Archives for: January 2010
Apple’s iPad is Here

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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Light Seen From Faraway Planet

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 [...]

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Pictures of a Toddler (Universe)

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…).

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