Today: SPACE, Astronomy News, May 15, 2011

May 15, 2011

SPACE, Astronomy News, May 15, 2011

Astronomers Start Search For Alien Life
RedOrbit
The 86 planets were gleaned from a list of 1235 planets identified by NASA's Kepler spacetelescope. “It's not absolutely certain that all of these stars have habitable planetary systems, but they're very good places to look for ET,” University of ...
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Astronomy Without A Telescope – SLoWPoKES
Universe Today
MoND seeks to challenge a fundamental assumption built into both Newton's and Einstein's theories of gravity – where the gravitational force (or the space-time curvature) exerted by a massive object recedes by the inverse square of the distance from it ...
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Universe Today
Don't worry, just enjoy amazing show in sky
Inquirer.net
... attributed to their normal orbit around the sun, not a cosmic conspiracy that signals the end of the world as doomsayers fear, according to Dario dela Cruz, officer in charge of the Space Sciences andAstronomy Section of the Pagasa weather bureau. ...
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Mysterious Sky Images Explained
WSAW
"It's something like 300 days a year you can see at least one interesting optical effect in the sky," said Ken Menningen, a professor of physics and astronomy. "These range from rainbows to sun dogs, sun pillars, ice crystals, halos, mirages, ...
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Armenian Culture: Our Defense, Our Weapon
The Armenian Mirror-Spectator
The proposal to include Shirakatsi in UNESCO's list came from the Byurakan Observatory team, which symbolizes the continuation of Shirakatsi's work in space exploration in the modern era. Underastronomer Victor Harpartzoumian, Byurakan became a ...
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World Weather News In Brief 15 May 2011
Irish Weather Online
... a seismically active region. http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=221508SPACE: Over the coming weeks the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter will be visible in the morning sky, according to Astronomy Ireland. ...
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UC Santa Cruz dean Stephen E. Thorsett will be next president of Willamette ...
OregonLive.com
A 46-year-old California astronomy professor and science dean who grew up in Salem and discovered a planet has been chosen as Willamette University's next president, the board of trustees has announced. Stephen E. Thorsett, dean of physical and ...
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OregonLive.com
“Just So Science” – Eyes of the Heavens
Sciblogs (blog)
Yesterday I was given the opportunity to present to the 100 Level Astronomy class from Victoria University using the planetarium software and datasets we use up at Carter Observatory. It was great fun writing the talk, and performing it on the fly with ...
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This Week at 148Apps: May 9-13
148Apps
Personally, the applications that have wowed me the most on the iPad are those relating to space and astronomy: Solar Walk and pUniverse HD to name two. Now, Bloom Studio incorporates space with music.
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Let's see more of Mrs Brian Cox – doing science on TV
The Guardian
I heard a quote yesterday from an 11 year-old girl who had just been listening to a talk aboutastronomy by a female presenter. At the end, the presenter asked if there were any questions. She put up her hand and said: "Please don't solve dark matter ...
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Facebook: The Medium of Choice for Saudi Gripes
MidEastPosts
My university, Georgetown, shut down its doctoral program in Astronomy back in the early 70s because it was producing more PhDs than there were jobs available to them. To a greater or lesser extent—mostly greater—universities and schools are ...
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