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September 2011
David Mattison |
Searching for the Stars: Cosmic Views and Databases While amateur astronomers continue to play an important role in the field and are supported by numerous clubs, associations, and their peers, I have primarily examined resources originating from government and academic research environments.   |
Wired
June 23, 2008
Michael D. Lemonick |
Watching the Skies: Space Is Really Big -- But Not Too Big to Map The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will be the first telescope to take images of the entire. |
Geotimes
September 2007 |
Geomedia On the Web: Stellarium... Galaxy Zoo... |
Information Today
May 15, 2008 |
Microsoft Launches WorldWide Telescope WorldWide Telescope is a web application that brings together imagery from the best ground- and space-based observatories across the world to allow people to easily explore the night sky through their computers. |
Popular Mechanics
March 22, 2010
Cassie Rodenberg |
The Best in Armchair Astronomy Some online sites post images from powerful telescopes around the world; others let viewers take control of the scopes. |
InternetNews
August 23, 2007
Gene Hirschel |
For Google, Not Even The Sky is Off Limits The Google Earth Sky feature may keep us on Google Earth longer. |
Smithsonian
November 2005
Don Moser |
35 Who Made a Difference: John Dobson He is the father of sidewalk astronomy, the designer of a portable mount that supports his large, inexpensive telescopes, and, perhaps, astronomy's greatest cheerleader, and he has brought the farthest stars to the man on the street. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2008
Toby Jorrin |
New Earthbound Telescopes Will Be Hundreds of Times Sharper Than Hubble The $45 million array of telescopes will reveal enlightening details of stars and black holes. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2013
Rachel Courtland |
Gaia Telescope Will Map the Milky Way The European Space Agency project will change how astronomers view our galaxy |
Science News
May 6, 2000 |
A Hubble Decade To celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope's 10th anniversary, the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., has created a new Web site devoted to the Earth-orbiting telescope and its spectacular images.... |
Wired
November 2002
Richard Martin |
The Planet Seekers Giant ground-based telescopes and adaptive optics have brought a new age in astronomy. Now the field's brightest stars are racing to take the first photograph of another world. |
Smithsonian
October 2006
Robert Irion |
The Planet Hunters Never mind the demotion of Pluto to a dwarf planet. Astronomers have found about 200 planets orbiting other stars, and they say it's only a matter of time before they discover another Earth. |
Geotimes
July 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Jupiter's Junior Red Spot Jupiter's famed Great Red Spot has a new companion. |
Popular Mechanics
June 25, 2009
Lisa Merolla |
High-Tech Telescopes Yield New Galactic Photos: Gallery Space photos from advanced telescopes provide new views of the cosmos. |
Geotimes
May 2007
Carolyn Gramling |
Down to Earth with...Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell An interview with the astrophysicists who launched a Web site to share some of their favorite starry pictures with the world. Here they discuss finding images, detecting fakes and 2001: A Space Odyssey. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011
Amber Dance |
The Night Sky In his free time, biologist Fred Eiserling photographed faraway galaxies and nebulae measuring light-years across -- a hobby he continues to pursue today. |
Fast Company
September 2008
Robert Scoble |
Microsoft Worldwide Telescope vs. Google Sky How Microsoft and Google's battle for the stars illuminates their competing strategies for the future of tech and advertising. |
Macworld
February 28, 2005
Henry Bortman |
Starry Night 5.0 Astronomy program is difficult to master but reveals beautiful high-resolution images of many celestial objects. |
Popular Mechanics
January 23, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
The 5 Most Powerful Telescopes, and 5 That Will Define the Future of Astronomy Today's best telescopes are astounding feats -- and astronomers are improving them constantly. |
National Defense
February 2012
Eric Beidel |
DARPA Eyes Space Junk From the Ground The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, though, is wrapping up a demonstration with a new Space Surveillance Telescope that officials say will offer an unprecedented view of objects in space. |
