Astronomy
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.Gallery of posts up to 12-29-2008
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Gallery of posts up to 12-29-2008
Cool overhead light teaches kids astronomy
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Kids love science and astronomy. Don’t think they don’t. So why not give them a leg up (or should I say head up) and get them this cool overhead light that also teaches your kid about the solar system and planetary rotation?
Starting Friday with a gadget matrix
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Gallery of posts up to 11-14-2008
Remote Control Astronomy with the RAPTOR Telescope
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This next article is for those who are “scopers” and understand the painstaking work required to map out stars, chart the skies, and all the other unsung work that comes with astronomy.
Apparently, some of the work that most astronomers did before can all be done via automation and remote control! At least [...]
Raytheon puts phasers on stun …
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Defense missile contractor Raytheon has developed a ray gun … sort of. Called a “less than lethal directed energy application,” (or LLDEA for you military anagram geeks) the “Silent Guardian” causes an instinctive flight response in it’s intended victims by a focused “millimeter-wave” beam of energy that produces intense pain. And since it [...]
The Meade MySky: exploring strange new worlds is the “aim”
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It may look like a phaser (well, only vaguely), but it’s the coolest stargazing aid to come out this year. The Meade MySky allows you to explore the heavens simply with a point and shoot. It’s database comes with 30,000 objects in the night sky and also can show cool multimedia astronomy presentations. [...]
Google Earth Flies through the heavens and the earth … almost literally
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Usually when a headline starts with the word “Google,” the first thought was – they must be stopped! But not this time. Recently, Google Earth announced it was great for not only mapping the earth, but the heavens as well.
Google Sky is an add-on for their very popular Google Earth software [...]
The HomeStar planetarium
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When I was a young lad I developed an interest in astronomy. The problem was I lived in Salford in the UK and it was always either raining or the skies were too cloudy at night to actually see the constellations reliably – so I took up model aeroplane building instead.
If only one of these [...]
