Archive for Astronomy
Latest Kepler data includes over 700 exoplanet candidates
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Today should be a historic moment for the field of astronomy. With a single data release, the team behind NASA’s Kepler instrument has nearly doubled the number of extrasolar planets we’re aware of, including many that fall between the sizes of Earth and Neptune, a class of planets that was poorly represented in our existing collection. Instead, NASA’s handling of the announcement appears to …
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Scientists see billions of miles away
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( Williams College ) A large group of scientists, including Jay Pasachoff, Bryce Babcock, and Steven Souza at Williams College, reveal the character of one of the most distant objects in the solar system in a scientific paper to appear in the June 17 issue of the journal Nature. In observing the object named 2002 TX300 Oct. 9, 2009, as it passed in front of a distant star, they could tell what …
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Let’s Learn From the Past: John Brashear
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With an inquisitive mind and a love of the cosmos, a self-taught astronomer became one of the most successful creators of telescopes and scientific instruments in the world. John Brashear was born in 1840 in Brownsville, Fayette County — about 40 miles south of Pittsburgh.
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Comet cause for climate change theory dealt blow by fungus
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(PhysOrg.com) — A team of scientists – led by Professor Andrew C Scott of the Department of Earth Sciences at Royal Holloway, University of London – have revealed that neither comet nor catastrophe were the cause for abrupt climate change some 12,900 years ago.
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VISTA Views The Sculptor Galaxy
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A spectacular new image of the Sculptor Galaxy (NGC 253) has been taken with the ESO VISTA telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile as part of one of its first major observational campaigns.
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Astronomers’ first “movie of the sky”: Pan-STARRS survey starts science mission
Posted by: | CommentsAstronomers’ first “movie of the sky”: Pan-STARRS survey starts science mission
The Pan-STARRS project has begun a unique program of observing three quarters of the night sky: the systematic search for astronomical objects that change over time.
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IU professor’s new textbook uses the best science writing from the New York Times
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For decades, The New York Times has been one of the nation’s premier outlets for stories about science. Now, a retired Indiana University journalism professor has put many of those stories together in a unique collection aimed at students of science writing.
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More donations sought for McComb fireworks
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McCOMB — There will be a lot less bang in the Independence Day fireworks in McComb if not enough bucks are donated, Village Council was told Monday.
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NASA Demonstrates Tsunami Prediction System
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(PhysOrg.com) — A NASA-led research team has successfully demonstrated for the first time elements of a prototype tsunami prediction system that quickly and accurately assesses large earthquakes and estimates the size of resulting tsunamis.
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