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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 ...
The Comet Nucleus Tour (CONTOUR) spacecraft is presumed lost after numerous attempts at contact. The spacecraf...
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...
The Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) is an orbiting space telescope that will observe galaxies in ultraviolet...
Comet Tempel 1, discovered in 1867 by the German astronomer Wilhelm Tempel, orbits the sun every 5.5 years. In...
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AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY IS NEW PUBLISHER. Astronomy Education Review (AER), the web-based journal/magaz...
Astronomy Education Review (AER), the web-based journal/magazine about astronomy education and outreach, annou...
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...
The Night Sky in October 2011 By Harry J. Augensen Professor of Physics Astronomy, Widener University...
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...
Washington (Oct. 28, 2009) During its first year of operations, NASA's Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope map...
GARCHING, GERMANY (Nov. 6, 2009) Astronomers have tracked down a gigantic, previously unknown assembly of ...
SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO (Feb. 3, 2010) For the first time, astronomers have found a supernova explosion with prop...
Caltech, Pasadena, CA (Dec. 16, 2008) The Big Bang is widely considered to have obliterated any trace of w...
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (March 21, 2009) Does a twin Earth exist somewhere in our gala...
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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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AviationWeek.com's Space channel delivers news, data and information about the world's commercial and military...
"Around the World in 80 Telescopes" was a unique live 24-hour webcast, held April 3-4, 2009, that visited some...
Featuring a variety of information and materials for educators. (Click the image below to go the the "NASA: Fo...
The Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature is a joint effort between: International Astronomical Union (IAU) Nat...
U.S. Geological Survey - Astrogeology Research Program "Astrogeology is the science devoted to studying the or...
Fulvio Melia, Ph.D. Deptartments of Physics and Astronomy University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona, USA Homepage ...
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Space Gallery. Here you'll find stunning images taken by spacecraft as they...
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