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SPACE, Astronomy News, Dec 19, 2011


Microsoft billionaire launches new space venture
Christian Science Monitor
Stratolaunch Systems continues a trend for Paul Allen, who has funded several different spaceflight and astronomy efforts over the years. By Mike Wall, SPACE.com Senior Writer / December 14, 2011 Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen speaks during a news ...
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Christian Science Monitor
Blue moons? Kepler-22b offers NASA habitable world hopes
USA Today
Kipping hopes to present some preliminary reports from the HEK project early next year at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Austin. Let's hope he has a HEK of a chance. So hang in there, space fans, "where there's life, there's hope," as ...
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USA Today
NASA Terminates Power, Locks Cargo Doors on Retiring Shuttle Discovery
Universe Today
Ken has presented at numerous educational institutions, civic & religious organizations, museums and astronomy clubs. Ken has reported first hand from the Kennedy Space Center and lectures on both Human and Robotic spaceflight - www.kenkremer.com.
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Universe Today
Fermi shows that Tycho's star shines in gamma rays
Astronomy Magazine
It's often called “Tycho's supernova” after the great Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, who gained renown for his extensive study of the object. Now, years of data collected by NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope reveal that the shattered star's ...
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Acronyms and the Astronomers Who Love Them: Science at the Boston University ...
Huffington Post
We chatted about astronomy news, especially the latest exoplanets discovered by the Keplerspace observatory, how long it would take us to travel there to them if we could turn ourselves into light, and how it would seem like much longer to ordinary ...
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Blue moons? Kepler opens habitable world hopes
Tucson Citizen
18, 2011, under USA Today News And NASA? NASA's Kepler space telescope team this month unveiled “Kepler-22b.” A planet some 600 light-years away, Kepler-22b circles its star squarely in a “habitable zone” — the orbital distance where a world's surface ...
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Become unique entities, APJ tells youth
Times of India
... life," Nair said The three-acre space science museum, a joint initiative of ISRO and Indira Rajan, an educationist in Kerala, showcases various models of PSLV, GSLV, INSAT 2A and Chandrayan-I, and the history of Indian astronomy and space science. ...
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Astronomy professor speaks, signs books at space center
The Downey Patriot
... feast of astronomy with constellation maps, aerial views of aligned celestial structures and images of the universe as created by a wide range of cultures. For more information on the book signing event, please visit the Space Center's website at ...
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Space Station and Orion are this week's bright spots
San Antonio Express
By Becky Ramotowski, EXPRESS-NEWS COLUMNIST The San Antonio Astronomical Association invites you to participate in all of its public astronomy events. It's free; and you can view the calendar at www.sanantonioastronomy.org. The sky is full of assorted ...
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Hubble Images Help Pin Down ID of Supernova Companion
Space Daily
... Berkeley, research astronomer Weidong Li focused instead on what could not be seen. Li pulled up images of the northern sky taken over the past nine years by the Hubble Space telescope in hopes of seeing the supernova's "progenitor" star, ...
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Odisha: YATS aims to encourage young talents in field of Astronomy & Space Science
Orissadiary.com
With a view to popularise the excellent contributions of the legendary Pathani Samanta in the field of astronomy and to spot and encourage the young talents in the field ofastronomy and space science among the school going children, Tata Steel, ...
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Orissadiary.com
Anousheh Ansari - First Female Private Space Explorer
Huffington Post
She has an honorary doctorate from the International Space University. She is currently working toward a master's degree in astronomy from Swinburne University. She believes the key to a better future for humankind is in the hands of our young ...
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Africa pitches new promised land for astronomers
AFP
Like an archaeologist digging into ever deeper layers of soil, the telescope will pick up radio waves from deeper in space than ever before, ones whose sources are billions of years old and may not even exist anymore. Scientists say that power will ...
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AFP
Supernova fireworks shed light on cosmos
Futurity: Research News
This scenario would have generated several tens of times more light than the astronomers observed. Additionally, it happens that the Hubble Space Telescope took images of the location where SN2011fe lived before it blew up. When the researchers looked ...
