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Eye Spy: Seeing Sunspots in Canton
SLU students use solar glasses to view sunspots.
SLU students use solar glasses to view sunspots.
A photo of the Sun and it's current spots from "spaceweather.com"
A photo of the Sun and it's current spots from "spaceweather.com"
(05/01/06) Clear skies recently have allowed some great star gazing, night and day. There was a fairly large sunspot visible on the sun Friday. Sharp-eyed viewers could see it with the unaided eye, wearing appropriate solar glasses. The celestial event drew an occasional crowd of students and passersby to a telescope with a solar filter set up at St. Lawrence University's science building.

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Mars: A Close Encounter Call-in
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(08/28/03) Mars is closer to Earth than it's been in 60,000 years. Host Martha Foley and St. Lawrence University astronomers Aileen O'Donoghue and Jeff Miller held a special call-in on what's up in the sky and why. They took listener questions about Mars and other night and daytime phenomena.
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