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Posts Tagged ‘astronomy’
Voyager’s Great Leap
Thursday, September 19th, 2013Fast Radio Burst Mystery
Tuesday, July 9th, 2013
The newest cosmic mystery: four distinct high-energy flashes! (Is the Universe trying to get our attention?) Astronomers are calling them Fast Radio Bursts, but we have yet to determine their origins.
10,000 Near-Earth Objects
Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013
Asteroid 2013 MZ5 joined the ranks of asteroids and comets whose orbits pass near Earth. On an astronomical scale, “near” means within 28 million miles…
One Night of Many
Wednesday, March 27th, 2013
Academy Director of the Morrison Planetarium and Science Visualization reports about brown dwarfs from the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. Join him in person at NightLife (6:30pm planetarium show on March 28th) for the “Color of the Cosmos” special presentation.
A Night at the Observatory
Monday, March 25th, 2013
Academy Director of the Morrison Planetarium and Science Visualization reports from the control room of a twin 6.5-meter Magellan telescope at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile.
Mastering Mass Measurements
Monday, March 4th, 2013
Scientists are able to measure very distant black holes.
Old Problems, New Techniques
Tuesday, January 8th, 2013
Ryan Wyatt, Director of Morrison Planetarium and Science Visualization, reporting from first day of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting in Long Beach, California…
Universe Update, November 2012
Tuesday, November 27th, 2012
Our monthly round-up of top astronomy news.
Most Distant Galaxy?
Thursday, September 20th, 2012
Astronomers have caught a glimpse of a galaxy far, far away…
Curiosity on Mars
Friday, July 13th, 2012
The latest Mars rover, Curiosity, will soon begin its adventure on the Red Planet!
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