Memorial Day Skywatching: See Half Moon Pass Mars

Source: Discovery News

Monday evening bring us a first quarter moon, offering U.S. skywatchers a chance to close out the Memorial Day holiday with a lunar treat and the fading planet Mars. The first quarter moon is also sometimes called the "half" moon, althou ...
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New Planet at solar system's edge

Source: Samaylive

The planet, which is too distant to be easily spotted by Earth-based telescopes, could be gravitationally tugging on small icy objects past Neptune, helping explain the mystery of those objects' peculiar orbits, the scientists said. The claim comes fro ...
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First lake osprey of year hatches

Source: BBC News

27 May 2012 Last updated at 07:33 ET The first Bassenthwaite chick of the year hatches The first osprey chick of the year has hatched at a conservation spot in the Lake District. Last month three eggs were spotted in the nest built b ...
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New telescope to be in South Africa, Australia

Source: SINA English

Australia and South Africa will share hosting of a giant radio telescope made up of thousands of separate dishes and intended to help scientists figure out the make-up of the universe, the international consortium o ...
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What’s up in the sky in June

Source: Akron Beacon Journal

The event for June is on the 5th, when we can follow the dark disk of Venus crossing 11 degrees of the sun’s surface, from about 6:04 p.m. until the sun sets about 8 p.m. The McKinley Presidential Library and Museum, 800 McKinley ...
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Cook app transits the centuries

Source: The Age

WHEN Captain James Cook set sail to observe the transit of Venus in 1769, he was part of a global project to measure the solar system - and he went on to discover something even cooler, Australia. Children at 300 schools throughout Australia w ...
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Royal Observatory Greenwich

Source: Bella Online

The is part of the National Maritime Museum and UNESCO World Heritage Site. It represents over three hundred years of both astronomical and maritime history. This is the place where time begins. The observatory was founded b ...
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Summer 2012: Family friendly hotels

Source: The Independent

Children's rooms take on a different meaning at Hesperia Lanzarote (00 34 828 080 800; nh-hotels.com ), in Puerto Calero, where seven new Junior Suites have been colourfully redecorated, furnished with bunk beds dressed in themed bed linen, and s ...
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Astronomers seize last chance in lifetime for Venus Transit

Source: The Sun Daily Malaysia

PARIS (May 26, 2012): Astronomers are gearing for one the rarest events in the Solar System: an alignment of Earth, Venus and the Sun that will not be seen for another 105 years. The celestial ballet known as the ...
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