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SPACE, Astronomy News, Jun 02, 2011

Hubble Reveals Ghostly Ring of Dark Matter
Astronomers Nab $500000 Prize for Hunting Elusive Dark Matter
Space.com
The team's models showed that a certain type of dark matter — slow-moving particles called cold dark matter — could produce the clumps, filaments and voids observed inspace. "That was the clincher," Davis said. "We said that the universe looks like ...
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Space.com

Australia's bid for giant space eye
Ninemsn
SKA director Brian Boyle, from CSIRO's Astronomy and Space Science division, said the telescope would "reveal knowledge about the universe that we've scarcely even begun to dream about". Scientists hope the SKA will help them unlock some of the ...
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Brian Cox brings the Wonders of the Universe to life for children
University of Manchester
... where he is an academic in the School of Physics and Astronomy, on Wednesday June 8th. It will also be recorded and made available on The University of Manchester website, allowing thousands more pupils to learn about space and the Universe as part...
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University of Manchester

Western launches new space program
Western News
Awarded $1649656 by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Wednesday, the new program, led by Western Earth Science and Physics & Astronomy professor Gordon Osinski, will ensure Canada meets its growing need for Earth and ...
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Rage Against the Dying of the Light
Astrobiology Magazine
Marcy criticized the 2010 astronomy and astrophysics Decadal Survey, an influential review complied by the National Research Council that recommends missions forspace science over the next ten years. “TPF was not even mentioned in the Decadal Survey,” ...
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Astrobiology Magazine

Space Music: Supernova Sonatas and Neil's Armsong
Discovery News
Enter astronomy graduate student Alex Harrison Parker from Canada's University of Victoria. Parker took three years worth of supernovae observation data (covering four sections of the sky) from Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, sped the video up to ...
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Under The Starry Dome: The world is ending (again)!
Scene
In my more than two decades of being an astronomy, space, physics and mathematics educator, I have gotten some amazing phone calls due to incorrect understanding of information that was received via the internet – usually attached to an email. ...
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Mission control at Ocean Bay
Myrtle Beach Sun News
"In our astronomy unit, we learned about the tools and technology used to studyspace," Schliem said. "Launching rockets is a great way to demonstrate Newton's third law of motion. Students made the rockets from paper towel tubes, manila folders and a ...
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Myrtle Beach Sun News

This Is the Last Image the Spirit Mars Rover Ever Saw
Popular Science
That's the hill with the light-colored peak near the top center of the image, explainastronomers Robert Nemiroff of Michigan Tech and Jerry Bonnell of NASA GoddardSpace Flight Center. The von Braun mound and a related feature named Goddard could be ...
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Popular Science

'Oddball' Star Cluster Is a Hybrid
Space Ref (press release)
In fact, all chemical elements heavier than helium are made in the stars, and research into how the universe became enriched in these "metals" is the focus of much current research in astronomy.Astronomers tend to call these elements "metals," though ...
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Better hearing with spaced-apart ears
PhysOrg.com
This would mark the advent of a whole new type of astronomy.” More information: Bernard F. Schutz, Networks of gravitational wave detectors and three figures of merit, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2011. http://iopscience. … 28/12/125023.
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PhysOrg.com

As NASA prepares to retire its final shuttle, agency leaders face an uncertain ...
Nextgov
The astronomy division of NASA's science directorate has been using the surveys for nearly 50 years to prioritize popular and successful projects, such as the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Spitzer Space Telescope. ...
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Governor's School line-up
Log Cabin Democrat
First off is Phil Plait, the creator of “Bad Astronomy.” He's an astronomer, lecturer, and author who worked 10 years on the Hubble Space Telescope and six more working on astronomy education. According to his website, Plait has “written two books, ...
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LOFAR Makes Deeper Images of the Universe than Ever Before
Space Ref (press release)
Detecting the EoR is one of the hottest projects in astronomy today. A group ofastronomers based at ASTRON and the Kapteyn Institute of the University of Groningen, headed by Prof. Ger de Bruyn, Dr. Michiel Brentjens, Prof. Leon Koopmans and Prof. ...
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Space Ref (press release)

North Penn Junior ROTC undergoes first inspection
Montgomery Newspapers
The program also offers a history class and a course for seniors in space exploration that includes more physics and astronomy. Students can earn college credits for the classes, he said. Junior ROTC student Kim Rivas, 16, of Lansdale, said she enjoys ...
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Montgomery Newspapers

High-performance computing cluster is UI's largest 'supercomputer' ever
Media Newswire (press release)
--Gregory Howes, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics and astronomy, studies turbulence in spaceand astrophysical plasmas and uses the HPC cluster for development and testing of complex, computationally challenging codes in preparation for runs on ...
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Galaxy research is no game
Auckland stuff.co.nz
HANDY DEVICE: Massey University PhD student Joe Ling is using gaming graphic cards for astronomy research. Joe Ling has turned his love of computer games into a way of discovering floating planets in our galaxy. The Massey University Albany PhD student ...
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Auckland stuff.co.nz

New World FEST
vision magazine
Anyone who is into astronomy has a sense of the size of the universe. Sometimes it is hard to wrap one's mind around the scope of it. I do believe we are all energetically connected to some extent, and I think that if we curtail fear and anxiety in ...
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vision magazine

Crowd Pleasers for June 3, 2011
SouthtownStar
The “Dark Universe” lecture on June 9 will kick off the new quarterly lecture series about current topics in astronomy. BROOKFIELD ZOO: 3300 Golf Road, Brookfield, (708) 688-8000: Weekly programs for Summer Camp 2011 will begin June 6. ...
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See "The Night Skies Over Kearney" This Friday
NTV
The space and time functions of the projector are completely computer controlled, which means that the presenter can navigate to any place in the world, and any date in the past or future, with the push of a button. The show is free and open to the ...
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Grab 'n' Go Kids Planner: Stargazing at the Library
Patch.com
... can enter the planetarium to see stars, constellations and galaxies complemented by lasers, music and slides in an educational astronomy program. Registration required. Call 949-360-1730 or stop by the children's desk to register. Space is limited. ...
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Ben-Gurion U awards honorary doctoral degree to former NASA chief scientist ...
EurekAlert (press release)
Prior to joining Purdue University, Dr. Córdova served as chancellor and distinguished professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California Riverside from 2002 to 2007. Under her guidance, the University became a national model for the ...
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Gruber Cosmology Prize honors “dark matter” astronomers
UC Berkeley
Davis teamed up with White, who was a researcher at UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory, recruited Frenk as a post-doctoral fellow, and collaborated with Efstathiou, who was then at Cambridge University's Institute of Astronomy and had developed a ...
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UC Berkeley

Scholars, scientists gather to discuss the intersection of science and ...
NEWS.GNOM.ES (press release)
It will house the University's new Institute for Molecular Engineering, in addition to providing new facilities for the University's globally recognized programs in astrophysics, astronomy, chemistry and physics. Both HOK and James Carpenter Design ...
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Board the eurostar
Nature.com (subscription)
They include, for example, the power and limitations of our knowledge of the genotype with respect to our understanding of the phenotype, deep-space astronomy, quantum computation, and information science. Other themes are more philosophical: the ...
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Scouring Space for Life: More Earths Out There than We Thought ...
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