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July 06, 2010

APOD: 2010 July 3 - A Giant Planet For Beta Pic

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A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.

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July 06, 2010

Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

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2 Jul 2010 ... Commentary on astronomy news and space-related myths and misinformation. By Phil Plait.

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July 06, 2010

Astronomy In The Yahoo! Directory

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Learn about astronomy and explore the celestial realm with sites dedicated to our solar system, the planets, comets, meteors, asteroids, the ...

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July 06, 2010

Astronomy: Indoor Plant Insects

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Astronomy. We hope to provide an interesting an informative blog. To this end, I will try to post an article every week or two or more often, if I find something of special interest. If you want to post a relevant article, please do so, ...

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July 06, 2010

Damn. | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

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The Astronomers on Jupiter are announcing a huge black stain covering the capital and now the coastal area of a once glorius and vibrant continent that held such promise for intelligent life? ? A sad day on Jupiter? the daily newspaper ...

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July 06, 2010

Professor Astronomy's Astronomy Blog: Night Of The Living Dead Stars

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In an article that will be appearing in an upcoming issue of the Astrophysical Journal, astronomers Patrick Dufour, Mukremin Kilic and collaborators discuss a recently-discovered white dwarf that seems to have devoured a dwarf planet. ...

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July 06, 2010

Planck Telescope Examines The Universe - Alien UFOs

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Planck Telescope: Image of the Universe RightFielders Women in Sports The Planck Telescope , developed as the flagship of the European Space Agency,

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July 06, 2010

Interferometry And Synthesis In Radio Astronomy

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Product Description Comprehensive, authoritative coverage of interferometric techniques for radio astronomy In this Second Edition of Interferometry and Synthesis in Radio Astronomy, three leading figures in the development of large imaging arrays, including very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI), ...

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July 06, 2010

Technology Review: Blogs: ArXiv Blog: Deformable Liquid Mirrors ...

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So it'd be easy to imagine that liquid mirrors have revolutionised astronomy. Not quite. These mirrors have important limitations not least of which is that they can only point straight up, lest the liquid slosh out of the bowl. ...

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July 06, 2010

A Partial Lunar Eclipse | Skylook | Astronomy | Eclipses | Telescopes

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A Partial Lunar Eclipse What's happened to the Moon? This past weekend, once again, part of the Moon moved through the Earth's shadow. This.

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July 06, 2010

These Are The Oldest Photons In The Universe [Astronomy] | Olebox ...

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This is the entire view sky as seen from Earth, taken by the Planck observatory during a whole year. In the center, the microwave radiation of our galaxy,...

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July 06, 2010

Senior Editor Off To Easter Island - Astronomy.com Blog

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Stay tuned for lots of coverage on Astronomy.com. I'll post updates and images from the trip if Internet access is available. If not, I'll post lots of great shots as soon as I return. And if technology cooperates, I'll also ?tweet? and ...

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July 06, 2010

Seismically 'Poor' Campbell Hall Slated For Retrofitting

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Dexter Stewart is ready to move out of Campbell Hall. Since 2003, Stewart, a student affairs officer in the UC Berkeley astronomy department, has worked in Campbell Hall - a 1959 building deemed seismically "poor" by a campus review.

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July 06, 2010

5A Blog: Moon & Venus July Re-Pete

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If Clear on Friday, July 16, I'll be at Mt. Pollux by 8 p.m., with my Astronomy Class. The next Evening Appritions of Moon & Venus that will somewhat approximate these current ones, will be December to March 2011 - cold & unpleasant New ...

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July 06, 2010

Alternate Universe Airshow

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Via SciFiWire comes this amazing series pictures from the SciFi Airshow. This is seriously cool geeky stuff. scifiairshow_eagle. Sigh. Beautiful. The gifted artist Bill George has created a huge series of pictures depicting real-life ...

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July 06, 2010

Astronomy.com - Pan-STARRS Asteroid Hunter And Sky Surveyor Now ...

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"PS1 has been taking science-quality data for 6 months, but now we are doing it dusk to dawn every night," said Nick Kaiser from the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA). Pan-STARRS will map one-sixth of the sky every ...

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July 06, 2010

Astronomy Picture Of The Day With Windows 7 X64 - C++ And More!

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Astronomy Picture of the Day with Windows 7 x64. Michael Dunn developed an interesting Gadget for Browsing the Astronomy Picture of the Day. However, using the original version published on CodeProject, I failed to install the gadget on ...

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July 06, 2010

5000 | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

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About this blog | I've mentioned before on this blog that I'm not one for arbitrary milestones. I'm OK with birthdays and such, but when it comes to celebrating attaining some ce.

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July 06, 2010

Astronomy - Simple English Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

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Astronomy is the study of outer space and everything in it. This includes stars, planets and galaxies as well as other things. The word astronomy comes from the Greek words astron ...

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July 06, 2010

Astronomy Picture Of The Day

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A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.

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July 06, 2010

Second Time Lucky As Cargo Vessel Docks At Space Station | .net

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By Stars & Astronomy On July 5th, 2010. An unmanned Russian supply vessel has docked at the International Space Station (ISS) two days after an earlier attempt failed, the Russian and US space flight control centres said. ...

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