Astronomy: Search The Galaxy

Karina Caputi, of the Institute of Astronomy ETH Hoenggerberg, in Zurich, Switzerland. Infrared galaxies are extremely dusty, and most are furiously forming new stars. Astronomers suspect that the source of the galaxy’s infrared glow …
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picture of a Dalek helmet. Pictur eof the TARDIS can cooler Even better, this same company has a USB-powered TARDIS can cooler! WANTWANTWANT. You’d think it would hold a bigger can, though. Tip[ o’ the sonic screwdriver to Kevin Jung.
Original post by The Bad Astronomer

Astronomy has been around for a long time. Many ancient structures appear to have been built around astronomical observations. Perhaps the best known example is Stonehenge. Stonehenge is a circular structure built with massive stone …
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A gravitational rocket propelled the monster at a speed of thousands of kilometers per second.
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Who better to invite to CERN, than the internet’s most popular astronomy blogger, Dr. Phil Plait, the Bad Astronomer? Phil and Brian originally met in 2005 when Brian interviewed Phil for a BBC programme about the Deep Impact mission. …
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While I was in England, the good folks at nature.com let me glom on to their pub party, which turned into a Nature/Randi/BA/Brian Cox fan/meetup thingy. It was quite the good time. In return, all I had to do was write up a soapbox …
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Ptolemy’s geocentric astronomical system used four geometric devices, the deferent, epicycle, eccentric, and equant, to explain the observed motions of the planets.
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Ptolemy’s geocentric astronomical system placed Earth at the center of the universe and he was considered the ultimate authority in astronomy for about 1400 years.
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BABloggee Patrick Pricken alerted me to a new movie coming out soon… where pareidolia is real. Luke Wilson from Henry Poole is Here It’s called “Henry Poole is Here”, and it stars Luke Wilson as a sad sap whose life turns around when …
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This article was written by Marko Pyhajarvi and its original location is in HomeboyAstronomy.Com astronomy blog. For more great astronomy articles, please visit HomeboyAstronomy.Com. Share This.
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