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European Weather
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UGA Observatory
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Athenians can turn their eyes heavenward again - the University of Georgia's 24-inch telescope has been repaired, thanks to a handful of donors who came up with $500 to buy a replacement part. University astronomers soon can resume a full schedule of monthly open houses, when anyone interested can...
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Serra da Cangalha Crater
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Serra da Cangalha is a meteorite crater (astrobleme) in the State of Tocantins, near to the border of Maranhão State, in northeastern Brazil. The Serra da Cangalha impactor landed 220 million years ago into largely undisturbed sediments laid down some 300 million years ago. [url=http://earthob...
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La Nina
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ESA scientists said last Friday that recent satellite measurements of a significant difference in sea-surface height between the western and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean suggest a La Nina event is beginning. El Nino's chillier sister, La Nina also is linked to wide-ranging shifts in w...
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Astrolabe Quadrant
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Royal Ontario Museum
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Teck Cominco Suite of Galleries: Earth's Treasures The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) unveils the Teck Cominco Suite of Galleries: Earth's Treasures on December 20, 2008, on Level 2 of the Weston Family Wing on December 20, 2008. Divided into the Vale Inco Limited Gallery of Minerals, the Gallery of Ge...
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Pangaea Ultima
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Existing during the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic -- some 250 million years ago -- Pangaea is the supercontinent that comprised of all of our modern day continents, all rolled up in to one big one. Eurasia was up the top, swinging down through North and South America, cross to the east for Africa, then south...
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Golden Ratio
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Artists reckon that the "Golden Ratio", also called the "Golden Section Phi" and nature's most astonishing number, is the ratio that controls the proportions of all beautiful objects. It is said that a well-proportioned face must lie in what is called a "golden rectan...
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Darvaz Crater
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Darvaz Crater in Uzbekistan is called by locals "The Door to Hell". It is situated near the small town of Darvaz. The 50-100 meter diameter crater was created by an accidental explosion and ground collapse as a result of natural gas exploratory drilling in 1986. The ignited natural gas h...
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Stefanik Observatory
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If you are visiting Prague over the summer, then remember to check out the Štefánik Observatory on Petřín Hill which is holding an exhibition on Prague monuments connected to astronomy.
"There are some monuments which are, maybe surprisingly, bound to astronomy or astronomical sym...
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ARCONS
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Title: ARCONS: A highly multiplexed superconducting optical to near-IR camera Authors: Benjamin A. Mazin, Kieran O'Brien, Sean McHugh, Bruce Bumble, David Moore, Sunil Golwala, Jonas Zmuidzinas We report on the development of ARCONS, the ARray Camera for Optical to Near-IR Spectrophotometr...
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Norwegian Sea Quake
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A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 06:35:05 (UTC) on Thursday, August 20, 2009, in the Norwegian Sea, 715 km WNW of Tromso, at a depth of 10 km. Location 72.222°N, 0.894°E
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Stratolaunch Systems production facility
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Ground breaking of the production facilities and hangar at the Mojave Air and Space Port Stratolaunch Systems announced today the ground breaking on a production facility and hangar at the Mojave Air and Space Port. Stratolaunch Systems, founded by Paul G. Allen, is a private aerospace developme...
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Before the Dinosaurs
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About 290 million years ago, lizard like creatures about the size of a pig roamed the landscape that would become the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness, US.
A hiker discovered their tracks in 2001 in the Gunnison and White River National Forests and told officials at the Denver Museum of Nature...
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York observatory
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Stargazers rejoice - a little-known York observatory could open to the public seven days a week for the first time in its history. The historic Museum Gardens facility is in full working order, but only usually open its doors for a couple of weeks a year. But now the York Museums Trust, which looks aft...
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