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SPACE, Astronomy News, May 05, 2012

This mottled landscape showing the impact crater Tycho is among the most violent-looking places on our Moon. (Credit: NASA/ESA/D. Ehrenreich)

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to use Earth's Moon as Mirror to see Venus ...
Clarksville Online
Astronomers didn't aim NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to study Tycho, however. The image was taken in preparation to observe the transit of Venus across the sun's face on June 5th-6th. Hubble cannot look at the sun directly, so astronomers are planning ...
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NASA's Chandra Sees Remarkable Outburst From Old Black Hole
MarketWatch (press release)
The discovery, made by astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, provides new insight into the nature of a mysterious class of black holes that can produce as much energy in X-rays as a million suns radiate at all wavelengths.
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Astronomers Catch Supermassive Black Hole Devouring Distant Star
RedOrbit
Using a wide selection of ground- and space-based telescopes,astronomers, led by Suvi Gezari of John Hopkins University in Baltimore, have identified the victim as a star rich in helium gas. NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX), a space-based ...
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RedOrbit
Hopkins-led study observes destruction of star by black hole
Baltimore Sun (blog)
Gezari scrutinized ultraviolet images of the gas explosion using NASA'sGALEX satellite telescope, and Armin Rest, an assistant astronomer at theSpace Telescope Science Institute, monitored it using a telescope atop Mount Haleakala, Hawaii.
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Baltimore Sun (blog)
Astronomy | Enter the Dragon
Columbus Dispatch
Once everything checks out, the space station will use its robotic arm to grasp Dragon and pull it in. Because Dragon is a reusable return vessel — similar in this respect to NASA's space shuttles — it can also take on a payload of scientific ...
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Columbus Dispatch
Black hole caught snacking on a star
Futurity: Research News
Some gas also is being ejected at high speed into space. (Credit: NASA, S. Gezari/JHU, and J. Guillochon/UC Santa Cruz) JOHNS HOPKINS (US) —Astronomers have gathered the most direct evidence yet of a supermassive black hole shredding a star that ...
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Nibiru: The Nonexistent Planet
Space.com
Because of the Nibiru NASA connection that's been claimed, the space agency put out a statement to say there is no Nibiru or Planet X coming to destroy Earth in 2012. What follows below is the true science and history of these supposed rogue planets, ...
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NASA picks JHU-led investigation upgrade for flying observatory
Space Daily
by Lisa De Nike A proposal led by a Johns Hopkins University astrophysicist has been selected by NASA as part of a science instrument upgrade to the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, known as SOFIA. The instrument, the High-resolution ...
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QND astronomy course taking students to new academic heights
Quincy Herald Whig
Kasparie got the astronomy class revved up about the space shuttle program by having students use a cartload of iPads to take a "virtual tour" of Space Shuttle Discovery last week by linking the devices through NASA's website.
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Black hole caught red-handed in stellar homicide
Science Codex
Some of the gas also is being ejected at high speeds into space. (Photo Credit: NASA, S. Gezari (The Johns Hopkins University), and J. Guillochon (University of California, Santa Cruz)) Astronomers have predicted that stripped stars circle the central ...
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Science Codex
Rogue stars ejected from the galaxy found in intergalactic space
Vanderbilt University News
Vanderbilt astronomers Kelly Holley-Bockelmann and Lauren Palladino standing in front of a NASA illustration of a supermassive black hole. (Jenni Ohnstad, John Russell / Vanderbilt, NASA) “These stars really stand out. They are red giant stars with ...
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Spy-High: Amateur Astronomers Scour the Sky for Government Secrets
Scientific American
And the number of objects being cataloged is increasing: A backyard spotter in Ontario, Kevin Fetter, won notoriety for sighting among other things an errant NASA tool bag and, last fall, China's Tiangong 1 space station test vehicle.
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Scientific American
Orlando Science Center: Month of astronomy events
Orlando Sentinel
NASA speakers will include Jean Hill, a safety and reliability engineer at KennedySpace Center at 2 pm, May 5; Caley Burke, an aeorspace engineer who will discuss unmanned spacecraft at 4 pm on May 12; instrumentation engineer Aaron Sherman on launch ...
