Showing posts with label ASTRONOMY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ASTRONOMY. Show all posts
Saturday, May 30, 2015

NSF VIDEO: Black holes and coffee - Scientists & Engineers on Sofas (and other furn...

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Friday, April 3, 2015

COMPARE AND CONTRAST AURORA SIGHTINGS

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FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Springtime night lights: Finding the aurora Aurorasaurus project allows aurora-viewers around the world...
Thursday, October 16, 2014

ICE MOON HANGS ON

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FROM:  NASA  Right:  Stuck on the Rings Like a drop of dew hanging on a leaf, Tethys appears to be stuck to the A and F rings from this...
Monday, October 13, 2014

NASA VIDEO: TOUR OF M82 SN20114J

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Friday, October 10, 2014

NASA VIDEO: TOUR OF RX J1131-1231

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Wednesday, October 8, 2014

NSF SUPPORTS DIVERSITY WITH ASTRONOMY PROGRAM

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FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION  Making stars Astronomy program provides tools, support to enhance diversity October 7, 2014 Lik...
Thursday, July 17, 2014

THE BIG, BAD & BEAUTIFUL UNIVERSE WITH CHANDRA

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Thursday, June 26, 2014

STELLAR SCENE FROM THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

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FROM:  NASA  On June 23, 2014, Expedition 40 Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman captured this image which connects Earth to the International ...
Friday, May 9, 2014

NASA STUDIES THE BIRTH OF STAR CLUSTERS

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FROM:  NASA  Stars are often born in clusters, in giant clouds of gas and dust. Astronomers have studied two star clusters using NASA...
Thursday, April 17, 2014

SUPERCOMPUTERS PREDICT SIGNS OF BLACK HOLES CONSUMING STARS

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Right:  Black Hole Caught in a Stellar Homicide.  This computer-simulated image shows gas from a star that is ripped apart by tidal forces...
Friday, March 7, 2014

THE RUNNING SPIRAL

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FROM:  NASA  Life Is Too Fast, Too Furious for Runaway Galaxy The spiral galaxy ESO 137-001 looks like a dandelion caught in a breeze i...
Thursday, March 6, 2014

EUROPA AND THE SEARCH FOR WATER

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FROM:  NASA  This reprojection of the official USGS basemap of Jupiter's moon Europa is centered at the estimated source region for ...
Monday, January 27, 2014

NSF ON EARLY COSMOS AND HEAVY METAL

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FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION  Heavy metal in the early cosmos Simulations shed light on the formation and explosion of stars in the ...
Wednesday, January 1, 2014

THE FLAT GALAXY

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FROM:  NASA/HUBBLE GALAXY  Hubble Eyes Galaxy as Flat as a Pancake Located some 25 million light-years away, this new Hubble image sho...
Wednesday, December 11, 2013

UNDERSTANDING A STAR'S SURFACE AND THE EXTREME FORCES OF NATURE

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ILLUSTRATION FROM:  NASA:  A neutron star is the densest object astronomers can observe directly, crushing half a million times Earth'...
Saturday, November 23, 2013

LADEE READY TO COLLECT LUNAR DATA

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FROM:  NASA  Right:  An Artist’s concept of NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft in orbit above t...
Sunday, January 13, 2013

MARS MOSAIC

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FROM: NASA Panoramic View From Near 'Point Lake' in Gale Crater, Sol 106 This panorama is a mosaic of images taken by the Mas...
Friday, January 11, 2013

CASSIOPEIA A: THE REMAINS OF A SUPERNOVA

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  FROM: NASA Sizzling Remains of a Dead Star This new view of the historical supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, located 11,000 light...
Wednesday, June 27, 2012

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ACQUIRES ASTRONOMER CARL SAGAN'S PAPERS

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FROM U.S. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS The Library of Congress has acquired the personal papers of American astronomer, astrobiologist and scie...