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[28 Jan 2010 | One Comment | ]

Here’s the link to see what features are in Apple’s newly announced iPad tablet computer.  Right now, it’s a larger version of the iPhone, but with an iBook store for buying electronic books, and 3G/WiFi access to the Internet.

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[13 Jan 2010 | No Comment | ]

OK – so this is pretty cool… 
Today it was announced that astromoners have just observed the light directly from a planet outside our solar system.  Previously, scientists have never been able to observe a planet directly (like we can in our own solar system by looking through a telescope) - only indirectly through its eclipse signatures as it moves between us and its own star…
But now, a planet roughly 10 times the size of Jupiter (now that’s huge…) and about 130 light years from Earth has been seen directly…  By looking …

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[5 Jan 2010 | No Comment | ]

Here’s an article showing pictures from the Hubble Telescope taken of the very, very early universe.  The galaxies have stars that are only about 600 million to 800 million years old – about as far back as the Hubble Telescope can see (the universe itself is about 13.7 billion years old…).