UK should develop low cost space missions
Public Service
In a presentation at the RAS National Astronomy Meeting 2011 today, Professor Martin Barstow of Leicester University called for the UK to use its skills to develop low cost, high data space missions. Describing current astronomical space missions, ...
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Printable Tactile Astronomy: How to 'See' Outer Space if You're Blind
Huffington Post
If you happen to have access to a thermal printer, visit the Amazing Space Tactile Astronomy webpage for dozens of free printable Hubble thermal printer PDFs; examples of what the files look like below.
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Plymouth Library Hosts Humorous Space Speech
Patch.com
Michigan astronomy lecturer Mike Best brought his folksy form to town Monday for a quirky talk on planets, moons and the state of our universe. By Sean Flynn | Email the author | 10:00am Astronomy lecturer Mike Best talked planets and moons on Monday ...
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Charles Q. Choi, SPACE.com Contributor
Space.com
But the exact date of when Cas A's explosion could have been seen from Earth has been a longstanding mystery in astronomy. Records suggest the first "astronomer royal" of England, John Flamsteed, may have recorded the supernova in 1680. ...
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Space.com
Far-sighted Space Technology Finds Practical Uses On Earth
RedOrbit
The race is now on around the world to produce devices that will realize the enormous potential of terahertz science and thanks to the ingenuity of UK astronomers we have made a great start." Image 1: Herschel in space, close up on its mirror. ...
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Things are looking up on Stromlo
The Canberra Times
The Australian National University's Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics Director Professor Harvey Butcher called the new building a ''one-stop shop'' for developing small satellites and instruments for astronomy and astrophysics. ...
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What Will the Universe Look Like in One Trillion Years?
Discovery News
Ironically, astronomers living in that far future will have a cosmic view as simplistic as it was before giant telescopes discovered external galaxies, which in turn revealed the expansion of space. All far-future astronomy will be exclusively about ...
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New Tools To Tackle A Solar Data Storm
RedOrbit
Dr Rami Qahwaji will present the tools at the RAS National Astronomy Meeting at Llandudno on Tuesday and Wednesday, 19th and 20th April. "These techniques are very important," said Qahwaji. "We are now able to process images on the ground so that the ...
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Jodrell Bank's creator Sir Bernard Lovell: he knew the future was out of this ...
Telegraph.co.uk
Yet it is also an appropriate time to pay tribute to one of Britain's own heroes of the space age – Sir Bernard Lovell. Lovell is the father of radio astronomy, the man who, 60 years ago, began the construction of the great telescope at Jodrell Bank in ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Top astronomers warn the world could end within 90 years
stv.tv
And the Astronomer Royal for Scotland, Professor John Brown, has an equally bleak outlook, fearing a random event from outer space is the most likely cause of our demise. They will take to the stage to put forward their stark predictions in the ...
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Out of this world
MyCentralJersey.com
Marcy, a recipient of the Carl Sagan Award from the Planetary Society and named Space Scientist of the Year by Discover Magazine, presented the 2011 Henry R. and Gladys V. Irons Lecture in Physics and Astronomy. The big news is that there are other ...
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Recommended: Alien trees just might look black
msnbc.com
The conjecture comes from a paper presented by the University of St. Andrews' Jack O'Malley-James at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting in Wales. O'Malley-James is working on a Ph.D. project to assess the potential for ...
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NASA keeps latest balloon launch under wraps
ABC Online
The station director of the Balloon Launching Centre, Ravi Sood, says the balloon will be used to study outer-space phenomena. It is an X-ray astronomy exercise that will look at the centre of the Milky Way from about 40 kilometres above Earth. ...
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ABC Online
STEREO Eyes Variable Stars
RedOrbit
Dr Danielle Bewsher will present highlights at the RAS National Astronomy Meeting in Llandudno, Wales on Tuesday 19th April. STEREO was launched in 2006 to study the Sun in 3D and coronal mass ejections, the cause of space weather. ...
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LBL to host Astronomy Day May 7
WPSD Local 6
In addition to opportunities to observe the sun, the day includes free planetarium shows at 10 & 11 am, and 12, 1, 2 & 3 pm Planetarium doors open at 9 am Featured shows include Blown Away: Wild World of Weather, Journey to the Edge of Space & Time, ...
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Around the Ivies: Depression and Space Exploration
The Daily Princetonian (blog)
The optional final project for Astronomy 16: Stellar and Planetary Astronomy requires students to trace a path of an exoplanet, celestial body orbiting around a sun-like star. Students will need to track the brightness of a star over time. ...
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Yankee Transplant
Arizona State University
And I'm doing another “fun” science book about the history of astronomy and space exploration. I'm about halfway through the writing. And what can you tell me about the Jim Bell who isn't busy in the office? Any hobbies?
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Did a Supernova Mark the Birth of Charles II?
Space Ref (press release)
The Council has a broad science portfolio including astronomy, particle astrophysics, and space science. In the area of astronomy it funds the UK membership of international bodies such as the European Southern Observatory. ...
