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Lynchburg College students will be seeing stars this fall. A $450,000 observatory, located on the Claytor Nature Preserve, should be ready for use by then. Initial work began last Friday and college officials expect the work to be completed in August. Dr. Neal Sumerlin, who spearheaded the projec...

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More than 30 years ago, eruptions of steam and ash from Mount Baker prompted the evacuation of the Baker Lake area and sent jitters through Whatcom County. Before scientists could understand what was going on inside Baker, its sister to the south Mount St. Helens roared to life, stealing the show and...

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It was the perfect Eagle Scout project, something befitting that name, a task that soared into the sky and beyond into space. The astronomy dome at Monrovia High School, opened in 1983, had gradually fallen prey to neglect and changing curriculums until, finally, it wasn't used at all. Thursday, be...

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Grand opening of Sky Watch offered to public The Waterman Conservation Education Centre invites the public to the grand opening of Sky Watch at 11 a.m. Tuesday. Sky Watch is a direct feed by Internet service of the Hubble Telescope to Waterman Centre. The grand opening is sponsored by Lockheed Marti...

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Dmitry Donskoy the Russian strategic nuclear submarine successfully launched a new Bulava ballistic missile in the White Sea on Wednesday morning. The missile hit a target at the Kura firing range on the Kamchatka Peninsula. "This was the first underwater launch of a Bu...

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Lava Lamp-Like Process Caused World's Largest Zinc Deposit: For more than two decades, geologists have scoured the ores and rocks surrounding the world's largest zinc deposit at Red Dog, Alaska, for clues as to how this giant ore body formed. In some zinc deposits elsewhere, vol...

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Teachers and administrators in the Northern Highlands Regional School District are hoping an Earth angel or at least a substantial grant will pay for more than $150,000 in upgrades to the school's 40-year-old planetarium. "We pay for an upgrade every year that costs about $6,000. ... It's so...

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Possible missing stone and bank at Long Meg A student is leading the way in unlocking the mysteries of an ancient stone circle, Long Meg and her Daughters, near Little Salkeld (England). Sarah Potter, of Yanwath, who is in the third year of a degree in archaeology at the University of Manchester, carr...

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Reports have emerged that the US Navy is upgrading its submarine base at the isolated tropical atoll Diego Garcia, which is formally British territory. The base improvements will allow its new class of SSGN nuclear submarines to opera...

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Inchgarvie lies beneath the Forth Rail Bridge, where the channel narrows to just 1.5 kms wide between North and South Queensferry. Steep cliffs plunge down into deep canyons gouged out by glacial ice more than 10,000 years ago. A craggy island of hard rock rears up between, with its long volcanic tai...

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Jim Roe is looking for a home for big telescopes. The executive director of the Alliance for Astronomy, a nonprofit organisation, has been searching for a site to build a centre since its board was organized in 2004. The centre would include a small planetarium and an observing field with two large...

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Title: Gigantic SO2 emission from Miyakejima volcano, Japan, caused by caldera collapse Authors: Kohei Kazahaya, Hiroshi Shinohara, Kozo Uto, Masanobu Odai, Yasuhiro Nakahori, Hirokazu Mori, Hideki Iino, Makoto Miya****a, Junichi Hirabayashi An extremely large amo...

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Tropical Cyclone Jaya is forecast to strike land in Madagascar. probability for CAT 1 or above is 40% in about 36 hours probability for TS is 75% in about 24 hours

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A control post officer assigned to Indonesia's Mount Slamet said Sunday the volcano's activity has increased after the area endured heavy rains. The officer said the increased activity at the volcano in the Central Java province was v...

