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New Index Ranks Dark Night CommunitiesWashington DC (SPX) Jun 20, 2016 Astronomical observatories are increasingly at risk due to the fast encroaching growth of communities and the commensurate output of light at night illuminating roadways, shopping centers, sports parks and neighborhoods. In a report presented at the 228th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, held in San Diego, California, astrophysicist Dr. Eric R. Craine (STEM Laboratory, Tucson, AZ), and collaborators Dr. Brian L. Craine (Western Research Company, Tucson, AZ) and Dr. Roger B. Culver (Co ... read more |
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 Canyonlands National Park Named International Dark Sky Park The International Dark-Sky Association has granted Gold-Tier International Dark Sky Park status to Canyonlands National Park, an honor reserved for the darkest of dark skies and the most stunning of ... more | .. |
 IAU Signs Agreements for Five New Coordinating Offices of Astronomy The International Astronomical Union's (IAU) Office of Astronomy for Development (OAD) has established new coordinating offices in Armenia, Colombia, Jordan, Nigeria and Portugal. Supporting the use ... more | .. |
 Charting the slow death of the Universe The study, which is part of the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) project, the largest multi-wavelength survey ever put together, involved many of the world's most powerful telescopes [1]. "We u ... more | .. |
 Stars in Our Galaxy Move Far From Home When it comes to our galaxy, home is where the star is. Scientists with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) have created a new map of the Milky Way and determined that 30 percent of stars have drama ... more |
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 Stormy seas in Sagittarius Some of the most breathtaking views in the Universe are created by nebulae - hot, glowing clouds of gas. This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the centre of the Lagoon Nebula, an obje ... more | .. |
 Florida Tech lightning research deepens understanding of sprite formation A new study led by Florida Institute of Technology Professor Ningyu Liu has improved our understanding of a curious luminous phenomenon that happens 25 to 50 miles above thunderstorms. These s ... more | .. |
 Amazing Sunset Sky Show If you love stargazing, there's a date you need to mark on your calendar. It's June. That's right, the whole month! Throughout the month of June 2015, the two brightest planets in the night sky, Ven ... more | .. |
 Astronomers unveil the farthest galaxy An international team of astronomers led by Yale University and the University of California-Santa Cruz have pushed back the cosmic frontier of galaxy exploration to a time when the universe was onl ... more |
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 IAU Launches Cosmic Light programme Focused on limiting energy waste through the reduction of light pollution and highlighting the importance of the preservation of dark night skies, the International Astronomical Union today launches ... more | .. |
 Glitter Cloud May Serve as Space Mirror What does glitter have to do with finding stars and planets outside our solar system? Space telescopes may one day make use of glitter-like materials to help take images of new worlds, according to ... more | .. |
 ALMA Sees Einstein Ring in Stunning Image of Lensed Galaxy Astronomers have discovered that a distant galaxy - seen from Earth with the aid of a gravitational lens - appears like a cosmic ring, thanks to the highest resolution images ever taken with the Ata ... more | .. |
 Astronomers Upgrade Their Cosmic Light Bulbs The brilliant explosions of dead stars have been used for years to illuminate the far-flung reaches of our cosmos. The explosions, called Type Ia supernovae, allow astronomers to measure the distanc ... more |
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 Automation offers big solution to big data in astronomy It's almost a rite of passage in physics and astronomy. Scientists spend years scrounging up money to build a fantastic new instrument. Then, when the long-awaited device finally approaches completi ... more | .. |
 Far from home: Wayward cluster is both tiny and distant Like the lost little puppy that wanders too far from home, astronomers have found an unusually small and distant group of stars that seems oddly out of place. The cluster, made of only a handful of ... more | .. |
 CWRU astronomers find new details in first known spiral galaxy Case Western Reserve University astronomers peered deep into space to discover new features of a galaxy that's been sketched and photographed for 170 years. The researchers were able to see faint pl ... more | .. |
 The tell-tale signs of a galactic merger The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this striking view of spiral galaxy NGC 7714. This galaxy has drifted too close to another nearby galaxy and the dramatic interaction has twisted its ... more |
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 An Astro-archaeological find from the dawn of time Scientists led by University of Birmingham asteroseismologists have discovered a solar system with 5 Earth-sized planets dating back to the dawn of the Galaxy. Thanks to the NASA Kepler missio ... more | .. |
 A year on-station for Gaia Time flies when you're mapping a billion stars! One year ago, Gaia performed its last major orbit insertion burn and was stable at 'L2' ... more | .. |
 Map of Mysterious Molecules Sheds New Light on Century-old Puzzle By analyzing the light of hundreds of thousands of celestial objects, astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) have created a unique map of enigmatic molecules in our galaxy that are res ... more | .. |
 Machines Teach Astronomers About Stars Astronomers are enlisting the help of machines to sort through thousands of stars in our galaxy and learn their sizes, compositions and other basic traits. The research is part of the growing field ... more |
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 A New, Public View of the Sky For the first time, scientists and the public are beginning to see the large-scale structure of the universe, thanks to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. UA scientists provide scientific expertise and c ... more | .. |
SDSS: Sloan Survey Opens New Public View of the Sky Today, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) issues its latest public data release, the final release of the third epoch of the survey (SDSS-III). Weighing in at more than 100 terabytes, "Data Release ... more | .. |
 Horsehead of a Different Color Sometimes a horse of a different color hardly seems to be a horse at all, as, for example, in this newly released image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The famous Horsehead nebula makes a ghost ... more | .. |
 Week of excitement (meteors and moons) for sky-watchers This week is jam-packed with sky-gazing events - moons disappearing, meteors sparkling and comets whizzing. ... more |
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