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Space Station to assist in study of northern lights

Submitted by lesholme on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 11:21am.

Astronauts on the Internatioal Space Station are planning to take the images from orbit over the next six weeks in co-ordination with the AuroraMAX online observatory in Yellowknife, N.W.T.

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Helping bring the world a spectacular show

Submitted by lesholme on Mon, 02/06/2012 - 9:52am.

The AuroraMAX Online Observatory and the International Space Station (ISS) are on a quest to capture theNorthern Lights...

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Large Scale Quantum Physics...

Submitted by ahobill on Mon, 12/19/2011 - 1:40pm.

We don't general see the physical effects of quantum mechanics, in a new paper entitled Coarse-graining makes it hard to see micro-macro entanglement the reasons for this are explained.

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The Rothney Astrophysical Observatory is a principal teaching and research facility of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Calgary.

Upcoming RAO Events

Upcoming Events

What we can learn from probing the geospace environment with radars
Start:
Feb 10 2012 - 4:00pm
Type:
Location:
SB 144
Speaker:
Jean-Pierre St-Maurice, University of Saskatchewan