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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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4 February 2013
Namibian Nights
Video Credit & Copyright: Marsel van Oosten; Music: Simon Wilkinson
Namibia has some of the darkest nights visible from any continent. It is therefore home to... |
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Mental IllnessI need sleepp
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soo, I haven't been able to sleep for the past 3 days... I'm no doctor, but I'm pretty sure that's not a good thing. I just lay there and I try to go to sleep but nothing seems to... |
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Science vs ReligionScience is prooving the Bible
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defends your book. That's nice.
As tradition teaches the ghost road (Milky Way) as an extension of life (soul) & therefore the use of star children is commonly given as native names to other... |
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Alternative Beliefsreal or just a myth?
57 Posts • 18514 Views
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Ahh . . . In the Native Traditions when a person dies they are said to have gone South (ie. realm or land of the spirit) and although an entry about the Ghost Dance was given. The Ghost Road (Milky Wa... |
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Reality & MetaphysicsDoes Time Even Exist?
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Nice thought,We have just given a name to one of the many parts of life, for our own conveniance.
By Jove I think he has got it!
surely there is no direction in space as there are no magnetic points... |
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Physics & CosmologyExcerp: Cosmology
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The universe is 15 billion years old. 15 billion years ago, all the stuff in the universe was concentrated in a singularity, a mathematical concept, a speck of infinite density. It exploded. This is w... |
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AstronomyOur Home
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The approximate diameter of the Milky Way is 100,000 light years. And here is our galaxy, merely a spec among other galaxies within our "local group" of galaxies. Our local group alone is ab... |
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Stellar Scenes
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Naoyuki Kurita is an astrophotographer who is located in Japan. In order to take his astro-images, Naoyuki drives outside of the city, to locations away from the interference of city lights.
On his... |
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CREATION OF UNIVERSE
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The Universe and its elements : all the galaxies, stars, planets, asteroids, the Milky Way, the Sun, the Earth, the Moon and billions of other immense bodies are rotating and revolving in excellent ha... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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12 January 2013
Ten Billion Earths
Illustration Credit: NASA, F. Fressin (Harvard CfA)
How common are Earth-sized planets? Quite common, according to extrapolations from new data taken by NASA&#... |
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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... |
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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... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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11 February 2013
N11: Star Clouds of the LMC
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Lake (Pomfret School
Massive stars, abrasive winds, mountains of dust, and energetic light sculpt one of the largest and... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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6 September 2012
Airglow over Italy
Image Credit & Copyright: Tamas Ladanyi (TWAN)
In this serene night skyscape, the Milky Way's graceful arc stretches over prominent peaks in the Ital... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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8 October 2012
Spherical Planetary Nebula Abell 39
Image Credit & Copyright: Adam Block, Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter, University of Arizona
Ghostly in appearance, Abell 39 is a remarkably simple, s... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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8 January 2013
Grand Spiral Galaxy NGC 7424
Image Credit & Copyright: SSRO-South (S. Mazlin, J. Harvey, D. Verschatse, R. Gilbert) & Kevin Ivarsen (UNC/CTIO/PROMPT)
The grand, winding arm... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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26 November 2012
Wisps of the Veil Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Joaquin Ferreiros
Wisps like this are all that remain visible of a Milky Way star. About 9,000 years ago that star explode... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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15 December 2012
When Gemini Sends Stars to Paranal
Image Credit & Copyright: Stéphane Guisard (Los Cielos de America), TWAN
From a radiant point in the constellation of the Twins, the an... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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16 January 2013
NGC 1309: Spiral Galaxy and Friends
Image Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive, ESA, NASA; Processing - Martin Pugh
A gorgeous spiral galaxy some 100 million light-years distant, NGC 13... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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17 March 2013
Light Echoes from V838 Mon
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, H. E. Bond (STScI)
What caused this outburst of V838 Mon? For reasons unknown, star V838 Mon's outer surface suddenly great... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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12 November 2012
Meteor and Moonbow over Wallaman Falls
Image Credit & Copyright: Thierry Legault
Which feature takes your breath away first in this encompassing panorama of land and sky? Th... |
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23 November 2012
The Pipe Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Yuri Beletsky (Las Campanas Observatory, Carnegie Institution for Science)
East of Antares, dark markings sprawl through crowded st... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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14 September 2012
Elliptical M60, Spiral NGC 4647
Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Giant elliptical galaxy M60 and spiral galaxy NGC 4647 do look like an odd couple in this s... |
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19 January 2013
Barnard Stares at NGC 2170
Image Credit & Copyright: John Davis
A gaze across a cosmic skyscape, this telescopic mosaic reveals the continuous beauty of things that are. The... |
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31 January 2013
NGC 4372 and the Dark Doodad
Image Credit & Copyright: Ivan Eder
The delightful Dark Doodad Nebula drifts through southern skies, a tantalizing target for binoculars in the c... |
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