Astronomer expects alien encounters “within twenty years”
TG Daily
Finkelstein's institute runs a program that was launched in the 1960's at the height of the cold war paranoia/space race to look for and send out signals to outer space. "The whole time we have been searching for extraterrestrial civilizations, ...
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TG Daily
Symphony In The Glen Releases "Observations: Symphonic Encounters from Galileo...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
In celebration of 2009 as the International Year of Astronomy, Griffith Observatory, Friends Of TheObservatory and Symphony In The Glen presented "Cosmic Conjunction" on the front lawn of the observatory -- a spectacular concert honoring Galileo, ...
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For the Universe, Size Matters
TIME
(See "The Universe, to Scale: New Images of Outer Space.") But now comes the latest attempt to put the cosmos in perspective, and it may be the most effective yet — even though it takes the retro form of a physical book. Most coffee-table astronomy ...
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TIME
Cosmic crash
Frontline
The e-mail immediately set off a flurry of activity in astronomy groups around the world. The supplementing observations by other space observatories – such as the HubbleSpace Telescope, which has been taking extraordinary high-resolution images of ...
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Frontline
Started pre-launch process of space telescope RadioAstron
AVIONEWS
(WAPA) - Continues the process of pre-launch preparation of RadioAstron or Spectrum-R, the spacetelescope with radio antenna, from site 31 of Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Here the biggest satellite for radio astronomy built ever was transferred ...
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Is there a God? Aliens? An astrophysicist's answers
msnbc.com
It's only proof that something happened at the beginning of the universe, where there wasn't space or time and then there became space and time. For many people,astronomers' discoveries confirm what they thought was true all along: that God is there. ...
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msnbc.com
Volunteer Star Gazers Needed
University of Central Florida
... astronomers whether it's in our backyards with a pair of binoculars or on a balcony with a low-powered telescope,” he said. “This is just a way to take advantage of all the passion and interest and, hopefully, inspire the next generation of space ...
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University of Central Florida
Space | Earth | Asteroid | 2011 MD
GlobalPost
The space rock's path made it an "intruder" in astronomy terms, the Guardian reports. It was expected to enter the area around our planet known as the Hill sphere, where Earth's gravitational pull is the dominant force on other objects, altering the ...
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GlobalPost
Saturn's Moon may hold signs of life
International Business Times AU
Enceladus, one of the ringed planets 62 moons may prove to hold the answer to one ofastronomy's biggest question: is there life out there? NASA's Cassini spacecraftsuccessfully completed its second-closest encounter with Saturn's small, ...
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International Business Times AU
$39 million Sis and Herman Dupre Science Pavilion Dedicated
Saint Vincent College
The remaining construction will include laboratories for cell genetics, microbiology, biochemistry,astronomy, electronics, anatomy and general biology, chemistry and physics and specialized laboratories for research in biochemistry, physical chemistry ...
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China building world's largest radio telescope
DefenceWeb (press release)
A MeerKAT prototype has been built at the Radio Astronomy Reserve in the Karoo. Called the MeerKAT Precursor Array (MPA), the radio telescope is in the process of being commissioned. Construction of the MPA began in August 2009 and was completed in ...
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DefenceWeb (press release)
Symphony for the Devil
Spectator.co.uk
Christopher Marlowe was born in that same vintage year as Shakespeare and Galileo, into a world torn asunder by Reformation theology and then enlightened and inspired by Renaissance astronomy and philosophy. Marlowe was the first to conceive of the ...
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Spectator.co.uk
Hawley to make appearance in Salina on Friday
Salina.com
Hawley has logged more than 770 hours in space on five different missions, one of which was the maiden voyage of the Discovery. He retired from NASA in May 2008 and now resides in Lawrence, where he's a professor of physics and astronomy at KU.
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SICCAS and Corning Open Joint Research Facility
MarketWatch (press release)
The institute's main research fields cover structural ceramics and composites, inorganic functional ceramics, environmental and energy source materials, space materials and engineering, the analysis, testing and characterization of inorganic materials ...
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A quiet phase: NIST optical tools produce ultra-low-noise microwave signals
EurekAlert (press release)
Other applications could include high-resolution analog-to-digital conversion of very fast signals, such as for communications or navigation, and radio astronomy that couples signals from space with arrival times at multiple antennas. ...
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Shoot It in the Head
Science 2.0 (blog)
It took radio astronomy work without the need for eclipses to solidify the case. Newton's scalar potential theory has but one term to warp time, effectively the g 00 term of a metric. Einstein had another, equal contributor that bent space. ...
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Carnival of Space: 203 « we are all in the gutter
By weareallinthegutter
It's Carnival time in the Gutter again! We're hosting this week's round-up of space and astronomyblogging news. If you'd like to find out more or get involved yourself check out the Carnival's homepage over at Universe Today. ...
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space shuttle atlantis | Astronomy News And Information
STS-135 crew at TCDT Q&A session with journalists at base of Launch Pad 39A, Kennedy SpaceCenter. From left; Mission Specialists Rex Walheim and Sandy ...
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Astronomy News - The Curdridge Observatory
Astrophotography & Astronomy Blog: Taking images with CCD cameras and ... James WebbSpace Telescope. Category: Astronomy News. Posted by: Tom How ...
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