New York Times
There is no Border Patrol in space. But the very earthly cat-and-mouse game between smugglers and America's border agents is affecting the exploration of space, lighting up the nighttime sky in southern Arizona and making astronomers strain even harder...
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New York Times
NASA Brings the Stars to Students in North Carolina for Astronomy Days
PR Newswire (press release)
Hernandez was a part of the STS-128 space shuttle mission to the International Space Station in 2009 and recorded 13 days, 20 hours and 54 minutes in space. Univision Communications Inc., the largest Spanish-language network in the country, ...
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Ten previously undiscovered planets found floating in the Milky Way
Cordis News
Astronomers have discovered 10 new Jupiter-sized planets floating in interstellar space - far from the light of any nearby parent star. The discovery was made by an international team of EU-funded researchers conducting a planetary microlensing survey ...
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To edge of space, back: West Point balloon satellite a success
United States Army (press release)
By Mike Strasser, West Point Public Affairs Cadets from the Astronomy Club and Amateur Radio Club participated in the second West Point Balloon Satellite launch on May 13, 2011. The payload included two cameras to capture video and still photos from ...
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Professor receives Sagan Medal for excellence in public communication
Arizona State University
He is a frequent contributor to popular astronomy and science magazines like Sky & Telescope,Astronomy, and Scientific American, and to radio shows and internet blogs about astronomy andspace. He has appeared on television on the NBC “Today” show, ...
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Milroy Observatory part of regional plan for renewed astronomy tourism
ABC Online
The works would include an expansion of teaching facilities and the complex will be rebranded as the New South Wales Astronomy and Space Education Centre. It's hoped, if sucessfull, the centre will also attract more school groups. ...
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NASA STS-134 Report #07 5 pm CDT Thursday, May 19, 2011 (with video)
Space Ref (press release)
HOUSTON - An instrument that seeks to unite astronomy and high-energy physics to give us a better understanding of our universe was installed on the International Space Station by spaceshuttle Endeavour astronauts Thursday. ...
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Summer Nights Bring Astronomical Delights
Offaly Express (press release)
Currently there are around 400 additional operational satellites in orbit from communications to spaceresearch and astronomy to geostationary and military. A satellite seen moving across the sky looks just like an average star, moving around the speed ...
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El Paso students' experiments on rocket that lifts off today
El Paso Times
"Now I love science and astronomy," she said. "It's been a great experience." Montana, 14, an eighth-grade student at Brown Middle School in El Paso, will push the button that will launch a rocket and payload of 27 student experiments -- including an ...
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University of Leicester physicist receives highest UK science accolade
Loughborough News
Professor Cowley came to Leicester from Imperial College, London, in 1996, joining the Department of Physics and Astronomy, which was internationally acclaimed for itsspace research. This worldwide reputation is something he has built on. ...
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Loughborough News
Stanford astronautics professor co-hosts Known Universe on National Geographic ...
Stanford University News
... member at the University of California-Santa Barbara; David Kaplan, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University; and Mike Massimino, an astronaut in the US space program and veteran of two shuttle missions.
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World Weather News In Brief 20 May 2011
Irish Weather Online
The total eclipse of the moon is only a few short weeks away and Astronomy Ireland have prepared special moon watching packs to help you begin your exploration of our celestial neighbour. This will be the last total lunar eclipse viewable from Ireland ...
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Irish Weather Online
HOCO student selected as NASA Aerospace Scholar
The Warner Robins Patriot
Houston County High School astronomy student, Erika Leslie, was selected a 2011 NASA Aerospace Scholar. Leslie will spend a week working with NASA engineers at the Johnson SpaceFlight Center in Houston, Texas this summer. ...
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Blinded by the light
EastBayRI.com
One of the major thrusts of Edward Larned's senior project on light pollution was how decreased star visibility prevents many children from learning about space. City kids have it the worst, of course. Ask any local astronomer about the Iway bridge in ...
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Scientific Alliance newsletter 20th May 2011
Cambridge Network
“New input to the United Nations climate model: Ulrik Ingerslev Uggerhøj, Physics and Astronomy, AU, along with others including Jens Olaf Pepke Pedersen and Martin Bødker Enghoff, DTU Space, have directly demonstrated in a new experiment that cosmic ...
