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Original Technorati articles tagged “astronomy”

• in Technology
  Tellurium, Rare Earth Element, Observed in Three Ancient Stars
  Rare Earth element, tellurium, has been found in the three distant age-old stars.
  by uzparacha / on Feb 21, 2012
• 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 Technology
  Crippled Russian Spacecraft Carries Toxic Payload
  Dangerous Russian space probe threatens to fall to Earth with toxic rocket fuel payload
  by goldnugget / on Nov 10, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “astronomy”

 

• 20 May 2013. RIA-Novosti Video. The Moscow Planetarium’s 9,000 Stars

  
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  ______________________________ Here’s a two-and-a-half minute vid in English on the Moscow Planetarium . It has more to offer than just galaxies projected on the dome ceiling. It also has ancient star maps and a collection of rare meteorites . However, its main attraction is the night sky of the remote ...
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• Mars Curiosity Rover Drills Second Rock Target "Cumberland"

  
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  NASAs Mars rover Curiosity has used the drill attached to its robotic arm to drill a second time, this time collecting a powdered sample from the interior of a rock called "Cumberland". The space agencys plans call for portions of the sample to be delivered to laboratory instruments inside the rover in the coming ...
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• 1.7-Mile Wide Asteroid to Pass By Earth on May 31

  
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  An unusually large asteroid measuring 1.7 miles wide will be zooming pass the Earth later this month. According to NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Asteroid 1998 QE2 will get no closer than 3.6 million miles, which is 15 times the distance between us and the moon, however due to its size, stargazers are in for a ...
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• See Mercury, Venus and Jupiter in Tightest Night Sky Cluster until 2026

  
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  Credit: StarDate Cicadas aren’t the only scientific rarity expected this month. At the end of May three planets will be visible to the naked eye in one small area of the sky. The planets Mercury, Venus and Jupiter will form “the tightest gathering of three naked-eye planets that the world will see until 2026,” ...
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• Black-hole powered jets plow into galaxy

  
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  This composite image of a galaxy illustrates how the intense gravity of a super massive black hole  can be tapped to generate immense power. The image contains  X-ray data  from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue), optical light obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope (gold) and radio waves from the NSF’s ...
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• Synthetic Generics: Self Induced Extinction Of The Human Race By 2150AD…It Has Already Begun…By Hank Curci, SCIF Author.

  
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  Extinction Of The Human Race Via Synthetic Generics .. It Has Already Begun ****** http://wp.me/pgw2I-69p ****** End Transmission
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• “Hard evidence” proving that there are many Universes

  
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  Main Point: Scientists utilized radiation data gathered by Planck telescope and found first “hard evidence” that other universes do exist i.e. we are living in multiverse. Study Further: Scientists found that the data from the Planck spacecraft showed anomalies that can only be described by the gravitational ...
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• Stony Brook University gets $1M physics gift

  
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  Stony Brook University has received a $1 million donation from the founder of a Chinese firm to endow a physics and astronomy chair.
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  Under the Blue Glare Todays Astronomy Picture of the Day a view of our yellow star in a different light. By looking at the light emitted by ionized calcium, we can get a better view of the current activity on the Sun, including some large regions of sunspots.
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• Moon and Earth Have Common Water Source

  
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  Researchers used a multicollector particle microprobe to review hydrogen-deuterium ratios in satellite rock and on Earth. Their conclusion: The Moon\s water didn\t come back from comets however was already gift on Earth four.5 billion years agone, once an enormous collision sent material from Earth to create the Moon. ...
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• Supernova red, long the choice of paint colour for barns

  
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  Why is red paint plentiful? Because it is relatively inexpensive to produce. So where do the main ingredients of red paint come from? If you somehow thought that nuclear fusion, and supernovas , had some part in the supply process, then you would be correct: So it’s because of the details of nuclear fusion – ...
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• Support the Gravitational Universe science theme, as addressed...

  
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  Support the Gravitational Universe science theme, as addressed by the eLISA mission concept. I did already it. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Large Impact on the Moon

  
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  “For the past 8 years, NASA astronomers have been monitoring the Moon for signs of explosions caused by meteoroids hitting the lunar surface. [...] They’ve just seen the biggest explosion in the history of the program.”
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• Sunday, May 19, 2013

  
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  dais \DEY-is, DAHY-, deys\, noun: a raised platform, as at the front of a room, for a lectern, throne, seats of honor, etc. The sense of dais as a platform entered English from the modern French word of the same spelling. An earlier sense of the word as a "raised table" briefly entered English from an Old ...
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• Galaxy’s Ring of Fire

  
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  How many rings do you see in this new image of the galaxy Messier 94, also known as NGC 4736? While at first glance one might see a number of them, astronomers believe there is just one. This image was captured in infrared light by NASAs Spitzer Space Telescope. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Enlarge Johnny Cash may ...
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• Mars Rover Opportunity Examines Clay Clues in Rock

  
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  The pale rock in the upper center of this image, about the size of a human forearm, includes a target called "Esperance," which was inspected by NASAs Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. Data from the rovers alpha particle X-ray spectrometer (APXS) indicate that Esperances composition is higher in aluminum and silica, ...
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  Circular Motion Todays Astronomy Picture of the Day takes us to our own planet. What caused this strange feature on the surface of our world?
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• Is it true that the water on Earth and Moon came from the same source?

  
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  Water in the Earth and the Moon apparently derived from the same source. The conclusion was obtained by a team of researchers from Brown University . "The water that comes to the moon and earth from primitive meteorites are now located in outer of the asteroid belt," said Alberto Saal, a geochemist who led the ...
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• Weekly Science Picks

  
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  Greetings one and all, and a very happy science Sunday to you! This week’s generally been quite interesting. We’ve had good news, bad news, a little heated discussion… All the kind of things which keep the science community vibrant and interesting. As for specifically what that news was, well. Please do read ...
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• Famous Roman Tomb May Have Actually Been A Temple

  
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  Filed under: History , Learning , Europe , Spain At the Roman necropolis in Carmona, Spain , visitors are led to the popular "Elephants Tomb," a large underground chamber that gets its name from a crude sculpture of an elephant found there. Now archaeologists are saying it may not be a tomb at all, but ...
  1 week ago

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