Astronomy: Search The Galaxy

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From The Old Farmer’s Almanac. Visit our Monthly Sky Highlights and Moon Phase Calendars page for more information.
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It pains me deep in my heart that I am not on my way to the joint AAVSO/BAA meeting in Cambridge, England. I believe our good friends Doug and Pamela are both there. I have been a loyal AAVSO member for quite a few years now and I have …
Original post by michael

When questioned as to the apparent about-turn from the Programmatic Review, Keith said that the astronomy community were “deliberately mis-understanding” him. If you have a spare hour or two you can listen to the whole thing for …
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Mars has two dinky moons, Phobos and Deimos. Phobos is the bigger of the two, and is about 22 kilometers (13 miles) across. There have been hi-res images of Phobos taken in the past, but none like this! …
Original post by The Bad Astronomer

Universe Today has an article about Yi So-yeon, the first Korean astronaut and also the youngest woman (29) launched into space. Very cool! I like seeing younger folks getting to space. Someday there will be even younger folks, …
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Thanks to the HiRise imager on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, today we have these stunning views of the Martian moon Phobos. As usual you can get a larger version of the images shown here by clicking them. If you want some really high …
Original post by Tom

The Large Hadron Collider, looming so largely in my mind since I’m heading there next week, was the topic of a recent interview on The Daily Show. Jon Stewart talked to Simon LeVay, who has written a book called When Science Goes Wrong. …
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An RIT team simulates the first merger of three black holes.
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A rocky planet has been discovered orbiting a star in the constellation.
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