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Description:
The PlanetQuest Collaboratory will turn your computer into a virtual astronomical observatory that analyzes star data. You can watch as your computer classifies and registers your stars; use the Collaboratory to do your own research, and maybe even find a new planet!
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John Gregory, Earth and Moon from Space, and more
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News
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In Memoriam: John Gregory
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November 19, 2009 | The world of amateur telescope making has lost a
charismatic optical engineer and innovator at age 82. One of the "big guns"
of yesteryear, John Gregory introduced the Gregory-Maksutov telescope... more »
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SOFIA Seeks Secrets of Planetary Birth
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Imagine cutting retractable doors in the side of a 747 airliner, installing
a 17-ton telescope, and flying to the stratosphere to solve one of
astronomy's greatest puzzles. That's what NASA and the German Aerospace
Center plan to do with a cutting-edge airborne observatory named SOFIA.
FULL STORY at [link]<[link]>... more »
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Water on the Moon, Leonid Meteor Shower, and more
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News ============================== ========== LCROSS Impact Kicked up Lunar Water ------------------------------ ---------- November 13, 2009 | It took more than a month of fevered analysis, but NASA scientists are at last convinced that October 9th's crash by the LCROSS spacecraft on a shadowed lunar plain vaporized at least 100 kilograms of... more »
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Chandra Digest (Nov 12) Milky Way
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**Galactic Center: NASA's Great Observatories Examine the Galactic Center Region In celebration of the International Year of Astronomy 2009, NASA's Great Observatories -- the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Chandra X-ray Observatory -- have collaborated to produce an unprecedented image of the central region of our Milky Way galaxy.... more »
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The 2009 Leonid Meteor Shower
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The 2009 Leonid meteor shower peaks on Nov. 17th with a sprinkling of meteors over North America and a possible outburst over Asia. FULL STORY at [link]
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Iron on Mercury, mercury on the Moon, and more
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News ============================== ========== Mercury Throws Geologists a Curve ------------------------------ ---------- November 3, 2009 | When NASA's Messenger spacecraft zipped past the innermost planet for a third and final flyby on September 29th, a glitch caused half of the planned observations to be lost. Scientists are thrilled... more »
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Hidden Territory on Mercury Revealed
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The MESSENGER spacecraft's third flyby of the planet Mercury has given scientists, for the first time, an almost complete view of the planet's surface and revealed some dramatic changes in Mercury's comet-like tail. FULL STORY at [link]<[link]>... more »
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Electric Universe/Plasma Cosmology
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Since I don't see this new theories mentioned anywhere at all I was
wondering what do you guys think about that, quote:
"Open Letter
Given that modern Cosmology has taken a wrong turn decades ago and
rejected a well-supported electrical model; and given that it has gone
off into "modern mythology" with the "big bang", "black holes", dark... more »
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