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SPACE Astronomy News, Nov 29, 2014

Phys.Org

Webb Space Telescope promises astronomers new scientific adventures
Inside a very big and very clean room at NASA's Goddard SpaceFlight Center in Greenbelt, Md., nearly 30 workers dressed in white protective suits, ...
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Sci-News.com

Mystery of Globular Star Clusters' Formation Deepens
An international team of astronomers used the Wide Field Camera 3 aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to observe four globular clusters in the ...
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The Weather Channel

Awe-Inspiring Photography from Astronomy Picture of the Day | The Weather Channel
Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is run by astronomersRobert ... Bonnell is a scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, ...
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Astronomy Magazine

NASA issues “remastered” view of Jupiter's moon Europa
This is the first time that NASA is publishing a version of the scene ... Space imaging enthusiasts have produced their own versions of the view using ...
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National Geographic

Birth Mystery of Stellar Snow Globe Deepens
National Geographic News ... Astronomers thought they'd figured out where giant clusters of old stars come from. ... The HubbleSpace Telescope's recent images of giant balls of stars in a nearby galaxy, reported on ... Photographs by NASA, ESA, S. Larsen (Radboud University, The Netherlands).
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Penn State News

NASA's Swift Satellite marks 10 years of game-changing astrophysics
It also is the only satellite that can monitor the explosions in spaceacross a broad ... A flexible planning system enablesastronomers to request Swift ...
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Why We Love Hubble: Astronauts Discuss Iconic SpaceTelescope
by Calla Cofield, Space.com Staff Writer | November 17, 2014 04:30pm ET ... their mission and how the space telescope has changed the face of astronomy. ... News anchor Charles Gibson moderated the discussion among the six ...
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Astronomy Now Online

27 November 2014 in News: Earth's 'plasmaspheric hiss' protects against a harmful radiation belt
Astronomy Now ... “What this tells us is if you parked a satellite or an orbiting space station with humans just inside this ... The team's results are based on data collected by NASA's Van Allen probes – twin crafts that are ... bombardment in order to measure the behaviour of high-energy electrons inspace.
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Astronomy Magazine

A colorful gathering of middle-aged stars
It was discovered by French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille while observing from South Africa in 1752 and was cataloged three years later in ...
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Slate Magazine (blog)

Shirtstorm: Casual Sexism and the Inevitable Horrid Backlash When It's Called Out
Or Carolyn Porco, who worked on the Voyager mission and is the leader of the Cassini imaging team, the space probe that's been orbiting Saturn for ...
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Sky & Telescope

Contact Lost with Sun-watching Stereo B
Over the past few weeks, astronomers have been borrowing the giant, ... The 70-m dishes of NASA's Deep Space Network are also trying to ...
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Astronomy Magazine

Geologic maps of Vesta from the Dawn mission published
Images from NASA's Dawn mission have been used to create a series of high-resolution geological maps of the large asteroid Vesta, revealing the ...
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The Impressive Discoveries of Penn State Astronomy Professors
Coldest Brown Dwarf, April 25, 2014 – Kevin Luhman, Astronomy 001 professor ... The planet, named Kepler-186f after NASA's Kepler Space Telescope by ... be found at the News and Events for Eberly College of Science webpage.
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Arizona Daily Star (blog)

NASA needs Kitt Peak telescope for exoplanet duty
Kitt Peak remains a good site for astronomy and the WIYN occupies “the ... been directly observed by the largest telescopes on Earth and in space.
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18 November 2014 in News: MAVEN begins science mission at Mars
NASA's newest Mars orbiter has formally started a one-year research ... of Colorado at Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics.
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SETI: Institute Garners NASA Awards
Today, NASA bestowed honors on SETI Institute scientists and educators, both as individuals and as members of research teams, citing their ...
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Sci-News.com

Astronomers Measure Distance to Eye of Sauron (NGC 4151)
This provided very high resolution – a hundred times better resolution than the Hubble Space Telescope – and allowed them to measure the angular ...
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Space Ref (press release)

Space scientists at the University of Leicester celebrate a decade of discoveries with NASA's Swift ...
For Leicester, the one-and-a-half ton space telescope has a special ... on the University's campus, in the Department ofPhysics and Astronomy.
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ABC Science Online

Fly-by view of Europa's stunning surface
StarStuff reports on the latest news and discoveries in science, with a special focus on astronomy, space sciences and cosmology.
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PrepSure

NASA floats airship challenge idea
Washington: The US space agency NASA is planning to kickstart a ... "We are seeking to take astronomy and earth science to new heights by enabling ...
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The Space Review

Enhancing the field of exoplanetary research
As both ground- and space-based observational and analytical tools ... The NASA 2010 decadal survey, “New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy ...
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Sen (subscription)

Hubble - the telescope that transformed astronomy
NASA's plan for the Large Space Telescope as it became known were approved in 1977 and it was later named after ground-breaking astronomer ...
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Loudoun Times-Mirror



Phys.Org

Rosetta's comet looks weird in decade-old Hubble model
A 3-D reconstruction of the Rosetta comet (67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko) in a 2003 model from the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, ESA and ...
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Matt Mountain Selected as New AURA President
Today the Board of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy(AURA) announced the selection of Dr. Matt Mountain as President, ...
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Orbital + NASA How Many Balloons Will US$185M Buy? Science Balloons, That Is
The NASA Balloon Operations Contract (NBOC) is administered by the GoddardSpace Flight Center's Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) in Wallops Island, ...
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NASA Plans New Development of Airships
The US space agency is considering to launch a challenge to the industry to build stratospheric ... The NASA issued a request of information called "20-20-20 Airship Challenge, the ... California, said they are trying to take Astronomy and Earth Sciences to a new level, thanks to a ... NEWS ON THE DOT.
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