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- See the Milky Way in the night sky
Apr 28, 2008
In a very dark sky, you can easily see a bright region of the Milky Way – the direction toward the galaxy’s center in the constellation Sagittarius. We cannot see the exact center of our Milky Way galaxy. It’s obscured by dark curtains of interstellar dust. Instead, you’re gazing at part of one of the prominent spiral arms of our galaxy, called the Sagittarius Arm.
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- Human space travel, or focus on Earth?
Apr 26, 2008
We have the technology for human space travel. But it’s more important to direct resources toward studying climate change here on Earth, says Frank Wentz of Remote Sensing Systems in Santa Rosa, California. Here’s why he thinks so.
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- Why go back to the moon?
Apr 25, 2008
Plans are underway to establish a permanent human presence on the moon by the year 2020. NASA’s Pete Worden explains why he believes people should return to the moon.
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- When will Smith’s Cloud collide with Milky Way?
Apr 20, 2008
In the far future, a giant cloud of hydrogen will collide with our Milky Way galaxy and help create thousands of new stars.
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- Halo star hints of long-ago hypernova
Apr 09, 2008
Astronomers have identified the telltale sign of a possible hypernova – a huge stellar explosion – in one of our galaxy’s oldest stars.
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- Astronomers study distant ‘habitable zones’
Apr 05, 2008
Are we alone in the universe, or is there intelligent life out there? And if so, how would we find it?
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- Why is Mars sometimes bright and sometimes faint?:
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Blogs In Space Category
I saw another "UFO", maybe two
by Larry SessionsI saw another UFO Saturday night. Once again in the car headed west, I spied a bright starlike object in the reddish post-sunset sky, low to the mountains. It was…
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Lunar eclipse in bozeman
by Beverly SpicerI received this beautiful image today over email with the following description: "This image was made by Chad Trettin, a photographer based in Bozeman, Montana. His original message…
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- Why not the "Clarke Event?"
by Larry SessionsWhile most of us slept on the morning of March 19, hours before the death of famed science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke was announced, a shot rang out in…
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Earth and moon as seen from Mars
by Deborah ByrdIf you were peering through a telescope, from the vicinity of the red planet Mars, you might see something like the image at left. Earth was 88 million miles from Mars…
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- The worldwide telescope coming in march
by Beverly Spicer***"We may be tiny, but we are truly, wonderfully significant"*** Roy Gould, researcher at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics, gave a presentation on TED TALKS announcing the arrival this…
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