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DST Haryana Telescope
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DST Haryana to install Telescope in Panchkula office Haryana Science and Technology Department has decided to install telescope in its office building at Panchkula which will be opened to people soon. While stating this here today, the Director of Haryana Science and Technology Department, Mr S...
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Glastonbury Tor
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The tower on top of Glastonbury Tor in Somerset has been covered in purple paint and had graffiti daubed on its flagstones. The National Trust, which owns and maintains the Tor, said it was "dismayed" after spending more than £500,000 recently on its restoration. The Trust said the south...
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Zadko telescope
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Western Australia's Zadko telescope opens David Coward describes the capabilities of the Zadko telescope, recently opened north of Perth, Western Australia. Zadco is designed to look at flashes of light from the far edge of the universe. These are gamma ray bursts. Some are the result of the colla...
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Jiwajirao Observatory
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Hundreds of people today watched their shadows disappear on 'Shanku Yantra' at 1228 hrs at Jiwajirao Observatory here as the Sun entered the sign of Cancer. Jiwajirao Observatory Superintendent Rajendra Prakash Gupt said June 21: is the longest day of the year with daytime being 13 hours 34 minut...
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A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 20:34:10 (UTC) on Friday, February 3, 2006, in the Andaman Islands, at a depth of 10 km .
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Transits and Occultations
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Title: Transits and Occultations Authors: Joshua N. Winn When we are fortunate enough to view an exoplanetary system nearly edge-on, the star and planet periodically eclipse each other. Observations of eclipses (transits and occultations) provide a bonanza of information that cannot be obtai...
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Oldest fig wasp
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The world's oldest known example of a fig wasp has been found on the Isle of Wight. The fossil wasp is almost identical to the modern species, proving that this tiny but specialised insect has remained virtually unchanged for over 34 million years. The fossil isn't a new find but was wrongly identifie...
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Ulawun Volcano
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Ulawun Volcano
A wispy plume of steam rises from the Ulawun volcano on the Papua New Guinean island of New Britain in this photo-like Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS[img]http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/Archi...
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Canton Home observatory
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It's not the Hubble, but for Old DeKalb Road resident Stanley R. Hewlett, it's the next best thing. For more than a decade, Mr. Hewlett has embraced his passion for astronomy, first peering through his telescope from a deck off the rear of his house. Now, the Russell native and amateur astronomer can g...
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Alloway Observatory
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New telescope for observatory The Alloway Observatory has a new instrument for peering into the depths of space. The observatory recently took delivery of a new 12-inch telescope imported from the United States at a cost of almost $7000. Observatory secretary and senior astronomer Lonnie Smilas...
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Nicobar Quake
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A major magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurred at 15:42:05 (UTC) on Sunday, July 24, 2005 located in the Nicobar Islands, India region, about 135 km West of Misha[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/blobrana/news/928...
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Ms Melissa Lacey of Knoxville, Tennessee has found a 1.30-carat diamond while gem hunting in Arkansas' Crater of Diamonds State Park.
"I wasn't expecting to find anything and was just picking up pretty rocks" .
At first, she thought the light yellow diamond was "a piece of dirty qua...
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Gorely volcano
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Gorely is a volcano located in the southern part of Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. It consists of five overlapping stratovolcanoes and is one of the most active in southern Kamchatka. Gorely is a large, long-lived shield-type volcano that is currently in an eruptive phase. Prior eruptions occurr...
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Lowell Observatory
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Lowell Observatory millionth visitor Last month, Lowell Observatory celebrated one million visitors since 1994, and held an event in honour of the Steele Visitor Centre. Visitors were welcomed to Lowell Observatory at half -priced admission, and participated in various raffles with prizes su...
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IIT-B ground station
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IIT-B enters space age with satellite tracker On the afternoon of May 29 2010, IIT-B literally zoomed into the space age with the formal commissioning of a satellite-tracking ground station on the terrace of the aerospace engineering department. The primary role of the new space-age outfit will b...
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