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Starmus spotlights planet Earth: This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher
Astronomy Magazine· 21 hours agoThis year's edition of the Starmus festival brought together scientists and musicians with a focus...
‘Dawn of astronomy’: Moon takes Earth selfie with radio waves
Interesting Engineering· 22 hours agoThe University of Colorado Boulder astrophysicist Jack Burns hailed this pivotal moment as the "dawn of radio astronomy from the Moon."
Interstellar Intruder: The Cosmic Event That Rewrote Earth’s Climate History
SciTechDaily· 1 day agoEarth was a very different place around two million years ago, with our early human ancestors living...
Hawaii telescope to play key role in mission to put artificial ‘star’ in orbit around Earth
Hawaii News Now· 9 hours agoThe mission encompasses placing an artificial “star” in orbit around Earth, much like a satellite....
Moon experiment could make signals from alien civilisations easier to spot
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 19 hours agoThe team used the accident to look back at Earth and record radio waves emanating from the planet...
New contest lets you name Earth's 1st 'quasi-moon' for free. Here's how to enter.
Live Science via Yahoo News· 4 days agoA new public competition will allow a lucky astronomy enthusiast to name one of Earth's tiny...
"Drastic changes" in interstellar space may have caused ice age
Newsweek· 19 hours agoEarth may have been exposed to interstellar clouds which may have changed the chemistry of the...
Interstellar Space Clouds Triggered the Ice Ages, Research Suggests
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 16 hours agoThe Pleistocene Epoch—with its glaciers, woolly mammoths, and Neanderthals—still looms large in ...
Sharp-eyed Telescope Tracks Satellites During Daylight
IEEE Spectrum· 21 hours agoDaytime astronomy: Amateur nighttime stargazers might wonder, what’s the point? This advance also...
Chile to install world’s largest astronomy camera on the edge of Atacama desert
WSAU Wausau· 6 days agoSANTIAGO (Reuters) - With a resolution above 3.2 gigapixels, a nearly three-ton weight and the ambitious task of carrying out an unprecedented decade-long exploration, the largest digital camera ...