Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The Carina Nebula is among the beautiful sights in space to be explored in "Art in Space" at the UWM Olson Planetarium. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Manfred Olson Planetarium has a special program this weekend that will focus on the art of ...
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Fast-Rotating Asteroid Winks For Astronomer's Camera
RedOrbit
Since then, the space rock has become something of a darling of the amateur astronomy community, with many videos available. "Usually, when we see an asteroid strobe on and off like that, it means that the body is elongated and we are viewing it ...
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One small step for students, one giant leap for Hackney
Evening Standard
The scheme, designed to encourage people from poorer backgrounds into the industry, is open to young people who want to study astrophysics, astronomy, space science or physics at three top universities. Those studying computer science and electrical ...
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Telescope to be mounted in Canada's high Arctic
The Province
And in a modest step in that direction, they are now racing to get a $100000 telescope operating on the island by next winter, adding a new and decidedly chilly twist to Canadian astronomy. Astronomer Nicholas Law says the Ellesmere telescope is to ...
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Powerful telescope can see Big Bang
UNM Daily Lobo
“Even more than Hubble, the capabilities of the Webb will shape astronomy for decades.” Zimmer explained that the Webb will use infrared instruments to look through areas of space the Hubble can't penetrate. When scientists use telescopes to look at ...
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Teacher to expand astronomy offering
Patriot-News
He hopes to create lesson plans around the moon rocks and the thermal tile, to provide hands-on learning experiences for students during the astronomy section next fall. McBride found out about these opportunities through Penn State University's Space ...
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Patriot-News
NYC shouldn't have won a space shuttle (Discover)
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Take Phil Plait, the astronomer who writes Discovery's Bad Astronomy blog. “(T)he Intrepid museum in NYC is a bit of a head-scratcher,” he wrote Wednesday. “(W)hile the museum does get a lot of visitors, I'm wondering why the Johnson Space Center in ...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
To infinity and beyond
Public Service
Space-based astronomy is providing hope that a number of exciting discoveries might be realised in the near future. There is increasing observational evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating on a very large scale. ...
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Public Service
Weather is experienced throughout solar system
Times and Transcript
With so many man-made satellites in space today - supporting everything from weather reports to communications to scientific exploration - "our dependency on them has become huge," said the astronomer. As a result, he said there are now special ...
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Dance crew adds new twist to Hampton Yuri's Night celebration
Daily Press
Guests are encouraged to wear space-themed costumes and engage in actual star gazing with assistance from the Peninsula Astronomy Club and Back Bay Astronomers. This is a party that keeps its feet on the ground, but reaches for the stars.
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Daily Press
city kids design space home
Deccan Chronicle
The duo had developed a space station for human settlement taking cue from the Indian chakra design. Though the Nasa space settlement contest does not require knowledge of astronomy, one needs to conceptualise a whole city in the Earth's orbit. ...
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Deccan Chronicle
World won't end in 2012 - expert
News24
Some have suggested that a huge body might be on a collision course, but not on the same plane that the planets usually orbit, but Burnell rejected this, saying that modern astronomy was capable of detecting bodies that might destroy Earth. ...
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Teacher wins national award
Albert Lea Tribune
“Astronomy and space travel have been my interest and hobby since junior high,” Fiscus said. He said he's always ready to teach about space science because it's something he cares about. Fiscus was the district Teacher of the Year in 2003.
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Albert Lea Tribune
Goonhilly to support front-line research
ComputerWeekly.com
... Piran Trezise said: "This is an important aspect of the development of the Space Science Park at Goonhilly, whereby leading research can be undertaken and the public will be able to experience first-hand the exciting world of astronomy. ...
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Shoreditch space company offers Hackney students out-of-this-world opportunity
Hackney Gazette
The group, which sent its first superfast broadband satellite into space in November last year, is offering to provide successful applicants with an annual bursary of £3000 to undertake degrees in either astrophysics, astronomy, space science or ...
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Hackney Gazette
UCLA Professor Wins Literary Criticism Prize
UC Los Angeles
Space Daily reports on research by David Rodriguez, a UCLA graduate student in astronomy, aimed at finding better ways to detect exoplanets — planets outside our solar system. Rodriguez is quoted. An Associated Press article published today about ...
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To the Stars
Packet Online
”There's something for everyone, from a child or first-time visitor to the planetarium to an astronomy buff who already has knowledge of astronomy,” says Jay Schwartz of the planetarium about the new film. “What's interesting about Passage to the ...
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Packet Online
Hocking takes top applied physics honour
Western News
Hocking has made important fundamental advances to radar studies in both atmospheric physics and astronomy. Through Mardoc Inc., a London-based company founded by Hocking and his wife Anna Hocking, and now run by Anna Hocking, Hocking and his partners ...
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Asteroid with potential power of 15 atomic bombs to pass moon's orbit tonight
Newstrack India
It was captured by the astronomers at the Observatorio Astronomico de Mallorca in Andalusia, Spain, who have since determined that it is heading towards us. Since then, the space rock has become something of a darling of the amateur astronomy community ...
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Realtors ® Commend Students for School of the Future Designs
Marketwire (press release)
The design will also be used as a learning tool for students, containing an underwater classroom in a nearby river, a telescope dome for astronomy studies, and a garden to give students the opportunity to learn about biology. ...
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Herschel links star formation to sonic booms
Astronomy Magazine
Comparing the observations with computer models, the astronomers concluded that filaments probably form when slow shock waves dissipate in the interstellar clouds. These shock waves are mildly supersonic, and they are a result of the copious amounts of ...
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May 2011 events
Joplin Independent
6: The Springfield Discovery Center and Missouri State University's Physics, Astronomy & Material Science Dept. invites everyone to the Baker Observatory for a star gazing event. You may travel directly on your own or a car caravan will leave the ...
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WISE Delivers Millions of Galaxies, Stars, Asteroids
Space Daily
by Staff Writers Astronomers across the globe can now sift through hundreds of millions of galaxies, stars and asteroids collected in the first bundle of data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission. "Starting thousands of new ...
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Physicists discover new way to visualize warped space and time ...
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Amateur Astronomer Spots Winking Asteroid - Space.com | e! Science ...
Asteroid 2011 GP59 as imaged on the night of April 11, 2011 by amateur astronomer Nick James of Chelmsford, Essex, England. At the time, the asteroid was ...
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Space Telescopes Observe Mysterious Giganormous Explosion In the ...
Astronomers have discovered a huge explosion that NASA qualifies as.
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