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Lunar eclipse

Posted on June 4, 2011 by editor-in-chief

Today’s lunar eclipse will be the first full eclipse of 2011 and, at 100 minutes, will also be the longest lunar eclipse in more than a decade. In this Age Continue Reading →

Bumble Bee Buzz

Posted on May 29, 2011 by editor-in-chief

This bumble bee is lapping up nectar from a beautiful Snowball bush, Korean Spice Viburnum. Bumble bees live in colonies and collect pollen (protein) and nectar (carbohydrate) from wildflowers and Continue Reading →

Audubon’s birthday

Posted on April 26, 2011 by editor-in-chief

Today is John James Audubon’s birthday. His definitive work Birds of America has come to make the name Audubon synonymous with birds and bird conservation the world over. There are Continue Reading →

Hubble Space Telescope 21st Anniversary

Posted on April 23, 2011 by editor-in-chief

To celebrate the 21st anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope’s deployment into space, astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, pointed Hubble’s eye at an especially photogenic Continue Reading →

Sun from Solar Dynamics

Posted on April 21, 2011 by editor-in-chief

As we observe the 40th anniversary of the first Earth Day, let’s take a sideways glance at some amazing photos of our sun! NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory is a space Continue Reading →