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Dr. Tanyu Bonev: About 10 000 people visited Rozhen Observatory in 2009 Dr. Tanyu Bonev, director of the National Astronomical Observatory Rozhen, in an interview with Radio Smolyan - Focus Read more Latitude: 41° 41' 35'' Longitud...
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3.5 million years ago our early ancestors ate tropical grasses Researchers involved in a new study led by Oxford University have found that between three million and 3.5 million years ago, the diet of our very early ancestors in central Africa is likely to have consisted mainly of tropical grasses a...
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Wallops Research Park
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With the stroke of a pen, the long-anticipated Wallops Research Park -- designed to bring technology-based jobs and businesses to the area -- became a reality this week. Advertisement Accomack County Board of Supervisors Chairman Steve Mallette, on behalf of the county, signed the agreement leg...
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Lake Natron
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Lake Natron is a salt lake located in northern Tanzania, close to the Kenyan border, in the eastern branch of the East African Rift. The lake is fed by the Southern Ewaso Ng'iro River and also by mineral-rich hot springs. It is quite shallow, less than three meters deep, and varies in width depending on...
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Rattlesnake Mountain observatory
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A natural preservation plan is threatening the Rattlesnake Mountain observatory. The Energy Department notified 12 agencies Friday to remove structures from the mountain northwest of Richland. Most are telecommunication towers, but one is the observatory of the Alliance for the Advancement...
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Space Situational Awareness Preparatory Programme
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The Space Situational Awareness Preparatory Programme (SSA-PP) was authorised at the November 2008 ESA Ministerial Council and formally launched 1 January 2009. After an initial three-year period to 2011, full operational services will be implemented in 2012-19 upon approval. The objective...
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A strong magnitude 6.5 earthquake occurred at 11:01:05 (UTC) on Saturday, January 05, 2008, in the Queen Charlotte islands region, 158 km WNW from Port Hardy, BC, Canada, at a depth of 10 km. Location 51.299°N, 130.713°W A strong magnitude 6.5 earthquake occurred at 11:44:48 (UTC) on Saturday, Ja...
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Sprigg Geobiology Centre
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New research centre 560 million years in the making. The legend of a South Australian geologist, explorer and environmentalist will live on in a new research centre being launched at the University of Adelaide tomorrow night (Thursday 8 November). The Sprigg Geobiology Centre, part of the Univer...
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theSkyNet
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Once in a lifetime experience for theSkyNet citizen scientist Last week the top contributor to citizen science initiative theSkyNet travelled to the heart of the West Australian outback to visit the future site of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope. Mr Kim Hawtin, top contributor t...
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Subaru Telescope
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Taiwan joins Japan's project to upgrade Subaru Telescope Academia Sinica, Taiwan's top academic and science research institute, signed a memorandum of understanding with the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) Friday to collaborate in optical and infrared wavelength astrono...
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Up the long and winding Angeles Crest Highway, past a thicket of tall television antennas, sits what David Jurasevich calls "a monument to astronomy." "So many important discoveries about our universe - they all started right there," Jurasevich says, pointing to a domed wh...
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Radio astronomy
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A new astronomical facility for Peru: transforming a 32m-antenna into a radio telescope
There are some big antennae around that are not used anymore, because communication has been replaced by other means. Making telescopes out of them requires expertise which not necessarily available. F...
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Mount Washington Observatory
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Lease renewed for Mt Washington Observatory The lease for the nonprofit observatory has been extended through 2014. The observatory, located in space at the Sherman Adams building at Mount Washington State Park on the 6,288-foot summit, will pay $285,000 through the five years. [url=http://ww...
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Sheshan Observatory
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China's second largest optical telescope at the Sheshan branch of the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory can no longer participate in world-class observation due to excessive light pollution in the area, astronomers said. Even routine space observations are being affected by light pollution...
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