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Tv Diary - Sbs Tuesday June 30 - Are We Alone In The Universe? - Pc Authority
screening on sbs tv on tuesday june 30 at 7:30pm, are we alone in the universe? looks like one to mark in the diary if you've been interested in our recent astronomy coverage. tuesday's show focuses on a big one - the most "earth-like" planet yet ...
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Kid's Astronomy: A Summer's Lure – Scorpio
howdy, kids! over the last couple of months we've visited with a multitude of wonderful sky characters. we've located the triangle, met the dragon, visited in the royal house, met a king and queen and their children, a celestial farmer and his grandchildren, and we've even been to starry river of the milky [...]
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First Impressions: Rachel Webster
she helped put the kibosh on planet pluto. she believes in the possibility of sophisticated life beyond earth, perhaps too sophisticated to bother communicating with the likes of us.
theaustralian.news.com.au

Saturn: A Brief Guide - The Guardian
a mosaic image of saturn combining 30 pictures – 10 each of red, green and blue light – taken over the course of two hours as cassini panned its wide-angle camera across the entire planet and its ring system in july 2008 photograph: nasa it's ...
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Strangest Object - Space News
an illustration of the football-shaped dwarf planet haumea and its satellites. credit: nasa, esa, and a. feild (stsci) things in the kuiper belt get a little crazy. here is an edge-on view of our solar system showing the orbit of 2004 xr 190 ...
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Stuck On Mars, Spirit Rover Does Science
the mars rover spirit is keeping scientists' spirits up by doing some science while it is stuck in soft soil on the red planet.
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Spot The Space Station: Twitter Tells You When
the international space station (iss) is easy to spot with the naked eye if you know when and where to look. a new notification service on twitter will tell you exactly when to go out and look up.
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Visions Of Saturn - The Guardian
the royal observatory in greenwich, london, is staging an exhibition of some of the finest images of saturn captured by nasa's cassini-huygens probe since its mission began in 2004. saturn, the second largest planet in the solar system, is famous for ...
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Early Scenes Best In 'transformers,' Which Disappoints - Southern Illinoisan
transformers: revenge of the fallen ½* – rated pg-13 for intense sequences of intense sci-fi action, violence, language, some crude and sexual material and brief drug material; starring shia labeouf, megan fox, john turturro, rainn wilson ...
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Magnetic Field On Bright Star Vega
by staff writers paris, france (spx) jun 25, 2009 astronomy and astrophysics is publishing the first detection of a magnetic field on the star vega, one of the brightest stars in the sky.
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Spirit Rover Going Nowhere, But Still Making Discoveries
the spirit rover on has been stuck in martian soil, going nowhere, but that doesn’t mean she hasn't been busy or hasn't been making new discoveries. just the opposite. scientists have taken advantage of what could be a bad situation to learn more about the red planet's environmental history. "by serendipity, troy (the [...]
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Exotic Life Could Sprout From Titan Chemistry - Space News
if life exists on titan, it's anyone's guess what that life looks like. saturn's largest moon is not a good candidate for earth-like life because it usually lacks liquid water on the surface. but one of titan's most promising features is the presence ...
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Public Lecture By Andrew Chaikin: One Giant Leap: How The Apollo Moon ... - Spaceref
the apollo moon missions are among history's greatest technological achievements and greatest scientific explorations. but they were also a turning point in the evolution of the human species. for the 40th anniversary of the first lunar landing ...
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Exotic Life Could Sprout From Titan Chemistry
if life exists on titan, it's anyone's guess what that life looks like.
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Family Picks
richard mccolman's not sure how long morehead planetarium and science center has been hosting regular skywatching sessions.
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Sights Set On Sky - Cumberland Times-news
cumberland astronomy club members jim wilson and his wife gigi assist an unidentified viewer at the meyersdale, pa., train station. the club will continue its 2009 series of stars in the park public stargazing sessions with two events this weekend ...
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Cosmic Rays: A Review For Astrobiologists - Spaceref
cosmic rays represent one of the most fascinating research themes in modern astronomy and physics. significant progress is being made toward an understanding of the astrophysics of the sources of cosmic rays and the physics of interactions in the ...
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Robots Help Transform Movie Into Long, Boring Failure
as big, dumb summer “entertainments” go, they don’t get much bigger or much dumber than “transformers: revenge of the fallen.”
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Space Telescope Science Institutejoins The Search For Other Earths In Space
the space telescope science institute (stsci) in baltimore, md., is partnering on a historic search for earth-size planets around other stars. stsci is the data archive center for nasa's kepler mission, a spacecraft that is undertaking a survey for earth-size planets in our region of the galaxy.
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Meet The Largest Optical Telescope In The World - Softpedia
the gran telescopio canarias (gtc), or the great telescope canary islands, is the largest optical observatory completed in the world to date. with its 10.4-meter aperture and its exquisite position some 2,400 levels above sea level, on top of a ...
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