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Tagged > 2012
THREAD TechnologySamsung Galaxy Nexus banned in US
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An American judge has banned the sale of Samsung's new Galaxy Nexus mobile phone in the United States after Apple claimed it copied some of the technology used in its iPhone.Apple spokeswoman Kri...
THREAD AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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10 October 2012 Nauset Light Star Trails Image Credit & Copyright: Chris Cook In myth, Atlas holds up the heavens, but in this scene they seem to pivot around a lighthouse beacon. Photograph...
THREAD AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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5 October 2012 Aurora and Fireball Over Norway Image Credit & Copyright: Ole C. Salomonsen (Arctic Light Photo) What's happening behind that mountain? A convergence of variable sky spec...
THREAD ElectionsWelcome to the Future
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As you can see, besides expressing his perfectly reasonably biased opinion, he is giving quotes of pauls on specific issues, he isn't even weighing in on the quotes for the most part. Incorre...
THREAD AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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11 September 2012 Milky Way Over the Bungle Bungles Image Credit & Copyright: Mike Salway Which part of this picture do you find more interesting -- the land or the sky? Advocates for the la...
THREAD AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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5 September 2012 Airglow Over Germany Image Credit & Copyright: Jens Hackmann Does air glow? It does, but it is usually hard to see. When conditions are right, however, a faint glow about 90...
THREAD AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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11 December 2012 NGC 604: Giant Stellar Nursery Image Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive, ESA, NASA; Processing - Donald Waid Stars are sometimes born in the midst of chaos. About 3 million years ago...
THREAD AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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7 October 2012 The Same Color Illusion Image Credit: Edward H. Adelson, Wikipedia Are square A and B the same color? They are! To verify this, either run your cursor over the image or click here...
THREAD AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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13 November 2012 A Solar Eclipse Quilt Credit & Copyright: Sherry Winkelman (CXC) Some people are so inspired by solar eclipses that they quilt. Pictured above is a resulting textile from on...
THREAD AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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16 November 2012 Moon Shadow Sequence Image Credit & Copyright: Ben Cooper (Launch Photography) On the morning of November 14, the Moon's umbral shadow tracked across northern Australia...
THREAD AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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24 October 2012 NGC 206 and the Star Clouds of Andromeda Image Credit & Copyright: Bob and Janice Fera (Fera Photography) The large stellar association cataloged as NGC 206 is nestled within...
THREAD AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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7 September 2012 IC 4628: The Prawn Nebula Image Credit & Copyright: Marco Lorenzi (Glittering Lights) South of Antares, in the tail of the nebula-rich constellation Scorpius, lies emission...
THREAD AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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15 October 2012 Black Sun and Inverted Starfield Image Credit & Copyright: Jim Lafferty Does this strange dark ball look somehow familiar? If so, that might be because it is our Sun. In the...
THREAD AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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26 September 2012 A Space Shuttle Over Los Angeles Image Credit & Copyright: Stephen Confer It's not every day that a space shuttle lands at LAX. Although this was a first for the major...
THREAD AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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19 November 2012 Leonids Over Monument Valley Image Credit & Copyright: Sean M. Sabatini What's happening in the sky over Monument Valley? A meteor shower. Over the past weekend the Leo...
THREAD LawU.S. Military has the right to detain Citizens
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NDAA Nullification Passes Virginia Senate by a Veto-Proof 39-1 Vote Posted by Michael Boldin Today, the Virginia Senate took a firm stand in support of liberty, the Constitution for the United Sta...
THREAD AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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21 October 2012 The Horsehead Nebula Credit & Copyright: Nigel Sharp (NOAO), KPNO, AURA, NSF One of the most identifiable nebulae in the sky, the Horsehead Nebula in Orion, is part of a larg...
THREAD AstronomyMilky Way Will Eventually Collide With Andromeda
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Astronomers and astrophysicists predict that in approximately 4 billion years time, the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies will collide into each other. It is predicted that despite this galactic collis...
THREAD AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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28 November 2012 Jupiter and Io Image Credit & Copyright: Alessandro Bianconi On December 3 (UT), Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet, will be at opposition, opposite the Sun in...
THREAD AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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25 October 2012 The Medusa Nebula Image Credit & Copyright: Ken Crawford (Rancho Del Sol Obs.) Braided, serpentine filaments of glowing gas suggest this nebula's popular name, The Medus...
THREAD AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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14 December 2012 Umbra World Image Credit & Copyright: Dennis L. Mammana (TWAN) On the morning of November 14, sky gazers from around the world gathered on this little planet to stand in the...
THREAD AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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15 November 2012 Solar Eclipse over Queensland Image Credit & Copyright: Phil Hart This month's New Moon brought a total solar eclipse to parts of planet Earth on November 13 (UT). Most...
THREAD AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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24 September 2012 NGC 2736: The Pencil Nebula Image Credit: ESO This shock wave plows through space at over 500,000 kilometers per hour. Moving toward to bottom of this beautifully detailed colo...
THREAD AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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18 November 2012 NGC 6357: Cathedral to Massive Stars Image Credit: NASA, ESA and Jesús Maíz Apellániz (IAA, Spain) How massive can a normal star be? Estimates made from distance, brigh...
THREAD AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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30 September 2012 A Galaxy Collision in NGC 6745 Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration Acknowledgment: Roger Lynds (KPNO/NOAO) et al. Gala...
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