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SPACE, Astronomy News, Apr 27, 2011

To Space and Beyond at Aerospacefest 2011
New Hampshire Magazine (blog)
Aerospacefest is an exciting collaboration of 
astronomy and aviation. It's been 50 years since New Hampshire's own, Alan Shepard launched into space aboard Freedom 7. He spent five minutes in space before returning safely to earth! ...
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New Hampshire Magazine (blog)
Off to Florida for the Shuttle Launch
Universe Today
Even though I've been publishing Universe Today for over 11 years, and written thousands of articles about 
space and astronomy, covering every aspect of the spaceindustry, I've never actually experienced it first hand. It's the blessing and the curse ...
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Universe Today
Veteran astronaut to address thousands of Utah students
Salt Lake Tribune
Its purpose is to help teachers discuss 
space exploration and astronomy. Davis County School District hosts the event this year. Trease, a sixth-grade teacher at Creekside, in Kaysville, has been the director of Utah Space Week since its inception. ...
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Q & A: World's First Space Tourists Reflect on Dawn of Private Spaceflight
Space.com
I was fascinated with the stars, which turned into a love of science, and 
astronomyspecifically. My fascination and interest grew and continued throughout my life. I always thought that by the time I grew up, there'd be a Federation of Planets, ...
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Space.com
Finals Stress Relief = Planetarium Awareness Week, April 26-29
Santa Fe College
This 25-minute, full-dome planetarium show covers significant events and milestones during NASA's 
Space Shuttle program as well as highlights the shuttle's contributions to astronomy. It's a "must see" for every Space Shuttle enthusiast! ...
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Santa Fe College
SETI Institute to shut down alien-seeking radio dishes
San Jose Mercury News
After millenniums of musings, this spring 
astronomers announced that 1235 new possible planets had been observed by Kepler, a telescope on a space satellite. They predict that dozens of these planets will be Earth-sized -- and some will be in the ...
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Does dark matter link gamma rays to galactic haze?
physicsworld.com
Annihilating dark matter at the heart of the Milky Way could account for signals detected by two
space telescopes, according to a pair of US physicists. If true, the theory provides a new indirect measurement of one of astronomy's most elusive entities ...
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News in Brief: Atom & Cosmos
Science News
An international team of 
astronomers describes the findings in the May Astronomy & Astrophysics. —Ron Cowen For the first time, astronomers have imaged a planet whose line-of-sight distance to its parent star is less than Jupiter's average distance ...
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What's In Calliope For You?
Science 2.0
I would put amateur 
astronomy into the 'personal science' more than 'citizen science'. You're not helping an established scientist, but doing bonafide research on your own. I'd also put some of the DIY/Maker efforts in that category. ...
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Gazing at infinity, and beyond
Deccan Chronicle
... who sees exciting days ahead with the launch of the space telescope and the satellite Aditya to study the sun up close. Arvind Paranjpye, of the Inter-University Centre of Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) points out that India has the largest ...
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Deccan Chronicle
Capturing stars for the world
SunLive
“The cameras he uses are the most sophisticated digital cameras especially made for 
astronomywork.” John lives on a small farm with a dark sky west of Gisborne and is imaging and observing on most fine nights. The presentation is at the Tauranga ...
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Space Day” at the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute on Saturday, May 7
Mountain Xpress (blog)
Visitors will also have access to PARI's 
Astronomy Image Gallery, which includes more than 100 posters, photographs and historical images. Research and education programs will be highlighted at locations across the campus and PARI staff will be ...
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The Minnesota Planetarium Deserves a Good Home
Minneapolis Star Tribune
... extensively to bring a portable dome and astronomy program to schools. We have a few small planetariums like the ones in Duluth, Hibbing, or New Ulm, but only one serves the entire state: the Minnesota Planetarium and Space Discovery Center. ...
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World's biggest antimatter nucleus produced at Brookhaven
Ars Technica
But the results could help provide a new perspective on 
astronomy. We're just now planning to put hardware into space that could detect an anti-alpha. Given the RHIC results and a clear indication of how much anti- 4 He is out there, we should get a ...
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SCSU Physics Professor Honored for Exceptional Research
Patch.com
Horch is highly regarded in the field of 
astronomy for his optics research. He recently developed a cutting-edge telescopic attachment that enables astronomers to see images of distant stars with crispness up to 20 times better than ever before. ...
