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• in Technology
  Cosmic Photos - A Cool Picture Every Day
  Daily image of our fascinating universe along with a brief explanation by a professional astronomer
  by byrons / on Feb 1, 2012
• in Lifestyle
  Got a Spaceship? Planet Made of Diamonds Up for Grabs!
  Astronomers have discovered a planet made almost entirely of diamonds. Got a spaceship? It's just 4,000 light years away...
  by dopodomani / on Aug 25, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “astronomers”

 

• Google Sky Map getting open-sourced

  
  Android Headlines - Your Trusted Android News Source — Authority: 525
  Googles own window into the night sky is all set to head down the open-source road. The Google Sky Map application has been massively successful, currently boasting over 20 million users. Not bad considering this app was created in part just to show off the capabilities of the early Android smartphones.  Now ...
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• Clinical psychology programs

  
  Ameimx | your education learning info — Authority: 138
  Positive strokes will get you both everywhere! University of Essex received its Royal Charter in 1965. Programs with real- world curriculum are taught by scholar/ practitioners at Capella University, an accredited online university. This is the primary reason that many students choose to attend community colleges; it ...
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• ‘Dark dwarf’ galaxy spotted ten billion light years away

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 164
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk ‘Dark dwarf’ galaxy spotted ten billion light years away A “dwarf” galaxy thought to consist mainly of mysterious “dark matter” has been spotted by astromomers. published date:Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:30:58 GMT
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• God vs science

  
  Ameimx | your education learning info — Authority: 138
  Whether you are studying the arts, humanities or sciences, professors dinosaurs evolution astronomers add their own views and thoughts to the material they are teaching, even when they are closely following a textbook, and they often add further information. This aspect of preparation involves a sales pitch of sorts ...
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• New map of universe reveals its history for the past 6 billion years

  
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  This image shows the positions of the 900,000 luminous galaxies used in four Sloan Digital Sky Survey studies The scientists of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), including astronomers at Penn State, have produced a new map of the universe that is in full color, covers more than one quarter of the entire sky, and ...
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• NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Solves Mystery on Source of Supernova in Nearby Galaxy

  
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  Written by Ray Villard and Donna Weaver Space Telescope Science Institute Baltimore, MD - Using NASAs Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have solved a longstanding mystery on the type of star, or so-called progenitor, which caused a supernova seen in a nearby galaxy. The finding yields new observational data for ...
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• Predictions about the Unique Alignment on the Solar System

  
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  Do you really believe that the end of the world will actually happen on December 21, 2012? There are people who believe that it will happen and there are also people who simply wanted to move on with their life. They often take this kind of issue as a joke because they do not want [...]
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• Volunteers wanted for planet hunt

  
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  Time-lapsed images of a single star show dips in brightness as a planet passes Members of the public are being asked to join the hunt for nearby planets that could support life. Volunteers can go to the Planethunters website to see time-lapsed images of 150,000 stars, taken by the Kepler space telescope. They ...
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• Some Comets like it Hot

  
  Clarksville, TN Online — Authority: 509
  Written by Dr. Tony Phillips Science at NASA Washington, D.C. - Comets are icy and fragile. They spend most of their time orbiting through the dark outskirts of the solar system safe from destructive rays of intense sunlight.  The deepest cold is their natural habitat.Last November amateur astronomer Terry ...
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• The Hubble Space Telescope Discovers the Farthest-Away Galaxies Ever Seen | PCWorld

  
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  Astronomers and the Hubble Telescope peer deep into space and spot the youngest galaxy formation observed after the Big Bang.
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• New astronomy tool peers through the heart of the Milky Way

  
  world.edu — Authority: 122
  A powerful new tool for probing the structure of our galaxy has been developed by astronomers associated with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, including two Penn State astronomers. The new tool is an infrared spectrograph for the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE). It is the newest instrument ...
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• Exact colour of Milky Way found

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 164
  http://www.bbc.co.uk Exact colour of Milky Way found Astronomers at the American Astronomical Society say they have worked out what colour the Milky Way would appear to be – from outside. published date:Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:06:14 GMT
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• Milky Way has more planets than stars

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 134
  The more astronomers look for other worlds, the more they find that it is a crowded and crazy cosmos. They think planets easily outnumber stars in our galaxy and they are finding them in the strangest of places.
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• How black holes fire gas jets into space

  
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  Sydney, Jan 12 (IANS) Scientists are a step closer to figuring out how black holes can fire superfast gas bullets into space, by determining the precise moment when they form, a study reveals.James Miller-Jones, principal investigator in Curtin University International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), and ...
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• Astronomers Discover Three Alien Planets Smaller Than Earth

  
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  Using the data from NASA’s Kepler mission, astronomers have found three alien planets smaller than Earth, orbiting a star much smaller than our Sun. The planets, which are orbiting a red dwarf star known as KOI-961, are 0.78, 0.73 and 0.57 times the diameter of Earth, making them the smallest alien planets ...
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• Study says every star has planets

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 164
  http://www.bbc.co.uk Study says every star has planets Every star in the Milky Way is host to at least one planet, say astronomers reporting at the American Astronomical Society meeting. published date:Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:06:05 GMT
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• Update: Comment Dates Set in 78-81 GHz Airport Radar Proceeding

  
  CommLawBlog — Authority: 107
  Late last month we reported on a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking contemplating use of the 78-81 GHz band to detect “foreign object debris” at airports. If you feel moved to comment on that proposal, your deadlines have now been set : comments are due by February 10, 2012 , and replies are due by February ...
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• Massive galaxy cluster found

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 134
  An international team of astronomers has located a massive, hot young galaxy cluster – the largest ever seen in the distant universe.
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• The largest “map” of dark matter in the universe

  
  The Athens Times — Authority: 136
  {Title} An international team of astronomers has created the highest ever”map”of the mysterious dark matter that is dispersed in space. Real News – RSS Environment
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