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Build A Fibre Optic Star Map

11:00AM January 2, 2011 | Jason Fitzpatrick

If you’re looking for ambient lighting so unique you’ll likely be the only person in your part of the country to have it, this amazing DIY fibre optic star map is tough-to-beat choice. More »


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Moon Zoo Is A Crowd-Sourced Index Of Interesting Lunar Features

1:00AM May 22, 2010 | Jason Fitzpatrick

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If you’re an astronomy buff and looking for a little bit of Friday Fun, you can pore high-resolution photos of the Moon and help NASA flag and identify previously unseen craters. More »


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Google SkyMap For Android Puts Detailed Star Gazing In Your Pocket

5:00AM April 27, 2010 | Jason Fitzpatrick

Android: If you thought exploring the night sky with applications like Stellarium from the comfort of your computer was cool, Google SkyMap gives you real-time and directional star gazing. Point the phone at the sky to see exactly what’s up there. More »


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Star Viewer Explores The Night Sky Google-Map-Style

9:00AM January 17, 2010 | Jason Fitzpatrick

If you’ve never abandoned your 4th grade obsession with the night sky (and who has?), Star Viewer is a web-based tool for peeking at some of the most interesting and vivid sights in the night sky. More »


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NASA App Is A Must-Have Tool For Armchair Astronomers

10:00AM December 15, 2009 | Lisa Hoover

Space junkies with an iPhone or iPod touch, listen up: NASA released an app compiling pretty much everything going on in the space program to give you access to images, mission info, countdown clocks and more, all in one place. More »


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Heavens Above Locates Space Objects Worth Watching

6:00AM November 17, 2009 | Lisa Hoover

Want to wave at the International Space Station as if flies overhead? Website Heavens Above keeps space freaks and NASA junkies advised of precisely where man-made and naturally occurring objects are orbiting to make tracking their movements a snap. More »


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Celestia Brings Interstellar Exploration To Your Desktop

10:00AM November 16, 2009 | Jason Fitzpatrick

If you enjoyed playing with Stellarium, the open-source planetarium software we shared with you earlier this year, but felt strangely tied to an earth-bound perspective, you’ll definitely want to fly through space with Celestia. More »


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Enjoy The Orionid Meteor Showers Tonight

4:00AM October 22, 2009 | Jason Fitzpatrick

Catching an occasional shooting star is one thing, but with the right timing you can see dozens to hundreds of them in a single night. We’re in the peak season for the Orionid Showers, read on to catch a glimpse. More »


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WorldWide Telescope Visualises the Night Sky

7:45AM May 14, 2008 | Gina Trapani

Windows only: Microsoft Research releases astronomy application WorldWide Telescope, software which offers “terabytes” of detailed telescope images of the night sky for exploration right on your desktop. Zoom, pan, and explore the solar system, galaxies and more using WorldWide Telescope. The BBC reports: Collections include pictures from the Hubble and Spitzer telescopes, as well as the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. … “Users can see the X-ray view of the sky, zoom into bright radiation clouds, and then cross-fade into the visible light view and discover the cloud remnants of a supernova explosion from a thousand years ago,” explained Roy Gould, a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics.

Check out WorldWide Telescope in action after the jump.

Via Gizmodo, here’s a demo of WorldWide Telescope at the TED conference back in February.

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10:42PM January 31, 2008 | Sarah Stokely

Google recently launched its Palimpsest project, which will upload and host terabytes of scientific data, including data from the Hubble Space Telescope. But in a talk today at Linux.conf.au Googler Leslie Hawthorn pointed out an awesome mashup that this has made possible – images from the Hubble Space Telescope can be overlaid on the sky view in Google Earth: Sky. Neat stuff. :)

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