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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Month: May 2020
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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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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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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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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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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