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Huge cosmic-ray observatory set for Siberia Construction has begun in the Tunka Valley near Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia, on the world's largest cosmic-ray observatory. The first prototypes for the $46 m Hundred Square-km Cosmic Origin Explorer (HiSCORE) are now being installed and when comp...
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Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory
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Astronomers anticipate major announcement from Gravitational Wave Observatory Exactly 100 years after Einstein predicted that accelerating masses emit an invisible radiation that makes ripples in space-time, an international team led by US scientists are poised to make a major announcemen...
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Kukulkan pyramid
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Mayan 'nesting doll pyramid' discovered in Mexico A third structure has been found within the famous Kukulkan pyramid in eastern Mexico, experts say. The 10m tall pyramid was found within two other structures that comprise the 30m pyramid at the Mayan archaeological complex known as Chichen Itza...
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Mills Observatory
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It has given generations of stargazers free access to the heavens as the only public observatory in the UK. But the 85-year-old Mills Observatory in Dundee is now under threat of privatisation with the city's council considering turning its daily running over to a private trust. Like other council...
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Title: First Spectroscopic Imaging Observations of the Sun at Low Radio Frequencies with the Murchison Widefield Array Prototype Authors: Divya Oberoi, Lynn D. Matthews, Iver H. Cairns, David Emrich, Vasili Lobzin, Colin J. Lonsdale, Edward H. Morgan, T. Prabu, Harish Vedantham, Randall B. Wa...
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Special Astrophysical Observatory
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Russian observatory once closed to public houses art exhibit A remote Russian observatory housing what was once the world's largest mirrored telescope has become the setting for an art installation that explores the near-infinite reaches of both outer space and the human imagination. The works...
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Villaggio dei Faraglioni
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Title: Astronomy and landscape at the prehistoric settlement Villaggio dei Faraglioni, Ustica, Sicily Author: Franco Foresta Martin, Giulio Magli The placement of the Middle Bronze Age settlement Villaggio dei Faraglioni on the Ustica island, one of the best preserved prehistoric village of...
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Belmont observatory tower
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Belmont House near Lyme Regis was bought in 1883 by Dr Richard Bangay, local GP, geologist, botanist and astronomer. Dr Richard Bangay added the octagonal observatory tower with a rotating roof. Read more
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Vatican Astronomical Observatory
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Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Jesuit Father José Gabriel Funes as the new director of the Vatican Astronomical Observatory, replacing Jesuit Father George Coyne.
Father Coyne, a native of Baltimore, Maryland, US, had been director of the observatory since 1978.
The Vatican press offic...
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Durrington Walls
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Durrington Walls is the site of a large Neolithic settlement and later henge enclosure located in the Stonehenge World Heritage Site. It is 2 miles north-east of Stonehenge in the parish of Durrington, just north of Amesbury. Since 2003 the Stonehenge Riverside Project, led by Mike Parker Pearso...
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Birkrigg stone circle
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The Birkrigg stone circle (also known as the Druid's Temple or Druids' Circle) is a Bronze Age stone circle two miles south of Ulverston in the English county of Cumbria. It dates to between 1700 and 1400 BC. Read more
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Lake Afton Observatory
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Lake Afton Public Observatory to close The Lake Afton Observatory will close next month. Attendance at the observatory is about 4,000 a year, roughly half what it was when it opened in 1981. The final public program at Lake Afton, "Sizing up Saturn," will be Aug. 22. Read more
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GIOVE
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Title: GIOVE - A New Detector Setup for High Sensitivity Germanium Spectroscopy At Shallow Depth Author: Gerd Heusser, Marc Weber, Janina Hakenmüller, Matthias Laubenstein, Manfred Lindner, Werner Maneschg, Hardy Simgen, Dominik Stolzenburg, Herbert Strecker We report on the development a...
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Addis Ababa observatory
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Ethiopia opens first space observatory in East Africa Ethiopia has begun operating the first space observatory in East Africa in an effort to promote astronomy. Read more
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ESPRESSO
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Developers and future users of ESPRESSO gathered in Geneva to discuss the challenges raised by the new instrument and its outstanding accuracy. While engineers and opticians are busy building ESPRESSO, astronomers and physicists are already asking questions how to use this successor to HARPS....
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