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Showing posts with label astronomy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label astronomy. Show all posts
Saturday, November 5, 2016

Super Moon

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Super Moon photographed in September 2015 (VLADIMIR ASTAPKOVICH / RIA NOVOSTI) The most voluminous Super Moon of the 21st century w...
Sunday, September 4, 2016

Just a star away

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A stone’s throw ? Not exactly. A little bit more. Aim your stellar pebble in this direction .
Thursday, August 25, 2016

Maybe we have nearby cousins in the universe

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When I was a student, the only star whose name I could remember was Proxima Centauri . That was because I had been told that it was our clos...
Saturday, January 30, 2016

Earth collided with another planet, Theia, creating the Moon

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About 100 million years after the creation of our planet, a collision occurred between the Earth and a baby planet,  Theia , The smaller pla...
Sunday, April 21, 2013

Quest for new worlds

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It's never too early to start looking around for new worlds that might be colonized, one day, by our human descendants. Incidentally, it...
Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Blue light in the darkness

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I came across an article in the French press about an ingenious device that apparently prevents night-time drivers from falling asleep at th...
Saturday, September 25, 2010

Jupiter scared me

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It's all very well to be offered a fabulous early-evening spectacle of Jupiter above the clifftops to the east of Choranche, especially ...
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Gamone, Choranche, France
After working in various computing jobs, I retired to an old farm property in the Vercors mountain range, on the edge of the French Alps, where I spend my time writing, playing with the Internet and looking out upon the slopes in the company of my dog Fitzroy, admiring wonders created by the Big Bang and Evolution.
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