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Strange Lump of Dark Matter Shouldn't Exist, But Does
Space.com
by Clara Moskowitz, SPACE.com Assistant Managing Editor A lonely clump of dark matter 2.4 billion light-years from Earth is confounding scientists by its mere presence, researchers say. Contrary to popular astronomy theories, the invisible stuff ...
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Rocket Passes Big Test for 1st Private Launch to Space Station
Mashable
Space.com is a Mashable publishing partner that is the world's No. 1 source for news of astronomy, skywatching, space exploration, commercial spaceflight and related technologies. The following article is reprinted with the publisher's permission.
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NASA: Dark matter discovery is puzzling
The State Column
Initial detections of dark matter in the cluster, made in 2007, were so unusual that astronomers shrugged them off as unreal, because of poor data. New results from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope confirm that dark matter and galaxies separated in Abell ...
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Space FIREBALL over Blighty sparks hunt for rich meteorite
Register
The lump of space metals would be worth its weight in gold, Dr Marek Kukula, public astronomer at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich told The Independent : "Our own origins are locked up in these pieces of rock. They are pristine material from the ...
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Asteroid 2012 DA14 will NOT hit Earth next year says astronomer
Daily Mail
Nasa's Impact Risk report said that the odds of the space rock actually hitting our planet are very low indeed - but on February 15 next year it will pass just 17000 miles from Earth, closer than 'geostationary' satellites. If an asteroid of that size ...
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Daily Mail
Where am I? > Home > Sci/tech > The Dark at the Center of a Co...
Environmental News Network
With new space-based telescope observations, they have confirmed that the core really does exist. But they are no closer to explaining why it is there. When galaxy clusters crash into each other, the bright matter of galaxies sticks together with the ...
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Pick Up Some Good Librations With This Stunning Moon Video
Universe Today
... it rotates at such a rate as to keep the same face aiming our way… but not exactly the same face, as shown in this excellent video from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (lovingly annotated by the Bad Astronomer himself, Dr. Phil Plait.) ...
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Universe Today
Shooting star streaks across the night sky
Telegraph.co.uk
The Met Office took to Twitter to reassure people that it was actually an astronomical phenomenon, although it later had to backtrack after inaccurately describing it as a “meteorite”. Meteors, which are made of space debris and burn up in a streak of ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Video: Launch of a Lego Space Shuttle
Universe Today
The flight was apparently cleared with German air traffic control. 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.
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Universe Today
Russia... Beyond ISS—Planetary Positioning (Systems)
SatNews Publishers
It is a joint project between five participating space agencies; the American NASA, the Russian Roscosmos, the Japanese JAXA, the European ESA, and the Canadian CSA. The ISS serves as a microgravity and space environment research laboratory in which...
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Signs of dark matter in space confounding scientists
Daily Caller
Contrary to popular astronomy theories, the invisible stuff appears to have been left behind in space after a cluster of galaxies collided. While the fundamental nature of invisible dark matter remains mysterious, scientists think they have a pretty ...
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Daily Caller
Oh Canada! Government Says Aye To ISS
SatNews Publishers
As a permanent space laboratory, the ISS enables research to be conducted in a variety of fields such as life sciences, materials, Earth observation and astronomy. Canada's contributions to the ISS include the sophisticated technologies like the Mobile ...
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Mars will glow at its 'brightest' today
Hindustan Times
... astronomy, opposition defines that position of a celestial object when it is on the opposite side of the sun in the sky when viewed from earth as reference, director of NGO Science Popularisation Association of Communicators and Educators (SPACE) ...
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Working models for the gravitational field of Phobos
EurekAlert (press release)
SHI Xian and coauthors from Shanghai Astronomical Observatory and Technical University Berlin recently updated working models for the gravitational field of Phobos. Their work, entitled "Working models for the gravitational field of Phobos", ...
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Weekly SkyWatcher's Forecast: March 5-11, 2012
Universe Today
Mercator's time was a rough one for astronomy, but despite a prison sentence and the threat of torture and death for his “beliefs,” he went on to design a celestial globe in the year 1551. Need a little celestial action of your own?
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Universe Today
iPad Interactive Book Review: There's No Place Like Space!
MobileTechReview.com
"There's No Place Like Space!" is a book different most of the Suessian masterpieces many of us read as children and it serves as a unique, instructional tool targeted for middle school and young teen-aged children. The book weighs in at a little under ...
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Competing for a spot in space
GW Hatchet (subscription)
A native of Austin, Texas, Cook remembers travelling to NASA as a child to watch the space program in action. While hosting friends from Japan at her home in Texas, one of the first stops they made was to see the Houston Space Center – the same trips ...
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GW Hatchet (subscription)
Focusing on heavenly bodies
The Canberra Times
In 1627, the German astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler had published his Rudolphine Tables, containing calculations of planetary orbits, and in 1632 Galileo published his Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems.
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The Canberra Times
Google privacy goes public
The Australian Financial Review (subscription)
After US President Barack Obama proposed a flat budget for NASA in 2013, Livescience.com said a group of professional astronomers was urging the White House and Congress to find a better balance between the spaceagency's planetary science and ...
