NASA's Hubble Space Telescope views star that changed universe
DailyIndia.com
Though the universe is filled with billions upon billions of stars, Hubble Space Telescope has been trained on a single variable star that in 1923 altered the course of modern astronomy. The star goes by the inauspicious name of Hubble variable number ...
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How to learn a star's true age
Astronomy Magazine
In space, the same is true of the actual stars. Like our Sun, most stars look almost the same for most of their lives. So how can we tell if a star is 1 billion or 10 billion years old? Astronomers may have found a solution — measuring the star's spin ...
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Scouring Space for Life: More Earths Out There Than We Thought?
TIME
Planet hunting is by far the hottest area of astronomy these days, and just about everyone who's in on the search is looking for the same thing: a distant world where life could exist, at least in theory. That means a world more or less the size of ...
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Amateur astronomer captures night skies
Natchez Democrat
“It's like you are right there in space,” Kolb said. He first discovered his interest forastronomy 20 years ago when he first saw the television series “Star Gazers” on PBS. “I used to watch the show every Sunday, and it showed how people who are not ...
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Natchez Democrat
Space Music: The Blind Astrophysicist
Discovery News
These days, astronomy is mostly a matter of visual data expressed in charts and graphs. That won't work for Wanda Diaz, an astrophysicist from Puerto Rico. She's blind, and working on new ways to measure and represent what's going on in outer space. ...
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Summer Nights Program Returns to Golden Pond Planetarium
Clarksville Online
Introduction into Astronomy with WKAA June 18th – 8:30pm. Two Small Pieces of Glass July 2nd – 8:30pm. Journey to the Edge of Space & Time July 30th – 8:30pm. Two Small Pieces of Glass July 30th – 9:30pm. Telescope Time Machine with WKAA August 13th ...
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Free events at National Museums Liverpool this half term
Click Liverpool
Travel to outer space without even leaving your chair in our incredible space andastronomy show for adults and children over five. Tickets available from 10am and up to five minutes before each performance from the welcome desk. ...
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Telescope hopes sky high for Glebe astrophysicist
Inner West Courier
Professor McClure-Griffiths is the OCE science leader at the CSIRO's Astronomy &Space Science division and specialises in research on the Milky Way. “SKA could unlock what the Milky Way actually looks like,” she said. Professor McClure-Griffiths was ...
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Inner West Courier
Centralise research council funding - Pandor
BuaNews Online (press release)
Hanekom said there was no final decision on the fracking application in the karoo and pointed out that in line with the Astronomy Act, the minister had the final say on whether proposed fracking would go ahead if it affected telescopes at Sutherland ...
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Longtime teachers say farewell to Holland Hall
Tulsa World
He's even done an interdisciplinary elective, "Space: The Final Frontier," which combined astronomyand science fiction. Now, he's set to explore an entirely new frontier: retirement. Joining him for the trip will be fellow Holland Hall teachers Kay ...
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Property deed scams nearly epidemic in Harris County
Houston Chronicle
Nugent holds master's and bachelor's degrees in astronomy from the University of South Florida, according to Lara Wade, a university spokeswoman. He has won recognition and published articles on his findings about space. But for years he has worked as ...
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Houston Chronicle
Knight Science Journalism Tracker - Daily report
Newsroom America
... Space.com – Mike Wall : Lonely rogue Worlds Surprisingly Outnumber Planets with Suns ; TIME Magazine – Michael Lemonick: Rogue Planets: Billions of Jupiters on the Loose in the Milky Way ; Guardian (UK) Alok Jha: Astronomers discover 10 more ...
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Change rattles the world's biggest dish
Nature.com (subscription)
"We wish SRI good luck in living up to the incredibly high standards we have set," says Ira Wasserman, chairman of Cornell's astronomy department. Robert Kerr, a former director of Arecibo who was principal investigator on the successful bid, ...
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Best-Yet Views of a Black-Hole Powerhouse
Sky & Telescope
As Cornelia Müller (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg) and others describe in the June issue ofAstronomy & Astrophysics, the TAMANI array resolves individual blobs and other never-before-seen details in the jets, which appear to be racing away from the ...
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Lyudviga Haute Couture in Birmingham
Metromix Detroit
I was also a big nerd, too, who loved astronomy and science. My grandma saw the things I made and told me if I sew I will always have bread and butter on the table. Where can we women wear these at? And what about prices? ...
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Astronomers discovered ten planets in the Milky Way thanks to a EU funding ...
Euroalert.net
This implies implies that there could be billions more free-floating Jupiter-style planets floating ininterstellar space far from the light of any nearby parent star. Although scientists supposed floating planets existed, due to their distant location ...
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Scientists At A Loss To Predict Bad Tornado Seasons
NPR
But Greg Jenkins, an associate professor of physics and astronomy at Howard University, says that's where the similarities end. "The time scales are different, the space scales are different and the sources are different," says Jenkins. ...
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Calendar set in stone
Deccan Herald
In between publishing cutting-edge research on stellar spectra and buckyballs inspace, Rao has also devoted much time to studying astronomy in ancient India. Rao and his colleagues who investigated this stone alignment believe that Vibhutihalli's rows...
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Deccan Herald
Suspected Ozone Loss Never Involved CFC's
Nolan Chart LLC
Dr. Lu, a physics and astronomy professor at the University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada), said the fallacy was accepted for more than twenty years that Earth's ozone layer is depleted by chlorine atoms produced by CFCs. Lu and Sanches Study Suggests ...
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Festival themes: show me the way to the cosmodome
The Independent
And they're all mad into astronomy. It's the only festival they're headlining, and so playing under the stars. And because we're family-oriented, this is a thing that kids are into. We're doing all we can to support the theme, with stargazing, ...
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Hubble Views the Star That Changed the Universe
By Gabriella Brianna
Astronomers pointed Edwin Hubble's namesake, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, at the star once again, in a symbolic tribute to the legendary astronomer's milestone observation. Astronomers with the Space .... Gingerich says Hubble's discovery was not big news at the meeting because the astronomer had informed the leading astronomers of his result months earlier. Edwin Hubble's observations of V1 became the critical first step in uncovering a larger, grander universe. ...
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Although this is its last mission to the space station, shuttle Endeavour has just made a first inspace history: it is the first shuttle ever to be ...
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