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Akashmitra
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What started as a hobby has grown into a serious initiative. Citizens groups have taken the lead in coming up with an astronomy movement to encourage amateur astronomers to collect and share data about meteor observations and send their findings to reputed international organisations. The pract...
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Ecosystems
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Inventories of living and dead organisms could serve as a relatively fast, simple and inexpensive preliminary means of assessing human impact on ecosystems. The University of Chicagos Susan Kidwell explains how measuring the degree of live-dead mismatch could be used as an ecological tool in th...
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VIRUS-W spectrograph
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View of the night sky with more than 250 eyes End of May, the VIRUS-W spectrograph of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and the University Observatory Munich was completed and is now ready for installation at the McDonald observatory in Texas. Its field of view, spectral covera...
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International Space University
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Scholarship funding now available for the International Space University The UK Space Agency has just announced a new round of its competitive scholarship scheme to support UK citizens who wish to attend the International Space University's nine-week Space Studies Programme and one-year MSc p...
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Mexican space agency
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Mexico enters the space race Mexican politicians approved the creation of a space agency that will seek to bolster research and raise Mexico's scientific profile. The lower house of Mexicos Congress voted to support the agency, which was endorsed by the Senate in 2008. [url=http://www.walesonl...
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Guildford Astronomical Society
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If you've ever gazed in wonder at the night sky, pondered your place in the grand scheme of things or have an interest in Astronomy already and want to meet like-minded people then please come along to one of our meetings or public observing evenings. Everyone is welcome - absolute beginners to experi...
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520-day Mars mission
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Volunteers wanted for simulated 520-day Mars mission Starting in 2010, an international crew of six will simulate a 520-day round-trip to Mars, including a 30-day stay on the martian surface. In reality, they will live and work in a sealed facility in Moscow, Russia, to investigate the psychologi...
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Xiang-He Aerological Observatory
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This short clip depicts the preparation task and launch of a stratospheric balloon form the Xiang-He Aerological Observatory. Currently that base is not used anymore due to the heavy increase in the aerial traffic in the area.
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Vitim Event, Cando Event, Vela Event, Eastern Mediterranean Event
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I have devised a means of calculating a common source for these and so far three other similar events. I'll try and upload a PDF doc with the full explanation but maybe there's a limit to the size here, if it doesn't work, could the administrator please advise how I might be able to make this available to y...
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Ruder Josip Boškovic
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The Croatian Parliament proclaimed 2011 a national "Boscovich Year," marking the 300th anniversary of the birth of a learned Croatian Jesuit, Father Rogelio Joseph Boscovich Bettera. Father Boscovich Bettera (1711-1787) was a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, architect, p...
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RADAR
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On 10 January 1946, Signal Corps scientists, using a modified SCR-271 long range radar antenna (the Diana Tower), succeeded in bouncing radar signals off the moon. The experiment demonstrated that very high frequency radio waves could penetrate the ionosphere encircling the earth and evidence...
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Finding Caves on Earth, the Moon, and Mars Scientists are furthering the ability to detect caves on Earth, the moon and Mars by studying the conditions under which caves are detectable in thermal infrared. Finding caves on Earth is important for locating habitats of bats and other animal populatio...
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CANARY
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CANARY: First On-Sky Demonstration of Multi-Object Adaptive Optics A Franco-British team has demonstrated for the first time on-sky the feasibility of so-called Multi-Object Adaptive Optics (MOAO). MOAO provides the high spatial resolution delivered by current adaptive-optics systems, b...
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Damiya Dolmens
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Hundreds of Jordanian Dolmens saved from destruction. After two years on the World Monuments Fund Endangered Sites List, the dolmen fields of Damiya have hopefully been spared any further destruction, with the formation of a new archaeological preserve in the Jordan Valley. The Department of An...
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Bromo volcano
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ESA's micro-satellite Proba observes the active Bromo volcano, a popular tourist attraction of East Java in Indonesia.
Indonesia is located within the Pacific 'Ring of Fire' volcano belt and has more than a hundred active volcanoes within its territory. With around 200 mill...
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