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XMM-Newton
The European Space Agency's X-ray Multi-Mirror satellite is the most powerful X-ray telescope ever placed in orbit. Scientists are sure the mission will help solve many cosmic mysteries, ranging from...
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The Night Sky: January 2012
The Night Sky in January 2012 By Harry J. Augensen Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Widener University Moon’s Phases ...
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Shuttered SETI reboots ET pursuit
By Rik Myslewski in San Francisco, Posted in Space, 15th August 2011 23:32 GMT The search for intelligent life somewhere other than among non-governmental homo sapiens has been given a...
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The goals of the International Space Station (ISS) are to establish a permanent habitable residence and labora...
ACRIMSAT measured Total Solar Irradiance (TSI) during its primary five-year mission. The instrument, third in ...
One of the goals of modern astronomy is to better understand how stars form -- knowledge that will help us mod...
Disk galaxies are highly flattened, roughly circular galaxies, that are shaped like a disk. Some, like our Mil...
Comet Tempel 1, discovered in 1867 by the German astronomer Wilhelm Tempel, orbits the sun every 5.5 years. In...
In 1774 the French astronomer Charles Messier published a catalog of 109 fuzzy-looking objects he discovered i...
The Comet Nucleus Tour (CONTOUR) spacecraft is presumed lost after numerous attempts at contact. The spacecraf...
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Astronomy Education Review (AER), the web-based journal/magazine about astronomy education and outreach, annou...
AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY IS NEW PUBLISHER. Astronomy Education Review (AER), the web-based journal/magaz...
The Night Sky in December 2011 By Harry J. Augensen Professor of Physics Astronomy, Widener Universit...
The Night Sky in November 2011 By Harry J. Augensen Professor of Physics Astronomy, Widener Universit...
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The Night Sky in September 2011 By Harry J. Augensen Professor of Physics Astronomy, Widener Universi...
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News Articles
UCLA, (Aug. 15, 2011) Why does Titan, Saturn's largest moon, have what looks like an enormous white arrow abo...
ESO, Garching, Germany (10 Aug. 2011) This new picture from ESOs Very Large Telescope shows NGC 3521, a spir...
European Southern Observatory, Garching (Sep. 2, 2009) ESO has released a striking new image of a nearby g...
Royal Astronomical Society, London (Sep. 4, 2009) Since the launch of the NASA Kepler Mission earlier this...
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (March 21, 2009) Does a twin Earth exist somewhere in our gala...
Chicago (Oct. 26, 2009) Cobbling together 3000 individual photographs, a physicist has made a new high-res...
CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA (Jan. 26, 2010) Cars run out of petrol, stars run out of fuel and galaxies collapse into ...
Events
We intend to make a special web cast of comet Lulin, from the Bareket observatory in Israel. http://bareket-as...
Public Lecture Open to Everyone ------------------------------------------------ On Wednesday, March 4, at...
Around the World in 80 Telescopes was a unique live 24-hour webcast, held April 3-4, 2009, that visited some o...
Dear Friend of Astronomy: You are cordially invited to the SETI Institute in Mountain View on Saturday, May...
Dr. Patricia Burchat of Stanford University will give a non-technical, illustrated talk on: The Dark Side ...
You are Invited to the Grand Opening of Out of this World: The Landscapes of Our Solar System a new art exhi...
October 23rd Evening Star Party at Foothill College: Free and Open to the Public On Friday evening, October 23...
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NASA Science Missions The National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 (Space Act) established NASA as an aerosp...
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While the Kepler spacecraft hunts for habitable planets beyond the solar system, weve let one of our own pl...
The Milky Way galaxy contains several hundred billion stars of various ages, sizes and masses. A star forms wh...
This web page is designed to give everyone an idea of what our universe actually looks like. There are nine ma...
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