<rss version="0.91"><channel><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : Astronomy : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><item><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : Astronomy : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Podcast - Astronomy Cast]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/397/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Fraser Cain of Universe Today and Dr. Pamela Gay of Slacker Astronomy have launched a new podcast called Astronomy Cast]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Astronomy Picture of the Day]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44286/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Several years worth of astronomy pictures with a brief description.  Interesting if you have some time to kill.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Romance of astronomy is gone scientist complains]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/21739/1/</link><description><![CDATA[In a CNN fluff/filler article, a professional star-gazer whines that a technology side effect is that &quot;Some of the romance of astronomy is gone&quot;.  Maybe they wouldn't have that problem if they took the time to stop and look at URANUS more often!]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[HubbleSite]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/42522/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Everything you wanted to know about the night sky. Check out this month's activity in the cosmos. Astronomy for the media generation! &quot;The medium is the massage.&quot;]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Astronomy Picture of the Day]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/49931/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Well, from Wednesday.(check out the whole site)]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[AstroStar--The Magic of Starlight Indoors]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/62086/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The AstroStar is ideal for astronomy or astrology fans, romantics, kids who&#8217;d appreciate a nightlight with a difference or anyone who wants to bring some starlight into their home.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mercury will cross sun in astronomical event]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/5319/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Mercury will travel between the sun and Earth in a way that makes it appear to cross -- in astronomy the word is &quot;transit&quot; -- the bottom third of the sun from left to right.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Top Ten Astronomy Pictures of 2007]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44134/1/</link><description><![CDATA[There were a ton of amazing astronomy images throughout the year. Here are the best of the best. (thumbnail is just a random image, not one of the top-10)]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Star of Bethlehem - An Astronomical and historical perspective]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/8131/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The Star of Bethlehem is one of the most powerful, and enigmatic, symbols of Christianity. Second perhaps only to the Cross of the Crucifixion, the importance of its role in the story of the Nativity of the Christ child is almost on a par with the birth itself. However, the true origin of the Star of Bethlehem has baffled astronomers, historians, and theologians for the past two millennia.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uranus at its biggest and brightest this week]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/36109/1/</link><description><![CDATA[...but the vast majority of you will never see it. So there!]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[March 3 Total Lunar Eclipse]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/12069/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Almost 2-1/2 years have passed since the Moon plunged completely into the Earth&#8217;s shadow. But if you live in Europe, Africa, or the eastern half of North America, but sure to put a big circle on your calendar for tomorrow.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's A Wonderful Night For A Moondance]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/1540/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Mike Constantine&#8217;s Moon Pans website has some incredible panoramas. You can sweep back and forth on images, going around 360 degrees. It&#8217;s not precisely like being there (you can, for example, do this feat in your underwear which is not recommended on the lunar surface), but it&#8217;s still pretty cool.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Space...]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/58587/1/</link><description><![CDATA[This is astronomical]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Monster galaxy pileup sighted]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/30448/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Four galaxies are slamming into each other and kicking up billions of stars in one of the largest cosmic smash-ups ever observed.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crab Pulsar Wind Time-Lapse]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/10494/1/</link><description><![CDATA[This movie shows dynamic rings, wisps and jets of matter and antimatter around the pulsar in the Crab Nebula as observed in X-ray light by Chandra (left, blue) and optical light by Hubble (right, red).]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[First planet with water is spotted outside Solar System]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/27004/1/</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Astronomers on Wednesday announced they had spotted the first planet beyond the Solar System that has water, the precious ingredient for life.&quot;]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dead Star becomes a Diamond]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/8660/1/</link><description><![CDATA[10 billion, trillion, trillion carats. Kobe Bryant's wife says &quot;I want that.&quot;]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strong Leonid Meteor Shower Expected Nov. 18 ]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/5704/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The nights and early morning hours of November 17-19 mark the return of the Leonid meteor shower to the skies of Earth<br/><br/>Viewers along the northeastern coast of the United States and Canada, as well as people in Europe and western Africa might get to see an &quot;outburst&quot; of as many as 100-600 meteors per hour!]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Universe Within]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/47500/1/</link><description><![CDATA[View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pluto probe's amazing view of the volcanic moon Io]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/12112/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A volcano with a 290-kilometer (180-mile) high plume photographed by this <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://plime.com/science/l/11841/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">probe.</a>]]></description></item></channel></rss>