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Cosmic Blast Sets Distance Mark »
Posted by: Mikunited 6 months, 4 weeks ago in Science & Technology
The colossal blast was picked up first by Nasa's Swift space observatory which is tuned to see the high-energy gamma-rays emitted from extreme events.
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UK budget crunch knocks out Big Bang telescopes »
Posted by: SenorCoconut 7 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Council scraps Clover project to hunt for Universe's polarization.
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Twin Keck Telescopes Probe Dual Dust Disks »
Posted by: myfairlady 1 month, 4 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Astronomers using the twin 10-meter telescopes at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii have explored one of the most compact dust disks ever resolved ...
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Astronomers Discover Link Between Supermassive Black Holes And Galaxy Formation »
Posted by: myfairlady 9 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
A pair of astronomers from Texas and Germany have used a telescope at The University of Texas at Austin's McDonald Observatory together with Hubble ...
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Two Highly Complex Organic Molecules Detected In Space »
Posted by: myfairlady 7 months ago in Science & Technology
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn, Germany, Cornell University, USA, and the University of Cologne, Germany, have detected two ...
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Planck telescope's first glimpses | BBC »
Posted by: ProudBlueTexan 2 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
The European Space Agency has released the first images from the Planck telescope, looking deep into the ancient Universe.
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Safe Landing For Discovery - Space - redOrbit »
Posted by: pleeplop 7 months, 4 weeks ago in Science & Technology
The space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew landed safely at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, concluding a 13-day mission that spanned more ...
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Steve Payne Interview - Space - redOrbit »
Posted by: pleeplop 8 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
Steve Payne interviewed on "what teams are doing" before the launch of space shuttle Discovery.
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safari binoculars: How Do Binoculars Work?(Safari Binoculars) »
Posted by: wanieda 6 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
Binoculars(safari binoculars) have been around for hundreds of years, allowing people to see things that are very far away with more clarity and precision ...
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Rogue Black Holes Wandering About The Milky Way »
Posted by: pleeplop 6 months, 4 weeks ago in Science & Technology
It sounds like the plot of a sci-fi movie: rogue black holes roaming our galaxy, threatening to swallow anything that gets too close. In fact ...
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Orion SkyQuest XT8 Telescope Review »
Posted by: jadaptive 8 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
The Orion SkyQuest XT8 is a marvel of simplicity. It makes for a great first telescope for beginners, it was in fact MY first 'scope ...
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Share Your Nightscape With The World »
Posted by: dantecali 8 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
GLOBE at night, the international star-counting program, starts on Monday, 16 March, 2009, a key activity during this International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009). Running between ...
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Successful Launch for Space Shuttle Discovery [video] »
Posted by: dantecali 8 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
After pushing back the launch of Discovery for the STS-119 mission for various reasons, the shuttle finally heads to the International Space Station.
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GOCE Mission Will Study Earth's Gravity [redOrbit video] »
Posted by: pleeplop 8 months, 1 week ago in News
ESA's GOCE mission is dedicated to measuring the Earth's gravity field and modelling the geoid with unprecedented accuracy and spatial resolution.
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First Antenna Enables ALMA Observatory To Do Its Thing »
Posted by: pleeplop 9 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Astronomers yesterday celebrated the formal acceptance of the first North American antenna by the Joint ALMA Observatory. ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, is ...
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