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North Central Kansas Astronomical Society. Georgia State University Astronomy Program. MasteringAstronomy: Make Learning Part of the Grade. Astronomers Without Borders - Home. Astronomy-Mall.com Home Page. Astronomy. Astronomy Day. The next Astronomy Day this year is May 10, 2014 and on October 4, 2014.

Astronomy Day

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Tom’s Astronomy Blog

Image: NASA The LADEE spacecraft is coming to the end of it’s mission. The spacecraft is going to go out with a bang, literately, it is going to impact the surface of the moon. You can be a part of end of the mission too. Go on, take the challenge! How? First, read the short background below from NASA on what is going on. Then just make your best guess and SUBMIT IT HERE. The NASA link below will take you to the complete press release as I only included enough to get you going. My entry is in, that certificate of success is as good as mine. . . or not. Good luck and have fun. Stony Brook Astronomy Open Night. Celebrating 40 years of Astronomy Open Night!

Stony Brook Astronomy Open Night

Stony Brook Open Nights started in Fall of 1973 with talks given for the arrival of Comet Kohoutek. As a special treat for the 40th anniversary, we've arranged for Comet ISON to fly by the Sun this Fall. Stay tuned for an exciting semester of Astronomy Open Nights! All lectures begin at 7:30 pm in ESS 001. Php-based layout adapted from d-phys. College Astronomy - Home. Welcome to the Astronomy Department and the Whitin Observatory Our academic program is designed to serve both the novice stargazer who wants to explore the workings of the Universe and our place within it, and also majors who will make astronomy a central part of their future lives.

College Astronomy - Home

The Whitin Observatory is the home of the Wellesley College Astronomy Department and houses classrooms, astronomy laboratory facilities, the Astronomy Library, and faculty offices. Built in 1900, and enlarged in 1906, 1966, and 2010, it is considered an unusually fine facility for undergraduate training in astronomy. Our telescopes are used for College teaching activities and research observing nearly every clear night. Our students have many opportunities to engage in astronomy-related activities beyond the formal curriculum. Astronomy. Imiloa, Hilo Attractions. Cedar Amateur Astronomers. Amateur Astronomers Association of Pittsburgh. Home Page. Astronomy. English[edit] Pronunciation[edit] (General American) IPA(key): /əˈstɹɑnəˌmi/Rhymes: -ɒnəmi Etymology[edit] Old French astronomie, from Latin astronomia, from Ancient Greek ἀστρονομία (astronomia), from ἄστρον (astron, “star”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr (“star”) + νόμος (nomos, “arranging, regulating”), related to νέμω (nemō, “I deal out”).

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Noun[edit] AstroWeb: Astronomy resources on the Internet. AstroWeb is a collection of pointers to astronomically relevant Internet resources, maintained by the AstroWeb Consortium.

AstroWeb: Astronomy resources on the Internet

The present pages, based on the data shared by all the sites contributing to AstroWeb, are part of the CDS yellow-page services. What's new: new entries since last week · last month · last three months · Dead URLs. Search: · How to contribute · More about AstroWeb The AstroWeb database currently contains 3090 distinct resource records: A Searchable version of this information (a WAIS index based on the description listed in AstroWeb, and on all the words actually found in each URL) is available here, at CDS, Strasbourg:

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Given that, it might – might – be Earthlike. This is pretty cool news. We’ve found planets like this before, but not very many! And it gets niftier: the planet has at least five siblings, all of which orbit its star closer than it does. Now let me be clear: this is a planet candidate; it has not yet been confirmed. The star is called HD 40307, and it’s a bit over 40 light years away (pretty close in galactic standards, but I wouldn’t want to walk there). Massive planets tug on their star harder, so they’re easier to find this way. In this case, HD 40307 was originally observed a little while back by HARPS, and three planets were found. We don’t know how big the planet is, unfortunately. That’s exciting because of the prospect for life. Astronomy Now Online. Astronomy in the Yahoo. Astronomy Picture of the Day.

