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• Middleweight Black Hole: Swift, XMM-Newton Satellites Tune Into X-ray Source

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 519
  Swift X-ray observations of galaxy NGC 5408 indicate its ultraluminous X-ray source undergoes periodic changes every 115.5 days.While astronomers have studied lightweight and heavyweight black holes for decades, the evidence for black holes with intermediate masses has been much harder to come by. Now, astronomers at ...
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• Unsettled Youth: Spitzer Observes A Chaotic Planetary System

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 519
  NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope captured this infrared image of a giant halo of very fine dust around the young star HR 8799.Before our planets found their way to the stable orbits they circle in today, they wiggled and jostled about like unsettled children. Now, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has found a young ...
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• You Know, The Skies ARE Pretty Dark in Nevada…

  
  Parrothead Jeff — Authority: 434
  So I’ve been thinking again. No, no need to duck and cover this time.  This hasn’t anything to do with dangerous things. There’s times when I’m actually rather bored lately.  I’d love to do something like going shooting in the desert, but then ammo costs $$$.  And by $$$ I mean LOTS of $$$.  For ...
  3 days ago

• Kumm – Far From Telescopes

  
  Babylon Noise — Authority: 117
  De departe cel mai accesibil album Kumm de pana acum, Far From Telescopes, e si cel in care trupa exceleaza ca sunet, fiind mult mai asezat si mai bine produs decat Angels & Clowns sau Different Parties. Iar in Silver Church l-am ascultat live si am ramas placut surprins, chiar si de piesele in prima auditie. ...
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• Cometary Clues to Solar System Origins

  
  Centauri Dreams — Authority: 124
  The Earth receives thousands of tons of interplanetary dust every year as it makes its way around the Sun. Can we trace any of this material to a particular source? Scientists from the Carnegie Institution think the answer is yes, at least in the case of comet Grigg-Skjellerup. The Carnegie team worked with ...
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• Don’t Pack Your Bags Yet—New Planet-Finder Hobbled by Electronic Glitch

  
  80beats — Authority: 653
  The quest to find a second Earth–a potentially habitable planet that’s about the size of our home, but that lies in a distant solar system–has hit a snag. The Kepler space telescope was expected to be well on its way to detecting Earth-sized exoplanets by now, but an electronic glitch is slowing it down. The ...
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• NASA’s Fermi Telescope Detects Gamma Rays From ‘Star Factories’ In Other Galaxies

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 519
  Fermi’s Large Area Telescope (LAT) shows that an intense star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud named 30 Doradus is also a source of diffuse gamma rays.Nearby galaxies undergoing a furious pace of star formation also emit lots of gamma rays, say astronomers using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. ...
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• VERITAS Telescopes tells about the Origin of Cosmic Rays

  
  Assam Information Portal — Authority: 443
  New evidence from the VERITAS telescope array shows that cosmic rays, the subatomic particles (mostly protons) that zip through space at nearly the speed of light, likely are powered by exploding stars and stellar “winds.” These findings were published in the November 1 online issue of the journal Nature, and are ...
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• Daniel Kalder, author of STRANGE TELESCOPES, at the Texas Book Festival

  
  The Wingd Elephant — Authority: 124
  Joe Gross, books editor at the Austin American Statesman , reports on Daniel Kalders appearance at the Texas Book Festival in Austin this weekend: " In his 2009 book, Strange Telescopes: Following the Apocalypse from Moscow to Siberia , Daniel Kalder hung around with a Russian fellow who declared himself the ...
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• VERITAS Telescopes Help Solve 100-Year-Old Mystery: The Origin of Cosmic Rays

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 603
  Cambridge, MA, – Nearly 100 years ago, scientists detected the first signs of cosmic rays – subatomic particles (mostly protons) that zip through space at nearly the speed of light. The most energetic cosmic rays hit with the punch of a 98-mph fastball, even though they are smaller than an atom. Astronomers ...
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• Free Telescopes

  
  Greensboring :: Outside The Media. Beyond The News. — Authority: 437
  By Liv Staff Writer Sure its on a key chain, but its free. http://www.sunexplosion.com/news458.htm On a side note isnt it a bit presumptuous when the country drop down list is alphabetical but they list the U.S. first? Always bugs me a bit.
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• Just £24.95 for Telescopes - Telescope Camera Attachment - Gadgets

  
  My Bloggerings — Authority: 158
  £24.95 Info / Buy Product Information Space, the final frontier. Now you can look deep into it with these star gazers I Want One Of Those Information We believe that the I Want One Of Those mall offers convenient shopping online to one and all. Just ...
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• A Gamma Ray Race Through the Fabric of Space-Time Proves Einstein Right

  
  80beats — Authority: 653
  New results are in from the Fermi Space Telescope , which settled into orbit in the summer of 2008, and the findings seem to prove Albert Einstein right once again. Man, that guy was good. The telescope detected and studied a gamma ray burst, one of the massively bright and powerful explosions that occurs when stars ...
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• They Say Four Hundred Telescopes (Plutonic Sonnets 53, courtesy of PublishAmerica)

  
  Poems at The Poetry Showcase - Share your poems at the Poetry Showcase — Authority: 163
  They say four hundred telescopes were “built By William Herschel,” and I’m sure it’s true He supervised; but is there not some guilt In giving to the great more than their due? read more
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• Twelve Meters Long (Plutonic Sonnets 52, courtesy of PublishAmerica)

  
  Poems at The Poetry Showcase - Share your poems at the Poetry Showcase — Authority: 163
  Twelve meters long was Herschel’s largest scope; That’s forty feet, and it was four feet wide. And I am sure it was with highest hope This monster he against the darkness tried. read more
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• Maintaining and Caring for Your Binoculars

  
  Best Binoculars — Authority: 108
  If you want to get the best use and longest life out of your binoculars, keep good care and maintenance for them. Always check its manual for any specific care and maintenance instructions. If there aren’t any special needs for your binoculars, here are some tips to care for your binoculars. Do remember not to ...
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• Silence! The Last of the Giant Radio Telescopes Is Listening to the Universe

  
  Wired Science — Authority: 771
  next image >> There’s a geek mecca in them thar hills. And don’t expect your iPhone’s GPS to guide you to it. Hidden in the green hills of West Virginia, in a 13,000-square-mile National Radio Quiet Zone, is the world’s largest fully ...
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• Equipment for The Amateur Astronomer: Good Binoculars For Astronomy

  
  Homeschool Facts — Authority: 462
  Telescopes and binoculars and other astronomy accessories and are the core of amateur astronomy.
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• Equipment for The Amateur Astronomer: Good Binoculars For Astronomy

  
  Binocular Choices — Authority: 91
  Telescopes and astronomy binoculars and other astronomy accessories and are the meat and potatoes of amateur astronomy.
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• Celestron NexStar Instruction Manual

  
  Gadgets Manual — Authority: 131
  The NexStar ushers in a whole new generation of computer automated technology. Simple and friendly to use, the NexStar is up and running after locating just three bright objects. It’s the perfect combination of power and portability. If you are new to astronomy, you may wish to start off by using the NexStar’s ...
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