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We Are Made of Stardust

February 3, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter This brief quote by the late Carl Sagan is wonderfully illustrated in the beautiful and poignant short film “Stardust,” directed by Mischa Rozema of Amsterdam-based media company PostPanic. Using actual images from space exploration as well as CGI modeling, Stardust reminds [...]

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Help Astronomers Collect Venus Transit Data!

May 31, 2012

During June 5th/6th 2012, Venus will be transiting the Sun, where it will make a rare appearance as a small dot moving across the face of the Sun. Astronomers around the world are planning observations, and one team is traveling to Easter Island in an attempt to reproduce the measurements first made/proposed by Edmund Halley [...]

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ESA: Unveiling Venus

May 24, 2012

With Venus about to get its day in the Sun — very much literally — the European Space Agency has assembled an excellent video about our planetary neighbor. Watch the video below:  Remove this ad

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Transit of Europa by David Billington

January 29, 2012

David Billington captured this image of the transit of Jupiter’s moon Europa, 10:20PM on November 4, 2011 at St. Agnes, Cornwall, UK. Europa is the smallest of the four Galilean moons of Jupiter. Together with Io, Ganymede, and Callisto, Europa was discovered by Galileo Galilei in January 1610. David used a US Orion 12inch Dobsonian [...]

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Transiting

December 4, 2010

Transiting, more commonly called an astronomical transit, has three meanings: 1. the event that occurs when one celestial body appears to move across the face of another celestial body, as seen from a particular vantage point, 2. occurs when a celestial body crosses the meridian due to the Earth’s rotation, about halfway between rising and [...]

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