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(PhysOrg.com) -- Astrophysicists at the University of Warwick and Kiel University have discovered two earth sized bodies with oxygen rich atmospheres - however there is a bit of a disappointing snag for anyone looking for a potential home for alien life, or even a future home for ourselves, as they are not planets but are actually two unusual white dwarf stars. http://www.physorg.com/news177258394.html Space & Earth Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:27:33 EST news177258394 British broadcaster Sky launched an iPhone application Tuesday which allows viewers to watch live TV on the move and is thought to be the first commercial TV service backed by the broadcaster itself. http://www.physorg.com/news177084355.html Technology Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:10:01 EST news177084355 (PhysOrg.com) -- Stars, the most familiar objects in the night sky, make up only a tiny percentage of the total amount of matter in the universe -- about 2%. http://www.physorg.com/news176122887.html Space & Earth Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:02:34 EST news176122887 (PhysOrg.com) -- Star clusters are among the most visually alluring and astrophysically fascinating objects in the sky. One of the most spectacular nestles deep in the southern skies near the Southern Cross in the constellation of Crux. http://www.physorg.com/news176014385.html Space & Earth Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:54:01 EST news176014385 (PhysOrg.com) -- The Orion Nebula is one of the most beautiful sights of the winter night sky, its gas and dust glowing from the intense ultraviolet radiation of a cluster of massive young stars. http://www.physorg.com/news175507575.html Space & Earth Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:07:12 EST news175507575 Earth is currently passing through a stream of debris from Halley's Comet, lighting up the night sky with the "fireworks" of the annual Orionids meteor shower. http://www.physorg.com/news175364339.html Space & Earth Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:19:37 EST news175364339 BOSS, the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, is the most ambitious attempt yet to map the expansion history of the Universe using the technique known as baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO). A part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III), BOSS achieved "first light" on the night of September 14-15, when it acquired data with an upgraded spectrographic system across the entire focal plane of the Sloan Foundation 2.5-meter telescope at Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico. http://www.physorg.com/news173626603.html Space & Earth Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:50:01 EST news173626603 (PhysOrg.com) -- As a society, we are increasingly interested in finding new ways of transportation that are cleaner for the environment. New concepts in mass transit seem to be one of the main ways to move toward this future. However, many people (especially in the U.S.) don't want to give up the privacy of individual travel. As a result, it might be that so-called "sky pods" may provide the answer. http://www.physorg.com/news172939296.html Technology Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:42:27 EST news172939296 (PhysOrg.com) -- The first of three images of ESO's GigaGalaxy Zoom project - a new magnificent 800-million-pixel panorama of the entire sky as seen from ESO's observing sites in Chile - has just been released online. The project allows stargazers to explore and experience the Universe as it is seen with the unaided eye from the darkest and best viewing locations in the world. http://www.physorg.com/news172144911.html Space & Earth Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:02:20 EST news172144911 (PhysOrg.com) -- A huge galaxy neighbouring our own Milky Way appears to have expanded by "digesting" smaller galaxies nearby, a new study has shown. http://www.physorg.com/news171121640.html Space & Earth Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:49:12 EST news171121640 IC348 is a glowing nebula of young stars, hot gas, and cold dust seen in the direction of the constellation of Perseus. It is the nearest rich cluster of young stars to earth, being only about one thousand light-years away. Its proximity has made it an important laboratory for astronomers probing the early stages of stellar evolution and star formation. At an estimated age of only two to three million years, it is also a somewhat young cluster; IC348 did not shine in the night sky of the first hominids. For comparison, our sun is about 4.5 billion years old. http://www.physorg.com/news170083835.html Space & Earth Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:32:28 EST news170083835 "We and the cosmos are one. The cosmos is a vast body, of which we are still parts. …It is a vital power rippling exquisitely through us all the time." D.H. Lawrence* http://www.physorg.com/news170000523.html Space & Earth Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:40:03 EST news170000523 Amateur astronomers across the UK are preparing to tweet the world`s first mass participation meteor star party, as part of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009). Led by Newbury Astronomical Society, the Twitter Meteorwatch will take place from the evening of Tuesday 11th until the morning of 13th August 2009, covering the peak of the Perseids meteor shower. http://www.physorg.com/news169136268.html Space & Earth Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:50:03 EST news169136268 (PhysOrg.com) -- Lunar eclipses are well-documented