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#AAS217 Monday Tweetup
[](http://oldblog.atomic-temporary-53335355.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/5340458067512cdbd8d7b.jpg) Monday (used to be Tuesday but it changed)â¦
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British Isles at Night
Wow! Another astonishing image from the ISS - this time we get to see the British Isles (The UK, Ireland and Channel Islands) at night.â¦
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Partial Solar Eclipse
This morning (UK time) there was a partial eclipse of the Sun visible from many parts of the Earth. From the UK, the eclipse was already underway by the timeâ¦
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Danger: Risk of Death
A recent episode of the excellent More or Less podcast featured a discussion of the âmicromortâ, a unit expressing a one-in-a-million chance of dying. You canâ¦
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Graphene Nobel for Manchester
Andre Geim, an Ig Nobel laureate and physicist working at the University of Manchester has been jointly awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in physics. He is joinedâ¦
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Io in True Colour
Yesterdays APOD was a beautiful image of Io as the human eye would see it. We are so used to seeing false-colour images from spacecraft that it is easy toâ¦
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Massive Solar Storm Heading for Earth
On Sunday, a giant burst of plasma was ejected from the Sun and is heading right for us. The ejected material is expected to collide with the Earthâsâ¦
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 = 100
In the run up to my viva last week I became obsessed with a game I played a few years ago whilst at a summer school in Switzerland. Viva revision is somewhatâ¦
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Orion and Perseus Seen by Planck
New images from Planck, ESAâs cosmological space observatory, show star formation in Orion and Perseus. These lovely images show cold prestellar cores about toâ¦
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Galaxy Zoo: Hubble
The Galaxy Zoo project has evolved once again. Galaxy Zoo: Hubble is the new incarnation of the Zooniverseâs fantastic citizen science project. The latestâ¦
