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Underwater springs reveal how coral reefs respond to ocean acidification
Ocean acidification due to rising carbon dioxide levels will reduce the density of coral skeletons, ...
Publ.Date : Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:08:08 EDT

Current affairs make life hard for stickleback dads
This Father’s Day, spare a thought for three-spined stickleback fish – who may have been having ...
Publ.Date : Fri, 14 Jun 2013 08:25:25 EDT

How diving mammals evolved underwater endurance
Scientists have shed new light on how diving mammals, such as the sperm whale, have evolved to survi...
Publ.Date : Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:28:28 EDT

New fluorescent protein from eel improves key clinical assay
Unagi, the sea-going Japanese freshwater eel, harbors a fluorescent protein that could serve as the ...
Publ.Date : Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:42:42 EDT

'Tailing' spiny lobster larvae to protect them
In a new study of spiny lobsters scientists studied the larval dispersal of this species in the Cari...
Publ.Date : Thu, 13 Jun 2013 09:23:23 EDT

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I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

. . . John Masefield, Poet

 

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.

 

Astronomy Calendar Updates

We have updated our astronomy calendar of celestial events to include many exciting new events for the year 2013, including additional meteor showers, planetary conjunctions, and two new comets. You will find this to be one of the most complete astronomical calendars anywhere on the Web! See why 2013 is being called by many astronomers as the Year of the Comet.

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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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Book Review: Disney Nature Oceans

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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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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Deep Sea Creatures Get a Makeover

Averaging two miles in depth, the deep ocean is a world of incredible and unusual creatures that haunt the darkness. Join Sea and Sky as we explore the deep sea and discover some of its most unusual inhabitants. This section of Sea and Sky has recently been updated with new information and new images that bring these creatures to life in a whole new way.

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A New Look for the Solar System

The Solar System is a place of unimaginable beauty. As home to the only worlds we know, it intrigues us with its possibilities. The tallest mountains, largest volcanoes, and deepest canyons are not found on Earth! Join Sea and Sky as we take a virtual tour of the many amazing worlds that make up the Solar System. This section of the site has recently been updated with new images and new information that present the beauty of the Solar System in a whole new way.

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Sky News Headlines

Unusual supernova is doubly unusual for being perfectly normal
Type Ia supernovae are indispensable milestones for measuring the expansion of the universe. With de...
Publ.Date : Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:21:21 EDT

Cassini probe to take photo of Earth from deep space
NASA's Cassini spacecraft, now exploring Saturn, will take a picture of our home planet from a dista...
Publ.Date : Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:19:19 EDT

Three centaurs follow Uranus through the solar system
Astrophysicists have confirmed that Crantor, a large asteroid with a diameter of 70 km has an orbit ...
Publ.Date : Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:16:16 EDT

The turbulent, high-energy sky is keeping NuSTAR busy
NuSTAR has been busy studying the most energetic phenomena in the universe. Recently, a few high-ene...
Publ.Date : Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:44:44 EDT

Mystery of X-ray light from black holes solved
Astrophysicists using high-powered computer simulartions demonstrate that gas spiraling toward a bla...
Publ.Date : Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:05:05 EDT

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