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• Nasa’s Fermi Telescope Peers Deep Into a ‘Micro-Quasar’

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 552
  n Cygnus X-3, an accretion disk surrounding a black hole or neutron star orbits close to a hot, massive star.NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has made the first unambiguous detection of high-energy gamma-rays from an enigmatic binary system known as Cygnus X-3. The system pairs a hot, massive star with a ...
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• ‘World forest observatory’ needed to cut deforestation rates, say scientists

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Washington, December 1 (ANI): A research by scientists at the University of Leeds, UK, has determined that a world forest observatory is needed to monitor the commitments that will be made by developing countries at the Copenhagen summit to cut their deforestation rates.The research, led by Dr Alan Grainger, outlines ...
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• Celebrate astronomy at Science Center on Saturday – The Daily News Online

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 162
  PhysOrg.comCelebrate astronomy at Science Center on SaturdayThe Daily News OnlineROCHESTER — A big afternoon of astronomy is planned Saturday at the Rochester Museum and Science Centers Strasenburgh Planetarium, 657 East Ave. …Three Telescopes Combine for Stunning Space PhotoFOXNewsTriple delight in the Milky ...
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• Find Great Deals on Gadgets on Cyber Monday

  
  Gadgets Blog — Authority: 127
  Cyber Monday, oh how I breath a little easier on this day, when I can shop till my fingers drop online for gadgets, cameras, televisions and video games at the best prices. It’s my favorite pastime anyway, shopping online to find the best deals on electronics and gadgets, but Cyber Monday is even more of a thrill, ...
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• Baby Brown Dwarf Twins Spotted by Astronomers

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 636
  The discovery of the young brown dwarfs could provide valuable insights into star formation.
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• Hacked Emails are the Smoking Gun Revealing the Fraud of Manmade Global Warming

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  Try as they might these "scientists" just couldnt make their model for warming match with reality!400 years ago, in 1609, Galileo Galilei, who physicist Stephen Hawking hails as "perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science," designed one of the first telescopes. He used ...
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• Arthur Nasson : Life After Telescopes :: Review

  
  Ventvox — Authority: 143
  “Life After Telescopes” is vomit and migraine inducing faux ambient dreck.Rating: 0 out of 5 starsThis post was submitted by greg.
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• New Lucky Dice = Lucky You (and FREE download too)

  
  JumpTheTurnstyle — Authority: 139
  I must confess; after my celebrated title work the other day, I’m finding the accolades tough to live up to. In other words: sorry about my weak headline, but the cut is hot regardless. Over a classic Isaac Hayes sample courtesy of Blaze P , Reks ‘ M.Diesel associate Lucky Dice returns strong after a ...
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• NASA’s new space telescope to start hunt for stealth asteroids

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  London, November 27 (ANI): NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) is all set to start its hunt for stealth asteroids.According to a report in New Scientist, WISE, which headed to the launch pad last week, will map the entire sky in infrared. It will spot everything from nearby cool, failed stars to ...
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• Circumstellar Disk Around a Massive Star

  
  Centauri Dreams — Authority: 126
  The image at the right shows HD200775, a close binary that contains one star ten times the mass of the Sun. The two stars illuminate the surrounding cavity of molecular gas, the closest of which forms the reflection nebula known as NGC7023. The binary is located some 1400 light years from Earth and is the subject of ...
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• Cfree Takes an Open Source Approach to Telescope Development

  
  OStatic blogs — Authority: 645
  The components of a standard reflecting telescope havent changed much since Issac Newton built the first one more than 300 years ago -- its still essentially mirrors in a tube. As the technology behind telescope development and construction advances, however, so does the expense of building them. Cfree is a new ...
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• Cfree Takes an Open Source Approach to Telescope Development

  
  OStatic blogs — Authority: 645
  The components of a standard reflecting telescope havent changed much since Issac Newton built the first one more than 300 years ago -- its still essentially mirrors in a tube. As the technology behind telescope development and construction advances, however, so does the expense of building them. Cfree is a new ...
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• How Do Brown Dwarfs Form?

  
  Centauri Dreams — Authority: 126
  Now that we are looking forward to the WISE mission (Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer) and its investigations into nearby brown dwarfs, it’s startling to realize that we detected the first of these objects as recently as 1995. Today they’re all the rage, particularly among that small band of us obsessed with ...
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• NASA’s composite image of the Crab Nebula

  
  Eideard — Authority: 444
  Wowee - pretty scary! [IMG: http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eideard.wordpress.com&blog=3848052&post=46759&subd=eideard&ref=&feed=1]
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• Monstrous Mechanical Marvels: 9 More Enormous Gadgets

  
  Gadget Lab — Authority: 787
  next image >> Ugly and sometimes frightening, the largest “gadgets” on Earth help mankind achieve the magnificent. Take, for example, the airplane above, whose hideous looks have earned it the nickname Oscar Meyer Wienermobile. Mock it all you ...
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• The Extremely Large Telescope

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 662
  The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is planning on building a massive – and I do mean massive – telescope in the next decade. The European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) is a 42-meter telescope in its final planning stages. Weighing in at 5,000 tonnes, and made up of 984 individual mirrors, it will be ...
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• The Lightning Planets

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 636
  The Scoop: No matter what planet youre on, lighting is about storms, and about ice and rain -- even if its not necessarily water rain.If you could see Jupiters magnetic field, it would be the size of the full moon in the sky---the biggest object in the solar system (Saturn actually passed through Jupiters...
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• Watching a Cannibal Galaxy Dine

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 552
  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.A new technique using near-infrared images, obtained with ESO’s 3.58-metre New Technology Telescope (NTT), allows astronomers to see through the opaque ...
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• Stand by for transmission

  
  ZuneTracks — Authority: 116
  21novzc (click to go to download link)Todays Zunecast is perfect for those late nights, early mornings and features music from Meat Beat Manifesto, The Avalanches, The Telescopes, Sound Tribe Sector 9, Flux, Bongwater and The Herbalizer…Comments welcome…RELIANT6 OUT©2009 ZuneTracks. All Rights Reserved..
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• Galileos Fingers and Tooth Recovered by Collector

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 636
  The macabre remains of the famous, once-damned astronomer were spotted at an auction.
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