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Comet loses its tail in a collision with the sun
Catholic Online
Australian amateur astronomer Terry Lovejoy, who discovered the comet on November 27, told anastronomy Web site that the attention his find has received has been amazing, and that he was happy to make a contribution to astronomy. ...
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Scots scientists to gaze into the unknown with Big Bang camera
Scotland on Sunday
The £15 million SCUBA-2, now installed as part of the world's largest astronomicaltelescope in Hawaii, can penetrate thick walls of galactic dust to see into the furthest reaches of space, where stars are born. The camera is the largest and most ...
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Scotland on Sunday
Solar Walk: The Best — Maybe Only — Reason to Get a 3-D TV
New York Times (blog)
... and it's a $3 astronomy app for iOS devices that can work in concert with 3-D televisions. More on that in a minute. Solar Walk, an app for iOS devices, lets you fly across the solar system. Outer space was a big deal to me when I was growing up. ...
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New York Times (blog)
European astronomers conducting a multispectral survey of the northern sky ...
Military & Aerospace Electronics
The camera assembles images into a mosaic to provide an image area nearly half a meter in diameter. The camera has vacuum and cooling components and integrated electronics, for which e2v is working with RAL Space in Harwell, England.
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First Look at a Black Hole's Feast
Universe Today
Video credit: ESO/MPE/Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org)/VISTA/J. Emerson/Digitized Sky Survey 2 Music: xxx Jason is a graphic artist from Rhode Island now living and working in Dallas, Texas. He writes about astronomy and space exploration on his blog ...
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Titan's Colorful Crescent
Universe Today
Credit: NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute. Edited by Jason Major. Jason is a graphic artist from Rhode Island now living and working in Dallas, Texas. He writes about astronomy and space exploration on his blog Lights In The Dark, here on Universe ...
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Universe Today
A galaxy of possibilities
Mail & Guardian Online
Studying the laws of the universe will lead to a "unique learning experience linked to growth, management of change, security and peace of mind -- all insights drawn from the worlds ofastronomy, cosmology, aeronautics, chaos theory … and much more". ...
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Tonight's Sky Features a Waning Moon
AccuWeather.com (blog)
The moon and Regulus will rise first this evening and then Mars follows them above the horizon roughly an hour later and can be seen in this space map below, which is courtesy of a favoriteastronomy site of mine, EarthSky.org. ...
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A Cosmic Purgatory
AccuWeather.com (blog)
You can leave your comments, as well as be part of a community where discussions on anyastronomy subject taking place. We are now over 2200 likes. Tell your friends about this site and blog, and have them weigh in on some exciting issues. ...
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Our Own Private Hell: Unlocking Mercury's Enigmatic Past
Universe Today
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington Thirty-five years after NASA's Mariner 10 interplanetary probe flew by and imaged less than half of tiny Mercury's surface, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft ...
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Universe Today
Don't worry, the sky coyote is watching
Downey Beat
Pomona College Astronomy Professor Bryan Penprase has collected the myths and tales of the sky in his new book: “The Power of Stars: How Celestial Observations Have Shaped Civilization.” He spoke about his work to a crowd of about 40 people Saturday at ...
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e2v to supply gigapixel camera system for Javalambre Astrophysical Observatory
Space Daily
Funded by a consortium of Spanish and Brazilian astronomy institutes, J-PAS will be dedicated to creating a map of the observable Universe in 56 continuous wavebands from 350nm to 1000nm. The e2v cryogenic camera system has a 1.2 gigapixel mosaic array ...
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The Grantland Pop Science Year in Review
Grantland (blog)
Internet doomsday groups y'all. In all likelihood 2012 Will Begin Without A SpaceApocalypse Or Pole Flip: "The magnetic poles do flip sometimes, but on time scales of about 500000 years." Should we listen to NASA or trust them? After all NASA Has Lost ...
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Grantland (blog)
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Berthoud Recorder
Shaped like a cone extending into space, it has a circular cross section most easily seen during a lunar eclipse. For example, last Saturday the Full Moon slid across the southern half of Earth's umbral shadow, entertaining moonwatchers around much of ...
