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Alert, in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada, is the northernmost permanently inhabited place in the world. It is only 817 kilometres from the North Pole. It takes its name from HMS Alert, which wintered 10 km east of the present station, off what is now Cape Sheridan, in 1875-1876. [url=ht...
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TRAPPIST to Scout the Sky and Uncover Exoplanets and Comets Expand (630kb, 1280 x 1294) A new robotic telescope has had first light at ESO's La Silla Observatory, in Chile. TRAPPIST (TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope) is devoted to the study of planetary systems through two app...
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HX-POL
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Title: HX-POL - A Balloon-Borne Hard X-Ray Polarimeter Authors: H. Krawczynski (1), A. Garson III (1), Q. Li (1), M. Beilicke (1), P. Dowkontt (1), E. Wulf (2), J. Kurfess (2), E. Novikova (2), G. De Geronimo (3), M. G. Baring (4), A. K. Harding (5), J. Grindlay (6), J. S. Hong (6) ((1) Washington Univer...
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Tropical Storm Phet
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Cyclone Phet seen soaking arid north-west by weekend The deep depression over west-central and adjoining east-central Arabian Sea remained practically stationary overnight on Tuesday but intensified faster than anticipated into a cyclonic storm, named 'Phet.' [url=http://www.thehindub...
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Sarigan Island
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Submarine volcano erupts south of Sarigan Gov. Benigno R. Fitial has declared a state of disaster emergency in the CNMI following the eruption of an active submarine volcano south of Sarigan Friday noon. Fitial declared the island of Sarigan as unsafe for human habitation and restricted all trave...
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Pembroke Observatory
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When Charlie Sawyer was 9 years old, his family moved from Brewer to Pembroke. Arriving at his new home after dark, Sawyer stepped out of the family car and was astounded at the number of stars he could see in the night sky. That single glimpse ignited a passion in Sawyer, who now operates the Pembroke Ob...
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Mauna Kea Observatory
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Australia and New Zealand radio telescopes
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Imagine if human eyes were so powerful they could read a book more than 20 kilometres away. Scientists in Australia and New Zealand have achieved a similar feat by bringing together the radio signals of six telescopes spread across the two countries to act as one giant telescope. An astronomer, Bria...
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South African Astronomical Observatory
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South African Astronomical Observatory Selected as Host for the IAU Office for Astronomy Development The Executive Committee of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) has selected the SAAO, a national facility of the South African National Research Foundation (NRF), to host the IAU Offic...
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Chott el Jerid
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Chott el Jerid, Tunisia the closest thing to Mars on Earth? From 24-31 May, a team of nine scientists and geologists will be analysing one of the most Mars-like places on Earth, Chott el Jerid in South West Tunisia, in preparation for future missions to the Red Planet. The field campaign has been organ...
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Brazil Quake
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A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 13:27:03 (UTC) on Saturday, July 21, 2007, in the Amazonas region, Brazil, 165 km ESE of Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre, Brazil, at a depth of 632.9 km. Location 7.976°S, 71.130°W
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Cyclonic Storm Laila
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Severe Cyclonic Storm Laila (01B) is forecast to make landfall in India probability for CAT 1 or above is 35% in about 30 hours probability for TS is 85% within 6 hours
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Phillips Claud Telescope
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San Diego State to build 50-inch research telescope San Diego State University will build the largest research telescope in school history, a 50-inch instrument that will examine distant objects that vary in brightness, revealing clues about the physical nature of the universe. The $1.7 millio...
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Name a new asteroid
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Students, spot a new asteroid and name it How about naming a new asteroid in the sky? In the next three months, many students across India will search for new asteroids and name them as part of a unique astronomy project connected to US space agency NASA. [url=http://www.newdelhinews.net/story/63...
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Muscle Shoals Middle School telescope
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A 16-inch telescope, purchased through a $14,000 grant from the Toshiba Corp., is providing images that had previously been out of reach at the planetarium. The telescope is second in size in the region, topped only by the 20-inch telescope owned by the Von Braun Astronomical Society in Huntsville...
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