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Month: May 2020

May 28, 2020 Astronomy

New Australian infrared telescope to spot cosmic hidden treasures

New infrared telescope to spot cosmic hidden treasures   A new infrared telescope, to be designed and built by astronomers at The Australian National University (ANU), will monitor the entire

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May 28, 2020 Cosmology

Half the matter in the universe was missing – we found it hiding in the cosmos

Half the matter in the universe was missing – we found it hiding in the cosmos   Cosmologists had only been able to find half the matter that should exist

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May 28, 2020 Astronomy

The Dinosaur-Killer Asteroid May Have Hit Earth at ‘Deadliest Possible’ Angle

The Dinosaur-Killer Asteroid May Have Hit Earth at ‘Deadliest Possible’ Angle   This much we knew: some 66 million years ago an asteroid roughly twice the diameter of Paris crashed

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May 13, 2020 Astronomy

The cosmic life of ‘Celestial Handbook’ author Robert Burnham Jr.

  Sky Writer: The cosmic life of ‘Celestial Handbook’ author Robert Burnham Jr. | The Underground Bunker Every serious amateur astronomer has a set of the three volume “Celestial Handbook”,

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May 6, 2020 Telescopes

What is a Plossl eyepiece?

  What is a Plössl eyepiece? Plossl are some of the most popular low cost eyepieces for telescope users. A good explanation! Source: www.skyatnightmagazine.com/advice/what-is-a-plossl-eyepiece/

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May 4, 2020 Astronomy / Solar

Sun ‘less active’ than similar stars

  The Sun is less magnetically active and shows less variability in its brightness than similar stars in the galaxy, scientists say. To come to this conclusion, published in the journal Science, they

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