Today: SPACE, Astronomy News, May 18, 2011 (3)

May 18, 2011

SPACE, Astronomy News, May 18, 2011 (3)

Herschel Lives Up to the Family Name
Space Daily
The favor did, however, and he was appointed The King's Astronomer in 1782. Today, the HerschelSpace Observatory is still making use of the planet Uranus. The extensive study of our Sun's seventh planet means that it is very well understood. ...
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Ballard High School students send E. coli into space
My Ballard
A group of Ballard High School astronomy students watched today as their science experiment launched into space on board the Shuttle Endeavor. Led by their teacher, Eric Muhs, the students combined biology with astronomy and created an experiment....
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Spread your wings: Queen star Brian May aiming for the stars
stv.tv
After striking up an unlikely friendship with legendary astronomer Sir Patrick Moore, the fuzzy-haired rock god now has a phd in astronomy and admitted that it would be hard to turn down a place on Richard Branson's proposed Space Flight. ...
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Debating space
Discover Magazine (blog)
I get a lot of questions — a lot — about astronomy and space from kids in this age group. I expect this debate topic will prompt many more, since I'm outspoken on the topic. So I'll take this opportunity to link to a few of my earlier blog posts ...
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Atlas of astronomical discoveries
PhysOrg.com (press release)
Govert Schilling, a Dutch science journalist, writes about astronomy and spaceexploration for newspapers and magazines including de Volkskrant, Science, and New Scientist, and is the author of numerous books. He published The Hunt for Planet Xwith ...
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This Week On The Space Show
Space Fellowship
Howell has reporting experience for a number of large Canadian news organizations such as CTV, the Globe and Mail and the Ottawa Citizen as well as specialty space publications like The SpaceReview, SpaceRef, NASA Watch, 365 Days of Astronomy and Air ...
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If ET's out there, we'll find him
Independent Online
... US astronomers said on Friday. The giant dish began this week pointing toward each of the 86 planets - culled from a list of 1235 possible planets identified by Nasa's Kepler space telescope - and will gather 24 hours of data on each one. ...
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Independent Online
Robert Burnham Jr.'s Strange, Wonderful Manifesto Coming in One Month
Village Voice (blog)
To mark that anniversary, Burnham's sister, Viola Courtney, has given the Voice permission to publish her brother's unique "self-interview," a much shorter version of which was published inAstronomy magazine in 1982. A scientist may seem justified in ...
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Nanosatellite Will Look for Alien Worlds
MIT Technology Review
By Brittany Sauser Draper Laboratory and MIT have developed a satellite the size of a loaf of bread that will undertake one of the biggest tasks in astronomy: finding Earthlike planets beyond our solar system—or exoplanets—that could support life. ...
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Crystalline ice covers dwarf-planet Haumea
Cordis News
The results, published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, suggest that the planet is made up of a frozen outer layer, and an internal section made up of between 88?% and 97?% rock. 'Since solar radiation constantly destroys the crystalline ...
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Colliding white dwarfs give each other a new lease on life
io9
Of course, "soon" is a relative term, particularly in astronomy - the stars aren't due to collide for another 37 million years. When white dwarfs collide, one of two things can happen: if the combined masses is greater than 140% of the Sun, ...
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World Weather News In Brief 16 May 2011
Irish Weather Online
Unfortunately we won't get to see the orbiter and its fuel tank in Irish skies this time around, but the launch can be watched live at www.astronomy.ie/nasatv JAPAN: Gobi dust continued travelling on May 13, 2011, sweeping over the Sea of Japan. ...
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'Octopus' Provides Cancer Breakthrough
BioResearch Online (press release)
The Council has a broad science portfolio and works with the academic and industrial communities to share its expertise in materials science, space and ground-based astronomy technologies, laser science, microelectronics, wafer scale manufacturing, ...
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Children, adults enjoy wonders of the night sky at Bear Branch Nature Center
Carroll County Times
Eney, who volunteers as the planetarium director, teaches astronomy at Towson University and is a board member of the Westminster Astronomical Society. He gives monthly planetarium shows at Bear Branch. Using a laser pointer to note east and west, ...
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Radioactive core encases dwarf planet in ice
Wired.co.uk
By Dave Mosher A thin shell of ice formed by a continuous cycle of heating and freezing gives Haumea, a distant dwarf planet discovered in 2004, its distinctive glimmer in deep space. Astronomers knew Haumea had a frosty coating, but they didn't know ...
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