BRIDGEPORT — The man who revolutionized amateur astronomy with a cheap, easy-to-build telescope is at the Discovery Museum this week, spreading his infectious love for heavenly objects.
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VALPARAISO | Several fall semester open houses at the Valparaiso University Observatory will offer the public opportunities to learn about and get a closer look at planets, star clusters, nebulae and other celestial objects through VU’s computer-controlled telescope.
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CHARLESTON — The public is invited to view Jupiter, plus hear about local plans for the 2009 International year of Astronomy, at Eastern Illinois University’s observatory open house at 8:30 p.m. Friday.
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The Cuesta College Astronomy Research Seminar will be held from 5 to 6 p.m. Tuesday in Room 607 at the Arroyo Grande High School campus.
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Some of the most interesting places in our solar system are also the most difficult to reach. Areas hidden under thick layers of ice such as the polar caps of Mars, Saturn's moon Enceladus and Jupiter's moon Europa are prime examples. Drilling through ice on Earth is complicated enough, but on another world the task becomes almost impossible.
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In mid-September, the world's most powerful particle accelerator is scheduled to start up. Dubbed the Large Hadron Collider, it will create the highest-energy collisions ever produced by man.
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NASA engineers successfully freed a stuck metal pin on the space shuttle Atlantis late Tuesday, but the work delayed plans to roll the spacecraft out to its Florida launch pad this week.
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