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Moon will look huge tonight — if you believe
The Register-Guard
The Eugene Astronomical Society holds star parties once a month to view the skies. But it won't be holding one tonight, president Sam Pitts said. The full moon is the worst time to view the moon from an astronomer's point of view because that's when ...
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Exoplanets orbit in star 'sweet spots'
Futurity: Research News
"There is a fairly solid argument that the vast majority of planets in the universe, and quite possibly the Earth-like habitable zone planets, are planets orbiting M dwarfs," saysastronomer Jamie Lloyd. (Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech) CORNELL (US) ...
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Get ready for Saturday's supermoon, astronomy fans
Globe and Mail
Still, it's expected to be beautiful, says Cam Cronin, public programmer at Vancouver's HR MacMillan Space Centre. “It's a lovely opportunity to take in the beauty of the moon and to take pictures, if the weather is favourable.”NASA says supermoons ...
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Globe and Mail
NASA Astronaut to Meet Students in Cyberspace
Sacramento Bee
Speaking from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Metcalf-Lindenburger will share information from her spaceflight mission aboard the space shuttle Discovery's STS-131 mission, and take questions from students about their microgravity projects.
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SCI-TECH: UC Riverside prof gets NASA Hubble contract
North County Times
Some 43 years later, Mobasher ---- now an astronomy professor at UC Riverside, and a Riverside resident ---- has landed a NASA contract to help push our knowledge of the universe far past the nearby moon that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin visited that ...
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Black hole caught committing 'stellar homicide'
CBC.ca
Astronomers have caught a black hole in the midst of a violent act, watching in real time as it tore a sun-like star apart with gravitational forces so strong that helium gas was flowing in a stream moving at 32 million kilometers an hour.
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CBC.ca
Super Moon: Saturday, May 5 At Midnight Eastern Time Should Offer Peak Viewing
Huffington Post
And while this weekend's moon will be — as the Observer's Handbook of the RoyalAstronomical Society of Canada suggests on page 101 —- the "largest full moon of 2012," the variation of the moon's distance is not readily apparent to observers viewing...
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'Super' Super Moon to Make an Appearance Saturday
Patch.com
Astronomy Night at the St. Louis Community College-Wildwood campus is CANCELED for tonight By Mary Ann Barton The moon on May 5 and 6 will be larger and brighter than a typical full moon. MedEvac71 Grab telescopes and cameras, and look to the heavens ...
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Look! Up in the Sky! It's 'Supermoon'!
Patch.com
By Anna King A "supermoon" will rise over the Southland Saturday night, and will be 14 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than other full moons of 2012, according to Dr. James Garvin, chief scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, ...
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Black hole caught in a feeding frenzy
Astronomy Magazine
These images, taken with NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) and the Pan-STARRS1 telescope in Hawaii, show a galaxy that brightened suddenly, caused by a flare from its nucleus. The flare is a signature of the galaxy's central black hole shredding ...
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Public Invited to Free Lecture at NASA Goddard: Investigating Worlds Around ...
MarketWatch (press release)
... a NASA research scientist in the Planetary Systems Laboratory at the NASAGoddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. The talk is part of the Gerald Soffen Lecture Series and will be held at the Visitor's Center at NASA Goddard on Thursday, May 10, ...
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Astronomers discover a rare stellar disk of quartz dust
Phys.Org
The team conducted follow-up observations of the star using Spitzer, the infrared spacetelescope operated by Caltech and NASA. Spitzer's high sensitivity and sharp spatial resolution in the infrared allowed the researchers to identify the amount and ...
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There's a Supermoon Rising on Saturday
TechNewsWorld
By Katherine Noyes "The highest and lowest tides occur when the sun, Earth and moon are aligned," as in a full moon or new moon, noted Scott Austin, associate professor ofastronomy at UCA. Since the moon will be at its closest approach during this ...
