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On Asteroid Day, the realities of asteroid impact dangers
Tuesday, June 30, 2015 | by David Eicher
Over the past weeks, as Asteroid Day has approached, I’ve seen lots of talk one way or the other about the realities of danger from near-Earth asteroids.The real reality? On any given day, the danger is extremely low. Eventually, however, small...
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Before New Horizons, one telescope started it all
Friday, July 3, 2015 | by Kevin Schindler, Lowell Observatory
The history of Pluto exploration features a wide range of observational equipment, from complex to quite basic. The New Horizons spacecraft, for instance, features a suite of modern instruments that helps drive the mission cost up to $650 million. Th...
Join us for today's Asteroid Day activities
Tuesday, June 30, 2015 | by David Eicher
The day is finally here! Today, on the 107th anniversary of the Tunguska event, an explosion caused by an incoming asteroid or comet that flattened more than 2,000 square kilometers of forest in central Siberia, people around the world are participat...
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Lego Ninjas create Dual-head Teaching Telescope
Friday, April 10, 2015 | by Celestron
Looking to improve astronomy in the classroom, the Lego Ninjas submitted their prototype for a dual-head teaching telescope to the FLL Global Innovation competition. According to these students, the challenge teachers face with traditional telescopes...
SpaceX supply mission fails minutes after launch
Monday, June 29, 2015 | by Korey Haynes
On Sunday morning, SpaceX attempted what was to be the company's seventh resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS), only to have the unmanned vehicle break up just over two minutes after launch. The first six missions were successes f...
The Chicago astronomer and Astronomy magazine!
Wednesday, June 24, 2015 | by David Eicher
Joe Guzman, who is out there doing astronomy outreach all over the city of Chicago, well known as the Chicago Astronomer, sent me this last week:“The Chicago Astronomer Astro Club uses Astronomy magazine as part of our class lessons. We will co...
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Registration opens for Starmus, sign up today!
Wednesday, June 24, 2015 | by David Eicher
You can now register for next year’s Starmus Festival in the Canary Islands, the premier science festival in the world. Next year’s event will honor Stephen Hawking and will be titled “Beyond the Horizon: Tribute to Stephen Hawking....
Join me in signing the Asteroid Day declaration!
Wednesday, June 24, 2015 | by David Eicher
The first Asteroid Day is now six days away! Please join me in signing the 100x declaration. Help to expand our inventory of asteroids in the inner solar system by a factor of 100. Help to take care of Earth’s future! You can sign the declarati...
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Oh Pluto! You must see this video!
Tuesday, June 23, 2015 | by David Eicher
Kudos to Craig Werth and Christine Lavin for producing this song and great video! Now Pluto has its own song! (Please visit the site to view this video) Follow David J. Eicher on Twitter: www.twitter.com/deicherstar.
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Uwingu offers out-of-this-world Father's Day gift idea
Friday, June 19, 2015 | by Karri Ferron
Posted on behalf of the Uwingu team; Astronomy magazine is a proud partner of this effort to raise funding for space scienceNeed a last-minute present for dad? Space company Uwingu offers a great gift for Father’s Day with place names on its Ma...
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A closer look at PixInsight
Thursday, June 18, 2015 | by Michael Bakich
Image contributor Ron Brecher, whose great shots have appeared on this website as well as in Astronomy magazine, has sent in a guest blog that’s a review of a product he’s quite fond of. We don’t publish software reviews in the maga...
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Chris Eicher on Brett Favre, alchemy, and the magic of copper
Thursday, June 18, 2015 | by David Eicher
My son, Chris Eicher, is a journalism student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is starting a series of pro-science, anti-pseudoscience blogs, and I hope that you will read them and support him in his interest. We know that the world is aw...
10 Nobel Prize winners to participate in Starmus 3
Thursday, June 18, 2015 | by David Eicher
PRESS RELEASE• "Beyond the horizon – Tribute to Stephen Hawking" will be the theme of the third Starmus Festival, which will pay homage to the most famous British astrophysicist of all time and confirm the status of Starmus as the world...
Arsonist sets 9 spot fires near historic Lowell Observatory
Friday, June 12, 2015 | by Eric Betz
An unknown arsonist set nine spot fires within sight of Lowell Observatory on Wednesday and sent staff scrambling to put the blazes out with garden equipment, according to the Arizona Daily Sun in Flagstaff.The paper reports that the observatory&rsqu...
T minus 800 days until the eclipse
Friday, June 12, 2015 | by Michael Bakich
A few days ago I realized that today — June 12, 2015 — is a milestone of sorts: 800 days until the big event. Are you excited yet? Probably. What I mean by that is that you’re reading a blog dedicated to the August 21, 2017, total ...
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Latest "Real Reality Show"
Friday, June 12, 2015 | by David Eicher
The latest Real Reality Show episode is up and deals with the realities of dark matter. Check it out here.Enjoy! Follow David J. Eicher on Twitter: www.twitter.com/deicherstar.
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Rusty Schweickart's audio interview now online
Friday, June 12, 2015 | by David Eicher
I know all of you are familiar with the great Rusty Schweickart, Apollo 9 astronaut, planetary defense champion, and one of the great promoters of science education over the past generation. My audio interview with Rusty for the “Superstars of ...
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Venus meets Jupiter in the evening
Jupiter and Venus were closest the evening of June 30, but this photographer’s location had cloudy skies predicted for it. He chose to go out one day early and capture the two planets in a clear sky from the shore of Georgian Bay. (Canon 6D DSLR, Canon EF24–105mm f/4L IS USM lens set at 47mm and f/9, ISO 400, 3.2-second exposure, taken June 29, 2015, at 10:05 p.m. EDT, from Big Bay, Ontario, Canada)
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