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Some three million times a year, researchers, educators, and amateur astronomers all over the world ask NASA's SkyView virtual observatory to serve up images of some interesting corner of the cosmos. Since 1994, this digital archive has made access to and manipulation of celestial surveys its sp...

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The second largest national park will be proclaimed on Friday, in the Karas Region. Diamond Area 1 was classified as the "Sperrgebiet" meaning "forbidden area", after diamonds were discovered and mining started in the area. Again past colonial decisions, which were discr...

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The hunt for extraterrestrial life is getting a major boost from revolutionary new technology that will give some of the world's largest telescopes the capability to detect Earth-size planets outside of our solar system, a feat not equalled even by the Hubble Space Telescope. The technique, call...

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Title: The Nordic Optical Telescope Authors: Anlaug Amanda Djupvik, Johannes Andersen An overview of the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) is presented. Emphasis is on current capabilities of direct interest to the scientific user community, including instruments. Educational services and pr...

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News that the University of Toronto has purchased No. 90 from the Royal Ontario Museum means a definitive end to the museum's controversial plan to replace the mothballed McLaughlin Planetarium with a 46-storey residential tower. "This is a win-win-win for the U of T, the ROM and the public&q...

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Anyone visiting the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro at the weekend could have been forgiven for thinking they had either entered a different galaxy or they had somehow wandered into the middle of a film set. To celebrate the launch of an exciting new exhibition on loan from the V & A Museum of Childh...

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Majdanak: night life Click to Play | View Details Telescope-robot is set at the Maydanak observatory located 120 km southward of Samarkand at a height of 2700 m above-see level in picturesque spurs of Altai mountain ridge. By number of clear days this area is second to none of the best world observato...

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Reaching 12,633, Mount Humphreys gains less than half the altitude of the worlds highest peaks, but it offers a compelling story on the long, complex relationship between human beings and mountains with its most recent outpouring in 1064-65, which had a dramatic effect on existing civilisations...

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An intense storm system is currently barrelling toward the Bay of Biscay, with a 50+ knot low-level jet pumping moisture northward ahead of a surging cold front. This same LLJ will also create extreme low-level shear, especially where oriented in the appropriate direction for the expected easte...

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Canada's only major Arctic petroglyph site - a 1,500-year-old gallery of mysterious faces carved into a soapstone ridge on a tiny island off of Quebec's northern coast - has been ransacked by vandals in what the region's top archaeologist suspects was a religiously motivated attack by devout Chri...

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Snowshoe walks are scheduled at 10 a.m. Saturdays and 1 p.m. Sundays from Jan. 17 through March 8. Meet at Black Canyon National Park South Rim visitor centre to experience winter at Black Canyon by snowshoeing with a ranger among the oaks, through open meadows and along the rim of the canyon. No speci...

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A rocket testing facility is headed for Butte Silver Bow County. The Butte Silver Bow Council of Commissioners approved a contract Wednesday that allows Butte Silver Bow and the civil engineering firm Robert Peccia and Associates to officially begin design work on a rocket testing facility near t...

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Coleman Observatory Closing Its Doors For nearly a quarter century the Coleman Observatory has given visitors a unique look at the universe from land eight miles north of Van Buren. The Observatory is being forced to relocate due to mortgage payments that weren't being passed on to a third party. [u...

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A previously unknown fault in eastern Arkansas could trigger a magnitude 7 earthquake with an epicenter near a major natural gas pipeline, a scientist said Wednesday. Haydar Al-Shukri, the director of the Arkansas Earthquake Centre at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, said the fault is s...

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For the 2009 International Year of Astronomy, stargazers at Ankara University are planning to host various events throughout the year. Telescopes at the AU Observatory will be open to the public throughout the year and presentations and observations will be organised for schools and institutio...

