SPACE, Astronomy News, Feb 13, 2012

WA in spotlight as space race heats up Sydney Morning Herald Photo: Swinburne Astronomy Productions/ SKA Program Development Office It has been described as one of the most significant science projects of the 21st century, and WA is just weeks away from finding out if a long-running bid to host the world's ... See all stories on this topic »

Obama's NASA budget favors a space telescope over Mars exploration Christian Science Monitor The proposed 2013 federal budget shifts funding away from missions to Mars and emphasizes manned spaceflight andastronomy. By Mike Wall, SPACE.com / February 13, 2012 This artist's rendering shows a 'sky crane' lowering NASA's Mars Science Laboratory ... See all stories on this topic » Christian Science Monitor

Planck All-Sky Images Show Cold Gas and Strange Haze Jet Propulsion Laboratory This all-sky image shows the distribution of carbon monoxide (CO), a molecule used by astronomers to trace molecular clouds across the sky, as seen by Planck. New images from the Planck mission show previously undiscovered islands ofstar formation and ... See all stories on this topic » Jet Propulsion Laboratory

It's Alive! The Greatest Space Telescope Ever Built Survives TIME Astronomers have learned that many of the biggest unanswered questions of their field — How and when did the very first stars appear? How were the galaxies assembled from those stars? How do planets form? Does the chemistry of distant planets' ... See all stories on this topic »

Subaru Telescope Captures Images of the "Stealth Merger" of Dwarf Galaxies Space Daily by Staff Writers An international team of scientists led by David Martinez-Delgado (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany) has conducted research that reveals a "stealth merger" of dwarf galaxies, where an in-falling satellite galaxy is nearly ... See all stories on this topic »

Calling All Space Cadets Patch.com Norristown-based AFM*Radio is the only 24-hour internet radio station dedicated to astronomy and other sciences. According to Western University in Ontario, Canada, the Norristown-based AFM*Radio is the only 24-hour internet radio station dedicated to ... See all stories on this topic »

Redfield Participates in NASA's IBEX Mission Press Conference Wesleyan Connection (blog) Redfield, an assistant professor of astronomy, was chosen by NASA to be a non-mission expert to help verify results from thespace agency's ongoing IBEX (Interstellar Boundary Explorer) mission, an unmanned probe that analyzes the interstellar boundary ... See all stories on this topic » Wesleyan Connection (blog)

NASA eyes plan for deep-space outpost near the moon Fox News Quiet zone According to strategic space planners, an EML-2 waypoint could enable significant telerobotic science on the far side of the moon and could serve as a platform for solar and Earth scientific observation, radioastronomy and other science in ... See all stories on this topic »

A dying star with the wind in its hair Discover Magazine (blog) I've been doing this astronomy thing for a while, OK? I've seen galaxies, clusters, stars, planets… so many I've lost count. So it's hard to find something I've never seen before, or even heard of before. So when astrophotographer Adam Block sent me a... See all stories on this topic » Discover Magazine (blog)

NASA Space Shuttle-Carrying Jumbo Jet Retires After One Last Flight Space.com In its retirement, NASA 911 will be used as a source of spare parts to keep NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) flying. Also based around a Boeing 747, SOFIA uses the jetliner as a platform for a 100-inch (2.5-meter) ... See all stories on this topic »

To Dream of Stars: The First African American Woman in Space DoD Live Born Oct. 17, 1956, in Decatur, Ala., and raised in Chicago, Jemison was a studious child, spending hours in the school library reading aboutastronomy and other sciences. Her parents – a carpenter father and teacher mother – encouraged her curiosity, ... See all stories on this topic »

Boom, bright light could have been exploding meteor, scientists say Greenville News ... chair of the Department of Astronomy at the Roper Mountain Science Center. While a meteor seemed most probable, the object could also have been part of an asteroid or a piece of space junk, such as a satellite, falling to Earth, St. Lucas said. See all stories on this topic »

Scientifically Eccentric: Planet Hunting – Searching for Life in Outer Space The Daily Gazette Exoplanets, short for “extrasolar planets,” are celestial bodies orbiting astar other than our sun. It's a young, hip field. The first exoplanet was discovered as recently as 1991–yesterday, by astronomy standards. (The science dates back to star ... See all stories on this topic »