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Summer Camp Guide
Daytona Beach News-Journal
Ages 8-13, six week-long sessions on aviation, engineering, mathematics, physics/
astronomy, robotics and space life sciences, 8:30 am-4:30 pm, June 13-Aug. 5. $200. 386-226-7688; erau.edu/db/summer/science-engineering-camp.html. ...
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Kidstuff calendar
HeraldNet
Amazing 
Astronomy, 1 pm May 7, ages 6 to 12, Granite Falls branch, 815 E. Galena St.; 360-691-6087. Wear cosmic costumes, make and take a star gazer and take a multimedia trip through spacein this program presented by the Imagine Children's Museum. ...
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Securing the Planetarium's Future
Patch.com
... the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated during orbital reentry on Feb. 1, 2003. Monet was quick to express her gratitude to all the individuals, groups and businesses that have come forward to offer their support—from high school astronomy clubs, ...
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NASA's Hubble Celebrates 21st Anniversary with 'Rose' of Galaxies
By Michael Olivia
To celebrate the 21st anniversary of the Hubble 
Space Telescope's deployment into space,astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., pointed Hubble's eye at an especially photogenic pair of interacting ...
Satellite News - http://satellitesnews.blogspot.com/
Royal Wedding Fever? Not for NASA's Next-to-Last Space Shuttle ...
Follow 
SPACE.com for the latest in space science and exploration news on ... More on Space &Astronomy. China looking to public to name space station AP ...
news.yahoo.com/.../royalweddingfevernotfornasasnexttolastsp...
was a supernova, say astronomers - Space and Earth Sciences News
One of the abiding legends of Britain's royal family is that a noon-day star appeared at the birth in 1630 of King Charles II, who was to restore the 
...
www.news-about-space.org/astronomy-news/cluster9209625/
Astronomers study unusual asteroid » Space Times News
(ISNS) – You've heard of Pluto, once a full-scale planet that 
astronomers now classify as a dwarf planet. Now meet 4 Vesta -- or Vesta for short -- an ...
www.spacetimesnews.com/.../astronomers-study-unusual-aster...
Kudos to the METRO | Portal to the Universe
I was particularly frustrated by the one in the METRO because they generally do a pretty good job of covering 
space/astronomy news.I'm pleased to say that, ...
www.portaltotheuniverse.org/blogs/posts/view/109278/
At Heaven's Gate: 50 Years After Humans First Reached Space, What ...
... Chandra observes extraordinary event by PHYSorg.com: Astronomy News | posted on April 8, ...Posted 4 hours ago by PHYSorg.com: Space Exploration News ...
worldastronauts.com/.../at-heavens-gate-50-years-after-human...
Astronomy, Spitzer Space Telescope - The University of Nottingham
University of Nottingham
NewsExpertise guideAreasAAstronomy, Spitzer Space ... cosmological parameters and their determination, Hubble Space Telescope, ...
www.nottinghamcourses.com/.../astronomy,spitzerspacetelesco...
Big Test Looms for British Space Plane Concept (SPACE.com) : SPACE ...
NewsSpace/AstronomySPACE.com – SAN FRANCISCO — A huge, unmanned British space ...Full Story at Yahoo! NewsSpace/Astronomy. LATEST NEWS; TAG CLOUD ...
herald247.com/.../big-test-looms-for-british-space-plane-conce...
Amateur Astronomer Spots Winking Asteroid | Space.com
Strange 
News. Not Quite Science; Adventurous Extremes; Inexplicable. Film. Film People ... Solar System Science; Deep Space Discoveries; Amateur Astronomy ...
www.space.com/11393-amateur-astronomer-spots-winking-ast...
Astronomy News Articles Search - Search Astronomy
Includes 
astronomy and space news, sky events, reprinted articles for the magazine, andastronomy and telescope resources. Astronomy News - Astronomy ...
searchastronomy.co.cc/search/astronomy-news-articles
European Association for Astronomy Education » James Webb Space ...
The first six of 18 segments that will form NASA's James Webb 
Space ... This is the EAAE Newsblog that aims to allow astronomy teachers to know whats being ...
eaae-astronomy.org/blog/?cat=199

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