 127
  . National Parks Milky Way Posters .
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• Sun Tsunami

  
  My Green Meadows — Authority: 441
  clipped from news.nationalgeographic.com November 19, 2009– Solar tsunamis are real, say astronomers who caught the first three-dimensional pictures of a giant wave rippling across the sun . Solar physicists first saw evidence for such waves in satellite pictures of the sun taken in 1996 ...
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• Blue Moon

  
  Authspot — Authority: 575
  Land of my choice You bring so much joy I cannot bear that you might Become desolate, Unyielding in your life bearing What has become of the haven? What has become of the sanctuaries You provided for your free roaming inhabitants? Oh please revive, Reach up to the night sky if you must. Draw down upon you ...
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• Astronomy Class – War Of The Worlds (feat. The Tongue & Mdusu)

  
  Sreelancer — Authority: 171
  Album: Pursuit of Happiness (2009)
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• The real meaning of the Blessed Virgins apparitions on the wall of a Chicago underpass, on a California griddle, and in an Arizona pancake

  
  watersblogged! — Authority: 131
  The Blessed Virgin- last seen on a  griddle in a Mexican restaurant in California after a holdover appearance at the Fullerton Avenue underpass in Chicago - has made yet another appearance: on an pancake in Arizona. She certainly is well-traveled. Meanwhile, Galle Crater in Agyre Planitia on Mars wants you ...
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• Giant End of Week Starlinks

  
  Mike Brotherton: SF Writer — Authority: 121
  It was the last week of classes, and the time and energy for a lot of blogging hasn’t quite been there this week.  Lots of ideas, not much follow through.  Should pick up now, however.  I have a bunch of links and some small bits of news to share. There are some plans for a free Star Dragon audiobook . Once ...
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