VLT Takes Most Detailed Infrared Image of the Carina Nebula Space Daily One of them, the mysterious and highly unstable star Eta Carinae, was the second brightest star in the entire night sky for several years in the 1840s and is likely to explode as a supernova in the near future, by astronomicalstandards. See all stories on this topic »

Asteroids cause black hole's X-ray hiccups Astronomy Now Online The study, which is reported in the Monthly Notices of the RoyalAstronomical Society, concludes the swarm of asteroids and comets were pulled from their parent stars and thrust on trajectories toward the black hole, which then pulls apart the objects ... See all stories on this topic » Astronomy Now Online

Flawless Maiden Launch for Europe's New Vega Rocket Universe Today Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja Europe scored a major spacesuccess with today's (Feb. 13) flawless maiden launch of the new Vega rocket from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The four stage Vega lifted off on the VV01 flight at 5:00 am EST (10:00 ... See all stories on this topic » Universe Today

'The Scale of the Universe,' by Two Teenage Brothers ABC News You may see a blank space below, then a gray box. Stick with it. When it's finished loading, prepare to be mesmerized. Click "Start," and then use the slider across the bottom, or the wheel on your mouse, to zoom in -- and in and in and in... or out ... See all stories on this topic » ABC News

New images capture 'stealth merger' of dwarf galaxies Space Daily You can see the smaller galaxy coming in and getting shredded, eventually leaving its stars scattered through the halo of the host galaxy," said Aaron Romanowsky, a research astronomer at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and coauthor of a ... See all stories on this topic »

Biological sciences struggling to accomodate freshmen, new science learning ... Red and Black By JAMIE GOTTLIEB on February 13, 2012 With the increase to 5500 freshmen to the University this year and limited labspace, the science departments were only able to accommodate for most freshmen in lab courses. Although the physics and astronomy ... See all stories on this topic » Red and Black

Sunspots' Secrets Unraveling SkyandTelescope.com Using a bypass approach, the astronomers measured how much molecular hydrogen (H 2 ) — a form of hydrogen normally associated with cooler places than the Sun's scorching surface — exists in sunspots' centers. The team's detection of H 2 inside ... See all stories on this topic »

Greek Chryssa Kouveliotou Receives 2012 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics Greek Reporter The award will be presented at the American AstronomicalSociety's 221st Meeting, January 2013, in Long Beach, Calif., at which Kouveliotou will give a plenary lecture. Kouveliotou, an astrophysicist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville ... See all stories on this topic » Greek Reporter

Scientist's stellar invention wins Jackson-Gwilt Medal Inner West Courier He is still intrigued by space. “I am always being surprised ... you never really lose the childish fascination.” His career inastronomy spans 25 years and his first invention was a machine that coloured certain gases in space - which led to him being ... See all stories on this topic » Inner West Courier

Joe Haldeman: Art & Science Locus Online He married Mary Gay Potter in 1965, and earned a BS in physics and astronomy from the University of Maryland in 1967. From 1967-69, he served as a combat engineer in the US Army in Vietnam, where he was seriously wounded and won a Purple Heart. See all stories on this topic » Locus Online

UNCG hosts regional Science Olympiad Feb. 18 UNCG University News Teams of up to 18 students will compete in events including building a battery-powered vehicle to traverse a specific course; testing a white powder to determine as many properties as possible; reading maps; and solving astronomy problems. See all stories on this topic »

UH Hilo hosts Black History Month events PressZoom (press release) Dr. Derrick Pitts, senior scientist and chief astronomer at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, presents a talk, “The New Space Race:Astronomy and Space Exploration on the Edge of Tomorrow.” The events have been planned and coordinated by the UH ... See all stories on this topic »

AKARI Finds CO Molecules in 10000000-Degree Gas Space Daily CO molecules are common in space between stars, but these molecules are usually in a very cold state. The team captured signals from rare CO molecules that are warm (2000 K) and extremely dense (10 million molecules per cubic centimeter) by detecting ... See all stories on this topic »

Capital plan emphasizes renovations Minnesota Daily It would “also provide non-laboratory spaces for the more theoretical portions of the school's work both in physics and astronomy.” However, renovation could only begin once the construction of the physics and nanotechnology building is finished, ... See all stories on this topic »

Scientists Find New Clues About the Interiors of 'Super-Earth' Exoplanets Universe Today Paul Scott Anderson is a freelance space writer with a life-long passion for space exploration and astronomy and has been a long-time member of The Planetary Society. He currently writes for Universe Today and Examiner.com. His own blog The Meridiani ... See all stories on this topic » Universe Today

