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• Sunspots Are Returning

  
  Cap'n Bob & the Damsel — Authority: 129
  It looks like the solar activity is starting to increase. This is the first day in a while where there are three sunspots visible on the Earth-facing side of the sun. These images are from the SOHO spacecraft. The left panel is the visible light snapshot and the right panel is energy being emitted in a narrow band ...
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• Endeavor leaves the Big Loony Bin

  
  Muhlberger's Early History — Authority: 130
  From Astronomy Picture of the Day.
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• Shear Delight

  
  Lights in the Dark — Authority: 123
  Swirling clouds in Saturns atmosphere Monstrous eddies in Saturn’s upper atmosphere are clearly visible in this near-infrared image from Cassini, taken in November 2009 and released on NASA’s planetary Photojournal on February 4. Winds on Saturn are some of the fastest in the solar system, blowing around the ...
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• Indian Artist Jitish Kallat to Open at Haunch of Venison with his exhibition -The Astronomy of the Subway

  
  FADwebsite — Authority: 141
  Jitish Kallat, Anger at the Speed of Fright, acrylic and resin hand-painted figures. © Jitish Kallat, courtesy of Haunch of Venison.LONDON.- In February 2009, Haunch of Venison London will present an exhibition of new work by the Indian artist Jitish Kallat. Following his acclaimed exhibition at Haunch of Venison ...
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• Daily Lobo Spotlight:Dominique Maffucci/Freshman/Astrophysics – UNM Daily Lobo

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 171
  Daily Lobo Spotlight:Dominique Maffucci/Freshman/AstrophysicsUNM Daily LoboDM: I took astronomy last semester and I came from a history of loving astrology, so after studying a little bit about the real science, I fell in love with …View full post on “astrology” – Google News
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• Warming to Climate Claims

  
  Dangerous Intersection — Authority: 138
  As Washington D.C. gets record snowfall, climate denialists cackle with glee. It was a cool summer, and now a cold winter. So, they wonder, where is this global warming? “People,” I want to condescendingly say, “look at the sun.” Weather girls of all genders and persuasions are mentioning that this is the ...
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• Taking the Long View

  
  Occam's RazR — Authority: 413
  (the following is mine and mine alone, and does not in any way reflect opinions or viewpoints of my employer.) I understand when people get on indignant rants. You see something that is so clear to you, and you just feel like verbally slapping a few people across the cheek to wake them up, so they can see what is so ...
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• Active Moon

  
  Catholic Sensibility — Authority: 137
  Pardon me for not posting on astronomy in a while. Usually the winter is very inspiring to me: very clear skies at night, plus the snow and ice formations that seem other-worldly at times. Above is a six-month-old image from Cassini at Saturn . The shepherd moon Prometheus casts a shadow on the main rings, if you ...
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• dial x for an astronomical ufo conspiracy

  
  weird things — Authority: 428
  Give the web’s UFO enthusiasts another notch in the belt for discovering NASA’s attempt to hide a mysterious alien spacecraft captured by the Hubble orbital telescope and filed as an asteroid collision which left a highly distinctive trail shaped like an X. Or if you’re a conspiracy theorist, like a trident and ...
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• Saturns Enceladus Joins Earth & Titan With Discovery of Water

  
  The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel -Your Daily Dose of Awe: Science, Space, Tech — Authority: 600
  Detecting salty ice and negatively charged water ions in the ice plume of Saturnsmoon Enceladus, which primarily replenishes Saturns ring with material fromdischarging jets, hints that it could harbor a reservoir of liquid water -- perhapsan ocean -- beneath its surface. And, wheres theres an ocean of liquid water, ...
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• "Einsteins Telescope": Zooming In On the Dark Side of the Universe

  
  The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel -Your Daily Dose of Awe: Science, Space, Tech — Authority: 600
  “Such stunning cosmic coincidences reveal so much about nature.” ~ Leonidas Moustakas, Jet Propulsion Laboratory TheHubble Space Telescope has revealed a never-before-seen opticalalignment in space: a pair of glowing rings, one nestled inside theother like a bulls-eye pattern. The double-ring pattern is caused ...
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• Seeing Black Holes

  
  The Discovery Enterprise — Authority: 132
  Today on Discovery Enterprise we follow the worlds greatest scientists as they attempt to comprehend a mysterious phenomenon that Einstein believed could only exist in the realm of theoretical physics. We now know there are millions of black holes in our galaxy, and they are the scariest things we know the least ...
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• What’s Up for February from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory?

  
  dailyQi — Authority: 137
  This February NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, celebrate the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s first telescopic view of Jupiter and its 4 largest moons. On January 7, 1610, in Padua, Italy, Galileo Galilei looked up above the constellation Orion and aimed his telescope at the planet Jupiter, ...
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• Carnival of Space #140

  
  Lights in the Dark — Authority: 123
  Welcome! I’m very honored to host the 140th edition of Carnival of Space here on Lights in the Dark, especially considering that this week marks this site’s one-year anniversary! It’s really been a fascinating year for me. I’ve had a lot of fun finding and featuring images from the various missions exploring ...
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• Horoscopes are a fake system for insight into personalities

  
  The Nevada Sagebrush — Authority: 535
  In addition to being a science buff, I’m an avid astrologer. I’m not the best by any means, but I’ve been known to divine one’s future from the stars alongside the greats.Let me show you how good I am. We’ve never met, but I’m so capable that with relative ease I can see into your [...]
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• The Great Celery Experiment and Other Science Stuff

  
  Mama's Magic — Authority: 121
  BJs love of science continues to flourish, which is great fun to see. (Among other bonuses in the new apartment: one of our neighbors is a neurobiology professor. When we moved in, BJ was so thrilled to meet a scientist who would also be our neighbor that he nearly burst with joy). As S put it, for BJ ...
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• Methanes glow from an exoplanet

  
  Physics Today News Picks — Authority: 560
  CSMonitor.com : For the first time, astronomers have detected methane gas glowing like a fluorescent bulb in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting a distant star. Researchers have had glimpses of the atmospheres of so-called exoplanets before, but never in this way. The fluorescent signature of HD 189733b , a ...
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• A Great Example of Using Multiple Forms of Media

  
  MinuteBio — Authority: 113
  Last year “We Choose the Moon” was launched in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch. This is a fantastic example of using video, audio, photos, and animation all in one course. Here is the link, www.wechoosethemoon.org . It is absolutely worth the visit. Also, here is a video from AdobeTV ...
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• Light pollution takes its toll on sky — and pocketbook

  
  Night Sky Friendly Outdoor Lighting Specialists — Authority: 120
  Image source : Flickr shor, uploaded on February 1, 2008 by seen_it_ Article source “There is a role — and savings — for individuals as well. When retrofitting, purchase fully shielded lights. Install motion detectors. When swapping out lights (such as to CFLs), energy efficiency isn’t the only ...
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• Pluto is changing colors

  
  ZME Science — Authority: 127
  Pluto is so upset that it’s no longer a planet, that it’s turning all red with anger ! No, seriously. There’s been a whole lot of “Pluto-related news” these days including the 2006 chalking off of the planet list, and naming it a “dwarf planet”, and the news just gets better and better. Recently, ...
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