Astronomy: Search The Galaxy

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Original post by The Old Farmer’s Almanac

The journalist, Carine Soupet, presents some images of ISS, which were captured by Laurent using The Imaging Source astronomy camera DMK 31AU03.AS. Laurent purchased the camera from our French reseller MecAstronic. …
Original post by Jonathan Maron

The discovery of two “supernova factories”, rare clusters of Red Supergiant (RSG) stars, located in the Galactic Bar of the Milky Way will be presented at the RAS National Astronomy Meeting in Belfast on Tuesday 1st April. …
Original post by Cmarchesin

Not a world-stopping bit of news, but cool and interesting: the youngest new Moon ever has been spotted. It was so young, in fact, that it was actually not yet quite new. Here’s the deal: the Moon goes around the Earth (stop me if I’m …
Original post by The Bad Astronomer

Find out about the big-bang theory when University of Richmond Physics Assistant Professor Ted Bunn presents Listening to the Big Bang at 10 am What astronomy research is going on at Randolph-Macon College ? Dr. …
Original post by FTRea

Regular readers of this blog know that I turn a jaundiced eye to claims of sightings of supernatural beings in mundane objects. Mary in an oil stain, Jesus in the wood grain, angels in a window pane. I am of the strong feeling that …
Original post by The Bad Astronomer

McDonald Observatory astronomers have found a new kind of star. The star is a “pulsating carbon white dwarf” a new class of white dwarf. This is the first new type of variable white dwarf found in 25 years. …
Original post by Tom

And hmmm. He’d need a science/astronomy advisor… PS Coincidentally, Gina Trapani at Lifehacker just wrote up a short piece about Wil. Tip o’ the VISOR to Dave Hall for pointing this out… before I actually got to io9 in my feed reader today.
Original post by The Bad Astronomer

So while searching for something on Google, I found out about a movie called, simply, “Astronomy“. Weirdly, IMDB’s synopsis doesn’t even mention astronomy itself, and it’s difficult to find any info on it given the popularity of the two …
Original post by The Bad Astronomer

Vanessa Lauberg of the Department of Astronomy at the University of Maryland will speak on “Induced Mergers of Stellar-Mass Black Hole Binaries in Galactic Nuclei.” Stellar-mass black hole binaries […]
Original post by osgc