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New Galaxies
The first photograph by 16 dishes in the MeerKAT radio telescope array revealed over 1, 300 galaxies, only 70 of which were previously known. The array will include 64 dishes when it is complete. Credit: SKA/MeerKAT The first time the MeerKAT telescope turned its eyes to the sky, it saw more than 1, 200 previously unknown galaxies. Located in South Africa, MeerKAT announced…
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Astronomy News for Kids
Teaching children about the stars helps them learn to love and care for the natural world, says Kenyan astronomer Susan Murabana. And by taking her telescope to remote parts of the country, she hopes to also encourage more girls to get into science. By teaching people about the stars and Earth’s place in the universe, Susan Murabana hopes to inspire them to take better care…
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Discovery of the Earth
An artist imagines what the surface of the planet Proxima b, orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, might look like. M. Kornmesser/ESO/NASA hide caption toggle caption M. Kornmesser/ESO/NASA An artist imagines what the surface of the planet Proxima b, orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, might look like. M. Kornmesser/ESO/NASA Revolutionary discoveries don t…
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Latest News About Astronomy 2014
In the race to discover the recently proposed Planet Nine, a team of astronomers has discovered ten previously unknown objects beyond the orbit of the giant planet Neptune. “Objects found far beyond Neptune hold the key to unlocking our Solar System’s origins and evolution, ” said team member Dr. Scott Sheppard, an astronomer at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington…
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Galileo the scientist
Galileo the establisher of modern science by Enikõ Biróné Kabály, mathematics-physics teacher, Reformed Secondary Grammar School, Debrecen PhD-student, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary In the secondary grammar school where I teach there are only few students who are interested in physics and would like to go to higher education with science subjects. That s why…
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Latest News About Astronomy
A University of Hertfordshire astrophysicist has created animated sequences of cosmic phenomena for renowned Hollywood filmmaker Terrence Malick’s new film, Voyage of Time. An international team of astronomers led by the University of Hertfordshire have solved the mysteries of a giant space blob by witnessing galaxies forming inside the intergalactic gas cloud. September saw…
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New planet 2014
These 10 countries are destined for an epic year, whether they’re hosting festivals, cutting the ribbon on new attractions or simply raising their game for travellers. Feast your eyes on 2014 s most unmissable destinations. All eyes on the pitch for 2014’s World Cup A game of beach football in Rio. Image by Yasuhide Fumoto / The Image Bank / Getty Images. As if endless strands…
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Astronomy New
The sizes of the four new planets, shown to scale. Credit: University of British Columbia Michelle Kunimoto s bachelor degree in physics and astronomy sent her on a journey out of this world—and led to the discovery of four new worlds beyond our solar system. The planets, designated planet candidates until independently confirmed, are exciting discoveries. Two are the size…
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Astronomy breaking News
Crowdsourcing is used for everything from raising funds to locating the best burger in town. The practice of enlisting a large group of people to provide a service, information or a contribution to a project-most often via the internet-is a defining feature of our era. Now Lehigh University astronomer assistant professor of physics Joshua Pepper is using crowdsourcing to gather…
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Timeline of Astronomy
Since prehistoric times our ancestors gazed up at the stars and observed the movements of the Sun and Moon. Not surprisingly, astronomy is probably the oldest science known to man and over the passing centuries our understanding of the Universe has developed gradually to reach the considerable level of knowledge we possess today. What follows are some key dates in the timeline…
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New Galaxies found
This artist s concept depicts the most luminous galaxy known in the universe. The object, which was discovered by NASA’s WISE space telescope, is called WISE J224635.0 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech A newfound galaxy 12.5 billion light-years from Earth is the most luminous one known in the universe, blazing more brightly than 300 trillion suns, a new study reports. The engine behind…
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Astronomy Recent News
Senator Barbara Mikulski (Democrat, Maryland), chairwoman of the government subcommittee that oversees NASA s budget, responded to these requests in June by calling for an independent panel to investigate the causes of the JWST s spiralling cost and delays, and to find a way to bring them to resolution. Building the JWST is an awesome technical challenge,Mikulski says. But…
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Astrophysics News
A new year is a good time to make long-term plans, and NASA has jumped into the deep end of planning. On 20 December the US space agency’s astrophysics division released a wish list of future space missions — looking three decades into the future, and even beyond. The new ‘astrophysics road map’ is notable not because it restates broad and popular themes it thinks scientists…
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New Astronomy News
Caltech researchers have found evidence of a giant planet tracing a bizarre, highly elongated orbit in the outer solar system. The object, which the researchers have nicknamed Planet Nine, has a mass about 10 times that of Earth and orbits about 20 times farther from the sun on average than does Neptune (which orbits the sun at an average distance of 2.8 billion miles). In…
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Galileo Earth round
We find this war advertised in many of the leading atheist tracts such as those by Richard Dawkins, Victor Stenger, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens. Every few months one of the leading newsweeklies does a story on this subject. Little do the peddlers of this paradigm realize that they are victims of nineteenth-century atheist propaganda. About a hundred years ago, two…
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Isaac Newton contributions to Astronomy
A painting of Sir Isaac Newton by Sir Godfrey Kneller, dated to 1689. Credit: Sir Godfrey Kneller Newton s life Born to a poor family in Woolsthorpe, England, in 1642, Isaac Newton attended Trinity College in Cambridge, England only after it became apparent that he would never be a successful farmer. While there, he took interest in mathematics, optics, physics, and astronomy…
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Astronomy News UK
Five monster black holes that were previously hidden by dust and gas have been uncovered by astronomers. High energy X-rays emitted from around the newly identified black holes revealed their presence at the centre of five galaxies. An artist s rendering of two black holes in the globular star cluster M22 The space telescope is designed to pick up extremely high energy X-rays…
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Space and Astronomy News
The brightest supernova ever detected was about 100 times brighter than the flash of typical dying star (Image: iStockphoto) Astronomers analysing the brightest supernova ever detected say the titanic flare has reshaped thinking about the death struggle of gigantic stars. > more Australia may gain a National Space Science Institute and send a spacecraft to a fiery death…
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New Science findings
In this paragraph I will state the main claim that the research makes, making appropriate use of scare quotes to ensure that it s clear that I have no opinion about this research whatsoever. In this paragraph I will briefly (because no paragraph should be more than one line) state which existing scientific ideas this new research challenges . If the research is about a potential…
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