A 3-D printed telescope: The analog sky drifter
A unique 3-D printed telescope named the Analog Sky Drifter may spark a revolution in amateur telescope making.
Astronomy
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News tagged with night
Venus found to have aurora type magnetotails
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers studying the planet Venus have found that despite a lack of a magnetic field, the planet has magnetotails, which on Earth are part of the process known as the Northern and Southern Lights. This, ...
New project puts open data back into the hands of citizens
As streetlights the world over change from sodium lamps to LED, scientists wonder what this will mean for the artificial skyglow over cities. Because not every city lights the same way, the best way to understand whether ...
Software
Dec 3, 2015
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A possibly better way to measure our own galaxy speed moving through space
A pair of physicists at Aix-Marseille University has offered a possible way to measure the speed of our own galaxy more accurately as it moves through space. In their paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters, ...
Jupiter making closest approach in nearly 50 years
(AP) -- Better catch Jupiter next week in the night sky. It won't be that big or bright again until 2022. Jupiter will pass 368 million miles from Earth late Monday, its closest approach since 1963. You can see it low in ...
Space Exploration
Sep 17, 2010
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Image: Hubble takes flight with the toucan and the cluster
It may be famous for hosting spectacular sights such as the Tucana Dwarf Galaxy and 47 Tucanae (heic1510), the second brightest globular cluster in the night sky, but the southern constellation of Tucana (The Toucan) also ...
Astronomy
Nov 4, 2016
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Light pollution shown to affect plant growth and food webs
Artificial night time light from sources such as street lamps affects the growth and flowering of plants and even the number of insects that depend on those plants for food, a study published today confirms.
Ecology
Mar 16, 2015
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What would it have been like to witness the beginning of the universe?
Something wonderful happened about 13.8 billion years ago. Everything in the universe was created in an instant as an infinitesimally small point of energy: the Big Bang. We know that this event happened, as the universe ...
Astronomy
Jan 25, 2018
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Cosmic census finds crowd of planets in our galaxy
(AP) -- Scientists have estimated the first cosmic census of planets in our galaxy and the numbers are astronomical: at least 50 billion planets in the Milky Way.
Astronomy
Feb 20, 2011
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Using 19th century technology to time travel to the stars
In the late 19th century, astronomers developed the technique of capturing telescopic images of stars and galaxies on glass photographic plates. This allowed them to study the night sky in detail. Over 500,000 glass plate ...
Astronomy
Mar 26, 2015
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