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NASA - NASA'S Spitzer Finds Solid Buckyballs in Space
Astronomers using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have, for the first time, discovered buckyballs in a solid form in space. Prior to this discovery, the ...http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitzer/news/spitzer20100722.html. and...
www.nasa.gov/home/.../HQ_12-057_Spitzer_Buckyballs.html
Astronomers Respond to Tight NASA 2013 Budget ... - Space.com
Astronomers Push for Space Mission Variety Amid Tight NASA Budget ...Follow SPACE.com for the latest in space science and exploration news on Twitter ...
www.space.com/14733-nasa-budget-request-2013-astronomer...
Astronomers Discover 'Waterworld' Planet - Space News - redOrbit
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a new class ... New observations from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show that it is a ...
www.redorbit.com/.../astronomers-discover-waterworld-planet...
NASA: Astronomers mystified by curious form of dark matter
A team of astronomers say they remain puzzled by a mysterious and unexpected dark core of ... New results from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope confirm that, ...
www.thestatecolumn.com/.../nasa-astronomers-mystified-by-c...
Cosmic Buckyball Particle 'Factory' Discovered : Discovery News
Discovery News > Space News > Cosmic Buckyball Particle 'Factory' Discovered ... the help of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomershave discovered ...
news.discovery.com/.../stellar-factory-of-solid-buckyballs-disc...
SPACE.com Staff
The American Astronomical Society (AAS) is asking Obama and Congress to include a ... NASA recently announced that it is withdrawing from the EuropeanSpace ...
www.space.com/14733-nasa-budget-request-2013-astronomer...
Space and Earth Sciences News :: NASA Observatory records 20 ...
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has recorded ultra-fast 20 million-mph (32 million km/h) winds roaring from a gas disk around the stellar-mass black hole...
www.news-about-space.org/astronomy-news/cluster13653492/
NASA Puzzles Over Weird February Fireballs | David Reneke ...
Join my newsletter to stay up to date on all the latest space news. ... The “fireballs of February” have puzzled astronomers for decades. Skywatchers first noticed ...
www.davidreneke.com/nasa-puzzles-over-weird-february-fire...
Astronomers say massive asteroid 2011 AG5 could hit Earth in 2040
JPL NASA reports astronomers are saying that more observations of the trajectory of the space rock are needed to confirm that it is on a direct collision...
www.digitaljournal.com/article/320383
NASA Raids Outer Planets Budget To Fund Fast Start ... - Space News
NASA is starting the planning process for its scaled-back robotic Mars ...Bolden's letter accompanied NASA's 2012 operating plan, a copy of which was obtained by Space News. ... NASA Request Defers Large-scale Mars,Astronomy Missions ...
www.spacenews.com/.../120224-nasa-raids-outer-planets-budg...
Astronomers Push for Space Mission Variety Amid Tight NASA ...
The American Astronomical Society issued a response to President Obama's 2013 federal budget request.
digg.com/.../astronomers_push_for_space_mission_variety_a...
NASA SPACE NEWS: NASA ISS On-Orbit position 26 February 2012
Get latest news on NASA Space News, International Space Station Shuttle Missions Google Earth Science Technology Mars Solar System UniverseAstronomy ...
spacestation-shuttle.blogspot.com/.../nasa-iss-on-orbit-position...
AAS Supports President's Proposed NASA Budget at Parabolic Arc
Space Tourism … and Much More. ... NASA funds the astronomical sciences through the Science Mission Directorate via its Astrophysics, Planetary Science, ...
www.parabolicarc.com/.../aas-supports-presidents-proposed-na...
NASA finds a new kind of planet - National Space news | Examiner ...
NASA has just announced that, by using the Hubble Space Telescope, that it has ... Dennis is a dedicated amateur astronomer/astrophotographer who has a ...
www.examiner.com/space.../nasa-finds-a-new-kind-of-planet
NASA Night Sky Network and Astronomical Society ... - Yahoo! News
News: New version of Distant Suns Astronomy App for iPad and iPhone contains ... Tourists take pictures of a NASA sign at the Kennedy SpaceCenter visitors ...
news.yahoo.com/nasa-night-sky-network-astronomical-society...
Spitzer « AmericaSpace
By News Release ... NASA'S Spitzer Finds Solid Buckyballs in Space ...WASHINGTON — Astronomers using data from NASA's Spitzer SpaceTelescope have, ...
www.americaspace.org/?tag=spitzer
NASA's Cassini spacecraft | Enigmas Astronomy site
News & thoughts about my hobby… -Astronomy ... Tag Archives: NASA'sCassini spacecraft ... Theese are other blogs of interest - Non astronomy orspace.
enigmasastronomy.wordpress.com/tag/nasas-cassini-spacecraft/
The Fireballs of February - NASA Science
The cause of the commotion was a rock from space. ... Brown explains: "Back in the 1960s and 70s, amateur astronomers noticed an increase in the number of ...
science.nasa.gov/science-news/...at.../22feb_februaryfireballs/
NASA Satellite Spots Creepy Face on the Moon « Lights in the Dark
I'm a desktop astronomer, designer and NASA nut who loves new images ....Get the most up-to-date news in astronomy and science with The SpaceReport!
lightsinthedark.wordpress.com/.../nasa-satellite-spots-creepy-fa...
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