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With Love from Universe Today

February 14, 2012

Here’s an image from the Mars Global Surveyor that looks like a box of chocolates, with different shaped landforms, including a heart-shaped one. We’d like to take this opportunity on Valentine’s Day to express our love and appreciation to our readers, for allowing us to share the latest in space and astronomy news with you. [...]

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Observing Alert: Bright Spot On Uranus Reported

October 28, 2011

There’s nothing like a dynamic solar system… and right now another planet is being heard from. According to various sources, a bright spot – possibly a developing storm – has been spotted on Uranus.

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Sky & Telescope Magazine Editor Emeritus, Leif J. Robinson, Passes Away,

February 28, 2011

For those of us who have dreamed over the stars for years while reading Sky & Telescope magazine, we respectfully remember Leif J. Robinson, who served for 20 years as Editor in Chief. He passed away Sunday at the age of 71 at his home in Costa Rica.

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The Votes Are In: Top 10 Stories of 2010

December 29, 2010

2010 was packed with interesting, exciting and breakthrough events and discoveries. We asked you to vote on the top 10 stories of the year, and below are the results. Some of you asked how we chose the 17 news stories to pick from and perhaps thought we missed out on some rather important astronomical discoveries [...]

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Vote for the Top 10 Stories on Universe Today in 2010

December 20, 2010

Vote for your favorite news stories of 2010 on Universe Today! Below is a survey of 17 news topics that we published this past year (some are single articles, some are a combination of articles, such as the X-37B space plane, which includes prelaunch, launch, on-orbit and landing articles.) The stories were chosen based on [...]

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SETI Chile Interview

July 6, 2010

ENGLISH PROMO BOINC SETI from BOINC SETI CHILE on Vimeo. Working on the internet provides the opportunity to meet people from all around the world, and I’ve gotten acquainted with Lourdes Cahuich, an astronomy and science enthusiast and translator from Mexico and Tiare Rivera from Chile, who is the editor of the SETI Chile website. [...]

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Anne is a Jolly Good Fellow!

May 28, 2009

Congrats to our very own Anne Minard who has been named one of five Ted Scripps Fellows in Environmental Journalism! Anne will be moving to Colorado to attend a nine-month academic program for professional journalists at the University of Colorado – Boulder. The Fellowship immerses journalists in classes and research about environmental issues to help [...]

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Australian Wildfire Update

February 9, 2009

As Nancy reported on February 8th, the wild fires in Australia were not only serious, but out-of-control. While we had a look at satellite imagery, there’s nothing scarier than having it hit close to home and friends… Our friends at Southern Galactic.

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Finally, Some Help

May 6, 2008

As you’ve probably noticed, Universe Today has gotten in influx of talented writers to pitch in around here. Tammy Plotner, of course, has been working with me for years, and so have Nancy Atkinson and Mark Mortimer. Ian O’Neill and Nick Wethington are newer contributors, but have definitely proven to be great additions to the [...]

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No Images in the Newsletter or RSS

June 14, 2006

Hi everyone, I just wanted to let you all know that I’m aware that images aren’t showing up in the RSS feed or the email newsletter. I’ve changed my publishing system to a program called WordPress. It’s a huge timesaver, but I’m still working to make it match all the features of the old design. [...]

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