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The Known Universe Scientifically Rendered For All to See

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The Known Universe Scientifically Rendered For All to See

After hovering over Mount Everest and the gorges that plunge to the Ganges, you are pulled through the Earth’s atmosphere to glimpse the inky black of space over Tibet’s high desert. So begins The Known Universe, a new film produced by the American Museum of Natural History that is part of a new exhibition, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City. 

How are we calculating sunrise/sunset times

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Sunrise/sunset times are calculated using embedded PHP 5 functions. The almanac module implements the low resolution method for calculating moonrise and moonset outlined in Montenbruck and Pfleger's Astronomy on the Personal Computer (1989). The time displayed in the sunrise/sunset box is the time at which sunrise/sunset were calculated.

Comments system is active

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We've enabled the posibility to post comments on blogs, publications and images. Anonymous comments are allowed, but moderated (you can comment, but an administrator must approve your comments). Commenting is posible only for content posted from now on. Old content will be enabled somewhere in time :)

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Due to user demand we are back to the black/red design, separate Blogs page added.

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