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	Lynchburg College observatory Observatory (Preview) Lynchburg College students will be seeing stars this fall. A $450,000 observatory, located on the Claytor Nature Preserve, should be ready for use by then. Initial work began last Friday and college officials expect the work to be completed in August. Dr. Neal Sumerlin, who spearheaded the projec...	Blobrana	0	May 3 20:37 2007 by Blobrana
	Mount Baker volcano (Preview) More than 30 years ago, eruptions of steam and ash from Mount Baker prompted the evacuation of the Baker Lake area and sent jitters through Whatcom County. Before scientists could understand what was going on inside Baker, its sister to the south Mount St. Helens roared to life, stealing the show and...	Blobrana	0	Apr 30 10:47 2007 by Blobrana
	Monrovia High School observatory Observatory (Preview) It was the perfect Eagle Scout project, something befitting that name, a task that soared into the sky and beyond into space. The astronomy dome at Monrovia High School, opened in 1983, had gradually fallen prey to neglect and changing curriculums until, finally, it wasn't used at all. Thursday, be...	Blobrana	0	Apr 27 10:49 2007 by Blobrana
	The Watermen Centre (Preview) Grand opening of Sky Watch offered to public The Waterman Conservation Education Centre invites the public to the grand opening of Sky Watch at 11 a.m. Tuesday. Sky Watch is a direct feed by Internet service of the Hubble Telescope to Waterman Centre. The grand opening is sponsored by Lockheed Marti...	Blobrana	0	Apr 20 20:00 2007 by Blobrana
	Bulava Missile (Preview) Dmitry Donskoy the Russian strategic nuclear submarine successfully launched a new Bulava ballistic missile in the White Sea on Wednesday morning. The missile hit a target at the Kura firing range on the Kamchatka Peninsula. "This was the first underwater launch of a Bu...	Blobrana	2	Apr 19 21:17 2007 by Blobrana
	Largest zinc deposit (Preview) Lava Lamp-Like Process Caused World's Largest Zinc Deposit: For more than two decades, geologists have scoured the ores and rocks surrounding the world's largest zinc deposit at Red Dog, Alaska, for clues as to how this giant ore body formed. In some zinc deposits elsewhere, vol...	Blobrana	1	Apr 12 23:02 2007 by Blobrana
	Mount Batu Tara Volcano (Preview) [url=http://farm1.static.flickr.com/197/454258721_f409d456...	Blobrana	0	Apr 10 17:56 2007 by Blobrana
	North Jersey planetarium Planetarium (Preview) Teachers and administrators in the Northern Highlands Regional School District are hoping an Earth angel or at least a substantial grant will pay for more than $150,000 in upgrades to the school's 40-year-old planetarium. "We pay for an upgrade every year that costs about $6,000. ... It's so...	Blobrana	0	Apr 10 17:11 2007 by Blobrana
	Long Meg and her Daughters (Preview) Possible missing stone and bank at Long Meg A student is leading the way in unlocking the mysteries of an ancient stone circle, Long Meg and her Daughters, near Little Salkeld (England). Sarah Potter, of Yanwath, who is in the third year of a degree in archaeology at the University of Manchester, carr...	Blobrana	0	Apr 8 23:09 2007 by Blobrana
	Diego Garcia Chagos Archipelago (Preview) Reports have emerged that the US Navy is upgrading its submarine base at the isolated tropical atoll Diego Garcia, which is formally British territory. The base improvements will allow its new class of SSGN nuclear submarines to opera...	Blobrana	0	Apr 8 17:05 2007 by Blobrana
	Inch Garvie (Preview) Inchgarvie lies beneath the Forth Rail Bridge, where the channel narrows to just 1.5 kms wide between North and South Queensferry. Steep cliffs plunge down into deep canyons gouged out by glacial ice more than 10,000 years ago. A craggy island of hard rock rears up between, with its long volcanic tai...	Blobrana	0	Apr 8 12:35 2007 by Blobrana
	Wentzville planetarium Planetarium (Preview) Jim Roe is looking for a home for big telescopes. The executive director of the Alliance for Astronomy, a nonprofit organisation, has been searching for a site to build a centre since its board was organized in 2004. The centre would include a small planetarium and an observing field with two large...	Blobrana	0	Apr 6 08:48 2007 by Blobrana
	Miyakejima volcano volcano (Preview) Title: Gigantic SO2 emission from Miyakejima volcano, Japan, caused by caldera collapse Authors: Kohei Kazahaya, Hiroshi Shinohara, Kozo Uto, Masanobu Odai, Yasuhiro Nakahori, Hirokazu Mori, Hideki Iino, Makoto Miya****a, Junichi Hirabayashi An extremely large amo...	Blobrana	0	Apr 5 19:00 2007 by Blobrana
	Tropical Cyclone Jaya (Preview) Tropical Cyclone Jaya is forecast to strike land in Madagascar. probability for CAT 1 or above is 40% in about 36 hours probability for TS is 75% in about 24 hours	Blobrana	4	Apr 3 23:49 2007 by Blobrana
	Mount Slamet volcano (Preview) A control post officer assigned to Indonesia's Mount Slamet said Sunday the volcano's activity has increased after the area endured heavy rains. The officer said the increased activity at the volcano in the Central Java province was v...	Blobrana	0	Apr 2 19:02 2007 by Blobrana
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