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Across the Universe From Nuwan Diwakara: July 2009
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Across the Universe From Nuwan Diwakara. Return of the Mars Hoax. Wednesday, July 29, 2009 Mars. Just when you thought it was safe to check your email. For the sixth year in a row, a message about the Red Planet is popping up in email boxes around the world. It instructs readers to go outside after dark on August 27th and behold the sky. "Mars will look as large as the full moon," it says. "No one alive today will ever see this again.". Only in Photoshop does Mars appear as large as a full Moon. Tolerant...
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Across the Universe From Nuwan Diwakara: January 2010
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Across the Universe From Nuwan Diwakara. IYA 2009 Comes to a Close. Sunday, January 17, 2010 3 comments. An unprecedented yearlong celestial celebration —the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009) — officially came to a close on January 9th and 10th in Padua, Italy. The recurring theme of the event, however, was that the groundbreaking year was just a beginning of increased outreach and education activities. Lee Pullen / IYA2009 / IAU. Lee Pullen / IYA2009 / IAU. Noting that the increased coopera...
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Across the Universe From Nuwan Diwakara: October 2010
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Across the Universe From Nuwan Diwakara. Thursday, October 28, 2010 Moon. A pair of NASA spacecraft that were supposed to be dead a year ago are instead flying to the Moon for a breakthrough mission in lunar orbit. Their real names are THEMIS P1 and P2, but I call them 'dead spacecraft walking,'" says Vassilis Angelopoulos of UCLA, principal investigator of the THEMIS mission. "Not so long ago, we thought they were goners. Now they are beginning a whole new adventure.". The team brainstormed a solution&#...
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Across the Universe From Nuwan Diwakara: Dead Spacecraft Walking
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Across the Universe From Nuwan Diwakara. Thursday, October 28, 2010 Moon. A pair of NASA spacecraft that were supposed to be dead a year ago are instead flying to the Moon for a breakthrough mission in lunar orbit. Their real names are THEMIS P1 and P2, but I call them 'dead spacecraft walking,'" says Vassilis Angelopoulos of UCLA, principal investigator of the THEMIS mission. "Not so long ago, we thought they were goners. Now they are beginning a whole new adventure.". The team brainstormed a solution&#...
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Across the Universe From Nuwan Diwakara: August 2008
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Across the Universe From Nuwan Diwakara. Brightest Star in the Galaxy Has New Competition. Monday, August 25, 2008 5 comments. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Potsdam Univ. Peony nebula star The 'Peony nebula' star, circled, is now the second-brightest star in our galaxy. A contender for the title of brightest star in our Milky Way galaxy has been unearthed in the dusty metropolis of the galaxy's center. Infrared astronomy opens extraordinary views into the environment of the central region of our galaxy,...
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Insight Science World: สิงหาคม 2007
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วันศุกร์ที่ 31 สิงหาคม พ.ศ. 2550. How Can You Make Your Large Salt Water Fish Tank Be An Ocean Like Environment. If you have been thinking that the business sector is only focused on how they would be able to keep their sales up and going strong, then you are dead wrong. This important sector in our society is also trying to deviate from the business side of things and is finding ways so as to help ordinary citizens and consumers in their common problems. Jenny McLane is a 36 year old native of Iowa and ...
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Photography Guides Digital Camera and Video Bestsellers. With An Antique Telescope Will You Have To View. Read more on With An Antique Telescope Will You Have To View…. A Look Into The Cosmos: How Telescopes Work. Read more on A Look Into The Cosmos: How Telescopes Work…. Why Astronomical Binoculars Are Becoming Popular Over Telescopes. Read more on Why Astronomical Binoculars Are Becoming Popular Over Telescopes…. Read more on Mirror Telescopes…. What are Telescopes and its Benefit? Antique military tel...
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Across the Universe From Nuwan Diwakara: The 10-year-old who helped Apollo 11, 40 years later
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Across the Universe From Nuwan Diwakara. The 10-year-old who helped Apollo 11, 40 years later. Sunday, July 26, 2009 Space Science. On July 23, 1969, as Apollo 11 hurtled back towards Earth, there was a problem - a problem only a kid could solve. At age 10, Greg Force reaches his arm into a tiny hole to fix an antenna crucial to Apollo 11. It sounds like something out of a movie, but that's what it came down to as Apollo 11 sped back towards Earth after landing on the moon in 1969. To properly replace th...