Heads up! Supermoon coming Saturday; 3 this summer
The full moon on Saturday will appear to be unusually big. In fact, it will be a "supermoon."
The full moon on Saturday will appear to be unusually big. In fact, it will be a "supermoon."
Space Exploration
Jul 11, 2014
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Some terms in astronomy definitely have a PR problem, and are perhaps due for an overhaul. One such awkward term is occultation, which simply means that one celestial body is passing in front of another from an observer's ...
Space Exploration
Jun 4, 2014
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Strange events have long been linked to nights of a full moon, though careful scrutiny dispels any association. So, when signals bounced off the lunar surface returned surprisingly faint echoes on full moon nights, scientists ...
Space Exploration
Feb 7, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Soon after its discovery in late summer of last year, the media hyped ISON to be the comet of the millennium. At the time when it is expected to come closest to the Sun, on 28 November 2013, it is supposed to ...
Space Exploration
Nov 12, 2013
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The glowing jumble of gas clouds visible in this new image make up a huge stellar nursery nicknamed the Prawn Nebula. Taken using the VLT Survey Telescope at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile, this may well be the sharpest ...
Astronomy
Sep 18, 2013
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"When the sun hits the ground and the owl's been around, veeries nary make a sound." It's a familiar quotation you've never heard before, but one buoyed up as a modern truism thanks to recent research conducted in part by ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 7, 2013
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Some galaxies hit a point in their lives when their star formation is snuffed out, and they become "quenched". Quenched galaxies in the distant past appear to be much smaller than the quenched galaxies in the Universe today. ...
Astronomy
Aug 1, 2013
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(Phys.org) —The largest ever search for supernovae – exploding stars up to 10 billion times brighter than the Sun – is beginning this August. For the next five years, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) will look for these ...
Astronomy
Jul 2, 2013
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(Phys.org) —A team of astronomers has combined new observations of Gliese 667C with existing data from HARPS at ESO's 3.6-metre telescope in Chile, to reveal a system with at least six planets. A record-breaking three of ...
Astronomy
Jun 25, 2013
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Stargazers are still abuzz over the biggest and brightest full moon of the year, which graced the skies over the weekend.
Space Exploration
Jun 24, 2013
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