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Astronomers were able to capture, for the first time ever, planets that were outside the solar system.
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San Francisco’s Morrison Planetarium, the new $20 million dollar facility that’s a part of the recently reopened California Academy of Sciences, is a technological marvel.
The Morrison Planetarium allows “astronomers not only to show traditional star charts, but to guide visitors through an immersive fly-through of our universe – realistically rendered in real-time. ”
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Here’s a photograph that three University of Toronto scientists were able to capture images of the star 1RXS J160929.1-210524 from a distance of about 500 light years away. This image is making history as the first ever photograph of a planet in an alien solar system around a sun-like star.
This photograph will challenge currently accepted […]
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If you live anywhere to the north of a line that runs across North America from roughly Queen Charlotte Island in British Columbia southeast to near Jacksonville, Florida and clear skies are forecast for Friday evening, Sept. 19, then be sure to be outside during the mid-evening hours and watch for the […]
Tags: Moon, Occultation, Stars|
Posted By: rebecca | Sep 16th
A computer simulation shows the final stage of a starmaking cloud as it falls toward a supermassive black hole. A portion of the cloud formed a disk around the black hole, which quickly fragmented to form 198 abnormally large stars.
An August 2008 paper describing the results of the simulation suggests that such a process could […]
Unlike short-lived solar eclipses or unpredictable auroras, meteor showers regularly offer skywatchers a dazzling show.Soon the curtain will rise on one of the best of these showers: the Perseids, so called because the meteors appear to originate in the constellation Perseus.
Slated to peak sometime during the night and early morning of August 11 to 12, […]
By listening to the “ringing” of a nearby planet-harboring star, astronomers have for the first time identified the birthplace of one of our galaxy’s many drifting stars.
The yellow-orange star Iota Horologii, located 56 light-years away near the southern-sky constellation Horologium (”The Clock”), was discovered to harbor a planet about two times the size of Jupiter […]
The search engine companies are taking their battle to space.
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Imagine a planet two times larger than that of Jupiter and has temperatures reaching so high, any form if of existence who would approach the planet’s surface would be killed immediately.
Such a planet, does in fact exist, claims astronomers, who recently uncovered it.
“PHOENIX, Arizona (AP) – Scientists have discovered the universe’s largest known planet, a […]
Earth’s shadow will begin moving across the moon at 3:18 p.m. EST Saturday, with the total eclipse occurring at 5:44 p.m. EST and lasting more than an hour.
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Posted By: froosh | Mar 2nd