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Should you buy a telescope on Black Friday/Cyber Monday 2023?
Black Friday is a shopping holiday celebrated annually on the fourth Friday of November, the Friday after Thanksgiving. This year it falls on November 24th 2023. It is traditionally the start of the holiday shopping season, and many retailers offer significant discounts on a wide range of their stock. Millions of shoppers participate each year,…
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The Sky This Week from October 27 to November 3: The dark side of space
The dark “tail” visible behind the Cocoon Nebula (IC5146) is cataloged as B168 and sometimes called the Dark Cigar. Credit: Kees Scherer (Flickr) Friday, October 27Take some time to watch the famous star Arcturus setting in the western sky early this evening. Depending on your location, the bright, orange-hued giant will be low in the…
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Media Invitation: Euclid mission to release first full-colour images of the cosmos on 7 November
Science & Exploration 27/10/2023 114 views 6 likes ESA’s Director of Science Carole Mundell and leading scientists from across Europe will gather at ESA’s Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, to discuss with Media the first, razor-sharp astronomical images of the Euclid mission, looking for mysterious, dark matter and energy. Never before has a space…
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Webb Telescope sees explosion 1 million times brighter than the Milky Way
(CNN) — The James Webb Space Telescope and other observatories witnessed a massive explosion in space that created rare chemical elements, some of which are necessary for life. The explosion, which occurred on March 7, was the second brightest gamma-ray burst ever witnessed by telescopes in more than 50 years of observations, over one million…
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Tracking the Gold Rush in the Sky
Every gold rush triggers legal, political and environmental questions. Who owns the wealth? Whose power guarantees ownership? And who has to deal with the mess left behind? Announcements, Events & more from Tyee and select partners Be Part of Transformative Change with the CCPA–BC The BC office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is…
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Space Expert Arlen Kam ’05 Returns to Punahou
Arlen Kim ’05 (right) was invited to Punahou by her former teacher, Yunus Peer, who instructs the World Civilizations class. On Wednesday, Punahou welcomed back an alumna with a career that’s literally out of this world: Arlen Kam ’05, an astrodynamics engineer and spacecraft missions operations expert. Talking to Academy students in the Astronomy and…
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Volunteers with a passion for astronomy share the amazing night sky through Stars of Hope
The next Stars of Hope event is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 28, at the Westin in Kaanapali. <!– SHOW ARTICLE –> KAANAPALI — For the past couple of months, a group of amateur astronomers, under the direction of Dr. J.D. Armstrong, educational outreach coordinator for the University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy (IfA), have been…
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Search for intelligent aliens explores new radio-frequency realms
A new European search for extraterrestrial radio signals at low, uncharted frequencies is underway, having already listened to over 1.6 million star systems. SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, has traditionally focused on radio frequencies higher than a gigahertz, such as the hydrogen-line frequency at 1.42 GHz. SETI astronomers tend to shy away from lower…
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Why Titan should be on humanity’s must-visit list
Titan’s dense atmosphere (dark blue) extends hundreds of miles above the world’s surface, as seen in this false-color mosiac captured by the Cassini spacecraft. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute When it comes to worlds for humans to visit, Titan may not naturally jump to the top of any travel agency’s list. This frigid moon of Saturn…
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Astronomers capture formation of a powerful cosmic jet
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