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Posted by admin on April 12, 2011
Today is the 50th anniversary of one of the most important events in human history: the day when a human being left the confines of Earth and entered space. On this date, April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin was the first such person. It took him just 108 minutes to orbit Earth and he returned as [...]
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Tags: anniversary, exploration, First Orbit, manned, space, Space Station, video, Vostok 1, Yuri Gagarin
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Posted by admin on January 30, 2011
CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission) by recent decision let very few corporations, who owns all telecom in Canada to practically get rid of their smaller competitors, who offered better services, and put draconian tariffs on internet usage. Until now Canadians were enjoying unlimited broadband internet at reasonable price offered by smaller internet providers or [...]
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| Tags: CRTC, Internet, UBB
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Posted by admin on January 27, 2011
From NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope press release: Astronomers have pushed the Hubble Space Telescope to its limits by finding what they believe is the most distant object ever seen in the universe. Its light traveled 13.2 billion years to reach Hubble. The dim object is a compact galaxy (UDFj-39546284) of blue stars that existed 480 [...]
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| Tags: Big Bang, galaxy, HST, Hubble, HUDF, infrared, NASA, Universe
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Posted by admin on January 26, 2011
The news about so-called space ships found by SETI shaking internet community for more than a month now (though origin of the news I found on some blogs and youtube video are more than a year old). There was several debunking articles from respective authors, but the rumor still around and time to time we [...]
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| Tags: 2012, debunk, DSS2, image artifact, rumor, SETI, spaceship
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Posted by admin on December 4, 2010
As I mentioned in previous post our site flooded with visitors looking for space ships on the sky map. The majority of traffic is coming from Russia and Eastern Europe. I found several news site posted the news about some SETI officials pointed on some images of space ships on sky map. I tried to [...]
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| Tags: conspiracy, DSS2, news, SETI, spaceship, UFO, video
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Posted by admin on December 4, 2010
For the last three weeks the SkyMap has been flooded with visitors looking for “flying saucers”. The source is the news bouncing from blog to blog and lately carried by larger media sites about some mysterious space ships detected by SETI. Here’s one of the iteration of the news: 3 very large object flying to [...]
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| Tags: aliens, artifact, DSS, image processing, news, sky survey, space ship, UFO
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Posted by admin on September 30, 2010
Astronomers have announced the discovery of a planet with about three times the Earth’s mass orbiting the nearby red dwarf star Gliese 581. That in itself is cool news; a planet like that is very hard to detect. But the amazing thing is that the planet’s distance from the star puts it in the Goldilocks [...]
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| Tags: discovery, exoplanet, Gliese 581
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Posted by admin on May 3, 2010
WikiSky was chosen as web site of the week by Voice of America. Here’s the link on article and audio podcast: http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/science-technology/website-of-the-week/Website-of-the-Week—Wikisky-91916494.html ____________
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| Tags: news, publication
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Posted by admin on April 29, 2010
The SKY-MAP team is happy to introduce new interface we are working on right now called Astronomical Image Overlay. It allows (by adding single line of code to a page that show one or more astronomical images) to add new cool layer of other images overlapping same patch of the sky (drag mouse over the [...]
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| Tags: API, astronomy, AstroOverlay, astrophoto
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Posted by admin on November 6, 2009
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| Tags: galaxy, Hubble, images, M83, star formation, WFC3
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