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Karon beach | Phuket beaches | Thailand Phuket travel blog [ENG SUB] – Video

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Beaches set to open two days after shark attack

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Hapuna Beach and Waialea Bay remained closed Thursday, following a shark attack that severely injured the arm of a Kansas man.

Hawaii County Fire Department overflights Thursday morning did not produce a sighting of the shark that attacked the snorkeler Wednesday.

But the aggressive nature of the animal and poor visibility because of wind chop prompted county officials to recommend the state keep the beaches off limits until 7 a.m. today.

Beaches were evacuated about lunchtime Wednesday when a 10- to 12-foot tiger shark inflicted severe bite wounds on the left forearm and thigh of a 58-year-old man from Overland Park, Kan., who was snorkeling with his family about 20 yards off a point popularly known as Jump Rock at the south end of Hapuna Beach.

The tiger continued to cruise the beach an hour after the attack.

This was an unusual case where the shark went away and came back, Special Operations Battalion Chief Gerald Kosaki said.

Under normal circumstances, the beaches would have opened at noon Thursday, shortly after the days last overflight.

While great whites generally are the stuff of overwrought Hollywood fare, the akamai know that tiger sharks are far more likely to be the culprit in unprovoked attacks on swimmers off the coasts of Hawaii.

However, the season for the animals to be making their presence known is winding down, with most sightings usually happening toward the end of the calendar year and into January, said Acting Battalion Chief Paul Austria.

I was a little shocked to hear it was in the area this time of year, Austria said.

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Astronomy For Everyone – Episode 67 – Hands-on Astronomy Projects December 2014 – Video

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Quantum Matters: University of Waterloo Department of Physics & Astronomy – Video

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Solar Eclipse March 2015 Stargazing Skywatching Astronomy For Kids Ep 1 – Video

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Seeing beyond the stars: Why astronomy counts on Earth

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Story highlights Eclipses are a visible highlight of astronomy, one of the oldest of sciences, writes Robert Massey But astronomy is also a science that pushes technology to the limits, he says Massey: Astronomy reminds us that we are really a very small part of an enormous cosmos

Eclipses are a very visible highlight of astronomy, one of the oldest of sciences that has fueled the imagination of humanity since we became capable of complex thought, with monuments as old as Stonehenge in England marking the movement of the Sun and Moon across the sky, and early civilizations creating myths around the patterns of stars that make up the constellations.

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That sense of wonder continues unabated in the modern era, though we sometimes seem more disconnected than our ancestors from the world (and universe) around us.

Children and adults alike visit observatories and planetaria, download images originating from spacecraft in orbit around planets, asteroids and comets, and grab the chance to look through a telescope without hesitation.

An early interest in astronomy inspired many of today's leading scientists and engineers, including Paul Nurse, the President of the Royal Society and a Nobel Prize winner in medicine, who found his inspiration through a telescope at the age of eight.

This is a science that pushes technology to the limits, eking out the faintest of signals and using complex techniques to put together models for worlds, stars and clusters of galaxies that we are unlikely ever to visit.

And these demands set the toughest of challenges. To take one example, the Hubble Space Telescope (named after American astronomer Edwin Hubble) will reach its 25th anniversary next month. Putting a telescope in space had been proposed as far back as the 1940s, a good decade before the Soviet Union's Sputnik transmitted its first pings from orbit.

Hubble construction began in the late 1970s, ready to be carried into orbit by NASA's space shuttle. Delayed by the Challenger disaster, the telescope finally entered service in 1990, when scientists discovered that its mirror was the wrong shape -- a flaw repaired by another shuttle crew who installed a correcting system three years later.

Since those early setbacks, the Hubble telescope has transformed astronomy. From its vantage point above the blurring effect of the Earth's atmosphere, it helped scientists discover that the expansion of the universe is speeding up, powered by a still mysterious "dark energy," sent back images of forming solar systems and planets around other stars, and showed that almost every galaxy has a giant black hole at its center.

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Letchworth astronomy group pulling out all the stops for solar eclipse

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07:01 20 March 2015

by James Scott

Solar Eclipse. Credit: Letchworth and District Astronomical Society.

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An astronomy group is pulling out all the stops for members of the public to wonder at a solar eclipse which is taking place this morning.

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A partial eclipse which happens when the moon passes between the Sun and Earth and partially blocks the former, casting a shadow over the latter is due between 8.25am and 10.40am.

The Letchworth and District Astronomical Society will have four gazebos set up in Leys Avenue housing a screen with a live feed from NASA showing the eclipse and display boards with information.

Outside there will be eight telescopes with solar filters so that people can look directly into the sun safely, as well as 100 pairs of safety goggles.

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Physicist seeks answers on supermassive black holes with the next-gen X-ray telescope

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University of Waterloo Professor Brian McNamara along with two Canadian astronomers will be part of the science working group directing ASTRO-H, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA's) newest flagship x-ray astronomy observatory.

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) announced yesterday that it has delivered its hardware contribution to the mission scheduled to launch in early 2016.

ASTRO-H marks the first time Canada is part of an x-ray astronomy mission. The science working group will design the observatory's science plan while also receiving privileged access to the proprietary data during the first year of operations. McNamara will specifically study the effects of black holes on emergent galaxies.

"This is a fantastic opportunity for Canada and Canadian astronomers," said McNamara a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, who also holds a University Research Chair in Astrophysics.

The telescope is designed to explore mysterious phenomena in unprecedented detail, such as black holes and their role in forming galaxies like our own Milky Way. It includes one of the most sensitive spectrometers aboard any orbiting x-ray observatory to date.

X-ray telescopes offer an advantage over visible and radio-wave telescopes in that they can detect high-energy phenomena such as the radiation emitted by super hot gases travelling in the vicinity of a black hole. The black hole's intense gravity causes these gases to reach velocities nearly the speed of light. When that happens, the gases emit radiation in the x-ray range.

"X-ray telescopes are the perfect black hole detectors," said McNamara.

McNamara will be looking specifically at the speeds these gases are travelling to understand the energy generated by some of the most massive black holes in existence, including the one at the centre of our galaxy.

The vast majority of mass that accelerates towards a black hole is expelled back into space. The power needed to do this is enormous and may govern how galaxies form. According to McNamara, this x-ray telescope will allow us to observe this energy emission directly.

"Black holes are the most efficient power generators in the Universe," said McNamara. "In fact, we think they [black holes] exist in the centres of all massive galaxies."

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