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Showing posts with label moon and stars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label moon and stars. Show all posts
Saturday, 25 June 2016

Just because it is beautiful...........(11)

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Part of the constellation Cygnus (The Swan) where a new star is forming
Tuesday, 19 April 2016

Australia Autumn 2016: The Emu in the Sky

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The Emu in the Sky CSIRO Australian Aboriginal Astronomy Map of Australian sky in April here .
Saturday, 8 June 2013

The Stars Sing the Blues

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Image from Stellar Planet A hat tip to @upjulie for finding this website where x-ray signals from the stars are turned into music...
Tuesday, 15 January 2013

Yet another good reason to be thankful I live in Australia and not America - no inchoate death star cult

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  At the time of writing this post these two petitions accepted by the U.S. White House had a combined total of 6,844 signatures: we...
Thursday, 15 November 2012

Exraterrestrial life on the horizon? Don't pick up the phone to ET!

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  A little light-hearted entertainment from the BBC:   The   BBC 's star science presenter   Brian Cox   thought he might hav...
Sunday, 21 October 2012

NASA livestreams the 2012 Orionid meteor shower

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Streaming live video by Ustream http://www.nasa.gov/connect/chat/orionids2012.html
Saturday, 28 July 2012

Heavenly lights

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View from the ISS at Night from Knate Myers on Vimeo .
Wednesday, 6 June 2012

Transit of Venus: I saw'd it, I saw'd it!

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Transit of Venus on 6 June 2012, University of Sydney Physics Society (Photo: Terry Cuttle) Using the tools of my childhood - two white car...

OMG! It's 2012 - let's announce a celestial tragedy expected in 4 billion years

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Presuming no possible knock-on effect from a collision between Andromeda and The Milky Way, NASA has blithely announced this event sche...
Thursday, 31 May 2012

A Special Event For Australia: Venus crosses the face of the Sun on 6 June 2012

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Transit of Venus 2004 from Google Images Scienceworks : On the 6th June, Venus will line up directly with the Sun and we'll get to s...
Wednesday, 23 May 2012

20.500 ways to feel the Earth move

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Click on image to enlarge Edge-on View of Near-Earth Asteroids New results from NASA's NEOWISE survey find that more potentially ha...
Saturday, 12 May 2012

Nostalgia as well as a perigee moon rising over Coffs Harbour this week

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http://youtu.be/WQtgVy-ggoQ A 'Supermoon' rose over Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia today, 5th May 2012 and even thoug...
Saturday, 11 February 2012

Celestial art

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Click on photograph to enlarge Then click again for full resolution Carina Nebula Milky Way :  Star Formation Distance: 7500 light years ...
Saturday, 19 November 2011

Starry, starry night

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The Giant Nebula, NGC 3603 Thousands of sparkling young stars nestled within the giant nebula NGC 3603. This stellar "jewel box" ...
Wednesday, 5 October 2011

Southern Ocean Sky 2011

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Ocean Sky from Alex Cherney on Vimeo
Tuesday, 21 June 2011

Out of this world eye candy

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An unnamed green nebula courtesy of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
Friday, 17 June 2011

Another non-event on the night

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It is almost a certainty that if a spectacular night-time celestial event is about to take place (be it comet, meteor shower or total lunar ...
Thursday, 16 June 2011

Google live feed of 15-16 June 2011 lunar eclipse on now

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http://youtu.be/UgUieQsR4YI
Thursday, 5 May 2011

Eta Aquarids due to cross Australian sky around 4am on 6 May 2011

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According to Meteors Online ; This represents the view from mid-southern latitudes at about 4:00 a.m. local time around May 6. The graphic d...
Sunday, 20 March 2011

How small we are......

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NASA video taken of the Sun on February 24, 2011: large prominence erupting from the surface. The dramatic explosion was captured in ultravi...