throughout human history. The rare and breathtaking phenomena, which occur when the moon passes into the Earth`s shadow and seemingly changes shape, color, or disappears from the night sky completely, caught the attention of poets, farmers, leaders, and scientists alike. http://www.physorg.com/news165512869.html Space & Earth Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:49:21 EST news165512869 The Whole Earth Telescope (WET), a worldwide network of observatories coordinated by the University of Delaware, is synchronizing its lenses to provide round-the-clock coverage of a cooling star. As the star dims in the twilight of its life, scientists hope it will shed light on the workings of our own planet and other mysteries of the galaxy. http://www.physorg.com/news161629628.html Space & Earth Fri, 15 May 2009 18:07:38 EST news161629628 The gamma-ray sky comes alive in a movie made from data acquired by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope during its first three months of operations. Gamma rays from sources near and far turn the sky into a hypnotic froth. The sun arcs serenely across the northern sky as active galaxies called blazars flare up and fade out. http://www.physorg.com/news159812078.html Space & Earth Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:15:44 EST news159812078 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from the University of Toronto and the University of British Columbia have helped unveil the birthplaces of ancient stars using a two-tonne telescope carried by a balloon the size of a 33-storey building. http://www.physorg.com/news158416076.html Space & Earth Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:28:31 EST news158416076 (PhysOrg.com) -- When cities turn off their lights for Earth Hour their occupants will get more than a warm and fuzzy green feeling, they will also see stars hundreds of trillions kilometres away lighting up a moonless night sky in all its glory. http://www.physorg.com/news156627581.html Space & Earth Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:41:41 EST news156627581 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new map combining nearly three months of data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is giving astronomers an unprecedented look at the high-energy cosmos. To Fermi's eyes, the universe is ablaze with gamma rays from sources ranging from within the solar system to galaxies billions of light-years away. http://www.physorg.com/news155994698.html Space & Earth Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:52:37 EST news155994698 (PhysOrg.com) -- The vast expanses of intergalactic space appear to be filled with a haze of tiny, smoke-like "dust" particles that dim the light from distant objects and subtly change their colors, according to a team of astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-II), including a researcher from the University of California, Davis. http://www.physorg.com/news154893222.html Space & Earth Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:54:42 EST news154893222 A new project, the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment, or APOGEE, will survey more than 100,000 Milky Way red giant stars -- bright, bloated stars in a late stage of their evolution. APOGEE will provide enormous new insight to the processes that make stars and that drive the formation and evolution of galaxies. http://www.physorg.com/news148573532.html Space & Earth Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:25:32 EST news148573532 (PhysOrg.com) -- Venus and Jupiter, the brightest planets in the sky, will steadily approach each other during November as if drawn by their mutual brillliance. Finally they will have a spectacular encounter low in the southwest at month's end, against the background of the constellation Sagittarius the Archer. http://www.physorg.com/news144952579.html Space & Earth Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:36:19 EST news144952579 (PhysOrg.com) -- Stunt pilots have raced against computer-generated opponents for the first time - in a contest that combines the real and the 'virtual' at 250 miles per hour. http://www.physorg.com/news143298579.html Technology Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:09:39 EST news143298579 The term "sky islands" sounds intriguing, but it may be more lyrical than useful when discussing mammal distributions, according to new research from Eric Waltari of the Sackler Institute of Comparative Genomics at the American Museum of Natural History and Robert Guralnick from the University of Colorado at Boulder. The team used an emerging technique, ecological niche modeling, to show that the populations of small mammals living on mountaintops in the Great Basin -on islands in the sky -are not as isolated as previously thought. http://www.physorg.com/news137853244.html Biology Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:34:04 EST news137853244 (PhysOrg.com) -- The annual Perseid meteor shower will peak before dawn on Aug. 12. This year the Perseids will be competing with the nearly full moon at first, but after the moon sets there will be many bright streaks in the sky. http://www.physorg.com/news136818826.html Space & Earth Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:13:46 EST news136818826 News Flash: On 4th of July weekend, NASA forecasts lights in the sky. No, not those lights. Look beyond the fireworks. Almost halfway up the western sky, just above the twilight glow of sunset, a trio of worlds is gathering: Saturn, Mars and the crescent Moon. http://www.physorg.com/news134223857.html Space & Earth Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:24:17 EST news134223857