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Ozone Hole
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According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) the seasonal ozone hole over Antarctica has widened to a near-record size, at approximately 27 million square kilometres.
The record of 28 square kilometres was set in 2003.
The hole in the ozone layer is created by pollution and a...
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Twelve Apostles stone circle
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22-degree halo
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A spectacular halo around the sun currently being seen over Mandurah skies is not as rare as people may think. Read more
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Cincinnati Observatory
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Stargazers soon will be able to peruse the planets in a more historically accurate setting when the last phase of a $3 million restoration of one of the oldest observatories in the United States ends. The restoration of the Cincinnati Observatory that began in 1998 will be completed this spring. The...
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Satellite observing
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Enjoy scanning for satellites You do not need binoculars or a telescope to see the brightest artificial satellites, since they appear as relatively bright starlike objects moving across the sky. Man-made satellites shine by reflected sunlight, and usually can be seen for a few hours after sunset...
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United States Space Surveillance Network
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The United States Space Surveillance Network is a critical part of United States Strategic Command's (USSTRATCOM) mission and involves detecting, tracking, cataloguing and identifying artificial objects orbiting Earth, i.e. active/inactive satellites, spent rocket bodies, or fragmenta...
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Defence Support Program
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Joint Space Operations Centre
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JSpOC increases tracking capabilities The Joint Space Operations Centre here increased its daily conjunction assessment screening capabilities for manoeuvrable satellites by almost 700 percent Aug. 23. In less than seven months, the JSpOC went from tracking 120 active manoeuvrable satelli...
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Moon Trees
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Hunt for missing 'Moon Trees' that grew from seeds taken into space on Apollo 14 They are living, breathing monuments to the early days of space exploration - but nobody knows where they all are. A former Nasa astronomer has spent the last 15 years trying to track down dozens of 'Moon Trees' which were g...
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Guryal ravine Tsunami
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Evidence of Tsunami preserved in Kashmir rocks Prof Michael Brookfield of the University of Massachusetts, said that the geological evidence at the Guryal ravine in the vicinity of the Srinagar city indicates that there is enough evidence of tsunami preserved in the Guryal rocks that originated...
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Noise pollution
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Study Finds Falling Trees Make Sound Even if No One is Around to Hear It For the last two years, researchers have been placing microphones throughout Oregon's Crater Lake National Park in order to database and analyse what sort of sounds can be heard in some of the remotest places. And it turns out, evi...
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BCAS observatory
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The Bruce County Astronomical Society, in partnership with the Bluewater Education Foundation, will mark the International Year of Astronomy by building of an observatory at the Outdoor Education Centre. The observatory will house the telescope donated by the University of Guelph in 2005, alo...
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Cuba Quake
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A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 20:56:58 (UTC) on Sunday, February 4, 2007, in the Cuba Region, 120 km NNW of Montego Bay, Jamaica, at a depth of 10 km. Location 19.480°N, 78.303°W
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Hydrosphere
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Nasa satellites have weighed the water lost by the US State of California's heartland since 2003. The Sacramento and San Joaquin River Basins which support the highly productive Central Valley have shed over 30 cubic km of water in that time. The data comes from the Grace mission which detects chang...
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Wynyard Planetarium & Observatory
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The Planetarium and Observatory are located on the popular Wynyard Woodland Park (formerly the Castle Eden Walkway Country Park) near Thorpe Thewles, Stockton-on-Tees, Teesside in the North-East of England. The park is just outsi...
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