Category Archives: Earth

Galilean Nights – The Galileo Experience | IYA2009 Updates …

On 22-24 October 2009, the International Year of Astronomy 2009 Cornerstone Project, Galilean Nights, will see amateur and professional astronomers , enthusiasts and the public taking to the streets all around the globe, pointing their telescopes to the wonders that … Highlighting the link between the Earth and our astronomical neighbourhood, entries to this category must show part of the surface of the Earth with one or more of the Galilean Objects in the sky above. … Continue reading

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Video: Our Dead Planet | The Daily Show | Comedy Central

While humans have been wasting time not polluting, Earth has been trying to kill us. Continue reading

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Astronomy.com – Discovered: First rocky planet outside our solar …

The confirmation of the nature of CoRoT-7b as the first rocky planet outside our solar system marks a significant step forward in the search for earth-like exoplanets. The detection by CoRoT (Convection ROtation and planetary Transits) … Continue reading

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Superhot Mega-Earth Discovered In Distant Solar System – Space – io9

At last scientists have confirmed that rocky planets like Earth and Mars exist outside our solar system . Until this week, we’ve only seen gas giants like Jupiter orbiting distant stars Continue reading

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First solid evidence for a rocky exoplanet (9/18/2009)

HARPS delivered, allowing the astronomers to tease out the 20.4-hour signal in the data. This figure led them to infer that CoRoT-7b has a mass of about five Earth masses, placing it in rare company as one of the lightest exoplanets yet … Continue reading

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Cores of Earth, Uranus and Saturn – Bad Astronomy and Universe …

It is somewhat obvious that the pressure at the core of a heavenly body depends on its surface gravity and is proportional to the square of surface. Continue reading

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Tonight | EarthSky

Today, the Earth passes between the sun and the planet Uranus at 5 a.m. Central Daylight Time. This places Uranus opposite the sun in Earth’s sky, and so this distant world will be out from sundown to sunup tonight Continue reading

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Earth hunting… – Bad Astronomy and Universe Today Forum

More and more, astronomers find subtle techniques to search for extrasolar Earths. Continue reading

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Hennepin County Library – bookspace – Comment: Astronomy [compact …

home > bookspace > my comments > comment: astronomy [compact disc] : earth , sky, and planets /. Share your comments. Continue reading

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Earth From Space: Plankton Bloom – Bad Astronomy and Universe …

What a gorgeous shot of our blue planet! This Envisat satellite image taken on August 19, 2009 captures a plankton bloom larger than the country of. Continue reading

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