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Utahns invited to celebrate Astronomy Week
Utahns are invited to spend the week celebrating the cosmos. The Salt Lake Astronomical Society, comprised of amateur astronomers, is hosting a slew of activities to excite people about the stars Continue reading
How did those wolves get to the Falkland Islands ? Scientists may have an answer.
Australian scientists believe that they now understand how a reddish, dog-sized carnivore could have wound up on the Falkland Islands, 285 miles from the nearest mainland, some 16,000 years ago. The mystery surrounding the origin of a wolflike predator that once lived near Antarctica a puzzle that stumped even Charles Darwin has now been solved, researchers say. Continue reading
Visualize Astronomy: The Virgo Cluster of Galaxies – Video
Visualize Astronomy: The Virgo Cluster of Galaxies The Virgo cluster is the nearest large cluster of galaxies, about 54 million light years distant from the Milky Way galaxy. The large elliptical galaxy Messier 87 is located at the center of Virgo Continue reading
27 Our Moon, Earth’s Nearest Neighbor – Video
27 Our Moon, Earth's Nearest Neighbor Understanding the Universe: An Introduction to Astronomy, 2nd Edition Contents of the Universe: Our Solar System Lecture by Professor Alex Filippenko I do not own the rights to any of this content and is for personal enlightenmentFrom:JHok87Views:0 0ratingsTime:30:47More inEducation Continue reading
Search for human essence 'a 2,000-year myth'
The Irish Times – Friday, July 13, 2012 DICK AHLSTROM ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE:WE ALL cling to the notion we possess a unique self, but new technologies including gene analysis and artificial intelligence are slowly chipping away at our uniqueness. The differences between humans and our nearest relatives, the great apes, may be no more than a small collection of genes. Continue reading
Astronomy: June astronomy highlights
Jun 1 2012 By Ninian Boyle You need to stay up late to get dark skies this month and they are short lived, but don’t let that stop you from going out and having a look around at the wonders of the heavens. So the planet Venus is going to transit the face of the Sun. Continue reading
The closest supernova candidate? | Bad Astronomy
[NOTE: Whenever I write about actual cosmic events that might possibly affect us on Earth, I get scared emails from some folks. Continue reading