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Are the images featured in The World at Night's annual "Earth and Sky" photography contest meant to celebrate the wonders of the night sky, or draw attention to the worries about the night sky? They're meant to do both, says astrophotographer Babak Tafreshi.
For example, consider …
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As Star Trek 'Into Darkness' hits movie screens, let's take a look at the plausibility of traveling at warp speed and some of the real physics behind the warp drive.
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The heirs of Joe Shuster, a co-creator of the famous Superman comic, recently lost their bid to regain the rights to the Man of Steel. The copyright lawsuit tested the legal doctrine known as copyright termination. The Copyright Act provides a termination right for the prior grant of a copyright transfer or license if the … Continue reading »
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Evelyn Mervine wrote a new post, Weekly Geology Picture(s) #1: Chromitite in the Bushveld Complex, South Africa , on the site Georneys So, I have been quite negligent recently and missed both last week's and this week's Monday Geology Picture. My apologies for that! Life has been very busy with things such as writing a paper and preparing for […]
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Ed Pongracz commented on the post, A very dangerous reservoir bank landslide in China, on the site The Landslide Blog With respect to older (inactive) failures, it doesn't look like the other side of the reservoir is much better. Yikes.
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The Sun has been a bit quiet lately, with only minor hiccups of activity here and there. But that changed on May 13, when a sunspot just over the Sun’s limb erupted in the most powerful flare so far this year.
But it didn’t stop there: A few hours later it flipped out again, blasting out an even more power flare… and then again a third flare erupted, more powerful than the last two!
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory caught the whole thing, so I put together a short video showing the
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A rare isotope of iron found in fossilised bacteria under the Pacific ocean gives clues to a near-Earth supernova which exploded 2.2 million years ago. Continue reading →
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A Soyuz capsule carrying Roman Romanenko, Chris Hadfield and Tom Marshburn landed safely in Kazhakstan after 146 days in space.
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mots motsfo commented on the post, How to escape a landslide, on the site The Landslide Blog googling the location i was surprised to see Redoubt Lake on Baranof Island in the Southeast of Alaska. Since i live on Cook Inlet across from Redoubt volcano i expected it to be near me. We do have some gnarly […]
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For about the last decade, exoplanets have been found using one of two methods: radial velocity (looking for wobbling stars) and transits (looking for dimming stars). Now, Tel Aviv University and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) have discovered a new exoplanet using a new method that relies on Einstein’s special theory of relativity and … Continue reading »
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Every week, a new host takes the reigns and brings us the Carnival of Space. This week, Gadi Eidelheit of The Venus Transit put together the 301st carnival, and packed it with the usual collection of space science and astronomy, scooped out from the best blogs and websites on the internet. Highlights this week include new nuclear reactor designs that could be used on spaceships, discussions on a manned mission to Mars, and of course the music video everybody's talking about: ISS station
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Podcaster: Andy Shaner, Matt Sheehy Title: My Moon: Music, Science and Space Organization: CosmoQuest ; My Moon ; Link : http://lost-lander.com You can watch the video in: http://youtu.be/NgLTHL0Tv7Y Description: Matt Sheehy of “Lost Lander” chats with MyMoon and CosmoQuestX about music, science, space exploration and the intersection of all three. Bio: Andy Shaner from Lunar Planetary Institute Matt Sheehy is a founder of “Lost Lander” music project End of […]
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Crew Members Arrive Safely Back On Earth After traveling nearly 62 million miles, completing 2,336 orbits of planet Earth, spending 146 days in space, 3 members of the International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 35 crew undocked from the orbiting laboratory and returned safely home Monday, May 13, ending a nearly 5 month long mission. Their […]
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Los Angeles is a fun town—as long as you’re not a) driving around in it, or 2) trying to see any stars except for the TV and movie kind.
It’s a big city, and a lot of the light used to illuminate it goes into the sky. We call this “light pollution”, because it’s wasted, and also because it can ruin the view of the sky. LA is particularly bad because it’s spread out over a huge area, and to see anything at all in the sky you have to get really, really far out of town.
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“Two possibilities exist: either we’re alone in the Universe, or we’re not. Both are equally terrifying.” - Arthur C. Clarke. This is the third in my series of posts at Things We Don’t Know about the many unknowns involved in the study … Continue reading →
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Dan Brown's "Inferno," the latest thriller from the author of "The Da Vinci Code," is another globe-trotting, world-saving adventure — and a chance for readers to ponder a new set of mathematical and scientific puzzles.
In "The Da Vinci Code," Robert Langdon, the world …
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I risultati di Planck hanno aperto una nuova finestra verso lo studio delle primissime fasi iniziali della storia cosmica (post). Oggi, uno dei punti chiave per i cosmologi è quello […]
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An exoplanet has been discovered by Kepler using a strange quirk of relativity. Continue reading →
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Marc Janeras commented on the post, Plane Views: Amsterdam to Cape Town– Part I, on the site Georneys Nice flight! Photos #3 to #5 are Grenoble, and #6 to #9 are Vercors massif, unmistakably!... on the coast: Marseille.
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The sun didn't unleash one record-setting solar flare of 2013, it unleashed a hat-trick of awesome eruptions... all within 24 hours! Continue reading →
