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Researchers at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense have discovered that seals have the ability to recognise stars and groups of stars inside a modified planetarium. A five-metre round pool plus two harbour seals were covered with a dome with 6000 point light sources to simulate the Northern Hemisphere's starry sky. Bjørn Mauck and his team found that if they selected an individual star with a laser pointer, they could train the seals...
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Friday night's Astronomy Open House at the Creekside Observatory proved to be the popular hangout for many members of the Daytona Beach community. Hosted by the Amateur Astronomy Club on campus, the evening had something for everyone interested in looking towards the heavens.
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Crescent Earth from the Departing Rosetta Spacecraft Credit & Copyright: ESA (MPS for OSIRIS Team), MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/RSSD/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA Explanation: Goodbye Earth. Earlier this month, ESA's interplanetary Rosetta spacecraft zoomed past the Earth on its way back across the Solar System. Pictured above, Earth showed a bright crescent phase featuring the South Pole to the passing rocket ship. Launched from Earth in 2004, Rosetta used the...
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Like most astronomers, Jim Kaler first became interested in astronomy as a child looking up at the stars. He has been interested ever since. This interest inspired Kaler, professor of astronomy at the University of Illinois, and his presentation "Other Stars, Other Planets," which is at 7 p.
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