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SPACE, Astronomy News, Jan 14, 2012


Astronomers announce discovery of oldest galaxy on record
The State Column
The space agency said the size of galaxy cluster, while relatively large, pales in comparison to our own Milky Way galaxy. NASA astronomers also say the brightness of the galaxy cluster is an indication that the galaxies remain fairly young and have ...
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Supernova traced to collision of white dwarf stars
Los Angeles Times
25, Schaefer caught a glimpse of NASA's "Astronomy Picture of the Day" on the Web. For a moment, he thought he'd been scooped. It was the supernova he'd been planning to study. Thankfully for Schaefer, the researchers who took the photo had been ...
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Los Angeles Times
Space
Chicago Tribune
These 10 facts won't hurt either: 1 Where does Earth's atmosphere end and outer space begin? NASA defines an astronaut as someone who has flown 50 miles above sea level. But some international groups prefer to define space as the area beyond the Karman ...
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Q&A: UA astrophotographer receives continued recognition from NASA for space ...
Arizona Daily Wildcat
Another one of Block's photos, an image of stellar nursery Sh2-239, was featured as NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day on Dec. 8, 2011. According to the Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter website, Block's work has been published onNASA's site more than 50 times. ...
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Boeing 747SP-Based Telescope Discovers Newborn Stars
NYCAviation
(Photo by NASA) Mounted inside the fuselage of a Boeing 747SP aircraft, NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for InfraredAstronomy, or SOFIA, is capable of searching the sky in infrared light with a sensitivity impossible from ground-based instruments....
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NYCAviation
Recommended: Night skies get a global checkup
msnbc.com
The issue should be of concern not just to astronomers, but to the wider public as well, Connie Walker of the National OpticalAstronomy Observatory said during this week's AmericanAstronomical Society meeting in Austin, Texas. ...
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msnbc.com
At Boyertown High, assignment was otherworldly
Reading Eagle
Eight years ago, 29 budding astronomers at Boyertown High School were transformed from students to space explorers. Science teacher Peter Detterline's astronomy students were part of an elite team that NASA recruited from high schools nationwide to ...
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Leader: The case for fiscal astronomy
Scotsman
He might set up our own space agency. The US has Nasa, we need the Scottish Astronomical Development Organisation, which will be known as Sad-o for short. Matching the oil debate, the First Minister will look heavenward and declare, “its oor dark ...
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SDSU astronomers discover new kind of planetary system
Cleveland News - Fox 8
By James Koh FOX 5 San Diego Reporter SAN DIEGO - The discovery of two new planets helped astronomy professors from San Diego State University to create a new classification of planetary systems. As part of NASA's Kepler missions, SDSU professor ...
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Star collision causes supernova
StandardNet
25, Schaefer caught a glimpse of NASA's "Astronomy Picture of the Day" on the Web. For a moment, he thought he'd been scooped. It was the supernova he'd been planning to study. Thankfully for Schaefer, the researchers who took the photo had been ...
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Journal Club: Dark Matter – The Early Years
Universe Today
Steve Nerlich is a very amateur Australian astronomer, publisher of the CheapAstronomy website and the weekly Cheap Astronomy Podcasts and one of the team of volunteer explainers at Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex - part of NASA's Deep ...
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Goldilocks Moons
Universe Today
He writes the astronomy and variable star blog, Simostronomy and is a cast member of the Slacker Astronomy podcast. An animated and enthusiastic speaker, Mike has given dozens of talks on stellar astronomy and variable star science for astronomyclubs, ...
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Universe Today
DBKP Book Review: 'Extraction Point!' more fun than a barrel full of ...
DBKP - Death By 1000 Papercuts
Osborn is a former payload flight controller, a veteran of over twenty years of working in the civilian space program, as well as various military space defense programs and holds graduate and undergraduate degrees in four sciences: Astronomy, Physics, ...
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DBKP - Death By 1000 Papercuts
What Does It Take to Build a Spacecraft for Human Flight?
Universe Today
Nancy Atkinson is Universe Today's Senior Editor. She also is the host of the NASA Lunar Science Institute podcast and works with the Astronomy Cast and 365 Days of Astronomy podcasts. Nancy is also a NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador.
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Universe Today
Scientists Still Searching for the Beagle 2 Crash Site on Mars
Universe Today
Nancy Atkinson is Universe Today's Senior Editor. She also is the host of the NASA Lunar Science Institute podcast and works with the Astronomy Cast and 365 Days of Astronomy podcasts. Nancy is also a NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador.
