Milky Way's 'twin' discovered as astronomers find a supermassive black hole
Daily Mail
Scientists studied the spectacular spiral galaxy, NGC 253, with Chile's Very Large Telescope (VLT) and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope when they made the find. Andrea Ghez, professor of physics and astronomy at UCLA, who studied the stars and planets, ...
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Daily Mail
Picture of the Day: CFBDSIR 1458+10B, the Coldest Star
The Atlantic
Astronomers found CFBDSIR's temperature to be about 212 degrees Fahrenheit, also the boiling point of water. "We were very excited to see that this object had such a low temperature, but we couldn't have guessed that it would turn out to be a double ...
See all stories on this topic »Sparks Heritage Museum exhibit traces state's ties to space
Reno Gazette-Journal
The "Sparks in Space" exhibit at the Sparks Heritage Museum was developed with the help of the Challenger Learning Center of Northern Nevada and a group of Sparks High School astronomy students. It includes information on rocket testing in Sparks, ...
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Profiles in Geekdom: The Hunt For Another 'Earth'
PCWorld
Born in the UK, Rob studied physics at Durham University, and soon after earned his PhD in the astronomy field. He currently lives in Melbourne, Austrailia, working at the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing of Swinburne University. ...
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Space Weather Explored at BCCC
Patch.com
“I'ma firm believer that the public needs to know more about science," said Robert Welsh, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at the college. And DeJong said she enjoyed her time back in Pennsylvania. “It's been fun. ...
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Quest, community strengthen ties
Squamish Chief
It felt like I was being transported back to first-year Astronomy in college, as I lowered my head and avoided eye contact with teacher and president of Quest University, Dr. David J. Helfand. Helfand was one of four teachers who led sample classes ...
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A Blog about Pink Floyd and the Dark Side of the Moon.....
AccuWeather.com (blog)
This is because the near side has been shielded from impacts by the Earth via the synchronous rotation that keeps the far side exposed to impacts coming from outer space. Please join the AccuWeather.com Astronomy fanpage by clicking here. ...
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Send the space-bureaucrats to Mars
The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
Of course, critics of this judgment would bring to the table projects like the International Space Station or the Hubble Space Telescope. While the Hubble Telescope may be of great use to astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology, it has not only been ...
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Suzaku Shows Clearest Picture Yet of Perseus Galaxy Cluster
PR Newswire (press release)
Suzaku (Japanese for "red bird of the south") is the fifth Japanese X-ray astronomy satellite. It was launched as Astro-E2 on July 10, 2005, and renamed in orbit. The observatory was developed at JAXA's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science in ...
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Presentation at CMoG focuses on telescope mirror
Corning Leader
The Hale Telescope's early mission, Kardel said, involved studying distant galaxies and helping astronomers determine how fast the universe was expanding. It aided in the discovery in quasars and the first brown dwarf star. “It was the Hubble Space ...
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Hugo Chavez: capitalism destroyed life on Mars
Examiner.com
Now, the man who referred to President Bush as the Devil and accused the US of causing the Haiti earthquake, has perhaps outdone himself in a statement that combined a lack of knowledge in space science with a fanatical opinion on economic philosophy. ...
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Community invited to view the stars at SSU
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
... to the astronomer Galileo who revealed Praesepe was a cluster of stars and not the interstellar gas cloud as previously believed. Proving this significant difference supported his theory there were more stars in space than could be seen by the eye. ...
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Men Behind the Magic
Harvard Crimson
The stuffed dinosaur was waiting patiently to be hit with a steel ball shot from a spring-powered cannon, so that Robert P. Kirshner '70, an astronomy professor, could demonstrate the independence of the horizontal and vertical components of a ...
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The Radio Spectrum
Discover Magazine (blog)
There's a lot going on here; see the zoom-in of a tiny region near 30 GHz: Nice to see that there is space carved out for scientific research, including radio astronomy. Those jiggling electrons have a lot of work to do, let's hope they can keep ...
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Jane Eyre, Certified Copy, Sucker Punch, West is West, Curling, Hobo With a ...
The Vancouver Observer (blog)
He finds the three side by side in the Atacama Desert, said to be the driest spot on earth. It's the only feature that shows up as brown in those photos of our green-blue planet taken from space. Astronomers watch the heavens from there. ...
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F&M playlist
The Guardian
Dave Simpson Young Dro Rubberband Banks The Atlanta rapper's latest mixtape, Equestrian Dro, is well worth hearing, but it's this 2006 classic I've been going back to: "Outer space balling, put you up on astronomy/ Mathematically with a pistol I do ...
