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NASA's art collection on display at Smithsonian American artists Andy Warhol, Norman Rockwell and Annie Leibovitz have all contributed to the vast art collection of... the National Aeronautics and Space Administration? Visitors to the National Air and Space Museum might be surprised to learn t...
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Total Lunar Eclipse on December 21st, 2010 at 07:40 UT The last lunar eclipse of 2010 is especially well placed for observers throughout North America. The last lunar eclipse of 2010 is especially well placed for observers throughout North America. The eclipse occurs at the Moon's descending node...
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Perkins Observatory
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Ohio Wesleyan's Perkins Observatory Celebrates the Sun in July The regular Friday night programs at Ohio Wesleyan University's Perkins Observatory, 3199 Columbus Pike (U.S. 23), will be replaced in July with three daytime "Celebration of the Sun" events. The special programs will b...
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Russia Day
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Russia Day is the national holiday of the Russian Federation, celebrated on June 12. It has been celebrated every year since 1992. Read more
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Public Observatory Project (POP)
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Nighttime stargazing June 9th from 9pm-10pm (weather permitting) The National Air and Space Museum opens its observatory to the public. Look through the Observatory's 16-inch telescope to discover craters on the Moon, spots on the Sun (using safe solar filters), the phases of Venus, and other wo...
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Black Hole Press Conference
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NASA Announces Televised Black Hole Press Conference NASA will hold a press conference at 1:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, June 15, to discuss new discoveries about giant black holes in the early universe. The event will be in the NASA Headquarters Webb auditorium located at 300 E Street SW in Washingto...
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Powell Observatory
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Powell Observatory board members hope Louisburg residents will take a break from the city lights one night and come explore all the observatory has to offer. Thats why the observatory, in conjunction with the city of Louisburg, is holding a Louisburg night Aug. 14. [url=http://www.herald-onlin...
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Giovanni Domenico Cassini
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On this day in 1625 Italian/French astronomer Gian Domenico Cassini (1625-1712) was born in Perinaldo in present-day Italy.
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Lecture: The Dark Universe
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Cosmologist Josh Frieman to present June 9 lecture on 'The Dark Universe' Josh Frieman, director of the international Dark Energy Survey collaboration, will kick off a new lecture series on current astrophysics with a talk on "The Dark Universe" at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 9 at the Adler Pl...
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Nova Sgr 2008
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A magnitude 8.4 Nova in the constellation Sagittarius (VSX J180558.8-271356) was discovered on April 19, by the Macedon Ranges Observatory. It is currently at magnitude 6, and brightening. Position(2000): RA 18:05:58.90 Dec -27:13:56.3
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Edinburgh Meadows free festival
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Thousands of revellers are expected to take to the Meadows in Edinburgh this weekend for a community festival. The free to enter festival was established in 1974 and held annually on the first weekend of June until 2005 when it was stopped. It restarted in 2008. [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/u...
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NASA Tweetup
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Tweetup at NASA's JPL Previews 2011 Missions NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., will host a Tweetup on Monday, June 6. More than 100 NASA Twitter followers, who registered in April, will attend the event. With four NASA/JPL space missions launching in 2011 and an asteroid belt e...
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Festival of Carna
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Cardea or Carda was the ancient Roman goddess of the hinge (Latin cardo, cardinis), Roman doors being hung on pivot hinges. The Augustan poet Ovid conflates her with another archaic goddess named Carna, whose festival was celebrated on the Kalends of June and for whom he gives the alternative name C...
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ISRO Kids
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ISRO Kids is an education programme that attempts to help students explore various fields of space science and encourage budding scientists. Started with the guidance and support of ISRO on April 20, 2011, isrokids.com attempts to impart scientific knowledge about space to kids online, keeping...
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The celtic festival of Beltane is on May 1st. North American Nebula this is an enormous and vivid cloud of gas and dust which has striking resemblance to North America. Due to its large size (four degrees across, eight times the angular size of the Moon), the nebula ("NGC7000") must be view...
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