Historic Super Storm Sandy Hits the East Coast
By Jaime Ortega.
Video: Ocean City, Maryland Aftermath of Hurricane Sandy
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Anne’s Image of the Day: The Ghost Nebula
By Annelies Rhemrev
October 31, 2012
The Ghost Nebula, a reflection nebula in Cepheus
Image Credit & Copyright: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona (http://www.caelumobservatory.com/index.html)
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Anne’s Image of the Day: The Fireworks Galaxy
By Annelies Rhemrev
October 30, 2012
The Fireworks Galaxy, a spiral galaxy in Cepheus and Cygnus
Image Credit & Copyright: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona (http://www.caelumobservatory.com/index.html)
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Will Foreign Residents get the Right to Vote in France?
By Sanchia Alasia.
At the Socialist Party conference in Toulouse on Saturday, recently elected Socialist Party leader Harlem Désir caused a stir when he reminded the crowd of President François Hollande’s pledge to give foreign residents [...]
Blazars Still Mysterious Cosmic Objects
By Annelies Rhemrev
A blazar is a galaxy with an intensely bright central nucleus containing a supermassive black hole, much like a quasar. The difference is that a blazar can emit light with extremely high energy gamma rays that are sometimes [...]
Anne’s Image of the Day: Messier 69
By Annelies Rhemrev
October 29, 2012
Messier 69, a globular cluster in Sagittarius
Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
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Messier 69 (also known as NGC 6637) is a globular cluster of roughly 85 light-years across, [...]
Hurricane Sandy’s Message to America
By Alan Caruba.
When Mother Nature demonstrates her extraordinary power, I always hope that people will draw a lesson from it, but this never seems to happen. Hurricane Sandy is just the latest example of the futility and foolishness of thinking [...]
Anne’s Image of the Day: NGC 2787
By Annelies Rhemrev
October 28, 2012
NGC 2787, a lenticular galaxy in Ursa Major
Image Credit: M. Carollo (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich), NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
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NGC 2787 [...]
Revisiting Voting Blocs — Are They More Fluid These Days?
By Alan Caruba
It has long been a tradition in American politics to speak of voting blocs, but in an era of 24/7 news and instant communications, that may be less likely as an indicator of who votes for who.
For example, The Jewish Press, the [...]
Anne’s Image of the Day: IRAS 13208-6020
By Annelies Rhemrev
October 27, 2012
IRAS 13208-6020, a protoplanetary nebula in Centaur
Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
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IRAS 13208-6020 is a bipolar protoplanetary nebula in the constellation Centaur, formed [...]
Ethiopia, World Bank Sign 18.02 BLN Loan Deal
By Daniel Berhane.
Ethiopia signed 18.02 billion birr soft loan with the World Bank today (October 18) at the Ministry of Finance and Economic development.
The agreement was signed by Finance and Economic Development State Minister, Ahmed Shide, [...]
The Revival of a ‘Dead’ Exoplanet: Zombie Fomalhaut B
By Annelies Rhemrev
A second look at data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is reanimating the claim that the nearby star Fomalhaut hosts a massive exoplanet. The study suggests that the planet, named Fomalhaut b, is a rare and possibly [...]
Anne’s Image of the Day: The Cartwheel Galaxy
By Annelies Rhemrev
October 26, 2012
The Cartwheel Galaxy, a ring galaxy in Sculptor
Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
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The Cartwheel Galaxy (ESO 350-40) is a ring galaxy of some 150,000 light-years across (which [...]
Is the US economy lost?
The questions are simple, but the answers they invoke may be extremely complex!
1) What should the U.S. do in order to recover from that fraudulent Derivatives Market that got us here in the first place?
2) Is there a way to save the [...]
French Involvement in the Mali Conflict
By Marilyn Z. Tomlins.
Officially there are no French soldiers in Mali.
However, according to military and Ministry of Defense sources who wish to remain anonymous, there are. They say that President François Hollande has discreetly (secretly) [...]
Public media or state media? Political influence on German broadcasting networks
By Olive Krumme.
Today, the spokesman of the Bavarian conservative party CSU (Christlich Soziale Union = Christian Social Union) resigned from his post after an incident that conspicuously reminded of state controlled media in authoritarian [...]
Mysterious Infrared Background Glow Comes From Stray Stars
By Annelies Rhemrev
A new study using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope suggests a cause for the mysterious glow of infrared light seen across the entire sky. It comes from isolated stars beyond the edges of galaxies. These stars [...]
Anne’s Image of the Day: LH 72
By Annelies Rhemrev
October 25, 2012
LH 72, a small group of stars embedded in a nebula in the LMC
Image Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA and D. A. Gouliermis
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LH 72 is a young and bright OB association embedded in a [...]
Poverty Nation
By Alan Caruba
Lyndon B. Johnson, President from 1963 to 1969, is probably unknown to the generations since then except for having escalated the Vietnam War. A memorial in Washington, D.C. is a sad reminder of the more than 58,000 young lives [...]
Children First
By Jeremy Sare.
Britain is currently reeling from daily revelations about acts of child molestation carried out by one of its biggest television stars of the 60s, 70s and 80s, Sir Jimmy Savile.
What at first appeared to be isolated, but no less [...]