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The Guardian
Faith versus Geology: Does God Cause Volcanoes ?
GhanaWeb
It is worth noting that astronomy and space travel have revealed that volcanic activity is not limited to here on earth. Volcanoes, including active ones, have been observed on Mars, Venus, Triton (a moon of Neptune), Io (a moon of the planet Jupiter), ...
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Satellite of love and fear: How the moon has lit up the human imagination
The Independent
Writers in early 17th-century Europe had an understanding of astronomy largely derived from the classical world, disseminated through the writings of Plato and Aristotle among others. One prevalent belief was that the heavens were fixed, immutable. ...
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Rice University unveils state-of-the-art physics research facility: Federal ...
Nanotechnology News (press release)
When fully occupied in June, the building will be home to dozens of experimental, theoretical and applied physicists from Rice's departments of Physics and Astronomy and of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Brockman Hall will support research in ...
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Nanotechnology News (press release)
Scout List: Our Eclectic Agenda For Discerning Vancouverites…
Scout Magazine (blog)
Via documentaryblog: “Set in the Atacama desert in Chile, Patricio Guzmán's Nostalgia for the Light is a beautiful and emotive film that introduces us to the importance of astronomy to his country, and the relevance it has to its turbulent past. ...
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Scout Magazine (blog)
NASA SPACE NEWS: Exploding Stars and Stripes
By Gabriella Brianna
Get latest news on NASA Space News, International Space Station Shuttle Missions Google Earth Science Technology Mars Solar System Universe Astronomy Moon Milky Way Planet Earth Satellite Space Telescope Galaxy. Powered by Blogger. ...
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Exploding Stars and Stripes | International Space Fellowship
By Klaus Schmidt
“It was a big surprise to find such a neatly arranged set of stripes,” said co- author Jack Hughes, professor of physics and astronomy at Rutgers. “We were not expecting so much order to appear in so much chaos. ...
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Today's physics news: design and technology classes 'out of date ...
By Lena
In today's news round-up: design and technology classes 'out of date', inside Russia's space facilities, Chinese Academy of Sciences has big plans for nation's research and Quantum probe beats Heisenberg limit ...
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Suzaku Shows Clearest Picture Yet of Perseus Galaxy Cluster
By Michael Olivia
Suzaku is the fifth Japanese X-ray astronomy satellite. It was launched as Astro -E2 on July 10, 2005, and renamed in orbit. The observatory was developed at JAXA's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science in collaboration with NASA ...
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Hundreds of Invisible "X" Galaxies Predicted Orbiting the Milky Way
By Casey Kazan Daily Galaxy Editorial Staff
The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel -Your Daily Dose of Awe: Science, Space, Tech ... “Our approach has broad implications for many fields of physics and astronomy—for the indirect detection of dark matter as well as dark-matter dominated dwarf galaxies, planetary dynamics, and for galaxy evolution dominated by satellite impacts,” says Chakrabarti, who presented these findings at the ...
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Futurity.org – How a supernova earns its stripes
By Carl Blesch-Rutgers
... Naval Research Laboratory, Tel-Aviv University, and the Institute of Astronomy and Space Physics and University of Buenos Aires contributed to the study. More news from Rutgers: http://news.rutgers.edu/medrel/. Please wait ...
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Coolest Brown Dwarf Spotted by Earth-bound Telescopes
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Coolest Brown Dwarf Spotted by Earth-bound Telescopes: "Astronomers have found the coldest known star - a brown dwarf in a double system about as hot - blogReaction.
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International Space Station Shuttle NASA Missions Google Earth ...
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Suzaku ( Japanese for "red bird of the south") is the fifth Japanese X-ray astronomy satellite. It was launched as Astro-E2 on July 10, 2005, and renamed in orbit. The observatory was developed at JAXA's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science in collaboration with NASA and other Japanese and U.S. institutions. For more information visit http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/astro -e2/news/perseus-cluster.html. Thursday, March 24, 2011 // Labels: NASA News // 0 comments / ...
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Quantum probe beats Heisenberg limit - physicsworld.com
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'Good Chance' Giffords Will Attend Husband's Space Launch | United ...
By By Helena Zhu/Epoch Times Staff
said Thursday there's a “pretty good chance” that Giffords will be able to attend his space shuttle launch in April. “We don't know for sure,” shuttle commander Kelly said at a news conference at NASA's Johnson Space Center, ...
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NASA Space Capsule Begins Tests at New Proving Ground - Yahoo! News
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Astronomy Without A Telescope – Doubly Special Relativity. Universe Today staff; Space Times News; Posted March 19, 2011 at 3:15 p.m. ...
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