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THE NEW YORK SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: Published Weekly at 128 Fulton Street, (Sun Building,) New York. BY MUNN & COMPANY. RUFUS PORTER, EDITOR. TERMS.–$2 a year–$1 in advance, and the remainder in 6 months. The Science of Astronomy. DESCRIPTIVE ASTRONOMY. Mercury, the nearest planet to the sun, is a globe of about 3140 miles in diameter, …

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Brought to you by:  Hermanus Times 01/10/2009 02:01 PM – (SA) South Africa and more particularly, the HMO (Hermanus Magnetic Observatory) have been engaged in an exciting space technology programme which resulted in the launch of the second SA satellite, Sumbandilasat, on 17 September from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Russia. This satellite was designed and built …

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30 September 2009 by Stuart Clark Dark matter is either weirder than we thought or does not exist at all, a new study suggests. A galaxy is supposed to sit at the heart of a giant cloud of dark matter and interact with it through gravity alone. The dark matter originally provided enough attraction for …

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Artist concept of a galaxy inside of a glowing hydrogen "blob." Image credit: Nasa/CXC/MWeiss The “coming of age” of galaxies and black holes has been pinpointed, thanks to new data from Nasa’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (Chandra) and other telescopes. This discovery helps resolve the true nature of gigantic blobs of gas observed around very young …

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  The 62 newly proposed meteor showers have names like the Microscopiids and the beta Camelopardalids. "It got a little tedious to give them all new names," says team leader Peter Brown. Above, a Perseid meteor streaks through auroras above Colorado in 2000 (Image: Jimmy Westlake) 23 September 2009 by Jeff Hecht Every now and …

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