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• Beautiful space image — Centaurus A

  
  David Kirkpatrick — Authority: 143
  Amazing … This image of the central parts of Centaurus A reveals the parallelogram-shaped remains of a smaller galaxy that was gulped down about 200 to 700 million years ago. The image is based on data collected with the SOFI instrument on ESO’s New Technology Telescope at La Silla. The original image, ...
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• Giant cannibal galaxy observed having its “last meal” by astronomers

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 716
  Munich, November 21 (ANI): Astronomers, using European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) 3.58-meter New Technology Telescope (NTT), are seeing through the opaque dust lanes of the giant cannibal galaxy Centaurus A, unveiling its “last meal” in unprecedented detail - a smaller spiral galaxy, currently twisted and ...
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• Just £145.00 for Celestron Astromaster 130 Eq Telescope - Electronic Gadgets

  
  My Bloggerings — Authority: 161
  £145.00 Info / Buy Product Information If youre looking for a dual-purpose telescope appropriate for both terrestrial and celestial viewing, then the Astro Master Series is for you. Each Astro Master model is capable of giving correct views of land and ...
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• GOOD NEWS FROM VANCOUVER:))

  
  TRAVEL WITH THE BAYFIELD BUNCH:)) — Authority: 131
    KELLY TALKING TO HER DAUGHTER SARAH ON SKYPE THIS AFTERNOON This was the first morning we were not below the freezing mark in the last 4 days.  On the cold nights we turn off all the outside water here.  There are a lot of irrigation & water pipes on the ranch so water has to be shut off at a main ...
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• Shh! World’s largest radio telescope network goes live

  
  CrunchGear — Authority: 796
  The world’s largest array of radio telescopes are joining together for 24 hours in order to observe some quasars. In the next 24 hours, 35 telescopes on all seven continents will be linked to listen to 243 specific quasars. The point is to establish a baseline for further observations , since the quasars are ...
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• Humans in Space, Robots and more

  
  Just A Moment Of Miscellany — Authority: 129
  This is a rant of sorts. About policy, about a stupid ex-president and about destroying one of the most amazing things ever accomplished in human history. Ive posted more than a few photos and stories about the gee-whizz stuff thats going on in both near and far space. Cool stuff, the Hubble and the ...
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• Celestial Treasure Hunt – WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) to launch December 2009

  
  dailyQi — Authority: 139
  WISE is a NASA-funded Explorer mission that will provide a vast storehouse of knowledge about the solar system, the Milky Way, and the Universe. Among the objects WISE will study are asteroids, the coolest and dimmest stars, and the most luminous galaxies. NASA scientist Dr. Amy Mainzer describes how the Wide-field ...
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• SOFIA Seeks Secrets of Planetary Birth

  
  Cloudymidnights — Authority: 124
  Source - NASA Science News for November 19, 2009 Imagine cutting retractable doors in the side of a 747 airliner, installing a 17-ton telescope, and flying to the stratosphere to solve one of astronomys greatest puzzles. Thats what NASA and the German Aerospace Center plan to do with a cutting-edge airborne ...
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• SOFIA Seeks Secrets of Planetary Birth

  
  ASTRO LINK — Authority: 123
  Source - NASA Science News for November 19, 2009 Imagine cutting retractable doors in the side of a 747 airliner, installing a 17-ton telescope, and flying to the stratosphere to solve one of astronomys greatest puzzles. Thats what NASA and the German Aerospace Center plan to do with a cutting-edge airborne ...
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• Telescope Array to Focus on the Past

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 180
  Astronomers are constructing one of the biggest, most powerful instruments ever built, capable of peering far deeper into the universe and further back in time than ever before.(Nov. 19)
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• Hubble Telescope instruments on display at National Air and Space Museum

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 969
  Two instruments that helped save the Hubble Space Telescope from failure in 1993 were recently returned to Earth and are going on display at the Smithsonians National Air and Space Museum .
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• The Daily Habit: Technology

  
  The 115- Fear and Loathing in America: Random Babble from the Red-Eyed Counterculture — Authority: 141
  Infrared Telescope Set to Orbit http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091118/sc_nm/us_space_infrared  
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• "X" Marks Puzzling Galactic Bulge

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 669
  Looking at a galaxy edge-on provides astronomers the opportunity to study different aspects of galaxies than a face-on view offers. This Hubble image of NGC 4710 is part of a survey conducted to provide more information about the puzzling bulges that form around the middle of some galaxies. Have these galaxies ...
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• The Camera That Saved Hubble Goes to Smithsonian Museum

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 669
  The Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, along with the "contact lens" that corrected the defect in the Hubble Space Telescope s primary mirror will have a new home. Recently returned to Earth after more than 15 years in space, the two instruments will have a new home in the Smithsonians National Air and Space ...
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• Sony’s 2012 Delivers a Powerful Human Warning

  
  2012 and Planet X News Blog — Authority: 115
  Yowusa.com, 19-Nov-2009 Marshall Masters, Reviewer Since Sony’s blockbuster film 2012 debuted last Friday it is setting box office records. Arguably it is the biggest disaster saga to hit the big screen since Titanic and with good reason, despite cynical attacks by NASA and film critics ...
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• Hubble pokes at a galactic bulge

  
  Bad Astronomy — Authority: 699
  When you poke the Pillsbury dough boy in his bulging tummy, he giggles. When you poke the bulge in NGC 4710, however, you get the history of how galaxies form. Voila! Awesome. And you really need to embiggen this one to get a sense of the incredible beauty and resolution of the picture. Try the 4000 x 2000 ...
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• China Joins Thirty Meter Telescope Project

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 615
  The National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) has joined the Thirty Meter Telescope Project (TMT). As an Observer, China will participate in planning the development of what will be the world’s most advanced and capable astronomical observatory.“The TMT is delighted to take this ...
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• Some of TIME’s Best Inventions of 2009

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 592
  TIME has picked its choices for best inventions of 2009. Those that got the votes range from best new gadgets to best new breakthrough ideas of the year. Here are some: The breeding population of the highly migratory southern bluefin tuna has dipped to more than 90 percent since the 1950s. It seemed that the southern ...
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• Gigantic Thirty Meter Telescope to be built for Space Research

  
  Livbit — Authority: 139
  Think of a telescope that’s sized about thirty meters….doesn’t it feel ‘ASTRONOMICAL’! Well this huge telescope is for real and is presently under construction so that it could be used to delve deeper into the secrets of space. It’s a ground based telescope to be completed in 2018 that has a primary mirror ...
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