Archive for April 11th, 2008
Saturday, April 12, 2008 Moon Phase
From The Old Farmer’s Almanac. Visit our Monthly Sky Highlights and Moon Phase Calendars page for more information.
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Where Art and Astronomy meet.
This post highlights an installation by Tomas Saraceno at the Tonya Bonakdar Gallery, explaining how one piece illustrates the formation of the early universe.
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Want: Part V, lunar furniture edition
Oh man, and here I am looking for something in which to keep my meteorite collection! It’s actually more of a piece of art, with only 24 made. Bummer. Tip o’ the shop goggles to Amanda.
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Google Enterprise
From io9 comes the news that my favorite starship has been spotted on Earth, in a suburb someplace in Egypt. It’s almost possible to imagine this was done on purpose… Emily has another sighting of the good ship Enterprise, …
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Where is it looking? - part 2
My plan now is to start getting other telescopes to do similar things in time for the International Year of Astronomy 2009. If you have access to telescope pointing information - professional or amateur - I would encourage you to let …
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Distant GRB imaged
Hubble pinpoints record explosion and finds unexpected fading mode.
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Missing Link Between Planets and Stars Found
The discovery, led by researchers at Observatoire de Grenoble in France, the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, the University of Ottawa and other institutions will be detailed in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. By SPACE.com Staff.
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The eyes of Cheney
There has been a buzz around the liberal blogosphere about a picture of Vice President Dick Cheney fishing. No, not because he shot someone while he was out on the boat, or tortured a fish, or outted a currently working covert wriggler. …
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Penn house tour auction back up
I have been informed that the auction to tour Penn Jilette’s house in now back online. There were issues with the old auction (some problem about the winner having to catch a bullet in their teeth first or something) but this one should …
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Carnival of Space 49
Will Gater is hosting the 49th Carnival of Space this week. As usual everything from Mars, to supernovae, to Dyson Spheres are covered. Go check it out for some of the best astronomy on the web this week. - source.
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