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By Marian
Tomorrow NASA will release the first images from MESSENGER's orbit insertion. I' ll certainly be watching for them. Here's the NASA news notice: NASA will release the first orbital image of Mercury's surface, including previously unseen terrain, on Tuesday afternoon, ... NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging, or MESSENGER, entered orbit March 17 after completing more than a dozen laps within the inner solar system during the past 6.6 years....
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Astronomers hope telescope unlocks secrets of universe
Globe and Mail
Their involvement ensures Canadian astronomers a front-row seat to one of the best views of space. In turn, they hope information gathered by the massive scope will help them unlock more of the universe's secrets, from how the first galaxies and solar ...
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Globe and Mail
Astronomy Day in Bozeman to be held April 2
PRLog.Org (press release)
PRLog (Press Release) – Mar 28, 2011 – A day of astronomy-related events for kids, adults and teachers will be held in Bozeman, Montana on Saturday, April 2, including a presentation by astronaut Richard Arnold, who flew to the International Space ...
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Life at the SETI Institute: Jon Jenkins -- Turning Pixels Into Planets
Huffington Post
What first sparked your interest in science and astronomy in particular? My parents both worked at the Kennedy Space Center. My dad was an engineer who worked on the Mercury and Gemini programs and then on Apollo for awhile. I grew up on Merritt Island ...
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MeerKAT engineers SA innovation
News24
The MeerKAT radio astronomy project has illustrated the engineering prowess of local companies in delivering world class hardware. On Saturday millions of people all over the world will switch off their lights in support of Earth Hour. Will you? ...
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Mobile Telescope Eases Students See Planets
BeritaJakarta.com
Because, Jakarta Education Agency has prepared big mobile telescope that can be used to see other planets in space and the sun and moon eclipses phenomena. Then, the mobile telescope will visit schools in Jakarta to fulfill the need of astronomy ...
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BeritaJakarta.com
May 2011: New insight on the Sun
Astronomy Magazine
“Hollywood astronomy” — Astronomy and space have influenced movies for more than a century. What is it that keeps audiences coming back for more? “How to observe high-energy galaxies” — Seyfert galaxies emit strange light that comes from supermassive ...
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Suzaku shows clearest picture yet of Perseus Galaxy Cluster
Astronomy Magazine
Suzaku images of faint gas at the fringes of a nearby galaxy cluster have allowed astronomers to resolve this discrepancy for the first time. The satellite's ideal target for this study was the Perseus Galaxy Cluster, which is located about 250 million ...
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Hiking Montini after dark
Sonoma Index-Tribune
Participants will be able to explore and enjoy the beauty of the Montini preserve after dark and learn about the folk astronomy of some ancient civilizations. "There's nothing like a wild open space in the darkness," said Dale. ...
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Woman astronaut to talk at Whitman today
TheNewsTribune.com
Metcalf-Lindenburger, a 1997 graduate of Whitman, taught high school earth science and astronomybefore being selected for the astronaut candidate class of 2004. She flew on the space shuttle mission in April 2010 to the International Space Station.
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LA, Employee Unions Negotiate
UC Los Angeles
Space Daily reported Wednesday on a study in which Chris Regan, assistant professor of physics and astronomy and a member of the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA, and Matthew Mecklenburg, a UCLA graduate student of physics and astronomy, ...
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Observatory provides an eye to the sky
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
SRJC astronomy students Marcos Indalecio, left, and Melanie Queiroz view the stars through a telescope belonging to amateur astronomer Dickson Yeager during the monthly public viewing night at the Ferguson Observatory in Sugarloaf Park. ...
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Star as hot as a cup of coffee observed from Mauna Kea
Big Island Video News
The pair was discovered by astronomers using the WM Keck Observatory and the Canada-France-Hawai'i Telescope (CFHT), both on the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawai'i, following up on earlier work done at European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope ...
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Big Island Video News
Japan Nuke Accident Seen From Seattle
U.S. News & World Report
... system of the University of Washington's physics and astronomy building. Using a detector originally designed to spot neutrinos coming from outer space, the researchers searched for gamma rays originating in the by-products of nuclear fission. ...
