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Gamma-ray Lighthouse Discovery

Saturday, October 6th, 2007

A Gamma-ray Lighthouse shining from the edge of our Universe has been discovered by Astronomers using the European Space Agency’s orbiting gamma-ray observatory, Integral.
A Gamma-ray Lighthouse generates a thin beam of light which sweeps across the sky, in the same way a lighthouse beam sweeps across the sea! The same beam of light [...]

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Lighthouse Stars

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

Google has announced that their latest version of Google Earth now includes Google Sky, a impressive Star Map with 200 million galaxies and images from the Hubble space telescope.
Believe it or not, stars and Lighthouses share a common purpose.
Stars were the natural Lighthouse guides of the universe guiding mariners who discovered America. In the [...]

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