Astronomy - Ch. 4: History of Astronomy (3 of 16) Ancient Structures: Stonehenge
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Video: Awesome new NASA video shows giant asteroid with small moon
New images from NASA and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory clearly show a tiny moon circling Asteroid 2004 BL86 - 800000 miles from earth. The asteroid is a big space rock that New...
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Astronomy - Ch. 4: History of Astronomy (10 of 16) The Power of Observations and Reasoning
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Astronomy For Everyone - Episode 1 - Naked Eye Observing June 2009
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Astronomy For Everyone - Episode 4 - Observing Jupiter September 2009
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Astronomy For Everyone - Episode 7 - Gifts for the Astronomer December 2009
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Astronomy For Everyone - Episode 10 - Telescopes Part 1 March 2010
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Astronomy For Everyone - Episode 20 - Winter Constellations Star Lore January 2011
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We all know astronomy is cool, Astronomy magazine writes in its March issue the 500th since the magazine was launched in August 1973. To demonstrate and celebrate, the magazine compiled a wide-ranging, colorfully illustrated list of 500 facts ranging over every aspect of the cosmos and how we perceive it. Heres a sampling:
1. Exactly 88 constellations cover the sky, with no gaps and no overlaps.
2. The solar systems largest moon, Ganymede,which orbits Jupiter, contains 25 percent more volume than Mercury.
10. The most luminous star visible to the naked eye, 34 Cygni, outshines the sun by 610,000 times.
22. If you drilled a tunnel through Earth and jumped in, you would reach the other side in 42 minutes and 12 seconds, and your top speed would be 17,670 mph.
44. As your eyes adapt to darkness, their sensitivity increases 10,000-fold in the first 30 minutes, with little gain after that.
71. The odds are greater than 7-to-1 that on your birthday, the sun was not in what you think is your zodiacal constellation.
107. The 60-ton Hoba iron meteorite in Namibia is the worlds largest intact meteorite.
198. Of the 12 traditional constellations of the zodiac, Capricorn is the smallest.
251. When the universe was 14 million years old, its background temperature was 80 degrees Fahrenheit, about the same as a summer day on Earth.
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Everything you wanted to know about the stars and more, from Astronomy magazine
By Lisa M. Krieger lkrieger@mercurynews.com
Google has contributed $1 million to help support Lick Observatory, the financially needy astronomy haven atop Mount Hamilton.
While other donors have helped buy high-end instruments, Google's gift is different because it will pay day-to-day operating expenses of the historic observatory, perched on a 4,200-foot summit above San Jose and the only observatory in the UC system where students can design and build their own astronomy projects.
"Google is proud to support their efforts to bring hands-on astronomical experiences to students and the public," said Chris DiBona, director of open source for Google, in a prepared statement.
The gift -- $500,000 a year, for two years -- is the first of what astronomers hope will be other private gifts to support the teaching and research resource. Lick astronomers have discovered asteroids, moons of Jupiter and planets outside our solar system.
It will be used to hire another telescope operator for the Shane three-meter telescope, which periodically closes due to staff shortages. Another probable use of the funds will be to continue the development of laser guide star adaptive optics.
The gift represents about one-quarter of the observatory's annual budget, augmenting the $1.5 million UC gives each year to operate the mountaintop site.
"Google's very generous gift will make it possible for Lick ... to continue to develop forefront tools such as adaptive optics, which removes image blurring caused by turbulence in Earth's atmosphere," said Claire Max, interim director of the University of California Observatories, which operates Lick.
Until its funding was cut, Lick's budget was about $2.5 million annually supporting astronomers and students from eight of the 10 UC campuses and the UC-managed Department of Energy labs.
UC announced in 2013 that it would reduce funding for Lick starting in 2016, with a complete cutoff after 2018. "Telescopes and instruments are growing ever more expensive, and many of the traditional sources of funds for supporting astronomy -- the state and federal governments -- are facing growing claims on their resources," according to one report. "Old facilities on Mt. Hamilton ... would cost more to modernize than could be rationalized in terms of their usefulness."
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Astronomy: Calendars
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Astronomy with Bruce Betts "Tour of the Solar System" Taught by Bruce Betts of The Planetary Society for undergraduates and astronomy enthusiast http://www.youtube....
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Astronomy - Ch. 4: History of Astronomy (7 of 16) Ancient Structures: Wurdi Youang, Australia
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Astronomy. Contradictions of the theory of a Big Bang of the Universe.
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February 8th, 2015 5:52 pm by Rick Wagner
KINGSPORT A future Carl Sagan or two may come from the ranks of local high school graduates in years to come.
But these future astronomers, would-be hosts of something like the late Sagans PBS television series Cosmos, are unlike astronomer and author Sagan was in at least one way.
They are females.
Sullivan South High School senior Kayla Jenkins and astronomy teacher Thomas Rutherford recently presented some of their NASA-commissioned research at a national astronomy conference in Seattle.
The research anoutgrowth of a project started in 2013 is using the red shiftin light from a type of black hole called an active galactic nuclei. That is among the brightest of objects in the universe.
Using a color magnitude measurement graphing color versus brightness from quasars and type 1 Seyfert galaxies, the research examined about 11,000 objects.
Jenkins did another project on seeking to calculate the distance to an open star cluster. A third project, still underway with a friend, is to measure the distance from the earth to the center of the Milky Way Galaxy using globular clusters,
The red shift research is for a NASA-funded program called NITARP, which stands for NASA/Infrared Processing and Analysis Center Teacher Archive Research Project.
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UBC Astronomy Club: Making a Comet Demo at Science Week 2015
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Introduction to Astronomy with Ronen Plesser
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Astronomy Cast Ep. 367: Spitzer does Exoplanets
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