International Astronomy Meetings List

The International Astronomy Meetings List has undergone a 'face lift'.
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Aerial view of Mauna Kea

The best there is out there thus far....

Multilingual Keyboard Emulator.

This site enables you to write in your language any where you are in the world,
with an online, onscreen emulator.
The main purpose of this site is to let everyone who gets stuck without the ability to write/type/search the internet in their own language be able to do just that (usually travelers/tourists) or anyone in front of a
foreign computer.

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Detecting Dark Matter No Longer a Massive Task

When astronomers at the Hawaii-based Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) atop the summit of Mauna Kea combined this new instrument with automated pattern-recognition software that scanned the CCD images for lensing effects, they detected 43 gravitational-lens candidates in an area of the sky about 100 times that covered by the moon.

CFHT in the news

COSMOS field observations...

Universe Today

is a news site for astronomy geeks. Don't miss its sibling, the Bad Astronomy Forum, which not only features examples of bad astronomy, but also discussions of space exploration and astrophotography. (If you like astrophotography, you're probably already aware of NASA's astronomy photo of the day.) But my favorite part of the whole site is the free astronomy eBook, What's Up 2007: 365 Days of Skywatching. If only it would only stop raining, maybe I'd grab some binoculars and go outside for some stargazing...

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