SPACE, Astronomy News, Jul 10, 2011

[Translate] This layout compares two pictures of a supernova remnant called SN 1987A -- the left image was taken by the Herschel Space Observatory, and the right is an enlarged view of the circled region at left, taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Image credit: ESA/NASA-JPL/UCL/STScI Exploding Star Provides Clues To Origin Of Solar System Irish Weather Online Image credit: ESA/NASA-JPL/UCL/STScI A new view from NASA's Hubble SpaceTelescope showing how supernova 1987A has recently brightened is available here. Initially, astronomers weren't sure if the Herschel telescope could even see this supernova ... See all stories on this topic » Irish Weather Online

Way Above the Shuttle Flight New York Times The Webb telescope is the planned successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, which has revolutionized astronomy over the past two decades, discovered hundreds of proto-galaxies, and helped establish the age and expansion rate of the universe. ... See all stories on this topic »

Nasa fights to save the James Webb space telescope from the axe Observer As a result, budgets for other astronomical research projects have been slashed, leading the journal Nature to describe the James Webb as "the telescope that ateastronomy". Last week the US House of Representatives' appropriations committee on... See all stories on this topic » Observer

Astronomy Without A Telescope – Granularity Universe Today by Steve Nerlich on July 9, 2011 A gamma ray burst is an opportunity to assess the nature of the apparent 'empty space' vacuum that exists between you and it. In GRB 041219A's case, that's 300 million light years of vacuum. Credit: ESA. ... See all stories on this topic » Universe Today

The practice does not invalidate the principle Discover Magazine (blog) I don't talk about space too much on this weblog because I wouldn't add any value. I leave the details and nuances to those who know better. But in my earliest interests in science astronomy and physics played a big part in bringing home to me the ... See all stories on this topic » Discover Magazine (blog)

Shreds of Apollo 11 Flag For Sale New York Magazine (blog) As those of you who took that one semester of pass/fail Astronomy in college, the moon has no atmosphere and therefore no wind. (Aha! Conspiracy theories debunked!) Now, the bits of cast off flag, framed and signed by first-man-on-the-moon Neil ... See all stories on this topic » New York Magazine (blog)

The Difference Between 'Knowledge Discovery' and 'Data Mining' Smart Data Collective Astronomy: SKICAT, a system used by astronomers for the analysis of images, the classification and cataloging of sky objects of the images under study. 2. Marketing: analyze customer databases to identify different groups of customers and predict their ... See all stories on this topic »

The spells of 'Harry Potter' highlight memorable moments from a decade of ... Syracuse.com (blog) the torture curse, hit readers square in the chest in “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” when Harry's kind and wise mentor, Dumbledore, tumbles off the astronomytower to his death. or the restoring, repairing curse, for the most redemptive ... See all stories on this topic » Syracuse.com (blog)

The Great Saturn Storm AccuWeather.com (blog) The storm is the biggest observed by spacecraft orbiting or flying by Saturn. NASA's Hubble SpaceTelescope captured images in 1990 of an equally large storm. Please join the AccuWeather.comAstronomy fanpage by clicking here. ... See all stories on this topic »

Supernovae make raw material for planets : Space and Astronomy ... By Jonathan Nally Space and Astronomy news daily. ... Surprisingly, there turned out to be about a thousand times more dust than astronomers had thought a supernova was capable of producing—enough to make 200000 planets the size of Earth. ... Space and Astronomy news daily...

Astronomy News - Topix News on Astronomy continually updated from thousands of sources around the net. ... I've long said that what NASA needs is not a James Webb Space Telescope ... www.topix.com/.../partial-solar-eclipse-occurs-this-week-but-...

The Challenges – and Dangers – of Amateur Astronomy in Afghanistan ... The Challenges – and Dangers – of Amateur Astronomy in Afghanistan - Space News Category A local famer from Afghanistan looks at the night sky through a ... www.unigalactic.com/.../the-challenges-–-and-dangers-–-of-a...

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