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Cosmos Community

Welcome to the Cosmos Community Portal – a free, social networking site for anyone interested in astronomy and space issues. This is the gateway to the

  • Personal Portals of amateur astronomers, astrophotographers, telescope builders and space enthusiasts of all sorts.
  • Community Portals of astronomy clubs, societies, resource and service organization

Both kinds of portals can be private and visible only to members, or public and visible to anyone. That's up to the portal owner and administrators. If you want to become a member of any portal or want to start your own portal, you have to first register here. It's free!

Once you are registered you can even build your own portal. Just click on the CREATE A PORTAL button on any page. That's free too (with ads appearing on your  portal) or you can subscribe for $8/month and forget about pesky ads. You can post articles, blogs, photo galleries, events, newsletters, and more.  Join this portal or start a portal of your own and become part of this collaboration.  Visit our featured portals.

 


    • Biggest Full Moon of the Year: Take 2 Featured News Biggest Full Moon of the Year: Take 2 Biggest Full Moon of the Year: Take 2

      NASA Science News (Jan. 8, 2009): When last month's full Moon rose over Florida, onlooker Raquel Stanton of Cocoa Beach realized that something was up. "The Moon was stunningly... More »

    • Brown Dwarfs Don't Hang Out With Stars Featured News Brown Dwarfs Don't Hang Out With Stars Brown Dwarfs Don't Hang Out With Stars

      Space Telescope Science Inst. (Jan. 6, 2009) – Brown dwarfs, objects that are less massive than stars but larger than planets, just got more elusive, based on a study of 233... More »

    • Ask an Astronomer Featured Resource Ask an Astronomer Ask an Astronomer

      It's no surprise that students, writers of fiction and nonscientists in general are so interested in this particular scientific endeavor. That's why we, as astronomers, are so... More »

    • Breaking Bohr's Principle Featured Blog Breaking Bohr's Principle Breaking Bohr's Principle

      This concerns physics, not astronomy, but since it challenges a foundational principle of quantum mechanics, I thought it well worth a blog. Several years ago a physicist with, so... More »

    • NASA JPL Night Sky Network Featured Resource NASA JPL Night Sky Network NASA JPL Night Sky Network

      Check out the big events the Night Sky Network affiliated amateur astronomer clubs around the United States have made. These clubs making a huge impact to bring you a better... More »

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A Dark Matter Disk In Our Galaxy Last Updated on 2009-09-17 at 17:28 Royal Astronomical Society, London (Sept. 18, 2008) – An international team of scientists predict that our Galaxy, the Milky Way, contains a disk of ‘dark matter’. In a... More »
Researchers Interpret Asymmetry in Early Universe Last Updated on 2009-04-22 at 01:07 Caltech, Pasadena, CA (Dec. 16, 2008) – The Big Bang is widely considered to have obliterated any trace of what came before. Now, astrophysicists at the California Institute of... More »
Star Light, Star Bright, Its Explanation is Out of... Last Updated on 2009-01-08 at 17:14 NASA–STScI (Jan. 8, 2009) – A mysterious flash of light from somewhere near or far in the universe is still keeping astronomers in the dark long after it was first detected by... More »
Biggest Full Moon of the Year: Take 2 Last Updated on 2009-01-08 at 17:08 NASA Science News (Jan. 8, 2009): When last month's full Moon rose over Florida, onlooker Raquel Stanton of Cocoa Beach realized that something was up. "The Moon was stunningly... More »
Brown Dwarfs Don't Hang Out With Stars Last Updated on 2009-01-06 at 21:20 Space Telescope Science Inst. (Jan. 6, 2009) – Brown dwarfs, objects that are less massive than stars but larger than planets, just got more elusive, based on a study of 233... More »
The hottest white dwarf in its class Last Updated on 2009-01-06 at 21:06   Paris (Dec. 12, 2008) – A team of German and American astronomers present far-ultraviolet observations of white dwarf KPD 0005+5106 and reveal that it is among the... More »
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