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SPACE, Astronomy News, May 18, 2011

Art can be a tool in planetary exploration
USA Today
Artistic depictions of alien worlds have blossomed into their own genre of space art in the last decade, even as planet hunting has emerged as one of astronomy's hottest pursuits. A 2010 National Academies of Science report named planet detection one ...
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USA Today
Explore changes in night sky at free astronomy program
Mableton.11alive.com
Cobb County, GA -- (submitted by Cobb County Communications) Astronomy enthusiasts of all ages will have an opportunity to discuss current discoveries in deep space at the program "What's New in the Universe? Starry, Starry Night. ...
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Kepler data scoured for extraterrestrial signals
San Francisco Chronicle
... than the Hubble Space Telescope gathered during its first 20 years of observations. Werthimer's principal colleague in the new search is Andrew Siemion, an astronomy graduate student who is also involved in another SETI project called SERENDIP, ...
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'Science for development: the case for astronomy', Brussels, Belgium
Cordis News
The conference programme also will include plenary sessions on how astronomy partnerships can make a significant contribution to the implementation of the Joint Africa-EU Strategy's Science,Space and Information Partnership, including details of ...
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The problems with large telescopes
Keremeos Review
Most objects we observe in astronomy are faint, and as we dig further and further out in space, back in time towards the beginning of the universe, objects become incredibly faint. Because there is inevitably a sensitivity threshold for any detector or ...
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An unforgettable event at NASA's Goddard
Weekly Blitz
This Center manages many of NASA's Earth Observation, Astronomy, and SpacePhysics missions. The GSFC Facility also maintains the adjacent Magnetic Test Facility and Propulsion Research site and many other outlying sites including the Antenna ...
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Weekly Blitz
'Rocket Boys' legacy lives on at NASA
MassLive.com
It also conducts Earth-orbit and astronomy missions and is responsible for operating NASA's DeepSpace Network, an international array of antennas and communications facilities that supportinterplanetary space missions.
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Galileo's Conversion
Forbes (blog)
In the latest issue of the Journal for the History of Astronomy, Harvard professor Owen Gingerich, a world famous historian of Copernicus and author of The Book That Nobody Read, and Albert Van Helden, professor of the history of science at the ...
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Cannes '11 Day 7: Planet Terror
Boston Globe (blog)
At some point, Dunst gazes skyward and notices an space oddity. It's later it's explained, by Sutherland's astronomy buff, that a runaway planet intends to pass just by Earth. It's called Melancholia, and in one of the more eerily divine images von ...
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Department of Defense and Full-Year Continuing Appropriation Act restricts ...
Daily Bruin
Matt Siegler, a graduate student in planetary astronomy, looks for ice on the moon and regularly works with dirt from Mars as part of his research at the UCLA Department of Earth and SpaceSciences. He and Paige conduct research for the Diviner Lunar ...
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New SETI survey focuses on Kepler's top Earth-like planets
Space Daily
by Staff Writers Now that NASA's Kepler space telescope has identified 1235 possible planets around stars in our galaxy, astronomers at the University of California, Berkeley, are aiming a radio telescope at the most Earth-like of these worlds to see ...
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Space Daily
CSIRO sourcing hardware for Pawsey SKA supercomputing environment
Computerworld Australia
The second stage of the project was announced in March, with the agency stating that the Pawsey centre would act as a real-time processing facility for data, storage and analysis of data products from the Murchison Radio-Astronomy Observatory (MRO) and ...
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Producer's Notes: Finding Light
QUEST (blog)
In fact, he's gotten so good at it, he was honored as one of the winners of the InternationalAstronomy Photographer of the Year, 2010 awards in the “People and Space” category. Here's his winning photo, taken at Pfeiffer Beach in Big Sur, California. ...
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N.J. Woman's Spectacular Shuttle Launch Photos From ... - News
More on Space & Astronomy. NASA Computer Hacked, Satellite Data Accessed SPACE. ... Oldnews. This was done before. Yahoo is really grabbing at straws here. ...
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Space and Astronomy News: Exploration of Titan, By boat?....
Space and Astronomy News Message: [b]Exploration of Titan,[/b][i] By boat?[/i].. ..
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Carnival of Space #116 @ Habitation Intention | Astronomy - Top ...
Astronomy - The Carnival is back with a new issue and a new host. Habitation Intention is all about envisioning humans living in space.
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Astronomy & Spaceflight News - Space Shuttle Endeavour to Launch ...
NASA managers have retargeted space shuttle Endeavour's launch to no earlier than Monday, May 16. After a meeting on Friday, they also extended the length ...
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