Citizen Desktop Astronomy, Courtesy of Microsoft

David Brant a year ago Region: Washington

Microsoft Corporation and some of the United States' best observatories, universities, and planetariums have gotten together to put the cosmos at one's fingertips with a free program called the WorldWide Telescope.  ... more

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A History on Solar Eclipses

Oscar Trejo Jr a year ago Region: Michigan

          An eclipse of the sun is an awe-inspiring sight. It always begins on the suns western side and ends on it’s eastern side. At a total eclipse, the beautiful coron... more

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Hanny van Arkel Discovers Celestial Voorwerp at Galaxyzoo.com

Ground Report a year ago Region: Netherlands

Hanny van Arkel, a 25-year-old school teacher, discovered a new celestial body while classifying galaxies at the amateur astronomy site, galaxyzoo.com. The object she discovered is a ghostly looking green gas cloud, seen ... more

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Trinity of 'Super-Earths' Discovered Orbiting A Single Star

Can Tran a year ago Region: Chile

It was recently discovered that three planets close to Earth’s size in mass have been discovered orbiting one star. It is not that hard to put two and two together and say that the star is acting as the sun for those... more

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The End of the World?

Bozotheclown a year ago Region: California

The Egyptians called him Apep, while the Greek name for this demon is Apophis. Present day scientists have thus chosen to call a wayward and menacing celestial body Apophis. To the layman the object of awe and wo... more

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