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Sunday, September 28th, 2014
Recently, I found this article on the history of measuring distances to the stars. Accurately measuring the distances to closeby stars allows astronomers to further calibrate their models of stars. This branch of astronomy is known as astrometry.
In august of this year, this topic got a bit more interesting with ...
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Thursday, August 28th, 2014
A recent measurement, made using radio telescopes, has resulted in a new determination of the distance to The Pleaides. The Pleiades, also know as M45, is a fairly close by open cluster. Its close enough such that the distance to it's stellar members can be measured with different methods. So, ...
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Friday, August 8th, 2014
Our Sun continues to brighten our days and that is a really good thing. It has a characteristic cycle of activity that repeats every 11 years. But it gets a little "moody" now and then, not quite behaving as normal. NASA had a recent article on the mysterious state of ...
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Wednesday, October 9th, 2013
Comet ISON is in the news more and more over the last few weeks. ISON is barely visible near Mars in the morning before sunrise. It's 11 magnitude at this writing but destined to brighten up and possibly put on quite a show in the next month or so.
The SpaceWeather.com ...
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Wednesday, September 4th, 2013
Welcome to today’s S.V.P. Star News! Today's topic, Subaru!
I am sure you will like this little sky tidbit, especially as we get into the Autumn, when this object is becoming visible again. The Pleiades (also known in Japan as Subaru) is coming up in the east and getting ...
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