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Stories about: SkyMapper

South Skies Finally Mapped Surprisingly, the skies over the southern hemisphere of the Earth have never been scoured in great detail, such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey has done for the northern regions. As such, the knowledge scale is heavily tilted towards the celestial objects of the north. This issue had to be addressed, especially since... 16 December 2008 06:43 GMT Astronomers Call for Light Switch-off The Australian National University is making an appeal to the inhabitants of all cities across Australia to turn off all lights this Saturday, between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m., in order to raise the awareness of the link between the energy consumption around the world and global warming effects. Amateur astronomers will hav... 26 March 2008 06:49 GMT