Jet Propulsion Laboratory
This image layout shows two views of the same baby star -- at left is a visible-light image, and at right is an infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Astronomers have discovered that two symmetrical jets ...
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Local To Live Tweet NASA Shuttle Launch
PW-Philadelphia Weekly (blog)
I loved it as a kid, I did engineering in colleges, took a lot of astronomy classes,” he says. His passion for astronomy continues to develop through his adult life, and in February, he started a space and technology blog from his home in West ...
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PW-Philadelphia Weekly (blog)
The benefits of space exploration
RIA Novosti
Igor Mitrofanov, head of the space gamma spectroscopy lab at the Russian Academy of Sciences' Space Research Institute, believes the space age marked “second revolution” in astronomy and astrophysics. Galileo led the first revolution with the invention ...
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Cosmic Rants From Phil Plait, the Bad Astronomer
The Planetary Society
Bill Nye celebrates the first data-based estimate of Earth-like planets. Bruce Betts joins Mat from Virginia where he is helping to prepare micro-organisms for spaceflight. Here's the new space trivia contest.
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FOR KIDS: A blazing star party
Science News
But the mystery isn't wrapped up yet: Other astronomers disagree that stars' unions explain all known red novas. Astronomers will continue to investigate this mysterious object. Robert Williams of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, ...
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Around AACC – Week of April 4
Patch.com
This annual day features special events sponsored by the Friends of Anne Arundel County Trails Inc., NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and the AACC Astronomy Club. All activities take place this Saturday, April 9. From 11 am-3:30 pm, a Planet Walk will ...
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NASA's Messenger spacecraft on mission to learn about Mercury
NewsOK.com
The Oklahoma City Astronomy Club meets at 6:45 pm Friday at the planetarium. For details about the club's activity, visit its website at www.okcastroclub.com. • Planet visibility report: Jupiter finally disappears from the evening sky to be replaced by ...
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Hawking Packs Rudder For “Origin Of The Universe” Lecture
Texas A&M University
He predicted the future of man long term is in space, observing “it will be difficult enough to avoid disaster on planet Earth in the next 100 years, let alone the next thousand or billion.” He concluded his formal presentation with questions: “Why are ...
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Texas A&M University
Astro Boy: Q&A with Ray Jayawardhana, a U of T prof in search of life on other ...
Toronto Life
Everyone in astronomy. None of my personal friends call me that. When I moved from Sri Lanka to the US to do my undergrad at Yale, people had trouble pronouncing my full last name. My e-mail account was “RayJay.” In 1998, when you were a graduate ...
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Toronto Life
Student sets sights on stars
Livingston Daily
Alec Staber borrowed German language-learning software from his dad in August and taught himself the language "at night" on top of 16 credit hours of advanced calculus, astronomy and physics classes in less than a semester. ...
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This summer, reach for the stars
Deccan Chronicle
By DC Correspondent This summer, Bengalureans can go on a journey into space exploring the solar system and various galaxies and learn the exciting stories behind planetary actions. The Jawaharlal Nehru planetarium is hosting a series of events through ...
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Deccan Chronicle
A city bursting with culture
Portsmouth News
Portsmouth is currently building up to its biggest annual arts show – the Portsmouth Festivities, themed this year around the city's role as a centre of excellence for cosmology, astronomy and space technology. The 11-day event will offer classical ...
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Portsmouth News
Shelly F. Hynes selected as a 2011-2012 Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator ...
Leesville Daily Leader
By Anonymous The Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts (LSMSA) is proud to announce that Shelly F. Hynes, Astronomy and Physics Instructor, has been selected as a 2011-2012 Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow by the National ...
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Job Search an Uphill Battle for Unemployed
UC Los Angeles
Eric Becklin, UCLA professor emeritus of physics and astronomy, was interviewed Sunday on CNN's “Newsroom” about a Southwest Airlines flight that made an emergency landing after a fuselage crack turned into a four-foot hole. Becklin also discussed a ...
