Today: SPACE, Astronomy News, Apr 29, 2011

Apr 29, 2011

SPACE, Astronomy News, Apr 29, 2011

Listening telescope for space aliens shut down by cutbacks
Reuters
Astronomers there were anticipating a slew of potential new research targets from the dozens of potentially life-supporting "exoplanets" newly detected by NASA's Kepler space telescope to be orbiting distant stars in the Milky Way Galaxy. ...
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Have Some Blooming Fun This Weekend
The Daily New Canaan
Here's the rundown to help you assemble your own bouquet: No lions or tigers or bears but, for astronomy buffs, a more compelling trio: "Black Holes, Space Warps and Time Twists" in a thoroughly novel presentation at Yale's Peabody Museum in New Haven. ...
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The Daily New Canaan
Astronaut Love: An Interview With Spacewalker Stanley Love
Scientific American
On the eve of the launch of the penultimate space shuttle mission, STS-134, Scientific American astronomy editor George Musser talks to veteran astronaut Stanley Love about being in space and the future of spaceflight. On the eve of the launch of the ...
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Just wild enough for a novice
Boston Globe
... I brought clothes for the newly opened spa, the dining room overlooking the Blue Ridge Mountains, and the four-story silo observatory with its Celestron CGE Pro 1400 deep-space telescope. Bathing suit and goggles? Check. Astronomy book? Check. ...
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UA likely won't be solar observatory HQ
Arizona Daily Star
The UA had also played up the efficiency of keeping the NSO in Tucson, where it shares office and machine-shop space with its sister organization, the National Optical Astronomy Observatory. The UA had proposed adding four faculty positions, ...
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Shuttle Endeavour
UPI.com
... anti-matter and questions of extragalactic astronomy, NASA said. The astronauts are scheduled to conduct four spacewalks to perform space-station maintenance. The mission could be extended two days to perform more upkeep, NASA said. ...
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The 'Idea Man' comes to town
Mountain View Voice
by Nick Veronin Space enthusiasts, computer engineers, software designers, neurologists, astronomers, cancer survivors and aspiring entrepreneurs all had good reason to fork out $32 to attend Monday night's event at the Computer History Museum. ...
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Families: Walks, arts and wildlife this weekend
Lincoln Journal Star
Prizes, hands-on activities about space, science and astronomy for all ages. Regular museum admission. Train Expo -- 10 am-5 pm May 7, 8, Lincoln Children's Zoo. Specials on train rides, demonstrations by Lincoln Area Model Railroad Club and Conductor ...
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Macquarie Fields High School students to fly to space camp
Macarthur Chronicle Campbelltown
The students were also offered a free one-year membership to the society and provided with show bags of astronomy merchandise. The society also offered to hold an astronomy night at the school in addition to its original donation. ...
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Macarthur Chronicle Campbelltown
Low-energy astrophysics: How scientists are trying to save the Earth
Boing Boing
Phil Marshall and his co-authors estimate that astronomy represents only about .001% of that energy use.* This isn't about reining in a science that's set to doom us all. Instead, when Marshall and his cohorts ask other astrophysicists to use less ...
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Boing Boing
Inspiring girls to become new era astronauts
Medill Reports: Chicago
The space program inspired Melroy at a young age—specifically the Apollo missions that took the first humans to the moon. “I was always interested in the sciences, and astronomy was the one that interested me the most,” Melroy said. ...
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SFIFF 54: Critic's Notebook 1.
GreenCine
The astronomers in the film consider themselves archaeologists of space in a way, only dealing with far more time separation than earth bound historians. "We manipulate the past," says one. The energy from the past takes millions or billions of years ...
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Astronomers Unveil Portrait Of 'Super-Exotic Super-Earth'
RedOrbit
The research, based on observations from Canada's MOST (Microvariability & Oscillations of STars) space telescope, was released online April 28 at arXiv.org and has been submitted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. ...
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First Contact: Investigating Astrobiology
Space Daily
I liken it to the long-held hypothesis in astronomy that the cosmos is filled with exoplanets; a theoretical conclusion that had to wait for confirmation until the technology and knowledge needed to find them came along. With that confirmation - and ...
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Apple off track
Asia Times Online
... signals from space that may indicate that we are not alone in the universe. Despite being funded by SETI, the $50 million array, now managed and operated by the radio astronomy lab of the University of California, Berkeley, has run out of cash. ...
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Venturing into the Beyond
Patch.com
In addition to speakers, there will be solar viewing at the museum every Saturday night, planet presentations at Santa Rosa Junior College and tours given to school kids by members of the Sonoma County Astronomy Society, to help them understand the ...
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Bucknell Magazine: Take me to the river
Bucknell University
The Bucknell University Environmental Center officially opened in early 2005 and has since settled into its own space at RitterHouse on the far end of Fraternity Row, across from the astronomy building. With help from a $450000 grant from the Henry ...
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