Geotimes
October 2007 |
Hubble Sees Evolving Galaxies Researchers at the Space Telescope Science Institute recently compiled more than 500 images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to reveal a tapestry-style image of at least 50,000 galaxies in a small stretch of sky near the Big Dipper. |
Popular Mechanics
December 10, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
What NASA's WISE Space Mapper Will Look for in the Sky Hunting for brown dwarf stars, crashing galaxies, and asteroids. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2007
Mark Anderson |
Planet Hunters Wanted The rate of extrasolar planet discoveries could mount not by building new planet-finding telescopes or satellites, but by marshalling an army of amateur astronomers and enthusiasts along with their personal computers. |
The Motley Fool
August 23, 2007
Tim Beyers |
Quick Take: Google Caught Stargazing Looks like DoubleGoo really is the master of the universe. Put simply: Google Sky is smart altruism. But it's also very smart business. |
Science News
March 10, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
Mayan Mars Mayan astronomers developed their own model to describe the motion of Mars with uncanny accuracy. Anthropologists from the U.S. have recently described evidence supporting the Mayan model... |
Linux Journal
January 1, 2004
Tony Steidler-Dennison |
Linux, Talon and Astronomy A new open-source application lets professional and amateur astronomers explore space from their desktops. |
Fast Company
October 2004
Charles Leadbeater |
Amateur Revolution From astronomy to rap to computing, networks of amateurs are displacing the pros and spawning some of the greatest innovations. And they will help reshape society in the next two decades. |
Popular Mechanics
May 15, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
The Future of 5 Telescopes in Space This week has been an active one for earthlings' quest to understand the universe. Here is the big news on five telescopes in the sky. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2006
Monte Ross |
The New Search for E.T. If extraterrestrials are trying to communicate with us, they're probably using lasers, not radio waves. |
Popular Mechanics
January 7, 2010
Adam Hadhazy |
Kepler's Hunt for Earths Shows Progress at Space Conference Scientists for NASA's exoplanet-hunting Kepler mission report that the orbiting space telescope has nabbed five new worlds, the first several of many that astronomers hope it will eventually discover. |
Science News
July 14, 2007 |
Science Safari: Help Spot Galaxies Astronomers have launched a site this week recruiting the public to help identify spiral galaxies on sky photos. |
Science News
April 1, 2006 |
From the March 28, 1936, issue Thaw-saturated earth forced Eastern rivers to overflow... Gigantic stellar explosion great event of astronomy... Three new planetary nebulae discovered in Milky Way... |
Geotimes
July 2005
Megan Sever |
Making a Public Impact What the public observes or, better yet, captures on film both during the Deep Impact comet collision and in the weeks before and after, could prove useful to the team of NASA scientists trying to understand the comet and the effects of the impact. |
Industrial Physicist
Kevin B. Marvel |
Societies The American Astronomical Society is a nonprofit scientific society that promotes the vitality and advancement of astronomy and related sciences through meetings, publications, education, employment services, public-policy work, and grants and prizes. |
| AskMen.com |
Bombing The Moon NASA will throw a one-two punch at the big old moon Friday and the whole world will have ringside seats for the lunar dust-up. |
Popular Mechanics
October 9, 2008
Karen Fox |
How To Build a Dobsonian Telescope: DIY Astronomy Project The actual construction took a weekend, and it would be a great project to tackle with kids. |
Science News
September 30, 2006 |
Timeline: From the September 26, 1936, Issue Fall Showers Bring Forth September Mushrooms... "Coldest" Star in Universe Found by Chicago Astronomer... Trichinosis 10 Times as Common as Has Been Supposed... |
Scientific American
August 2005
W. Wayt Gibbs |
Cosmic CAT Scan A low-tech radio telescope under construction in western China will use thousands of consumer television antennas and hundreds of cheap personal computers to slice through the fog that shrouded the infant universe. |
Science News
May 23, 2009
David H. DeVorkin |
Enjoy The Indelible Experience Of Emulating Galileo As a reader of Science News, you don't have to be told to go outside some night and look through a telescope at Mars, Saturn or the moon. |
