Astronomy Current Events
Most current events
Michael Holding kicks over the stumps at Dunedin In an act of frustration and anger at the umpire s decision of not out to a caught behind appeal, Michael Holding fumed, then walked up to the striker s end and kicked two stumps clean out of the ground. The image captured the two stumps flying out of the ground and Holding s full kick follow-through with a look of frustrating…
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Astronomical Theories
This article was written by Jay M. Pasachoff, Professor of Astronomy at Williams College, and originally appeared in mental _floss magazine. Galileo may have been threatened with the rack during the Inquisition almost 400 years ago, but—relatively speaking—that was hardly terrifying. Whether the Earth went around the Sun (as Copernicus, Galileo and Newton thought) or vice versa…
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Scientific current events 2013
Story highlights NASA says there really could have been life on Mars Voyager 1 is the first human-made object to leave the solar system Scientists discover a new adorable mammal called the olinguito Asteroids pass by, and a meteor explodes over Russia It has been a thrilling year of discovery in many areas of science, but also a sobering time - federal funding cuts threaten…
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Major discoveries
Venus Express discovered a surprisingly cold region high in the planet s atmosphere, where conditions may be frigid enough for carbon dioxide to freeze out as ice or snow. Although the planet s surface is like a red hot furnace, conditions are very different at an altitude of 125 km, where Venus Express revealed a very frigid layer with a temperature of around -175°C. The unexpected…
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Current research in Astronomy
Nova Search Discover flaring novae in nearby galaxies! There is currently a debate about the rate of novae (white dwarf stars in binary systems that undergo violent periodic surface outbursts) in different types of stellar populations — principally older stars in elliptical galaxies and the central bulges of spirals compared to younger stars in irregular galaxies and the disks…
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Recent Major events
HARI SREENIVASAN: Two major disasters in two different parts of the country have sent tens of thousands of people fleeing from their homes, and caused millions of dollars in damage. Are these just freak events, or are they in some way related to climate change? William Brangham brings us the latest. WILLIAM BRANGHAM: It’s called the Blue Cut Fire, and it’s wreaking havoc in…
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Current Space events
Current Events in Earth Science Virgin Galactic’s Space Ship Two (SS2) flew over the Mojave Desert in California on September 5, 2013. It brought Virgin Galactic’s goal of flying tourists into space that much closer. The space craft had achieved its highest altitude and greatest speed on this flight. The flight demonstrated that the SS2 demonstrated its ability to take tourists…
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Current events in November
Here are the key events in world news for the month of November 2015. China and Taiwan Leaders Will Meet After Sixty-Six Years (Nov. 4): A meeting is announced between the presidents of Taiwan and China. They will meet this weekend for the first time since 1949, when the Chinese revolution ended. A meeting between these two Cold War rivals would have been unthinkable ten years…
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Galileo books
Why do we read? “A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another, ” Rebecca Solnit wrote in her beautiful meditation on why we read and write. For Kafka, reading was “the axe for the frozen sea within us”; for James Baldwin, a way to change our destiny. “Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy…
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Most Habitable Planets
In the race to find a planet besides Earth that can host life, scientists have made an incredible discovery. Astronomers recently confirmed the first ever planet similar in size to Earth at distance from its own star that would allow liquid water to pool on the surface. Every once in a while scientists come across a planet that orbits within the Goldilocks zone – the range…
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New Science current events
Here s a slideshow depicting the major science and disaster news events of August 2016. Scientists Create Artificial Neuron On August 3, 2016, IBM Scientists in Zurich, Switzerland publish a paper in Nature Nanotechnology revealing the creation of a technological neuron out of germanium antimony telluride to replicate biological neurons. What does this mean? It could be the…
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Galileo work
Young Galileo This was the climate into which Galileo Galilei emerged to pioneer a new world system. Born at Pisa, Italy, on 16 February 1564, his father, Vincenzo Galilei, was a renowned composer who instigated his own revolution in the arts by disputing the current theories on the structure of music. Galileo s questioning attitude towards authority is presumed to be inherited…
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What Planets are habitable?
A picture of Earth and artist s interpretations of several exoplanets that could be like our own. From left: artist s impressions of Kepler-22b, Kepler-69c, Kepler-452b, Kepler-62f and Kepler-186f. A picture of Earth is at far right. Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech Discovering the first true alien Earth is a long-held dream of astronomers — and recent exoplanet discoveries…
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Funny current events
The psychological connection between humor and tragedy Mankind has endured no greater tragedy than the Holocaust, but that hasn’t stopped comedians from joking about it over the years, nor audiences from laughing. Take a classic 2004 episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm , the comedy series by Larry David, that centers on a Holocaust survivor named Solly. One night Solly comes to…
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Current articles
Nearly 30 years after founding the Pacific Institute, a global water think tank, Peter Gleick talks about California’s current drought, how it compares to past crises and how the state needs to change water-use mentality. Embers from a wildfire smolder along Lytle Creek Road near Keenbrook, Calif., on Aug. 17, 2016. Five years of drought have turned the state’s wildlands into…
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Recent universe discoveries
We live in a golden age of astronomy. Modern instruments such as the Hubble Space Telescope and its kin have redefined modern astronomical knowledge, confirming old suspicions about the universe while revealing startling new discoveries. Here are 5 modern revelations that have reshaped our understanding of the cosmos and our place in it. 5. The Number of Estimated Stars is…
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Habitable Zone Planets
In a breakthrough discovery, clear evidence of at least one planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our Sun, has been found by the international Pale Red Dot collaboration. The exoplanet – dubbed Proxima b – has a minimum mass of about 1.3 times that of the Earth and is therefore most likely a terrestrial planet with a rocky surface, and has a short orbit of around…
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Galileo Earth
Listen to an audio version of this page. Sorry, your browser does not support the audio element, please consider updating. Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa, Italy in 1564. His father wanted him to be a doctor. Galileo wanted to work with mathematics. He took a job teaching math to university students. Galileo was also interested in astronomy. He built a telescope to help him…
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Latest Discovery in Space
Albert Einstein: still correct a century later. Photograph: Arthur Sasse/Bettmann/CORBIS Today is not the end of a search, but a beginning. It is the beginning of gravitational wave astronomy, prepare for the wonders to come. Gravitational waves are now known to exist. Photograph: Julian Stratenschulte/EPA Arvanitaki also says that today’s detection shows that there could be…
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Astronomy events
The SIU Physics Department hosts several free public observations a year on our observation deck on top of the Neckers building. Most observations are on evenings when light pollution on campus is at a minimum. We typically observe bright sky objects such as the Moon, major planets, star clusters, nebula and some deep sky objects such as the Andromeda Galaxy. All observations…
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Space current events articles
Touchdown! Rosetta’s Philae probe lands on comet ESA’s Rosetta mission has soft-landed its Philae probe on a comet, the first time in history that such an extraordinary feat has been achieved. After a tense wait during the seven-hour descent to the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, the signal confirming the successful touchdown arrived on Earth at 16:03 GMT (17:03…
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