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Solstice lunar eclipse set for December 21st
Everyone knows that "the moon on the breast of new-fallen snow gives the luster of mid-day to objects below." That is, except during a lunar eclipse.
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Dec 17, 2010 |
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Eagle Owls Send Sweeter Valentines When Moon Is Full
(PhysOrg.com) -- Placing a tracking device on breeding owls with a wing span large enough to cover eight humans lined up side-by-side, is not a walk in the park. But, funded by a grant from the Spanish Ministry ...
Jan 21, 2010 |
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Galactic X-ray emissions originate from stars
(PhysOrg.com) -- A 25-year old astronomical mystery has been solved: Most of the diffuse X-ray emissions in the Milky Way do not originate from one single source but from so-called white dwarfs and from stars ...
May 05, 2009 |
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Galaxies in the young cosmos
(Phys.org) -- The universe was born about 13.7 billion years ago in the big bang. The Sun and its system of planets formed about five billion years ago. What happened, then, during that long, intervening stretch ...
May 21, 2012 |
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Look! Up in the sky! It's Supermoon! Due Saturday
(AP) -- The biggest and brightest full moon of the year arrives Saturday night as our celestial neighbor passes closer to Earth than usual.
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May 04, 2012 |
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The night after Christmas sky show
T'was the Night after Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring ...
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Dec 26, 2011 |
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The 2011 Geminid meteor shower
The 2011 Geminid meteor shower peaks on the night of Dec. 13-14, and despite the glare of a nearly-full Moon, it might be a good show.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 13, 2011 |
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Herschel paints new story of galaxy evolution
(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA's Herschel infrared space observatory has discovered that galaxies do not need to collide with each other to drive vigorous star birth. The finding overturns this long-held assumption ...
Sep 13, 2011 |
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Super full moon
Mark your calendar. On March 19th, a full Moon of rare size and beauty will rise in the east at sunset. It's a super "perigee moon"--the biggest in almost 20 years.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 17, 2011 |
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A nearby galactic exemplar
ESO has released a spectacular new image of NGC 300, a spiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way, and located in the nearby Sculptor Group of galaxies. Taken with the Wide Field Imager (WFI) at ESO’s La Silla ...
Sep 08, 2010 |
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Toads' earthquake exodus
Common toads (Bufo bufo) can detect impending seismic activity and alter their behaviour from breeding to evacuation mode, suggests a new study in the Zoological Society of London's (ZSL) Journal of Zoolog ...
Mar 30, 2010 |
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Close Encounter with Mars
It rises in the east at sunset, pumpkin-orange and brighter than a first magnitude star. You stare at it, unblinking. Unblinking, it stares right back. It is Mars.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 26, 2010 |
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Rare New Year's Eve 'blue moon' to ring in 2010
(AP) -- Once in a blue moon there is one on New Year's Eve. Revelers ringing in 2010 will be treated to a so-called blue moon. According to popular definition, a blue moon is the second full moon in a month. ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 29, 2009 |
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Biggest Full Moon of the Year: Take 2
When last month's full Moon rose over Florida, onlooker Raquel Stanton of Cocoa Beach realized that something was up.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 08, 2009 |
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Square Kilometre Array site is already producing world-class astrophysics
CSIRO's Murchison Radioastronomy Observatory (MRO), located in remote Western Australia, is the site proposed by Australia and New Zealand to host the high-density core of the multi-billion dollar Square Kilometre Array (SKA), ...
Apr 17, 2012 |
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