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	SkyView virtual observatory (Preview) Some three million times a year, researchers, educators, and amateur astronomers all over the world ask NASA's SkyView virtual observatory to serve up images of some interesting corner of the cosmos. Since 1994, this digital archive has made access to and manipulation of celestial surveys its sp...	Blobrana	1	Feb 5 21:49 2009 by Blobrana
	Sperrgebiet National Park (Preview) The second largest national park will be proclaimed on Friday, in the Karas Region. Diamond Area 1 was classified as the "Sperrgebiet" meaning "forbidden area", after diamonds were discovered and mining started in the area. Again past colonial decisions, which were discr...	Blobrana	0	Feb 5 09:48 2009 by Blobrana
	Nulling interferometry (Preview) The hunt for extraterrestrial life is getting a major boost from revolutionary new technology that will give some of the world's largest telescopes the capability to detect Earth-size planets outside of our solar system, a feat not equalled even by the Hubble Space Telescope. The technique, call...	Blobrana	1	Feb 4 12:51 2009 by Blobrana
	Nordic Optical Telescope (Preview) Title: The Nordic Optical Telescope Authors: Anlaug Amanda Djupvik, Johannes Andersen An overview of the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) is presented. Emphasis is on current capabilities of direct interest to the scientific user community, including instruments. Educational services and pr...	Blobrana	0	Jan 27 20:48 2009 by Blobrana
	McLaughlin Planetarium (Preview) News that the University of Toronto has purchased No. 90 from the Royal Ontario Museum means a definitive end to the museum's controversial plan to replace the mothballed McLaughlin Planetarium with a 46-storey residential tower. "This is a win-win-win for the U of T, the ROM and the public&q...	Blobrana	0	Jan 27 14:58 2009 by Blobrana
	Truro museum (Preview) Anyone visiting the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro at the weekend could have been forgiven for thinking they had either entered a different galaxy or they had somehow wandered into the middle of a film set. To celebrate the launch of an exciting new exhibition on loan from the V & A Museum of Childh...	Blobrana	0	Jan 26 15:55 2009 by Blobrana
	Maydanak observatory Observatory (Preview) Majdanak: night life Click to Play \| View Details Telescope-robot is set at the Maydanak observatory located 120 km southward of Samarkand at a height of 2700 m above-see level in picturesque spurs of Altai mountain ridge. By number of clear days this area is second to none of the best world observato...	Blobrana	0	Jan 25 19:15 2009 by Blobrana
	Mount Humphreys (Preview) Reaching 12,633, Mount Humphreys gains less than half the altitude of the worlds highest peaks, but it offers a compelling story on the long, complex relationship between human beings and mountains with its most recent outpouring in 1064-65, which had a dramatic effect on existing civilisations...	Blobrana	0	Jan 24 20:19 2009 by Blobrana
	Bay of Biscay Storm (Preview) An intense storm system is currently barrelling toward the Bay of Biscay, with a 50+ knot low-level jet pumping moisture northward ahead of a surging cold front. This same LLJ will also create extreme low-level shear, especially where oriented in the appropriate direction for the expected easte...	Blobrana	1	Jan 24 16:24 2009 by Blobrana
	Arctic petroglyph site petroglyphs Inuit (Preview) Canada's only major Arctic petroglyph site - a 1,500-year-old gallery of mysterious faces carved into a soapstone ridge on a tiny island off of Quebec's northern coast - has been ransacked by vandals in what the region's top archaeologist suspects was a religiously motivated attack by devout Chri...	Blobrana	1	Jan 23 17:33 2009 by Blobrana
	Black Canyon National Park (Preview) Snowshoe walks are scheduled at 10 a.m. Saturdays and 1 p.m. Sundays from Jan. 17 through March 8. Meet at Black Canyon National Park South Rim visitor centre to experience winter at Black Canyon by snowshoeing with a ranger among the oaks, through open meadows and along the rim of the canyon. No speci...	Blobrana	0	Jan 23 15:47 2009 by Blobrana
	Butte AeroTec (Preview) A rocket testing facility is headed for Butte Silver Bow County. The Butte Silver Bow Council of Commissioners approved a contract Wednesday that allows Butte Silver Bow and the civil engineering firm Robert Peccia and Associates to officially begin design work on a rocket testing facility near t...	Blobrana	0	Jan 23 02:21 2009 by Blobrana
	Coleman Observatory Observatory (Preview) Coleman Observatory Closing Its Doors For nearly a quarter century the Coleman Observatory has given visitors a unique look at the universe from land eight miles north of Van Buren. The Observatory is being forced to relocate due to mortgage payments that weren't being passed on to a third party. [u...	Blobrana	0	Jan 22 15:45 2009 by Blobrana
	New Eastern Arkansas Fault (Preview) A previously unknown fault in eastern Arkansas could trigger a magnitude 7 earthquake with an epicenter near a major natural gas pipeline, a scientist said Wednesday. Haydar Al-Shukri, the director of the Arkansas Earthquake Centre at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, said the fault is s...	Blobrana	0	Jan 22 01:06 2009 by Blobrana
	Ankara University Observatory Observatory (Preview) For the 2009 International Year of Astronomy, stargazers at Ankara University are planning to host various events throughout the year. Telescopes at the AU Observatory will be open to the public throughout the year and presentations and observations will be organised for schools and institutio...	Blobrana	0	Jan 20 18:30 2009 by Blobrana
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