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SPACE, Astronomy News, Jul 19, 2011

Russia Launches Long-Delayed Deep Space Radio Telescope
Fox News
Featuring a giant 30-foot (10-meter) wide antenna, the Spektr-R observatory is part of the international Radioastron astronomy project. "The aim of the mission is to use the space telescope to conduct interferometer observations in conjunction with the ...
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Neighbor galaxy caught stealing stars
PhysOrg.com
The paper authors are: Knut AG Olsen, National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Tucson, Arizona Dennis Zaritsky, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona Robert D. Blum, National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Tucson, Arizona Martha L. Boyer, Space ...
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PhysOrg.com
Stellar eclipse gives glimpse of exoplanet
MIT News
Andrew Howard, a research astronomer at the University of California at Berkeley who was not involved in this study, said spotting such a miniature eclipse in deep space is no small feat. “This is like looking for a firefly crawling across a ...
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Space shuttle's science brought payoffs to Earth
The Associated Press
Still, the most obvious science the shuttle helped generate is with astronomy. Exhibit 1 is the Hubble Space Telescope, which changed Earth's view of the cosmos and even its understanding of the age of the universe. It was launched with the shuttle, ...
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The Associated Press
Spectrograph Optics for Astronomical Telescopes
Optics.org
Drawing upon a highly experienced team of optical designers, engineers, and skilled production staff and benefiting from a unique high stability manufacturing environment, Optical Surfaces has been the preferred supplier to many international astronomy ...
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NASA telescopes face budget abyss
Nature.com (subscription)
Astrophysics was once NASA's highest-funded science division and, with the Hubble Space Telescope, a long-time public-relations winner. But its two flagship telescope missions, ranked as the highest priorities for US astronomy, are now under threat as ...
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Allahabad Teachers learn hands-on science
India PRwire (press release)
A unique feature in this program is that it will be centered around Astronomy, as it is a superset of many sciences and includes physics, chemistry, math, biology and geography within its boundaries. The program will be initiated with the fourth ...
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Superheroes, Surveyed and Sized Up
New York Times
His mother attends astronomy classes with him and takes him to see “2001: A Space Odyssey.” His world is shattered when his parents separate, and he channels his adolescent alienation and unfulfilled libido into rudimentary comics characters that are ...
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Dawn captures first orbital image of asteroid Vesta
New Scientist (blog)
There are also intriguing grooves running along the surface, a big cliff at upper right and a massive mountain dominating the centre of the image, which Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy reckons is more than 100 kilometres wide. ...
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Correcting criticisms
Beverley Guardian
Since the Judithgate scandal there has been no article in support of the Global Warming scam in the newsletter of the Space special interest group of Mensa despite the Editor's pleadings. Judithgate was a scandal in Astronomy when it was found that the ...
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Mike the Mailman: State of Traditions
State College News
In another tradition since 1999 on campus, Penn State astronomy students and faculty invite the public to join them on the rooftop observatory at the Davey Laboratory. Talk about out of this world! I tried to locate the Atlantis space shuttle up there ...
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Dawn mission is a rock star : Space and Astronomy news daily ...
By Jonathan Nally
“This region of space has been ignored for far too long,” he added. “So far, the images received to date reveal a complex surface that seems to have preserved some of the earliest events in Vesta's history, as well as logging the ...
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Space Camp is Out of This World
By News Editor
Students at the camp learn about rocket building, space law, medical engineering, satellites, robotics, orbital mechanics, astronomy and the local aerospace industry, in fun and interactive sessions. During the camp, they will have ...
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