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Experts have recently demonstrated that the ancient Egyptian site of Nabta Playa is in fact one of the oldest astronomical observatories in the world. Archaeologists believe that the location may have been in use between 6,000 and 8.000 years ago. The new discovery was made after an astrophysicist analyzed the way st... |
18 April 2011
08:52 GMT |
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The NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory has just turned 1 in Earth's orbit, officials from the American space agency are delighted to announce. The instrument has thus far sent back millions of images, and has helped increase our understanding of how the Sun operates. SDO launched from Space Launch Complex 41 at th... |
14 February 2011
03:19 GMT |
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European scientists and their collaborators are excited at the fact that the largest radio observatory in the world has just been inaugurated, and snapped its first images. The radio telescope array is nearly 1,000 kilometers wide, and features antennas at a variety of locations throughout Europe. The International L... |
2 February 2011
04:25 GMT |
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Experts have been working on the IceCube project for years now, and they say that the experience has helped them reshape the way they deal with everyday problems. The nature of the project does not allow for anything else, they add. IceCube is the name given to a project that calls for the construction of an advanced... |
27 October 2010
03:08 GMT |
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Tomorrow, Saturday March 20, marks the 30th anniversary of the 2.3-magnitude earthquake that shook the ground near Mount St. Helens. Starting that day, the volcano was reawakened, and events precipitated constantly from there on, until finally culminating with the devastating eruption of May 18, 1980. The event took ... |
19 March 2010
11:00 GMT |
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Scientists operating the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory are trembling with excitement. Next year, they are scheduled to receive one of the most sensitive cameras ever built, called the DECam, or the DES camera. It was developed by the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), in Batavia, Illinois, an... |
12 March 2010
06:51 GMT |
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When the 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck the central parts of Chile this Saturday, officials at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) were on their toes in no time. The organization has built three large observatories in the Atacama Desert over the years, all of which may have been endangered by the powerful tremor... |
2 March 2010
02:51 GMT |
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In a dramatic face-off between environmentalists and physicists, the construction of the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) under the Nilgiri hills at Singara was not approved. Authorities determined that the endangered elephants which have set up their habitat in the area are simply too valuable to allow for the... |
25 November 2009
01:58 GMT |
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In spite of covering a huge part of the planet, the world's oceans are still one of its biggest mysteries. Each deep-sea study and tsunami brings to the surface weird, new fish species, and isolated ecosystems, confined to only a certain location on the map, are constantly being discovered. Now, the US National ... |
6 October 2009
08:44 GMT |
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The planned Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) observatory, which will study the Sun, is part of NASA's proposed Small Explorers series, which also includes the Gravity and Extreme Magnetism SMEX (GEMS), which will observe and analyze black holes. The two instruments are the final selection NASA made f... |
1 September 2009
04:44 GMT |
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Bigger is always better in astronomy, experts say, and the phrase especially holds true for telescopes. Making use of new technologies that allow for virtually instantaneous connections between any points on Earth, experts from more than 16 observatories on six continents have joined their resources together, and hav... |
9 June 2009
18:41 GMT |
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It was, indeed, some 400 years ago that astronomer Galileo made some of his first and most important observations of the solar system, identifying other planets and their moons, and making it clear once and for all that the Earth clearly revolved around the Sun, and not the other way around. Now, four centuries later... |
31 March 2009
09:06 GMT |
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The Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) instrument aboard NASA's Swift satellite has been recently used by British astronomers to hunt for a gamma-ray explosion just 251 seconds after it started manifesting itself. To pinpoint the onset of an emission in such a short time has only been made possible by the fact... |
3 March 2009
05:14 GMT |
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