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QND class takes part in Web conference with NASA
Quincy Journal
Through the NASA Digital Learning Network, the Quincy Notre Dame astronomy class was part of a live digital learning web conference with a NASA engineer today. Diane Kasparie, instructor of the astronomy class, explained how she got the web conference...
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Look for a bigger, brighter 'super moon' Saturday night
Longview Daily News
According to NASA's calculations, Saturday night is when the moon will hit your eye like a big pizza pie, to paraphrase Dean Martin. It's "super moon" time. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is letting its enthusiasm show in a new video ...
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Black Hole Rips Star To Shreds, Then Swallows It
PBS NewsHour (blog)
Credit: NASA, S. Gezari. This video simulates the murder of a star at the hands of a black hole. A supermassive black hole lurking in the center of a galaxy 2.7 billion light years away snatched a passing star into its orbit, ripped it to shreds and ...
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Cornell Research Team Discovers Earth-Like Planets
Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun
By Jonathan Swartz ET has not been found, but Cornell astronomers may be taking a step in the right direction. Using data collected from the NASA Kepler Mission, which examined a portion of the Milky Way galaxy, a team of Cornell researchers recently ...
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Dark matter theories challenged by galaxy discoveries
Mother Nature Network
By SPACE.comThu, May 03 2012 at 7:31 AM EST GALACTIC MASH-UP: The galaxy pair UGC 9618 and VV 340, two spiral galaxies at the beginning of a collision. (Photo: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage and A. Evans, University of Virginia, ...
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Mother Nature Network
Challenger Space Center announces 'Adventures in Space' summer camp
Peoria Times
Summer campers play the part of Flight Directors and Mission Specialists in a mockup ofNASA's Mission Control, part of Challenger Space Center's $1 million space mission simulator, during 2011's “Adventures in Space” Summer Camp.
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How the Night Sky Constellations Got Their Names
Space.com
by Joe Rao, SPACE.com Skywatching Columnist There are 88 officially recognized constellations in the sky, and these astronomical patterns have a fascinating and long history. Forty-eight of the constellations are known as ancient or original, ...
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NASA Astrophysist Rare Event Transit of Venus» May 8 | Globe ...
By Mit (Analyst)
”Only six such events have occurred since the invention of the telescope,” said NASAastrophysicist Sten Odenwald, at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. Odenwald will discuss “A Rare Astronomical Event: Transit of Venus” ...
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SOFIA - NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy
NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) is the world's largest airborne astronomical observatory, complementing NASA's space ...
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/SOFIA/FS-096-DFRC.html
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Space Shuttle Enterprise Soars Over NYC | David Reneke | Space ...
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World Awaits Historic SpaceX Flight | David Reneke | Space and ...
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Space Photo That Changed The World | David Reneke | Space and ...
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Space and Astronomy News Headlines - Political Wrinkles
Space and Astronomy News Headlines . ... NASA Budget Woes Paint Bleak Future for Earth Science OurAmazingPlanet Staff - LiveScience.com - 3 hrs ago ...
www.politicalwrinkles.com/.../26360-space-astronomy-news-h...
WISE Captures Dusty Star | David Reneke | Space and Astronomy ...
Join my newsletter to stay up to date on all the latest space news. ... NASA's Wide -field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has taken a new look at an older target.
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Get ready for National Astronomy Day 2012 - Faster Than Space
Astronomy Magazine News Article - Released:4/24/2012 ... NASA Astronauts -- Including Space Station Crew Member From Maryland -- Available For Interviews ...
www.fasterthanspace.com/.../4481-Get%20ready%20for%20N...
NASA Astronomers Discover Monster Black Hole Gulping Down A ...
NASA. News · Forums & Polls. NASA Astronomers Disc... Real-Time News ... a star rich in helium gas through Nasa's Galaxy Evolution Explorer, a space-based ...
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Keeping Up with Astronomy News
Saving some of the most well-respected astronomy news sites to your favorites ...NASA lists its current missions along with planned missions or missions that are ...Geographic, is packed with astronomy and space information and news.
www.thewirelessprogram.com/.../keeping-up-with-astronomy-...
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