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A Different Focus on CPV From REhnu
Greentech Media (blog)
Dr. Roger Angel, the designer of the CPV product and, presumably, the company's name, has a background in astronomy at the University of Arizona. Angel leads the UA solar high concentration photovoltaics research group and has co-authored three patents ...
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Greentech Media (blog)
Whiting: Couple brave Machu Picchu's Inca Trail
OCRegister
But after visiting the various worship sites and important structures, it was evident the Incas were proficient in engineering, architecture, astronomy, medicine and other sciences. Their demise was partly their own doing. A major civil war broke out ...
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A very cool pair of brown dwarfs
Science Centric
Liu and his colleagues are planning to observe CFBDSIR 1458+10B again to better determine its properties and to begin mapping the binary's orbit, which, after about a decade of monitoring, should allow astronomers to determine the binary's mass.
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Science Centric
Nightly news: astronomy The Need to Explore
Deseret News (blog)
Kent Rominger had a not-so-rosy view of America's crewed space program as it now stands: "The truth is, as a nation we're in limbo." Speaking in Clark Planetarium before hundreds, most of them youngsters, Rominger was answering a question from the ...
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Deseret News (blog)
Positively Mississippi: James Hill
WTVA
According to Hill, his job title will change next month. The 72-year-old director will become the observatory's director emeritus. Still, he said he is more passionate now about astronomy than when the observatory was born. "If they'll let me, ...
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Skywatchers lock in on the secret X-37B spacecraft
msnbc.com
... on the scale astronomers use to measure the brightness of sky objects (with the lowest numbers representing the greatest brightness). Many satellites and spacecraft are regularly tracked by skywatchers. The International Space Station, for example, ...
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msnbc.com
Bulletin Board: Historical Society sets lecture on Lincoln leadership
Reading Eagle
The planetarium, recently enhanced with a full-dome digital projection system, holds introductoryastronomy laboratory exercises. It is also open for free shows on scheduled dates, listed on the website. Private group shows can be scheduled online at ...
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Integral spots matter a millisecond from doom
Astronomy Magazine
Thanks to the new Integral observations, astronomers now know that this chaotic region is threaded by magnetic fields. This is the first time that magnetic fields have been identified so close to a black hole. Most importantly, Integral shows they are ...
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Secret X-37B Space Plane Spotted Again by Amateur Skywatchers ...
By Yahoo! News: Science News
He writes about astronomy for The New York Times and other publications, and he is also an on-camera meteorologist for News 12 Westchester, New York. Skywatchers Spot Secret X-37B SpacePlane: OTV-2 · Secretive X-37B Space Plane in ...
Rocket News - http://www.rocketnews.com/
A very cool pair of brown dwarfs (3/29/2011)
The Spitzer Space Telescope has recently identified two other very faint objects as other possible contenders for the coolest known brown dwarfs, although their temperatures have not been measured so precisely. ... Liu and his colleagues are planning to observe CFBDSIR 1458+10B again to better determine its properties and to begin mapping the binary's orbit, which, after about a decade of monitoring, should allow astronomers to determine the binary's mass. ...
Astronomy News and Research - http://www.astronomyreport.com/
Solar Activity and Space Weather, by the Adler Planetarium ...
By 365 Days of Astronomy
Solar Activity and Space Weather, by the Adler Planetarium. The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is a project that is publishing one podcast per day, 5 to 10 minutes in duration, for all 365 days of the year. The podcast episodes are ...
PTTU Podcast Episodes - http://www.portaltotheuniverse.org/podcasts/eps/recent/
Woman wins contest to attend UAE satellite launch - BioScholar News
By BioNews
News Section | Astronomy and Space. Woman wins contest to attend UAE satellite launch. Tuesday, March 29th, 2011. A woman from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) pipped 160 other residents to win a contest held to select a visitor to the ...
BioScholar News - http://news.bioscholar.com/
First rocks were like candy floss | Skymania News and Guide
By Paul Sutherland
About Skymania. These pages offer latest astronomy and space news plus observing tips and advice on choosing a telescope. Please click here to get FREE email alerts of our latest spacestories! ...