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Patna boy gets NASA award
Times of India
... for astronomy is no less. His deep interest in aerospace engineering makes him browse the related websites like that of ISRO and NASA daily. This helped him come across this competition on "Future Of Human Space Exploration and Its Importance". ...
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The Universe Mega Collection Blu-ray Review
Blu-rayDefinition.com
It's an astronomy geek's dream come true. With fantastic CGI work, photos from the Hubble Space telescope and other telescopes, plus commentary by scientists and experts in various fields, The Universe is one of the most thorough television series on ...
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Big Isle scopes aid find of coolest known star
Honolulu Star-Advertiser
The newly discovered brown dwarf is the smaller member of a binary system detected by Liu and other astronomers using the WM Keck Observatory and the Canada-France- Hawaii Telescope. The researchers are reporting their discovery in the Astrophysical ...
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Kuwaiti woman braves Antarctica extremities
Arab Times
Apart from being Supervisor of the Department of Outer Space of the Astronomy & Space Sciences program at the Kuwait Science Club, Al-Joaan is currently a trainee at the Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy in Brussels. Furthermore, she previously took ...
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Zoom-up star photos poke holes in century-old astronomical theory
Eureka! Science News
MIRC uses interferometry to combine the light entering four telescopes at the CHARA array at Georgia State University so that it seems to be coming through a device 100 times larger than the Hubble Space Telescope. The technique lets astronomers see ...
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Eureka! Science News
Planetarium having free shows in May
Fremont News Messenger
... before retirement with a bunch of rookie rockets who learn a lot about planets, moons and other space objects. Cute songs and cheeky comments by the rookies make this a fun show for all ages. A look at the night sky and astronomy news is included. ...
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Recommended: A supernova fit for a monarch?
msnbc.com
Martin Lunn, former curator of astronomy at the Yorkshire Museum and US historian Lila Rakoczy, combed through the historical records and suggest Cas A could have been seen decades earlier – indeed, at the time Charles II was born. ...
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Scientists to look at Big Bang
People's World
"In a few years from now," wrote BS Sathyaprakash, of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Cardiff University, on his webpage, "a network of kilometer baseline laser interferometric detectors of gravitational waves will be in operation opening a ...
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People's World
NEAF: Bigger and Better Than Ever!
Sky & Telescope
Last weekend the Northeast Astronomy Forum and Telescope Show (NEAF) celebrated its 20th anniversary with a bang. NEAF happens every year at Rockland Community College in Suffern, New York. The crowds this time were bigger than in the past two years; ...
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Canberra scientists will help look back through time
Sydney Morning Herald
The director of the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Mount Stromlo, Harvey Butcher, said the new centre and the technologies it will produce would help scientists look back in time to the earliest parts of the universe. ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
On This Day In Weather History April 19
Irish Weather Online
1975 – SPACE: India successfully launched their Aryabhatta satellite using a Soviet Intercosmos rocket into orbit. The satellite would test their tracking systems and conduct x-ray and solar astronomy experiments. 1986 – USA: A major storm system ...
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Irish Weather Online
Hall monitor: A look at school news and events
Evansville Courier & Press
Her novel "Burnout Stars" was inspired by summer road trips and her father's fascination with astronomy. The story is a murder mystery and is available at Barnes & Noble Bookselelrs as well as Amazon.com. Myers will be signing copies of her book at the ...
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Mercury and Mars will meet in the eastern sky Tuesday morning
Tecca
Mercury and Mars, which appear as small dots in the sky to us, will meet for breakfast in the eastern sky, providing a unique opportunity to amateur astronomy and photography nuts alike. In order to spot the rare galactic treat you'll need to rise ...
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Tecca
Celebrate Mom During a Mother's Day Getaway to Wilmington & North Carolina's ...
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910-458-8206; www.ncparks.gov/Visit/parks/cabe/events.php May 7: Star Gazing. 8pm-9:45pm. Mom's eyes will twinkle when you join the Cape Fear Astronomy Society for a free star-gazing session. Telescopes provided. Insect repellent suggested. ...
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Astronomers can tune in to radio aurorae to find exoplanets
Astronomy Magazine
By Royal Astronomical Society, United Kingdom — Published: April 18, 2011 This image of Jupiter's northern ultraviolet aurorae was obtained using the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard the Hubble Space Telescope in February 2007. ...
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WISE Delivers Millions Of Galaxies, Stars, Asteroids
Photonics Online
Instructions for astronomy enthusiasts wanting to try their hand at using the archive are at http://wise.ssl.berkeley.edu/wise_image_service.html. JPL manages and operates the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, ...
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NAM 09: Could low-cost space missions keep astronomy aiming high?
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Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee Meeting via ...
Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee Meeting via Teleconference 6 Mar 2011 - SpaceRef.
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Civilisation has only a 50 per cent chance of surviving to 2100 without suffering a man-made catastrophic event, Lord Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal, ...
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