Items tagged with sky

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Meteor Explodes Over the Netherlands Saturday, October 17th, 2009 - 10:05:01 - Anuradha Menon When amateur photographer Robert Mikaelyan went out to snap an old Dutch sugar factory on Tuesday, he captured a rare treat: a huge exploding... read more

Monsters of the Skies: Giant NZ Eagles Thursday, October 1st, 2009 - 12:19:51 - Anuradha Menon Recently, researchers concluded that a huge eagle that once haunted New Zealand's forests was a fierce predator that may have hunted humans – Anna... read more

Weird, Rare Clouds and Their Physics Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 - 12:26:52 - Anuradha Menon In August, we posted a photograph of some odd, rare clouds known as Morning Glory clouds without providing an explanation for how they form. In... read more

Earth's Clearest Skies Revealed Sunday, June 7th, 2009 - 19:38:56 - Ehud Rattner Possibly the clearest skies on Earth have been found - but to exploit them, astronomers will have to set up a telescope in one of the planet's... read more

Sky Puts Content on Xbox Console Sunday, May 31st, 2009 - 09:40:17 - Ehud Rattner British broadcaster Sky has struck a deal with Microsoft that will see live football, TV and film content brought to the Xbox 360. The deal marks the... read more

Twilight Sky Show On Sunday Saturday, April 25th, 2009 - 10:02:17 - Anuradha Menon On Sunday evening, April 26, the crescent Moon, Mercury and the Pleiades star cluster will gather for a three-way conjunction in the western sky... read more

Breakthrough Unlocks Secret Of Plasmas Sunday, November 23rd, 2008 - 16:02:41 - Iddo Genuth University of British Columbia researchers have developed a technique that brings scientists a big step closer to unlocking the secrets of the most... read more

Ambitious Architects Reach For The Sky Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 - 18:58:51 - Anuradha Menon There is to be a revolution in Paris -- plans for a 50-storey building have been given the green light, which will make it the first skyscraper to be... read more

BOSS to Measure Dark Energy With Quasars Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 - 18:45:32 - Anuradha Menon The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) uses a 2.5-meter telescope with a wider field of view than any other large telescope, located on a mountaintop in... read more

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