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Qatar Led Team Discovers Exoplanet 16 Dec 2010 | 10:45 pm
When listing the major scientific powers, the tiny nation of Qatar is not one that generally comes to mind. However, a Qatar astronomer, partnered with teams from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for As...
Landfall at Santa Maria for Opportunity on Mars 16 Dec 2010 | 10:23 pm
NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover arrived yesterday (Dec .15) at Santa Maria crater on Sol 2450. She sits just 20 meters from the crater rim. A multitude of inviting rocks and boulders are strewn about th...
Qatar Led Team Discovers Exoplanet 16 Dec 2010 | 05:45 pm
When listing the major scientific powers, the tiny nation of Qatar is not one that generally comes to mind. However, a Qatar astronomer, partnered with teams from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for As...
Wininners of Astronomy’s 2010 photo contest 11 Dec 2010 | 11:48 pm
The results are in. Four individuals from four countries took home the prizes in Astronomy magazine’s 2010 Astroimaging Contest. Astronomy editors chose the winning images. The overall winner is Thom...
The Geminid Meteor shower of December 13th (Winter’s Fireworks) 8 Dec 2010 | 11:47 pm
Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE AR-SA MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Early to mid December is the time for the yearly Geminids meteor shower, so named as its radiant appears to be the con...
Total Lunar Eclipse of December 21st 6 Dec 2010 | 05:30 am
Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE AR-SA MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Total Lunar Eclipse The last lunar eclipse of 2010 is especially well placed for observers throughout North America. ...
This month's picks of the very best astrophotos. 3 Dec 2010 | 05:23 am
Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE AR-SA The Crescent Nebula GORDON HAYNES HEREFORD, JULY 2010 Gordon says: "I like the contrast of the blue of the crescent compared to the reddish co....
The outstanding beauty of the Milky Way 1 Dec 2010 | 09:25 am
The Milky Way over Haleakala Crater on Maui. Click for a larger version. Photo by Wally Pacholka via National Geographic Astronomers turn their telescopes to the unbounded beauty of the Milky Way...
Clash of the Titan Galaxies 30 Nov 2010 | 05:46 am
NGC 520 — also known as Arp 157 -- is actually a mashup of two gigantic galaxies. Credit: ESO Is this galaxy exploding? Although that’s what it might look like, this is actually two gigantic galaxie....
DON'T MISS ... 3 TOP NIGHTSKY SIGHTS 27 Nov 2010 | 05:52 am
Total lunar eclipse WHEN: 21 December, 05:00 to 08:30 During totality the Moon is completely in the Earth's umbral shadow A TOTAL ECLlPSE of the Moon takes place in the early hours of 21 December. ...
