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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_mirror_telescope Liquid mirror telescopes are telescopes with mirrors made with a reflective liquid. T...

Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation http://www.nicadd.niu.edu/~bterzic/PHYS652/Lecture_19.pdf   by  Balša Terzić   "The CMB radiat...

Pulsed gamma rays from the Vela pulsar  from photons detected by Fermi's Large Area Telescope. The Vela pulsar is the brightest per...

Very beautiful image at http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120527.html Image Credit: SOHO - EIT Consortium , NASA  "The diminutive disk of M...

"The next transit of Venus , where Venus appears as a dark spot in front of the Sun, will begin at 22:09 UTC on 5 June 2012, and will ...

Microlensing suggests that our galaxy has more planets than stars, buBertram M. Schwarzschild March 2012, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.14...

Let me report a part of the discussion on the speed of neutrinos by Wikipedia "In September 2011 the OPERA collaboration released cal...

"A team of European astronomers, including UK astronomers, have discovered a bright quasar that has been beaming light since the Univer...

"Recent data from the spacecraft have shown a gentle decrease in the velocity of the solar wind at the heliopause – the outer boundary ...

"A British team is designing the optics for a telescope that will be able to detect the gravitational effects of violent cosmic events,...

"Ten planets that appear to be drifting in interstellar space have been spotted by an international team of astronomers. The planets ar...

"The Milky Way might be filled with hundreds of billions of gas-giant planets that were ejected from the planetary systems that gave t...

When a red giant star collaps on itself a burst of neutrinos is produced. This occurs before that light is emitted in the explosion, The Sup...