John Markoff wrote: Several years ago the artificial-intelligence pioneer Raymond Kurzweil took the idea one step further in his 2005 book, “The...

Hi Guys, I'm new here and I bet this question has been raised many times but is this Planet Nibiru real or not? Thanks.

uksa I've setup a website with the aim of raising £100 for the victims of the tsunami in SE Asia. Please try to help in any way you...

Hi all, Here are a couple of sequences from the lunar occultation of Saturn that occurred on the 22nd May 2007. The reappearance sequence is a composite of a...

Could someone please tell me where on the Internet is the best place to discuss images seen on Galaxy...

Get the latest 3D visualizations of moon's Mauro Frau highlands, created with latest computer graphics technologies by our digital animator s and 3D artist s...

Hi all, About recent group discussion on open clusters I suggest to visit, for people eventually interested in photometric studies of this kind of objects,...

Try http://www.dpreview.com/news/0502/05021405canoneos20da.asp for details of Canon's new astro/ IR camera eg 20Da where the IR block filter is removed for...

Hi Folks; Here's a 3 hour clip of Io and Ganymede shadows racing across Jupiter and the emergence of Europa from Jupiter's shadow taken Last Saturday. They...

The latest locale to join Toronto and Raleigh in the LED City initiative is none other than the home of the Wolverines, which recently announced plans to...

Last weekend, South East Wales ( LLanbedr near Crickhowell). No visible sructure, but a distinct faint fuzzy patch. I didn't have a star chart to hand at the...

Hi, Am sure I am the last person in the world to find this, but I thought it was GREAT! http://skyandtelescope.com/observing/skychart/ Les.

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8 classical planets, three planets belonging to a new category called "plutons" and the largest asteroid Ceres. The IAU draft resolution is to recognises...

Hi all, here's available a new shot of the M13 Lens: Pentax SDUF II 400/4 + Sbig ST-10XME Exposu 10x300 seconds - filter: luminance Regards Danilo...

Hi folks, I've not posted in this group before and I'd just like to know if the partial solar eclipse on 3rd Oct will be visible from Cyprus. That's where my...

Ok, this is a silly, silly question (probably) but: what stops globulars from collapsing? Is it rotational forces? If so, does that imply that all the stars in...

**Astronomers update our galaxy's structure Teams of astronomers studying the Milky Way using infrared and radio waves presented an updated view of our...

Hi, NASA has released a new panorama of Mars, to celebrate the 1000th Sol of the Rover...

Bz is now strongly negative - and I can spot a strong glow even though we're deep in twilight (53N 7W)! Brian http://groups.yahoo.com/group/auroralobserving/