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iOptron Up To $200 Instant Rebate on all MiniTower Pro and MiniTower II

Thursday, December 10th 2015 04:01 PM

For a limited time, save $100 on iOptron MiniTower II, and MiniTower Pro.   iOptron MiniTower II iOptron MiniTower II List Price: $968.00 Price: $818.00 You save: 15.5% The MiniTower II ...the 2nd generation MiniTower  Born out of the popular iOptron Cube™, the MiniTower™ is the ultimate observing solution for people who are searching for a...

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$99 Black Friday Deals from Meade

Tuesday, November 24th 2015 01:22 PM

  We're jumping in on the Thanksgiving holiday action with our Black Friday Sale! It's the season of giving, and with our Black Friday Sale, we're giving you BIG discounts on select products! Starting on Thursday at 12:01am, you can purchase Polaris 70mm Telescopes,10x42 Rainforest Binoculars and 15-45x65mm Wilderness Spotting Scopes&n...

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Celestron CPC Holiday Instant Rebates, Save up to $300 Now through Dec. 31st 2015.

Tuesday, November 17th 2015 11:24 AM

       Celestron CPC Holiday Savings! If you are looking for a great optical system in an easy to set up package, look no further.  The CPC Deluxe combines the awesome EDGE HD optical tube with the time-tested Celestron fork mount.  This combination skips the potential hassle of setting up a german equatorial mount and lets your telescope break do...

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Babylonian Astronomy Text Changes History

Friday, January 29th 2016 04:56 PM

    More than a thousand years before the first telescopes, Babylonian astronomers tracked the motion of planets across the night sky using simple arithmetic. But a newly translated text reveals that these ancient stargazers also used a far more advanced method, one that foreshadows the development of calculus over a thousand years later. It’s a well-known fact...

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New Evidence Suggests a Ninth Planet at Edge of Solar System

Friday, January 22nd 2016 03:53 PM

Astronomers at the California Institute of Technology announced Wednesday that they have found new evidence of a giant icy planet lurking in the darkness of our solar system far beyond the orbit of Pluto. They are calling it "Planet Nine." Their paper, published in the Astronomical Journal, describes the planet as about five to 10 times as massive as the Earth. But the authors, astronomers M...

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3D Print-and-Bake Ceramic Resin Technology Heating Up

Saturday, January 9th 2016 04:43 PM

Ceramic parts are incredibly useful - they are strong, lightweight, and more heat- and wear-resistant than many metals, making them perfect for parts for airplanes and rockets. The space shuttle had herat resistant tiles for reentry, for example. Researchers at HRL Laboratories, LLC, have achieved a new milestone in 3D printing technology by demonstrating an approach to additively m...

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