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Solar Eclipse Visible Across All Of Iceland This Week
On Thursday June 10th, a solar eclipse will be visible across the entire country—provided there is good weather. At the peak of the eclipse, the moon will cover 69% of the sun if viewed from Reykjavík. Nice. This will be the largest…
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Ask A Scientist: Why Are There No Telescope Arrays In Iceland?
Being as far north as we are, and given the vast swaths of the Highlands completely untouched by urban light pollution, you might think Iceland would be a great place to set up a giant telescope array. Yet there aren’t any. We…
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Ask An Astronomer: Do The Clocks Change In Iceland
The short answer is no. Here’s Dr Þorsteinn Sæmundsson from Almanak Háskóla Íslands (University of Iceland Almanac) with the long answer: Daylight saving time was first introduced as an emergency measure in World War I (1916) to save fuel and make better…
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Blast From The Past: The First Icelandic Sci-Fi
It seems that every space film these days, from ‘Prometheus’ to ‘Oblivion’ to ‘Star Wars’, is shot in Iceland. But fewer know that this trend began over 400 years ago, with the German astronomer Johannes Kepler. Not only is he a founding…
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Outpouring Of Support Saves Astronomy Website From Bankruptcy
Iceland’s premier astronomy website was saved from bankruptcy within hours after news of its financial struggles was announced. As reported, the astronomy website Stjörnufræðivefurinn was facing a debt of some 450,000 ISK, due primarily to last year’s purchase of special eclipse-viewing sunglasses,…
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Icelandic Astronomy Website Facing Bankruptcy
Iceland’s astronomy website, Stjörnufræðivefurinn, is facing some hard times. MBL reports that the website filed for bankruptcy at the end of last month. The site’s owner, Sævar Helgi Bragason, told reporters that Stjörnufræðivefurinn owed some 450,000 ISK in VAT, which had not…
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There Was No UFO Over Reyðarfjörður – VIDEO
Those following the movements of extraterrestrial beings can breathe a little easier today, as it was confirmed that there was no UFO over Iceland yesterday. Yesterday, MBL reported that video had been taken of a mysterious object flying over the east Iceland…