TWINKLE, TWINKLE LITTLE STAR Twinkle, twinkle little star. How I wonder what you are… Have you ever wondered why stars twinkle? Do you gaze into the night sky and think, “How small are those stars”? Have you stared into space,…
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Ezekiel said, Heaven opened and I saw visions. I looked and I saw a windstorm coming out of the north, an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The center of the fire looked like glowing metal.New…
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A mention of the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence conjures up a vision in the minds of most people of a man in a tin foil hat designed to block out the invasive broadcasts of other worlds. Although, the SETI program…
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The night sky in the Southern Hemisphere is very different from that in the North. One feature (more properly two) is the patches of fuzziness, easily visible to the naked eye, known as the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. They…
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For millennia the human race has expressed a fascination with otherworldly entities. Cave paintings and sculptures dated thousands of years old depict peculiar creatures and disc-shaped flying machines. Works of art of the Common Era, particularly religious paintings from the…
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The realization that there might be, indeed that there probably are intelligent beings on planets around distant stars, is a realization which has already had profound effect on human culture and has certainly not gone unnoticed by science fiction writers…
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The Allen Telescope Array, ATA, formerly known as the One Hectare Telescope, is a collaborative effort between the SETI Institute, a not for profit organisation dedicated to the advancement of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, SETI, and the Radio Astronomy…
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Our Sun, an average star in a backwater of the Milky Way galaxy, has excited both awe and curiosity since the dawn of humankind. Scientists have been studying the Sun intensively since around the mid 1800s, when the study of sunspots…
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Shooting stars are romantic, magical happenings that we feel lucky to catch a glimpse of when we’re studying the night sky. Some see a shooting star as a sign that something special is about to happen. Others see it as…
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On the creation of the universe i will first say this, that this is one of the most difficult questions to answer even to somebody such as myself who has thought logically on pretty much any important matter. It deals…
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