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News10 new results for astronomy
 
Dark matter core defies explanation in NASA Hubble image
indiablooms
Washington, Mar 3 (IBNS) Astronomers using data from NASA's Hubble Telescope have observed what appears to be a clump of dark matter left behind from a wreck between massive clusters of galaxies. The result could challenge current theories about dark ...
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Vatican astronomer finds God through science
Regina Leader-Post
By Susan Lazaruk, Postmedia News March 3, 2012 1:10 AM Brother Guy Consolmagno gets a lot of interesting looks and questions when he tells people he's an astronomer for the Vatican Observatory. "That's the reason the Vatican has an observatory, ...
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Mysterious core of dark matter leaves experts puzzled
The State Column
"We tried to come up with models that would explain this, but there were not any good models," said Mahdavi, an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. "There is no way that you could have cold dark matter piling up like this in ...
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Origins of a Type of Supernovae Explosion
Science Daily (press release)
Principal investigator Carlos Badenes, assistant professor of physics and astronomy in Pitt's Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, detailed the ways in which his team used the Sloan Digital Sky Survey -- a collection of multicolor images ...
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Stars on your walls
IBNLive.com
BANGALORE: Astronomy and the mystery called outer space has always been a hit with humankind. There is a certain attraction to the twinkling mass of gases and galaxies millions of light years away. The penchant for discovering a world beyond what we ...
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Astronomer to speak in Ridgefield
Danbury News Times
RIDGEFIELD -- Heidi Hammel, noted planetary astronomer, will speak Saturday at 3 pm at Ridgefield Library, 470 Main St., about the world's great telescopes and how scientists use them. Hammel, a former Ridgefield resident, is executive vice president ...
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NC's Brown Mountain Lights burn mysteriously
USA TODAY
By Allen Breed, AP Astronomy professor Daniel Caton is hoping to use low-light video cameras to capture a phenomenon known as the Brown Mountain lights. He teaches at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC By Allen Breed, AP Astronomy professor ...
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USA TODAY
Mars at opposition March 3, 2012
Examiner.com
Astronomers say a planet is at opposition when it is directly opposite the Sun in the sky as seen from Earth. A planet at opposition rises at sunset and sets at dawn. The planet is therefore visible all night and highest in the sky about midnight.
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Earth passes between Mars and sun on Saturday, March 3, 2012
EarthSky
When Earth goes between the sun and Mars, placing Mars opposite the sun in our sky, astronomers call it an opposition of Mars. So Earth, in its smaller orbit, swings between Mars and the sun every other year, at progressively later dates.
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Shadowless noon phenomenon in Jakarta
The Sun Daily
JAKARTA (March 3, 2012): The capital city of Indonesia will experience a unique astronomical phenomenon when the sun will be directly overhead and causing a shadowless effect at noon tomorrow. The same shadowless noon phenomenon was reported to have ...
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Blogs3 new results for astronomy
 
NASA Goddard rocks the Moon | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
By Phil Plait
Astronomy | libration | Wanna know what the Moon will look like at any time this year? And I mean what it really looks like, shadows and all?Then go to the NASA Goddard Science Visuali.
Bad Astronomy
Herbig-Haro 34 | Tom's Astronomy Blog
By Tom
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope took this image of a baby star sprouting two identical jets (green lines emanating from fuzzy star). The jet on the right had been seen before in visible-light views, but the jet at left — the identical twin to the first ...
Tom's Astronomy Blog
What's On Astronomy.FM ~ Friday thru Saturday | Astronomy.FM
By Tavi Greiner
FRIDAY, March 2 - SATURDAY, March 3 Today's Radio Schedule at a GLANCE: SET #1: 60-Second Earth ~ Discovery Now ~ The Event^Horizon! SET.
Astronomy.FM


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