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Berthoud Recorder
Pop Filter Hot Pick: hot jazz, merry-making and the Milky Way at Carnegie ...
Pop City
15., art and astronomy will converge on the North Shore, when hot jazz, festive merry-making and the mysteries of the Milky Way fill the Carnegie Science Center for a first-of-its kind holiday happening. You may have seen her light up the room at ...
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Pop City
A selection of the most popular Real Economy Reports 2011
Creamer Media's Engineering News
The dish was originally built in only a few months for America's National Aeronautics and SpaceAgency. Dr George Nicolson, emeritus astronomer and former director of the Hartbeesthoek RadioAstronomy Observatory, explains why. ...
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BC-CIR-GEEK-NOTES-NYT
Sierra Vista Herald
In the case of Solar Walk, a $3 astronomy app for Apple iOS devices that can work in concert with 3-D televisions, I'm prepared to make an exception. More on that in a minute. Solar Walk, designed by the same people who created the stargazing app Star ...
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Officials applaud Norwich school's upgrade
Norwich Bulletin
I'ma lucky man,” Popinchalk said of the renovated space. “I have four or five years left, and there's so much I can do. I can't wait to start teaching astronomy again.” Popinchalk's unscripted excitement capped an evening of celebration for dozens of ...
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What's On Astronomy.FM ~ Tuesday thru Wednesday | Astronomy.FM
By Tavi Greiner
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13 - WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14 Today's Radio Schedule at a GLANCE: SET #1: 60-Second Earth ~ Discovery Now ~ Astronomy Out & ... More news, from Public Radio WHRV, “Discovery Now” ~ Airplanes a la Birds: Aeronautics researchers are watching nature more closely, for better flights with smaller wings. (00:01:30) ... Now on a new night, The Planetary Society's “Planetary Radio” ~ AGU Fall Meeting / NASA's Future Forum / Random Space Facts. ...
Astronomy.FM
Space and Earth Sciences News :: NASA's RXTE detect 'heartbeat ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of astronomers has identified a candidate for the smallest-known black hole using data from NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing ...
www.news-about-space.org/astronomy-news/cluster12622506/
NASA - Goddard Year In Review: Astrophysics
Astronomers have pushed NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to its limits by finding what is likely to be the most distant object ever seen in the universe. ...
www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/.../2011-astro.html
Lunar eclipse overshadows NASA report on stolen astromaterials ...
You are here : Home » Space News » Lunar eclipse overshadows NASA ... the full moon,” NASA astronomer Tony Phillips said, according to The Seattle Times. ...
americaspeaksink.com/.../lunar-eclipse-overshadows-nasa-repo...
NASA's RXTE Detects 'Heartbeat' Of Smallest Black Hole Candidate
MessageToEagle.com - An international team of astronomers has identified a candidate ... HomeSpace Astronomy News NASA's RXTE Detects 'Heartbeat' Of ...
www.messagetoeagle.com/.../818-nasas-rxte-detects-heartbeat-...
UBC Scientists Key Contributors To 'Super-Cool ... - Space Newsfeed
The most comprehensive space news service available .... Galaxy · NASA To Support IUAstronomer's Quest To Develop Largest-Ever Star Formation Database ...
www.spacenewsfeed.co.uk/.../10343-ubc-scientists-key-contri...
NASA announces Feb. 7 launch for 1st SpaceX Docking to ISS
All Space Media in one place with hourly updates... Astronomy. Latest outer space and sciencenews, NASA information. exclusive solar system Images, ...
www.yesitekhoob.com/index.php?...id...
Seattle Astronomy » Lori Garver
Space and Astronomy News from Seattle and the Northwest ... NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver broke some milestone news during her keynote address ...
www.seattleastronomy.com/blog1/tag/lori-garver/
ESA Gaia Star Mapper Spreads Its Wings - Night Sky Observer
You are here: Astronomy News » Space Missions » ESA Gaia Star Mapper .... for InfraredAstronomy; it's NASA Dryden's SOFIA and Ikhana projects... plus, ...
www.nightskyobserver.com/.../esa-gaia-star-mapper-spreads-it...
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