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Astronomy

"Astronomy" is currently a popular topic for CalTech writers. We have "Astronomy" focused insightful blog posts, breaking news, online videos, rare photos, and more for you from our California Institute of Technology collection.

Videos

Year 2008

 

Rate Video: Astronomy Software VRMarsSpirit The Red Planet Mars 3D Virtual Reality powered by VRPresentsVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Google Video external link    Thu, Aug 28

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Video on Mars presenting Astronomy Software. Video showing panoramas and images, including the "Santa Anita" panorama, taken by NASA's Mars Rover Spirit more...during the Mars Exploration Rover Mission. The video was created with the use of virtual reality astronomy software VRMars-Sp...

Rate Video: Cassini fly-byVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Tue, Aug 12

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By rss@youtube.com (petebkr) Animation of Cassini's approach and flyby of Enceladus Mar.12, 2008 with a closest approach distance near the equator of about 50 kilometers. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Author: petebkr Keywords: NASA Space Cassini Saturn Enceladus Astronomy Added: August 12, 2008

Rate Video: Astronomy Software VRMars-Spirit - The Red Planet Mars 3D ...

Original at livevideo external link    Tue, Jan 29

By rss@LiveVideo.com (vrmars) Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/MSSS/USGS/OSU/Honeybee Robotics/New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science - More information at www.vrpresents.com and in this astronomical software. Author: vrmars ...

Year 2007

 

Rate Video: Sample clip "Mounting Evidence for Design" V042Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Thu, Jun 21

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By rss@youtube.com (AccessResearch) This is a low-res sample from a DVD Product available from http://www.arn.org. Dr. Hugh Ross is Founder and President of Reasons to Believe, in Pasadena, California. His Ph.D. from the University of Toronto is in Astronomy. He was the youngest person ever to serve as director of observations for...

Stories

June of 2009

 

Rate Stars Come Out at Astronomy...

Original at Science Now external link    Wed, Jun 10

 DC Credit: (top left) University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy; (top right): A. Dupree (CfA)/NASA/ESA; (bottom) NASA/JPL-Caltech/SV Ramírez (NExSci/Caltech)/SST/IRAC/MIPS/IRS By Yudhijit Bhattacharjee PASADENA, CALIFORNIA--Stars have been the, well, ...

Rate Cosmic Cloud Poised to Birth Massive Star

Original at LiveScience.com external link    Tue, Jun 9

 NY Credit: J. Swift, NASA/ JPL-Caltech/E. Churchwell (Univ. of Wisconsin) and James Clerk Maxwell Telescope/Joint Astronomy Center. PASADENA, CALIF. — A massive, tranquil object found lurking in a dark cloud in our galaxy could be about to transform into ...

Rate LIGO observatory to offer tour, astronomy talk

Original at Mid Columbia Tri City Herald external link    Mon, Jun 1    28 related articles

 WA Caltech.edu. The observatory also will be involved in the upcoming Mid-Columbia Literary Festival with a talk called, "Astronomy: More than Romance," at 7 pm Thursday at Columbia Basin College's HUB main stage, 2600 N. 20th Ave., Pasco. ...

Year 2009

 

Rate Four from Caltech Invited to Key Conference

Original at Caltech Today external link    Tue, May 5

It isn't often that four professors from a single institution are invited to one conference, let alone four from a single division. So Caltech may have achieved some kind of special status with oddsmakers by having four faculty from Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy invited to lecture...

Rate Kepler's Year

Original at Seed Magazine external link    Tue, Dec 30

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The Pleiades star cluster, captured here in infrared by the Spitzer Space Telescope. Click on image to view slideshow. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/J. Stauffer (SSC/Caltech). IYA2009 In the UK, the Society for Popular Astronomy, Royal Astronomical Society and Science and Technology Faci...

Year 2005

 

Rate CALTECH: New Study of Supernovae May Absolve Einstein of His Self ...

Original at Webbolt Business News (subscription) external link    Wed, Nov 23

 Canada - Nov 23, 2005 SUMMARY: Reporting in an upcoming issue of the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, an international team using a variety of instruments, including the 10-meter ...

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