2 eastern Ky. teens discover pulsars Bowling Green Daily News Pal and Hannah Mabry began looking for the heavenly objects when they took a space science class offered at Rowan County High School. Students in the class work with the Pulsar Search Collaborative, a project by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory ... See all stories on this topic »

Education notebook: Middle Georgia schools earn AP Honor status Macon Telegraph (blog) Houston County High School astronomy teacher Joe Molyson has been named a solar system ambassador by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In this role, Molyson will be a volunteer spokesman for NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the space program. See all stories on this topic »

Star-Naming Gift Set With Option Of Astronomy Software From Name ... By Bargain EZ You pick the star and give it its name. Name registered with SpaceServices Inc. Star certificate and astronomical star chart delivered to honoree via digital stork. Premium package software includes virtual planetarium, NASA images, and 3-D ... Bargain EZ

Star Maps From Mobile App Maker Brings Astronomy to ... - Space.com The makers of Starmap, a popular astronomy app, have released a series of free star maps and new educational tools to help both casual and more... www.space.com/14459-skywatching-astronomy-app-starmap...

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Carnival of space #235 | The Constant Amateur This week I will be playing host to the carnival of space and telling you about what other people are writing about astronomy and space. ...observed and catalogued over 200000 variable stars (stars whose brightness changes over time). dobby.dyndns.biz/constantamateur/.../carnival-of-space-235/

Radio stars: Caltech's astronomy professor searches for cosmic ... Around stars, planets, and other astronomical objects, the accelerating particles also produce radio signals that travel across space. Hallinan's most surprising ... www.physorg.com/.../2012-02-radio-stars-caltech-astronomy-...

Amateur Astronomer Captures Beautiful Photos of Space from His ... Tags: astronomer, astronomy, galaxies, meadecamera, outerspace,space, ... A Beautiful Time-Lapse of Star Gazers Under the Milky Way · Canon's Gigantic ... www.petapixel.com/.../amateur-astronomer-captures-beautiful-...

Astronomers Spot Fourth Potential Habitable Planet - Space News ... An international team of astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable planet 22 light years away orbiting a nearby star, reports The Telegraph. Scientists ... www.redorbit.com/.../astronomers-spot-fourth-potential-habita...

A dying star with the wind in its hair | Bad Astronomy | Discover ... Astronomy | Abell 31 | I've been doing this astronomy thing for a while, OK? ... moving through space, and interacting with the thin material between the stars. blogs.discovermagazine.com/.../a-dying-star-with-the-wind-in-...

Are my answers to those short astronomy questions OK? - Yahoo! Answers Early in the 20th century, the American astronomer Harlow Shapley mapped the distances and direction of Cepheid variable stars in globular clusters. Prior to ... answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid...

Astronomy team discovers nearby dwarf galaxy | Space Science A team led by UCLA research astronomer Michael Rich has used a unique... The galaxy is forming stars "so furiously" that it has giant clusters of young stars ... www.zeitnews.org/.../astronomy-team-discovers-nearby-dwarf...

Hubble zooms in on a magnified galaxy | Astronomy News Thanks to the presence of a natural "zoom lens" in space, NASA. ...Astronomers would like to see how star formation progressed deep within these galaxies. www.telescopesastronomy.com/.../hubble-zooms-in-on-a-mag...

Cool Space Gifs - Forums - Astronomy.com - Online Community ... I found a collection of cool animated images (gifs) about space andastronomy. Just thought it would be cool to share. (click on each to make them bigger) ... cs.astronomy.com/asycs/forums/p/54320/483995.aspx

Do black holes help stars form? - Royal Astronomical Society They had been thought to hinder the birth of stars, but now an international team ... The astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 ... www.ras.org.uk/news.../2070-do-black-holes-help-stars-form

Tips For Looking Through Your Telescope | David Reneke | Space ... Join my newsletter to stay up to date on all the latest space news. ....Telescope, along with interesting astronomy articles, have easy-to-use monthly star charts. www.davidreneke.com/tips-for-looking-through-your-telescope/

Star Formation in the Gabriela Mistral Nebula | Space & Astronomy ... Image of the star cluster NGC 3324, located about 7500 light-years away in the southern constellation of Carina, was captured by a telescope in Chile. www.theepochtimes.com/.../star-formation-in-the-gabriela-mis.

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