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• Astrophotography by Jerry Lodriguss

  
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  A Showcase Gallery of Film Astrophotography
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• Astronomers Find Three Smallest Planets Outside Solar System

  
  Paternal Prose — Authority: 147
  ScienceDaily (Jan. 11, 2012) — a team of astronomers led by scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has discovered the three smallest confirmed planets ever detected outside our solar system. the three planets, which all orbit a single star, are smaller than Earth and appear to be rocky with a ...
  1 week ago

• Writing The History Of 2012

  
  Vote 4 The USA — Authority: 120
  Article by Micah Jordan When we write the history of 2012, what will we say? Did it bring a New Age, or the end of life on earth as we knew it? Harmonic convergence, or horrific chaos? That something unusual is going to happen on or near that date is increasingly obvious, but no one [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Gallery: Cosmic pictures from the AAS

  
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• Stargazing Event on Hadrians Wall

  
  Hadriana's Treasures — Authority: 99
  Wednesday 18th of January 2012 : Cawfields, time: 7pm - 9pm. Witness some of the darkest skies in the country by joining us (this is all organised by Northumberland National Park) at the Cawfields site, near Haltwhistle for an evening of Stargazing in the Northumberland National Park. For directions go to the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Microlensing Survey Finds A Multitude Of Planets

  
  Paternal Prose — Authority: 147
  [ Watch the Video ] Planets around stars are the rule rather than the exception An international team, including three astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO), has used the technique of gravitational microlensing to measure how common planets are in the Milky Way. after a six-year search that ...
  2 weeks ago

• End of the world in 2012 is a forecast

  
  Vote 4 The USA — Authority: 120
  Article by Naveen Pratab Although many predictions 2012 are negative in nature, some still believe that after a final begins a new era, a new era of principle. We just need the truth, aware of the projected 2012 and the difficulties that are brought to our knowledge prepared. Do not waste your time for other [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Pragues astronomical clock gets a makeover

  
  Gadling — Authority: 607
  Filed under: Arts and Culture , History , Learning , Europe , Czech Republic The famous astronomical clock that is Pragues most popular tourist attraction has lost some star players for the next two months. The four outside figures, including a skeletal Death, have been removed and are being repainted to ...
  2 weeks ago

• NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Zooms in on Double Nucleus in Andromeda Galaxy

  
  Clarksville, TN Online — Authority: 509
  Written by Tod R. Lauer National Optical Astronomy Observatory Tucson, AZ - A new Hubble Space Telescope image centers on the 100-million-solar-mass black hole at the hub of the neighboring spiral galaxy M31, or the Andromeda galaxy, the only galaxy outside the Milky Way visible to the naked eye and the only other ...
  2 weeks ago

• Largest Map of Dark Matter Yet Produced

  
  Toonari Post - A News Mash Up! — Authority: 440
  An international team of astronomers has produced a map that covers a billion light-years worth of dark matter in the universe. Never before has dark matter been mapped on such a large scale. Two members of the team, Catherine Heymans of the University of Edinburgh and Associate Professor Ludovic Van Waerbeke of ...
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• Recession? Q4 Spanish Unemployment Soars By Most Since Lehman, Hits “Astronomical” 23.3%

  
  InvestmentWatch: Emerging markets, Real Estate, Personal finance, Business management, Politics, Economics — Authority: 148
  For anyone convinced that yesterday’s S&P two notch downgrade of Spain to A is the last one for a while, we have some bad news: in Q4 Spanish unemployment soared by the most since the Lehman collapse, hitting what new PM Mariano Rajoy called an “astronomical” 5.4 million. This compares to 4.978 million ...
  2 weeks ago

• Astronomy in Darkness

  
  In the Dark — Authority: 461
  Yesterday, being the second Friday of the month, was the day for an Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society (followed by dinner at the Athenaeum for members of the RAS Club). Living and working in Cardiff it’s difficult for me to get the specialist RAS Meetings earlier in the day, but if I get myself ...
  2 weeks ago

• Prague Astronomical Clock Figures Being Repaired

  
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  http://abcnews.go.com Prague Astronomical Clock Figures Being Repaired Figures on Prague’s famous astronomical clock removed for 2-month repairs published date:Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:20:20 -0500
  2 weeks ago

• Trane and Schlage Launch Nexia(TM) Home Intelligence System and Take Smart Home to a New Level

  
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  LAS VEGAS, Jan 10, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) –Ingersoll Rand, a world leader in creating and sustaining safe, comfortable and efficient environments, unveils the latest innovations from its Trane and Schlage brands during the 2012 International Consumer Electronics show (CES) this month. the company relaunches its ...
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• Exact colour of Milky Way found

  
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  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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• Hubble probes star death blast clue to universe riddle 9bn-year-old supernova could explain dark energy

  
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  Astronomers have photographed the faint embers of a star explosion that happened 9 billion years ago. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has helped astronomers solve a 40-year mystery over what type of star, or so-called progenitor, caused a supernova in a nearby galaxy. The powerful telescope’s findings have ...
  2 weeks ago

• Real Life ‘Tatooine’?

  
  Across the Universe — Authority: 108
  Pretty cool news from NASA yesterday courtesy of the Kepler space telescope if you’re a fan of Star Wars, and specifically Tatooine!  The planetary finder telescope has located two more planets orbiting a binary star system several hundred light-years away from Earth.  A binary star system simply means two stars ...
  2 weeks ago

• Musings on the Universe

  
  TheSpacewriter's Ramblings — Authority: 89
  The Cosmos in Short Bursts I just spent most of this week at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Austin, Texas, what I think of as a “tsunami of astronomy”.  There were more than 2,500 astronomers in attendance, all talking about everything from solar physics to the physics of the earliest cosmic ...
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• Real-Life Tatooine: Kepler-34 B and Kepler-35 B Have Two Suns

  
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  The amazing discoveries from the Kepler mission just keep on coming. Astronomers have now found more real-life versions of Tatooine, Luke Skywalker’s home planet in the “Star Wars” saga.  These worlds have twin suns that rise and set each day as opposed to just one. These two new exoplanets are also very ...
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• Study says every star has planets

  
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  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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