Skymania News and Guide - http://skymania.com/wp/index.php
Japan Nuke Accident Seen From Seattle - Science News
By scinews@sciencenews.org (Science News)
Starting March 16, Knecht and his colleagues saved and analyzed the air filters that clean 100 million liters of air every day in the ventilation system of the University of Washington's physics andastronomy building. Using a detector originally designed to spot neutrinos coming from outer space, the researchers searched for gamma rays originating in the by-products of nuclear fission. On March 18, the first nuclear isotopes arrived from Japan. ...
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What are some astronomy related careers that use art? | Skylook ...
By Father Sky
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Israel and Russia Sign Space Cooperation Agreement
By Nancy Atkinson
Officials from Israel and Russia sign a space cooperation agreement. Credit: Israeli governmentalnews office. The Israeli government has signed an agreement with Roscosmos, the Russian spaceagency, for cooperation in space for ...
Universe Today - http://www.universetoday.com/
FLORIDA SPACErePORT: March 29, 2011
By ellegood
Cameron, who had hoped to parlay the technology used to create the film "Avatar" into a real spaceexpedition, took the news in stride. "While Curiosity won't benefit from the 3D motion imaging that the zooms enable, ... Unlikely as it may sound, that scenario actually happened, and a Nobel laureate today cited it as a prime example of why society should continue funding research inastronomy and other scientific disciplines that has no obvious immediate use. ...
FLORIDA SPACErePORT - http://spacereport.blogspot.com/
NASA: Mars rover, phone home after yearlong sleep | The Associated ...
By The Associated Press
News ... If there's still no contact in the next month or so, the space agency will scale back its listening campaign for Spirit and focus on its healthy twin, Opportunity. That Spirit has not called home suggests that something is more ... Arizona State University astronomer Jim Bell said the loss of communication came at the worst possible time because Spirit was doing valuable science while immobile. "It's disappointing if we have, in fact, lost the mission," he said. ...
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What astronauts do when they're not in outer space | ZME Science
By Mihai Andrei
Did you ever stop to think what astronauts are doing when they're not in outer space ? I mean, behind the suit and years of training and preparation,
ZME Science - http://www.zmescience.com/
SOCIETY IN BRIEF 29/3 | Look At Vietnam - Vietnam news daily update
By admin
These projects covered a wide range of disciplines from mathematics, physics and biology toastronomy, computer science, social and behavioral science. In addition to the affiliate ISEF in Ho Chi Minh City, Intel Vietnam also collaborated with DOET in Hue and Quang Tri ... Ha Thuc Tien and Pham Phuoc Long , students from the Hue High School have already won tickets for ISEF 2011 in Los Angeles for their project “Measuring height and angle in space with flat mirror system”. ...
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Mercury messenger goes into orbit (Time.com) | Space, Astronomy ...
Science, Space, Astronomy and NASA News from off the planet! ... 'Supermoon' Dazzles: Biggest Full Moon in 18 Years Amazes Skywatchers (SPACE.com) » ...
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Astronomy Without A Telescope – Doubly Special Relativity : Space ...
Space Times News - Printer-friendly story ... http://www.universetoday.com/84226 /astronomy-without-a-telescope-doubly-special-relativity/ ...
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Voskhod 2 - Astronomy News
Voskhod 2 was a Soviet manned space mission in March 1965. ... Jump To: --- News ---,Astronomy News, Meteorite News, Mission News, Cosmology News, Events ...
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Space, astronomy - The University of Nottingham
You are here: University of NottinghamNewsExpertise guideAreasSSpace, astronomy ...Extragalactic astronomy and observational cosmology. ...
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GERMANY-SPACE-ASTRONOMY-ECLIPSE-MOON | Lunar eclipse |News.com.au
A full lunar eclipse has created spectacular scenes in the night sky.
www.news.com.au/gallery-fn78rwin-1225974809466?page=3
NASA Computer Networks Have Potentially 'Catastrophic' Security ...
Even worse, it appears several of the vulnerabilities have been known for months , yet remained unpatched. Source: Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy ...
www.bordeglobal.com/foruminv/index.php?showtopic=76361
NASA and Lockheed Martin Reveal Orion Crew Module - Space ...
Explore Space / Astronomy ... Free Space / Astronomy Newsletter! Sign Up. By Category.Astronomy and Space Basics · Stars Planets and Galaxies · History ...
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