Astronomers get ready for big event

Source: News24

2012-05-26 14:05 kalahari.com Astronomy Learn about famous astronomers, the solar system, stars, and other aspects of astronomy Was R174.95 Now R148.71 buy now Paris - Astronomers are gearing for one the rarest events in the Solar System: an ...
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SKA an achievement for South Africa, Africa: ANC

Source: Times Live South Africa

"This is a momentous day for South Africa and the continent and will give all of us the possibility to answer fundamental questions in physics, astronomy and cosmology," the ANC said in a statement. "It will advance our scientific research capacity as a ...
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SKA to be split between Australia, NZ and South Africa

Source: Scoop - New Zealand News

Square Kilometre Array to be split between Australia, NZ and South Africa 26 May 2012 After many months of waiting, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Organisation has finally announced that the massive telescope array will be s ...
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Gordon James Gianninoto on Late Night In The Midlands - May 26,2012

Source: BlogTalkRadio

He had many childhood UFO and ET encounters. He saw his first UFO in 1964, a one mile diameter mothership launching 3 saucers over San Juan PR harbor. Selected as a future astronaut at age 15 he received a grant from the National Science Foundation ...
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Giant Telescope Project Goes to South Africa, Australia

Source: Wall Street Journal

By Kathleen Chaykowski in Pretoria, South Africa and Gautam Naik in LondonA consortium of countries chose South Africa and Australia to share a groundbreaking €1.5 billion ($1.87 billion) radio telescope that will be t ...
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Two-Site Solution: South Africa and Australia/New Zealand Awarded New Telescope

Source: Science

Splitting the difference. SKA dishes, shown here in an artist's conception at night, will go to both Australia and South Africa. The world's largest radiotelescope, the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), will be built in two places at once, pla ...
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Africa: Dual Site Agreed for Square Kilometre Array Telescope

Source: AllAfrica.com

Amsterdam — The Members of the SKA Organisation today agreed on a dual site solution for the Square Kilometre Array telescope, a crucial step towards building the world's largest and most sensitive radio telescope. Th ...
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How Mumbais polluted skies are starry

Source: DNA India

How come Mumbai’s night skies appear clear and starry despite bright city lights and polluted air? The puzzling question has been teasing my mind for a while. So, when DNA’s ‘Your City Your Day’ listed an astronomy event, or ...
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When Science Seems Like Magic

Source: The New York Times

Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin The exhibition “Surface Tension: The Future ofWater.” THE science-fiction author and technology prophet Arthur C. Clarke once said that a technology sufficiently advanced from our own would be indisti ...
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