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Something to celebrate
Sciblogs (blog)
Yuri's Night (April 12): Anyone fascinated with astronomy should check for any Yuri's Night events happening in their area on April 12 — or plan one of their own if there isn't! These celebrations honor astronaut Yuri Gagarin's historical first space ...
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Math whiz has mind that won't turn off
The Independent Florida Alligator
At UF, he can eat three meals a day through the meal plan provided by financial aid. In his freshman year, he added a minor in astronomy. He loves Carl Sagan, outer space, stars, and black holes. And as he struggles with the big issues of life, ...
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Former professor Arguelles passes away at 72 years old
The Daily Princetonian
Arguelles sought to replace it with a calendar more deeply rooted in cosmology and ancient astronomy, such as the Mayan calendar. Though his theories were denounced by critics, they focused attention on the Mayan calendar and helped lead to the ...
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IRRI Bulletin
IRRI news (press release)
Eligible fields include: agricultural and biological sciences, medical and health sciences, chemistry, engineering, astronomy, space and earth sciences, mathematics and physics. Women scientists are especially encouraged to apply. ...
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Spitzer Finds Time-Delayed Jets Around Young Star
RedOrbit
The finding, which required the infrared vision of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, is helping astronomers understand how jets are produced around forming stars, including those resembling our sun when it was young. "More studies are needed to determine ...
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TRADE NEWS: Agilent Technologies Announces the Industry's Highest Performance ...
Business Wire (press release)
Extending this performance to 325 GHz and beyond allows customers to develop technology for advanced radio astronomy research and new imaging techniques used in the medical and air travel industries. “As frequencies move into the millimeter range, ...
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When Parents Teach: Three Moms Talk Home Schooling
TakePart - Inspiration to Action
Jaden interacts with other children on field trips taken with a local home school group, at Little League games, and as a member of an astronomy club. He's also planning to attend a week-long summer space camp. According to Perth, criticisms leveled ...
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NASA's Spitzer Discovers Time-Delayed Jets Around Young Star ...
By Klaus Schmidt
The finding, which required the infrared vision of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, is helping astronomers understand how jets are produced around forming stars, including those resembling our sun when it was young. ...
International Space Fellowship - http://spacefellowship.com/
In today's news round-up: new crew head for space station and ...
By Lena
In today's news round-up: new crew head for space station and Feynman the fearless – an adventurer in physics. New crew head for space station. A new crew for the International Space Station blast off from Russia's Baikonur space port in ... Useful physics sites. International Year of Astronomy · Physicsworld.
The Institute of Physics blog - http://www.iopblog.org/
Phil's Astronomy Blog: Smithsonian Air & Space Museum
By Phil
I spent an afternoon in the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum, and it was simply brilliant. Highlights of the exhibits on display, for me, were the Space Ship One, X-29 and series of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) which really surprised me. It's a great museum, a must-see for space and ... Astronomy.com - News ...
Phil's Astronomy Blog - http://theguvnah.blogspot.com/
Astronomers may have witnessed a star torn apart by a black hole ...
By Phil Plait
Astronomy | active galaxies | On March 28, 2011, NASA's Swift satellite caught a flash of high-energy X-rays pouring in from deep space. Swift is designed to do this, and since its launch in. ... As for this post's news – WOW!!! [Jaw meets floor.] :-o. A star got sphaghettified! Sphaghettified and ripped apart into explosive shreds and jets of plasma flame. Swallowed into a supermassive black hole. If it had any planets I wonder what might've happened to them? ...
Bad Astronomy - http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/
Astronomy Jokes « Journey to the Stars
By cosmicwanderer05
... parody and pranks in Western culture was just over — but I since I found this APOD image while looking for April Fools' Day pranks on the Internet I decided to compile a few astronomy and space related humor, including jokes, ...
Journey to the Stars - http://journeytothestars.wordpress.com/
Minister: Economy key to better Russia-US ties | The Associated ...
