Today: SPACE, Astronomy News, Apr 14, 2011

Apr 14, 2011

SPACE, Astronomy News, Apr 14, 2011

The cold, thin, glorious line of star birth
Discover Magazine (blog)
Apparently supernovae have been going off all over the galaxy for quite some time, their expanding gas stirring up the ethereally thin material of interstellar space. In fact, these filaments are considered by astronomers to be dense, but the air in ...
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Discover Magazine (blog)
High flying astronomy with German instrument
PhysOrg.com
The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy is a joint project between the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the National Aeronautics and SpaceAdministration (NASA). It is funded on behalf of the DLR by the Federal Ministry of Economics and ...
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PhysOrg.com
Event celebrates 50 years of human space flight
The University of Alabama Crimson White
The date marked the 50th anniversary of the first human space flight, accomplished by Russian Yuri Gagarin. To commemorate the occasion, William Keel, professor ofastronomy, presented the past 50 years of spaceflight and “the way the future was. ...
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The University of Alabama Crimson White
Is space shuttle Endeavour worth hundreds of millions of dollars to LA?
Christian Science Monitor
Space shuttle Atlantis will follow, in late June, and that will end the space shuttle program. At that point, these displays will be the only reminders of the shuttle program, notes Edward Devinney, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Villanova ...
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Christian Science Monitor
Hunting for Planets from the Comfort of Your Own Home
TIME
(Watch TIME's video on Galileo and the year of astronomy.) Indeed, says astronomer Chris Lintott, currently at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, this isn't the first time the untrained human brain has been able to help astronomers out. ...
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Interview with Helen Keen: combining science and comedy in It Is Rocket Science
Den Of Geek
I've tried to bring lots of characters that people might not necessarily know about from astronomyand space into the story. Everybody knows the story of Galileo being persecuted and disbelieved, but the stories that we start with in the first episode ...
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Canadian radar helps keep astronauts safe from space rocks
Canada.com
"Operational decisions are made every day based on what our radar detects," says Peter Brown, a Western astronomy professor and one of the operators of the Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar. NASA uses the real-time data provided by the radar to track the ...
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Friends, colleagues reeling after Yale student from Scituate dies in lab accident
The Patriot Ledger
Michele Dufault, a senior physics and astronomy student, was a month from graduation at the university in New Haven, Conn. She was working in a machine shop in the school's Sterling Chemistry Lab on Tuesday when officials believe her hair became ...
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Institute for Scientific Research Opening Its Doors to BC Community
Boston College Chronicle
For the past two years, Research Astronomer Tom Kuchar has taught an astronomy class to students in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. There are also pending proposals for an undergraduate course on space weather and for a graduate ...
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Veteran Space Reporters Win Big Honors
Space.com
Harwood has been covering space – both spaceflight and astronomy – for more than 27 years. In addition to serving as CBS News Space Consultant, Harwood often contributes to CNET, Spaceflight Now and The New York Times. ...
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Hunting for the Milky Way's Heaviest Stars
Space Ref (press release)
... astronomers have used powerful telescopes sensitive to X-ray and infrared radiation to find evidence for a substantial population of X-ray emitting massive stars. This image shows infrared data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope near the plane of ...
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Space Ref (press release)
Powerhouse Science Center Receives $7 Million Grant From Proposition 84
Placer County Online
Features inside the Earth & Space Sciences Center include a 150-seat full-dome Planetarium Theater that will take visitors beyond astronomy to study nature education, and an expanded Challenger Learning Center providing simulated NASA space missions. ...
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NASA scientist urges Chicago kids to walk on Mars
Medill Reports: Chicago
He said that put him on the path to study space science at the University of Iowa. In college, his instructors encouraged him to look beyond astronomy to geology. “From looking at Mars, to standing on Mars and discovering what's there,” he said. ...
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Medill Reports: Chicago
A tidy boxed life!
istockAnalyst.com (press release)
First human in space "Competition has always been the fuel that drives people to go the distance for improvement and advancement. I have a particular interest in space and astronomy, and the story of the first human being to reach space and ...
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Moon, Saturn shine bright for gazers
Lake Zurich Courier
On Tuesday, Astronomy Magazine recognized the Lake County society as one of the top six groups in the country for its outreach activities. "That's amazing," said Cheng, of Buffalo Grove, as he peered into a scope. "The craters go a mile down? ...
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Edmonton folk-pop singer Kenya Kondo releases debut album
Edmonton Journal
Kondo moved to Canada in 2001 to begin studies in astronomy at the University of Alberta and completed a degree in physics and math several years later, leading an acoustic jam/cover band in his spare time. He met the woman who became his wife and ...
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Library program to explain matter and energy throughout the cosmos
NorthJersey.com (press release)
Astronomy is more than a profession for Manning, it's his love and it shows in all he does. Attend this program for people of all ages and interests about the objects and forces in the universe from the very small to the very large. ...
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While the sun shines
The Week
The company, which has just announced its attractions for this summer, also has round-the-year programmes on activities like astronomy and rifle shooting for children between age 9 and 16. Inme was actually the coming together of several like-minded ...
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