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Telescope Reviews: Viewing forum: IYA 2009 in the USA

International Year of Astronomy 2009 forum

Tags: IYA, forum, science, astronomy, telescope, education, learning on 2008-10-08 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Stellarium

Stellarium is planetarium software that shows exactly what you see when you look up at the stars. It's easy to use, and free.

Tags: astronomy, science, software, opensource, planetarium, space on 2008-09-13 and saved by165 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Undertanding meteor showers: The Pleiades, the Perseid and more - by Rex Trulove - Helium

This describes the more constant meteor showers, including Pleiades and Perseid meteor showers.

A meteor shower is when the Earth passes through a field of debris, which burns up in the atmosphere, creating the familiar shooting stars.

Tags: meteor, meteorite, Pleiades, Perseid, Astronomy, Milky, Way, night sky, science, helium.com, beautiful on 2008-08-09 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Solar System Visualizer

Tags: visualizer, astronomy, solar, system, planets on 2008-06-29 and saved by8 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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SPACE.com -- Supernova Birth Observed for First Time

Alicia Soderberg was on hand to witness the death of a star and the birth of a supernova; what was unexpected was the 5 minute Xray burst that occurred at the moment of the initial explosion

Tags: life cycle, space.com, supernova, Xray, star, astronomy, science on 2008-05-26 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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SPACE.com -- Four New Teams Join Moon Rover Race

new teams from around Earth join others in the race to build the best Moon Rover

Tags: Moon Rover, space.com, Moon, team, competition, science, astronomy on 2008-05-26 -All Annotations (0) -About

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NASA - Phoenix Images

thanks to @MarsPhoenix on Twitter for information on raw images from Phoenix; it has landed and is beginning send back pictures;D WOOHOO!

Tags: first raw images, Phoenix, Mars, landing, nasa, science, astronomy on 2008-05-26 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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WorldWide Telescope

Not a real time telescope application, but would be helpful; Visualization software from Microsoft; free; helps your computer simulate a telescope; is a mashup of various telescopes around the world; recommended by colleague Jenny Luca

Tags: virtual telescope, telescope, Microsoft, free, visualization, software, astronomy, lucacept on 2008-05-20 and saved by9 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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39th LPSC Main Page

Lunar and Planetary Science Conference

Tags: conference, lunar, planetary, NASA, astronomy on 2008-03-11 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Earth and Moon Viewer

Earth Science and Social Studies teachers will love this website; look at various parts of Earth from various vantage points under various conditions, such as cloud cover, night, and day. There is some software that can be downloaded; Windows, BUT most wo

Tags: astronomy, reference, Calendar, EarthScience, clock, cool, generator, Earth, images, kids, learning, lesson, map, maps, photos, visualization, travel, Space, software, science, school, satellite, resources, resource, for:brittgow, for:rashkath on 2008-03-06 and saved by16 people -All Annotations (0) -About