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Videos of Astronomy
July 06, 2010APOD: 2010 July 3 - A Giant Planet For Beta PicSend by skateboardA different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation. Rating: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rate up / Rate down |
July 06, 2010Bad Astronomy | Discover MagazinePosted by Willian Smith2 Jul 2010 ... Commentary on astronomy news and space-related myths and misinformation. By Phil Plait. Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down |
July 06, 2010Astronomy In The Yahoo! DirectoryPosted by Willian SmithLearn about astronomy and explore the celestial realm with sites dedicated to our solar system, the planets, comets, meteors, asteroids, the ... Rating: ![]() Rate up / Rate down |
July 06, 2010Astronomy: Indoor Plant InsectsSend by [email protected] (Owen JoneAstronomy. 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, ... Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down |
July 06, 2010Damn. | Bad Astronomy | Discover MagazineSend by Phil PlaitThe 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 ... Rating: ![]() Rate up / Rate down |
July 06, 2010Professor Astronomy's Astronomy Blog: Night Of The Living Dead StarsSend by Professor AstronomyIn 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. ... Rating: ![]() Rate up / Rate down |
July 06, 2010Planck Telescope Examines The Universe - Alien UFOsSend by bart5050Planck Telescope: Image of the Universe RightFielders Women in Sports The Planck Telescope , developed as the flagship of the European Space Agency, Rating: ![]() ![]() Rate up / Rate down |
July 06, 2010Interferometry And Synthesis In Radio AstronomyPosted by Willian SmithProduct 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), ... Rating: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rate up / Rate down |
July 06, 2010Technology Review: Blogs: ArXiv Blog: Deformable Liquid Mirrors ...Posted by Willian SmithSo 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. ... Rating: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rate up / Rate down |
July 06, 2010A Partial Lunar Eclipse | Skylook | Astronomy | Eclipses | TelescopesSend by Father SkyA 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. Rating: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rate up / Rate down |
July 06, 2010These Are The Oldest Photons In The Universe [Astronomy] | Olebox ...Send by Jesus DiazThis 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,... Rating: ![]() ![]() Rate up / Rate down |
July 06, 2010Senior Editor Off To Easter Island - Astronomy.com BlogSend by Michael BakichStay 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 ... Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down |
July 06, 2010Seismically 'Poor' Campbell Hall Slated For RetrofittingSend by www.dailycal.orgDexter 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. Rating: ![]() ![]() ![]() Rate up / Rate down |
July 06, 20105A Blog: Moon & Venus July Re-PeteSend by Amherst AstronomyIf 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 ... Rating: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rate up / Rate down |
July 06, 2010Alternate Universe AirshowSend by Phil PlaitVia 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 ... Rating: ![]() ![]() Rate up / Rate down |
July 06, 2010Astronomy.com - Pan-STARRS Asteroid Hunter And Sky Surveyor Now ...Posted by Willian Smith"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 ... Rating: ![]() ![]() ![]() Rate up / Rate down |
July 06, 2010Astronomy Picture Of The Day With Windows 7 X64 - C++ And More!Send by GdicanioAstronomy 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 ... Rating: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rate up / Rate down |
July 06, 20105000 | Bad Astronomy | Discover MagazineSend by Phil PlaitAbout 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. Rating: ![]() ![]() Rate up / Rate down |
July 06, 2010Astronomy - Simple English Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaPosted by Willian SmithAstronomy 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 ... Rating: ![]() Rate up / Rate down |
July 06, 2010Astronomy Picture Of The DayPosted by Willian SmithA different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation. Rating: ![]() Rate up / Rate down |
July 06, 2010Second Time Lucky As Cargo Vessel Docks At Space Station | .netSend by Stars & AstronomyBy 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. ... Rating: ![]() ![]() Rate up / Rate down |