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Sea News

Global extinction: Gradual doom is just as bad as abrupt
Around 250 million years ago, most life on Earth was wiped out in an extinction known as the "Great Dying." Geologists have learned that the end came slowly f...

Scientists coax shy microorganisms to stand out in a crowd
Scientists have advanced a method that allowed them to single out a marine microorganism and map its genome even though the organism made up less than 10 percen...

Heat and cold damage corals in their own ways
Around the world coral reefs are facing threats brought by climate change and dramatic shifts in sea temperatures. While warming has been the primary focus for ...

Global experts question claims about jellyfish populations
Blooms, or proliferation, of jellyfish have shown a substantial, visible impact on coastal populations -- clogged nets for fishermen, stinging waters for touris...

Are nuisance jellyfish really taking over the world's oceans?
Evidence is lacking that populations of jellyfish and similar gelatinous plankton are surging in numbers globally and will likely dominate the seas in coming de...

 
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Coral Reef Life - Explore the amazing fish and other marine animals that inhabit the coral reef.

Creatures of the Deep Sea - Discover the bizarre fish and other creatures that lurk in the deep sea.

Aquarium Resources - Information, help, and resources for the salt water and marine reef aquarium hobby.

Exploration Timeline - Learn about the explorers and discoveries that helped to our understanding of the oceans.

Sea Gallery - Relax to beautiful images and sounds of the seas.

Sea Games - Play dozens of totally free games with a sea theme.

Sea News - Get the latest exciting news headlines about oceanography and marine biology.

Sea Links - Links to hundreds of quality sea related Web sites.

Sea Reviews - Find music, video, book, and software reviews of ocean related products.

Astronomy Reference Guide Update

The former Astronomy Resources pages have been updated and reformatted as the new Astronomy Reference Guide. This section of the site features a new look, new menu system, and lots of new information. The Astronomical Calendar of Celestial Events has been updated to include events through the year 2020.
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New Book Review

Oceans: The companion book to the Disney Nature film
Oceans is the official companion volume to the challenging, breathtakingly beautiful documentary of the same name, created by Jacques Perrin and a crack team of scientists, cinematographers, divers, and technical specialists. A veteran of more than forty years of film-making and exploring the natural world in works like The Monkey People and Microcosmos, Perrin is the public face of an elite group that includes both veterans of Jacques-Yves Costa's pioneering exploits and cutting-edge innovators whose custom-created equipment captures never-before-witnessed scenes.

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Massive Solar System Update

Sea and Sky's Tour of the Solar System has just completed a massive update featuring a new interface, new images, new interactive menus, updated data, and tons of new information. With our new Planetary Weight Calculator, you can find out how much you weigh on the moon, the planets, and even the Sun.
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Astronomy Calendar Update

We have updated our astronomy calendar of celestial events to include many exciting new events for the year 2010, including meteor showers, eclipses, moon phases, planetary alignments, and more. You will find this to be one of the most complete astronomical calendars anywhere on the Web!
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New Book Review

Planetology: Unlocking the Secrets of the Solar System
In a stunning and completely new view of the solar system, an astronaut and a geologist team up to investigate, through parallel views made possible by cutting-edge space technology, how the earth itself can help science unravel the mysteries of the heavens. National Geographic Books introduces Planetology: Unlocking the Secrets of the Solar System.

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New News is Good News

The Sea News and Sky News pages have been updated with a new look and expanded coverage. Our news pages now feature RSS news feeds from some of the most respected online sources, updated daily. Several new pages have been added to make this one of the most complete online sea and space news sites available.
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Click to Explore the Universe and Solar System
 
Featured Sky Pages
Explore the Solar System Discover the Constellations
Explore the Wonders of the Cosmos Reference guide for the Astronomy Hobby
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Sky News

Classic portrait of a barred spiral galaxy
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1073, which is found in the cons...
Publ.Date : Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:24:24 EST

Millisecond pulsar paradox: Stellar astrophysics helps explain behavior of fast rotating neutron stars in binary systems
Pulsars are among the most exotic celestial bodies known. They have diameters of about 20 kilometers, but at the same ti...
Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:14:14 EST

Hubble zooms in on a magnified galaxy
Astronomers aimed Hubble at one of the most striking examples of gravitational lensing, a nearly 90-degree arc of light ...
Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:08:08 EST

Do black holes help stars form?
The center of just about every galaxy is thought to host a black hole, some with masses of thousands of millions of Suns...
Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:43:43 EST

Stellar nursery: A pocket of star formation
A new view shows a stellar nursery called NGC 3324. It was taken using the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter te...
Publ.Date : Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:43:43 EST

 
More on the Sky

The Solar System - Take a virtual tour and explore our Solar System.

The Constellations - Discover the constellations and some of the amazing objects they contain.

Celestial Objects - Explore the wondrous objects that inhabit our universe.

Astronomy Reference Guide - Information, help, and resources for the amateur astronomy hobby.

Messier Catalog - A valuable resource for amateur astronomers for the brightest deep sky objects.

Sky Games - Play dozens of totally free games with a space theme.

Sky News - Get the latest exciting news headlines about astronomy and space exploration.

Sky Links - Links to hundreds of quality space related Web sites.

Sky Reviews - Find music, video, book, and software reviews os space related products.


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