Palisades-Dows Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the Cedar Amateur Astronomers (Inc). It is located 15 miles southeast of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA and was founded in 1987. It is named after the Palisades-Dows Preserve which it is located in.
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Tropical Storm Kong-Rey is forecast to strike land in Guam probability for CAT 1 or above is 40% in about 36 hours probability for TS is 80% in about 36 hours Hagatna (13.5 N, 144.8 E) probability for CAT 1 or above is 40% in about 36 hours probability for TS is 80% in abo...
New activity has started at Reventador volcano. The volcano in Ecuador's Andes erupted Friday, shooting plume of ash nearly two miles into the sky but causing no injuries or damage. In early March, the number of tectonic earthquakes from Reventador had increased. During 8-22 March, steam-and-as...
3C442A: Galaxy Collision Causes Role Reversal Astronomers think that there are enormous black holes at the centres of most, if not all, galaxies. These black holes, which can be millions or even billions of times more massive than the Sun, can greatly affect the galaxy and the environments around t...
Kurile Lake is located in the southernmost part of Kamchatka, at the southern end of the subduction-related Eastern volcanic front. Five Late Pleistocene-Holocene volcanoes (from north to south: Zheltovsky; Iliinsky, Dikii Greben'; Koshelev, and Kambalny) located only 12-18 km one from ano...
Uzon Caldera developed 40 thousand years ago on the site of a huge volcano destroyed by a set of bursting eruptions. The last cataclysm inside the Caldera (8,500 years ago) left its trace as a blasting crater about one kilometre in diameter. The following centuries of intensive hydro-thermal acti...
A wris****ch buried in the ice at the North Pole three years ago was found by a boy more than 1,800 miles away after it floated ashore on the Faeroe Islands.
Niels Jakup Mortensen, 11, spotted a black box near his home on Suduroy, the Faeroes' southernmost island, his mother Anna Jacobsen said. Insid...
On 29 March 2007 The Zong, a replica 18th century wooden square rigger will be accompanied up the Thames by Royal Navy Frigate HMS Northumberland on its pre-scheduled trip from Greenwich, through Tower Bridge to dock at Tower Pier.
On board ship will be a group of African, Afro Caribbean and Englis...
The Solar Model is a realtime model of the solar system. It allows user to navigate in
space, to control time (speed-up time flow) and estimate the real movement of
space bodies like planets, dwarf planets and moons. It also allows users to bind camera
to space objects (for example, you can look...
China announced on Wednesday it will launch a joint mission with Russia to Mars in 2009, marking "an important milestone" in space cooperation between the two countries. A small Chinese satellite will take off on a Russian rocket, according to the agreement signed Monday between the Ch...
Reputedly famous for its creamy cheeses, Serpa in southern Portugal is described in a travel guide as a sleepy agricultural hilltop town of white houses. Quite soon this ancient walled town, founded in 400 BC, will be catapulted into the future. Its about to get an 11-megawatt solar power plant, com...
Long-lost illustrations by Galileo of the moon's surface as he saw it through his telescope have come to light after four centuries. The five watercolours are in Galileo's copy of Sidereus Nuncius (The Starry Messenger) in which he gives details of his revolutionary "celestial discoveries...
The owner of a pub in Hanoi has succeeded in making a telescope, which now enables customers to simultaneously sip wine and contemplate the craters on the moon. He is Trinh Van Hai, 41 years of age, and the owner of Tu Hai Pub in Hamlet 124/55 off Au Co Road. His pub is done in the style of a wine restaurant of...
Supporters of the Robert J. Novins Planetarium on the Ocean County College campus in Toms River now know what it will take to reopen the facility: $1.5 million. That will pay for digital technology and renovations to the building that for 35 years has housed the first introduction to astronomy for ge...
