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Opening an Infrared Window
UKIRT, the UK InfraRed Telescope which sits on Mauna Kea in Hawaii, has recently released a set of data from the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS). Forâ¦
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Bad Astronomered
A quick glance at my blog statistics reveals that I was the recipient of a spike in traffic last Friday (see graphic). Sites used to have trouble when they gotâ¦
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Blog Upgrades
I have been busy updating, tweaking and repairing Orbiting Frog over the past few days. It is almost done now. Sorry if anyone has arrived to find crazy linesâ¦
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Largest Diamond Found in Space
A 10 billion trillion trillion carat core of a dead star is apparently being called the largest diamond of all time. read more | digg story
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Save Patrick Moore's Typewriter
I really donât know why I feel compelled to so something like this but, Patrick Mooreâs Woodstock typewriter is broken and no one knows how to fix it. Do anyâ¦
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The Stability of the Solar System
Yesterday’s Astrolunch talk was given by Prof. Mike Disney on the Stability of the Solar System. It was the first of two talks, and in of itself was very…
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Giant Cloud of Antimatter Explained
I always wondered where they get all the antimatter to power the starships in Star Trek. Maybe they get it from the centre of the galaxy. New results fromâ¦
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Mercury Rising
Today at 1904 GMT, the NASA spacecraft Messenger will make its first approach of Mercury, the inner-most planet of our solar system. This eveningâs approach isâ¦
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Virgin Galactic to Offer Cruise Through Aurora Borealis
Richard Branson has been busy thinking up new ways to get people excited about private space tourism, and he’s come up with something pretty spectacular. He’s…
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Is the Universe a Computer?
Over on the Cosmic Variance blog, there is a post covering the question of whether the Universe is a big computer, or as CV puts it, maybe its more like aâ¦
