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Posts Tagged ‘Astronomy’
Fourteen Months Till Your Next Chance to Visit Mars
From Universe Today A year on Mars lasts almost 689 days. In other words, a Martian year is 1.88 times as long as an Earth year. For every time Mars completes a single orbit around the Sun, Earth has almost gone around twice. A Mars Opposition occurs when planet Earth passes in between the Sun [&h[...]
Exoplanets
Earth based Spectroscopy of Exoplanetary Atmospheres a talk by Dr. Matteo Brogi at UW, Dec. 4th, 2014. Last Thursday’s Astronomy colloquium was delivered by Matteo Brogi, Hubble Fellow at the University of Colorado. He described very recent use of Doppler shifted, earth based absorption spec[...]
Planets, Planets, more Planets
“M-Dwarf Planet Multiplicity” A talk by Dr. Sarah Ballard UW, October 7th, 2014 —– It’s time again for ‘Astrobiology’ lectures , this one by Dr. Sarah Ballard, who holds a ‘Carl Sagan Fellowship’ at UW. She spoke well, rapidly and informatively[...]