Today: SPACE, Astronomy News, May 10, 2011

May 10, 2011

SPACE, Astronomy News, May 10, 2011

ASKAP telescope at Murchison Radio Observatory

Array of Hope: Australia and South Africa Vie for Massive Radio Telescope Project
Scientific American
"I think Australia is the site for the SKA, undoubtedly," says Phil Diamond, the chief ofastronomy and space science for the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), the Australian national science agency that is leading ...
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Scientific American

Herschel Space Observatory discovers the clearing out of star-forming gasScienceBlog.com (blog)
The discoveries are reported in papers in the journals Astronomy & Astrophysics (volume 518, L41, 2010) and Astrophysical Journal Letters (volume 773, L16, 2011). Together with an international team of investigators, Drs. Eckhard Sturm of the ...
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Ukrainian cabinet widens range of goods involved in cooperation with Russia in ...
Interfax
The amendments concern goods made by Pivdenne Design Bureau, Hartron-UKOM Science and Production Enterprise, OJSC ELMIZ, Anteks-Avtomatyka Ltd., the National Center for Spacecraft Testing and Management, and the Radio-Astronomy Institute of National ...
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CAC's Family Fun Friday on May 13
SanTanValleyToday.com
Pinal County, AZ-- Central Arizona College's final Astronomy Night at the Peak takes place on the Signal Peak Campus this Friday evening, May 13, when Dr. Wayne Pryor takes visitors on an exploration of the moon. But gazing at the stars is just one ...
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Stargazers invited to explore RIT Observatory at open house
Henrietta Post
RIT students and members of the Rochester Academy of Science Astronomy Section will be on hand to guide visitors through the night sky. “The observatory exists largely to serve RIT students,” said Michael Richmond, professor of physics at RIT. ...
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Indian River County School Digest
TCPalm
Master's Academy fifth-graders visit the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral as part of their studies of astronomy. On April 20, Lauren Kenney, a St. Helen Catholic School seventh-grader, represented Indian River County at the Soil and Water ...
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Catherine Street comes alive for 'CatDig' street festival
Limerick Leader
By Alan Owens ART installations, poetry and creative writing, salsa and flamenco demonstrations, live music and DJs, photo exhibits, food and guitar classes and astronomytalks - there is something for everyone at this weekend's 'CatDig' street ...
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Limerick Leader
Good switch
Honolulu Star-Advertiser
What's so hard about that? That's what banks are for," he said. "It sucks when you see how badly corrupt this society has become." Then there's astronomy, which is part of Erron Yoshioka's Earth sciences class. "I like how vast space can be. ...
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Troubled probe upholds Einstein
Nature.com (subscription)
Everitt responds that Gravity Probe B was competitively reviewed numerous times during its development, but he acknowledges that, as a fundamental physics mission, it did not go through the same review process used to select astronomy missions. ...
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