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Astronomy Picture of the Day

Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2016 April 15 Mercury and Crescent Moon Set Image Credit & Copyright: Miguel Claro (TWAN, Dark Sky Alqueva) Explanation: Innermost planet Mercury and a thin crescent Moon are never found far from the Sun in planet Earth's skies. Taken near dusk on April 8, this colorful evening skyscape shows them both setting toward the western horizon just after the Sun. Tomorrow's picture: Heliopause Electrostatic Rapid Transit System Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP)NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply.NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important NoticesA service of:ASD at NASA / GSFC& Michigan Tech.

Astronomy News. Astronomy Websites - Internet. The internet has become a priceless tool for the citizen-science movement, in which private citizens all over the world can make meaningful contributions to science.

Astronomy Websites - Internet

With as little as a computer and some curiosity, you can help scientists determine targets for space telescopes, or look for signs of life on Kepler planets. Some projects,... Modern technology allows amateurs around the globe to collaborate in ways never before possible. The following is a collection of some of the research projects we find most interesting, many of which involve collaboration with professional astronomers at universities and other research organizations.

These projects generally require more sophisticated equipment or technical expertise than... Astronomy. Earth Impact Effects Program. Robert Marcus, H.

Earth Impact Effects Program

Jay Melosh, and Gareth Collins Welcome to the Earth Impact Effects Program: an easy-to-use, interactive web site for estimating the regional environmental consequences of an impact on Earth. This program will estimate the ejecta distribution, ground shaking, atmospheric blast wave, and thermal effects of an impact as well as the size of the crater produced. Please enter values in the boxes below to describe your impact event of choice and your distance away. Then click "Calculate Effects" to learn about the environmental consequences. Tell me more... Click here for a pdf document that details the observations, assumptions, and equations upon which this program is based. Copyright © 2010 Imperial College London. Allentown School District (ASD) Planetarium home page. National Optical Astronomy Observatory Being an Astronomer.

Have you ever looked up at the night-time sky on a clear night and marveled at the beauty of the stars, or seen pictures of galaxies, nebulae, or planets and wondered what they are, and how we have learned about them?? Or have you been outside and felt the warmth of the Sun and paused, knowing it is the Sun that sustains life on earth? Astronomy – the oldest of the natural sciences. Astronomy is the only science in which you cannot perform experiments directly ; you can’t weigh, touch or smell your subject matter… You can only observe the radiation ( visible light, radio, infra-red) which comes to earth.

What Do Astronomers Do? Most astronomers concentrate on a particular question or area of astronomy: for example, planetary science, solar astronomy, the origin or evolution of stars, or the formation of galaxies. Want to Become an Astronomer? What Classes to Take – High School What Classes to Take – College. Curious About Astronomy? Ask an Astronomer. Collections: Astronomy. National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO): Look Deeper. Astronomy Resources at STScI. The Astronomy Workshop. Astronomy. Mars Opposition Season 2014: Images From Around the World by David DickinsonApril 9, 2014 Did you see it? Last night, the Red Planet rose in the east as it passed opposition for 2014, and astrophotographers the world over were ready to greet it.

And although Mars gets slightly closer to us over the coming week, opposition marks the point at which Mars is 180 degrees “opposite” to the setting […] Read the full article → Why Universe Today Writes on Climate Change by Shannon HallApril 9, 2014 Online science reporting is difficult. Astronomy Online. Michigan Astronomy. Institute of Astronomy.

AstronomyLINKS - astronomy and space directory, links, booksmarks and more. UMass Astronomy: Home. Institute for Astronomy. Astronomy 161: The Solar System. Astronomy and Steward Observatory - The University of Arizona. Astronomy Cast. Cornell Astronomy. Department of Astronomy, Yale University. Astronomy. Science: Astronomy. University of Maryland: Department of Astronomy. Astronomy Plus CCD Images of Galaxies. Go Here for Hubble Ultra Deep Field Wanna See Dr. DarkMatter's new book on Cosmology? Newly Discovered Planets and Related Information. University of Washington Astronomy Department. OLogy. UC Berkeley Astronomy Department Home. Caltech Astronomy. Astronomy Today.