By The Associated Press
In space, Ivanov said both countries have to start thinking about what will come next after the international space station stops operating in 2020. He said the U.S. and Russia should consider joining not only their technological ...
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Deep Space Live Web Cast 2011 | BCO: CIT Blackrock Castle Observatory
Astronomy for all the senses: astronomy and music live from Bareket Observatory, Israel. This international webcast makes live images of Deep Space Objects accessible to everyone through an integrated presentation of live images, real- time and prerecorded musically ... BCO Galactic Blast News! Sign up to our action-packed monthly newsletter, complete with all our upcoming events for the month, the best from the blog, and fun science facts, contests and more! Your Email: ...
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Now is the Time for Observing Saturn in the Night Sky
By Nancy Atkinson
April is Global Astronomy Month, and as a highlight, the “Lord of the Rings” is back prominently in the night sky! This past weekend, Saturn reached opposition, when it is closest to the Earth in its orbit. Opposition means Saturn. ... to turn your gaze turns toward Earth's natural satellite, and take a close-up look the Moon's craters and “seas”. April 12th is Yuri's Night — and a very special one too, as it is the 50th anniversary of the first human in space. ...
Universe Today - http://www.universetoday.com/
NSF Will Transfer Prototype Radio Antenna to Center for ...
By Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Your one stop news portal for all things astronomy. Portal To The Universe provides a global portal for online astronomy content, serving as an index and aggregator. ... Last Hour. 4 Apr 2011, 04:00 UTC NASA Retargets Space Shuttle Endeavour's Launch For April 29 2 Apr 2011, 14:26 UTC Getting ready for the world's biggest ever telescope 19 Jan 2011, 10:44 UTC ...
PTTU News - http://www.portaltotheuniverse.org/news/recent/
Lounge of the Lab Lemming: Radiation: reactor vs space
By Chuck
Radiation: reactor vs space · This plot, from exomaria, compares the relative radiation doses from various reactor accidents to that found on the surface of the Jovian moon Europa. Anyone wondering why a mission to the Jupiter system ...
Lounge of the Lab Lemming - http://lablemminglounge.blogspot.com/
Dark & Otherwise: Space traffic jam: AMS-02 launch postponed to ...
By Gianfranco Bertone
The launch date of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer AMS-02 ("-02" because it is the successor of first AMS experiment, flown into space in June 1998) has been postponed to April 29 (above, an image of AMS-02 in the bay of the Shuttle ...
Dark & Otherwise - http://darkandotherwise.blogspot.com/
All the climate news that's fit to misprint | Watts Up With That?
By Anthony Watts
In Tips and Notes, P J Brennan says: All the news that's fit to mis-report: From today's NYT. When the planet warmed at the end of the ice age 11000 years ago, for example, the change was too much for Irish elk, which became extinct. ...
Watts Up With That? - http://wattsupwiththat.com/
Space and Earth Sciences News :: Blog - Astronomers Calculate ...
Amateur astrophotographs posted online represent a massive untapped resource. Now astronomers have worked out how to mine it For a short time back in ...
www.news-about-space.org/astronomy-news/cluster8998188/
Space And Astronomy News Mattters - Apr 4 2011 - Shuttle Launch ...
Credit: WikipediaYou're probably familiar with Sidewalk Astronomy – whe... on April 4 .... Secret Military Space Plane Struts Its Stuff : Discovery News ...
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Space and Astronomy News : ISS fires engines, to move away from ...
Space and Astronomy News Message: [b]ISS fires engines[/b], to move away from Orbital debris..
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Forensic sleuthing ties ring ripples to impacts - Astronomy Magazine
Space missions have traced telltale ripples in the rings of Saturn and Jupiter back .... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from ...
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massive database of space and astronomy info pics - Space News ...
massive database of space and astronomy info pics.
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Weekend space station passes - Orbiter-Forum
Weekend space station passes Astronomy & the Night Sky. ... Off-Topic, Space Flight News, Space Math & Physics, Astronomy & Night Sky, Backyard Rocketry ...
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