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Universe Today
What you like
The Guardian
Clare Jones Cardiff I love Nasa's Apod site (Apod: "astronomypicture of the day"). Seeing something described as "only" X light years away puts everything else into perspective. Isobel Lane London SW16 For Christmas I got a "grow your own mushrooms"...
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The Guardian
Astronomers See more Planets than Stars in Galaxy
Sudan Vision
NASA's new Kepler planet-hunting telescope in space is discovering exoplanets that are in a zone friendly to life and detecting planets as small as Earth or even tinier. That is moving the field of looking for some kind of life outside Earth from ...
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Sudan Vision
Rare Ultra-blue Stars Found in Neighboring ... - science news daily
By Editor-S
Peering deep inside the hub of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, NASA'sHubble Space Telescope has uncovered a large, rare population of hot, bright stars. ... Astronomers were surprised when they spotted these stars because physical models show that only an unusual type of old star can be as hot and as bright in ultraviolet light. While Hubble has spied these ultra-blue stars before in Andromeda, the new observation covers a much broader area, revealing that these stellar ...
Science News from SciGuru.com
NASA - NASA's Hubble Breaks New Ground With Distant Supernova ...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has looked deep into the distant universe and detected the feeble ... "For decades, astronomers have harnessed the power of Hubble to unravel the mysteries of the ... The new results were presented on Jan. ...
www.nasa.gov/.../HQ_12-011_Hubble_Farthest_Supernova.ht...
Apollo Astronauts Meet with NASA to Clear Claims on Space ...
News: Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell and a few of his fellow Apollo astronauts ... Full Story »Update: NASA Discusses Rightful Ownership ofSpace Artifacts ..... China and India are catapulting to the forefront ofastronomy research with their ...
news.yahoo.com/apollo-astronauts-meet-nasa-clear-claims-spa...
Astronomy news: NASA's Fermi Space Telescope Explores New ...
Portal astronomiczny i sklep z teleskopami - Astronomia - Astronomy portal and on-line store. Astronomy news: NASA's Fermi Space Telescope Explores New ...
astronomia.teleskopy.net/?idg=news&idd=1493
Astronomers announce discovery of oldest galaxy on record
The space agency said the size of galaxy cluster, while relatively large, pales in comparison to our own Milky Way galaxy. NASA astronomers also say the ...
www.thestatecolumn.com/.../astronomers-announce-discovery...
NASA's Kepler mission and UF astronomer find 2 new planets ...
NASA's Kepler mission and UF astronomer find 2 new planets orbiting double suns - SpaceRef.
www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=35734
Two new 'Tatooine' planets with two suns discovered
Astronomers used NASA's Kepler space telescope to identify the two so-called ... Follow Space.com for the latest in space science and explorationnews on ...
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/.../ns/technology_and_science-space/
Images from space
Astronomers, using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, have spotted a "dust factory" 30 million light-years away in the spiral galaxy M74. ...
www.washingtonpost.com/images.../gIQAH8i3vP_gallery.htm...
Space and Earth Sciences News :: NASA's Rossi X-Ray Timing ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- After 16 years in space, NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer ( RXTE) has made its last observation. The satellite provided unprecedented views ...
www.news-about-space.org/astronomy-news/cluster12926562/
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope: A Year Of Achievement And ...
Home · Space · Astronomy News NASA's James Webb Space Telescope: A Year Of Achievement And Success - with video ...
www.messagetoeagle.com/.../999-nasas-james-webb-space-tele...
NASA to mothball Langley wind tunnels | Alkaon Network
SDSU astronomers discover new kind of planetary system – Cle… ... Thenews that a failed Russian Mars probe will come crashing back to Earth in the next few days ... Yes, he is a self-proclaimed space fan and a millionaire game developer. ...
www.alkaon.net/2012/.../nasa-to-mothball-langley-wind-tunne...
Feelings about the cancellation of NASA's Constellation Program ...
The problem being that the vast majority of the populace percieves NASA HSF as worthless. Go to any non space forum or news service and look at the letters ...
www.astronomyforum.net/.../126176-feelings-about-cancellati...
NASA's Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer Retires - Logo
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Image: Active Galaxy Centaurus A - News
All Space Media in one place with hourly updates... Astronomy. Latest outerspace and science news, NASA information. exclusive solar system Images,...
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NASA Rover Mission Marks 8 Pioneering Years on ... - Yahoo! News
News: While people on Earth have just finished celebrating the arrival of a new year, two NASA robots a world away are marking a big milestone of their own:...
news.yahoo.com/nasa-rover-mission-marks-8-pioneering-year.
  
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