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Right Under Our Eyes: Nibiru On Its Way?

... all the time. Right under our eyes. Since the days of Galileo we are aware of its existence. Initially it was mistaken for a star, ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Mar 27 2015 - 12:05am - 0 attachments

Ganymede: Inferring An Underground Ocean On Jupiter's Largest Moon

... in the 1970s, based on models of the large moon. NASA's Galileo mission measured Ganymede's magnetic field in 2002, providing the first evidence supporting those suspicions. The Galileo spacecraft took brief "snapshot" measurements of the magnetic field in ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 13 2015 - 8:52am - 0 attachments

2015's Triple Transit March Of The Moons

... satellites - named after the 17th century astronomer Galileo Galilei who discovered them among the  first observations ever ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 5 2015 - 4:26pm - 0 attachments

Happy 150th Birthday To Maxwell's Theory Of Electromagnetism

Time-dependent Maxwell's equations in media  By Robyn Arianrhod , Monash University It’s hard to imagine life without mobile phones, radio and television. Yet the discovery of the electromagnetic waves that underpin such te ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 26 2015 - 9:00am - 0 attachments

Why I Have The Right To Be Pissed Off By The Paris Terrorist Attack, And Maybe You Do Not

The terrorist attack of two days ago in Paris to the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo left most of us hit hard by the blow to freedom of the press and freedom of thought, which are among that core set of rights on which we have built our society and whic ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 9 2015 - 12:15pm - 0 attachments

Recipe For A New Earth: One Cup Silicon, 1/4 Tsp Sulfur, Dash Of Asteroid Water...

... instrument on the 3.6-meter Telescopio Nazionale Galileo in the Canary Islands. (HARPS stands for High-Accuracy Radial velocity ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 5 2015 - 6:38pm - 0 attachments

A Brief History Of Exo-Earths And The Search For Extraterrestrial Life

... was discovered relatively quickly in the years following Galileo’s use of an early telescope to observe the night sky. By the mid-19th ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 26 2014 - 4:30pm - 0 attachments

HIP 116454b Shows That Despite Malfunction, Kepler Can Still Find Planets

... the HARPS-North spectrograph on the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo in the Canary Islands. Additional transits were weakly detected by the ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 18 2014 - 11:47am - 0 attachments

History Made as 90,000 Earthlings Send Messages to Mars

... Fund Recipients include Astronomers Without Borders, The Galileo Teacher Training Program, SEDS, Allen Telescope Array, ...

Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Nov 29 2014 - 7:52am - 0 attachments

Can GPS Satellites Detect Dark Matter?

"Dark matter" is a blanket term for inferred matter that is undetected but must exist in order for gravity at very large scales to make any sense at all. Based on inference, 27 percent of the universe is generally acknowledged to be dark matter, eve ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 17 2014 - 4:01pm - 0 attachments