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Zombie apocalypse, rogue planets join doomsday buzz | Philadelphia Inquirer ...
Philadelphia Inquirer
wondered astronomer Phil Plait, writing in his Bad Astronomy blog for Discover Magazine. His calculations suggest, if rogues are as common as stars, there's one for about every 100 cubic light-years - or one closer to Earth than Alpha Centauri, ...
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Solar Walk Updated, Gets Even Better — iPad App Review
PadGadget
Even if you don't know a lot about astronomy, it's easy to get engrossed using Solar Walk. The app lets users fly between planets, in a manner similar to Google Earth. You can zoom from a view of the earth and moon to a view of the entire galaxy in ...
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PadGadget
Gov. Bentley joins Huntsville's effort to land National Solar Observatory
al.com (blog)
Bentley's unannounced visit was part of a strategic move to convince the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) that UAH is the best place to relocate the solar observatory. "This was just the strategy that was used to say, ...
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al.com (blog)
A portrait of the scientist as a man of arts
Calcutta Telegraph
No wonder also that having been invited to inaugurate the Inter-University Centre forAstronomy and Astrophysics in Pune, he spoke on “The Series of Paintings of Claude Monet and the Landscape of General Relativity”. It is difficult to think how many ...
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Calcutta Telegraph
Home schooling highlights shortfalls in Taiwan's education system
Taiwan Today
“Our daughter once spent three years doing mostly astronomy, and she wanted math every day,” Wernik said. But her younger brother preferred studying a bit of everything. “I wonder how a schoolteacher could adjust schedules and methods to provide for ...
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Taiwan Today
Budget 11: No new money for science
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
A big hit for New Zealand astronomy yesterday, with widespread media attention focussed on the MOA collaboration's newest paper in Nature, suggesting our galaxy is replete with multitudes of free-roaming planets that wander in space far from any star. ...
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Looking Deep into a Huge Storm on Saturn
Space Ref (press release)
ESO, the European Southern Observatory, is the foremost intergovernmental astronomyorganisation in Europe and the world's most productive astronomical observatory. It is supported by 15 countries: Austria, Belgium, Brazil, the Czech Republic, Denmark, ...
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Planet Gliese 581d Star's Habitable Zone Explained - Yahoo! News
Follow Yahoo! News on Twitter, become a fan on Facebook. More on Space & Astronomy. Endeavour astronauts stroll out for spacewalk AP; Endeavour astronauts ...
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Shuttle Endeavour heads to space station on its final ... - Astronomy
Space shuttle Endeavour launches on the STS-134 mission to the International Space ... Receivenews, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from ...
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Twitter / Prehistoric Costumes: Astronomy News - Space tra ...
Astronomy News - Space traffic management body urged: By Samihah Zaman, Staff Reporter A vi... http://bit.ly/iWc5H1 Prehistoric Costumes.
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Space And Astronomy News Mattters - May 12 2011 - Magma Ocean ...
The International Space Station's Expedition 27 astronauts and cosmonauts worked Tuesday .....News Flash: Huge Gamma-ray Flares Mystify World's Astronomers ...
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The hunt for antimatter begins at the space station: Will - News
The latest bit of news … Full Story The Atlantic Wire. Photo in Slideshow: Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have made the first … ...
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Headline site featuring the latest in astronomy and space news. ... NASA Space Science andAstronomy News. What's new in NASA's space science programs. ...
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vintage-space | Astronomy News And Information
This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Amy Teitel over at Vintage Space . Click here to read the Carnival of Space #196. And if you're interested in ...
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Space News!: A 'Nearby' Habitable Planet And Rogue... - Topix
I'm mixing two different space-related news stories together for this post. Think of it as combining ingredients to bake something, except, instead of a ...
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Herschel lives up to the family name - World Astronauts
Astronomy | Herschel lives up to the family name. Posted 5 hours ago by PHYSorg. com:Astronomy News. The Herschel Space Observatory has been observing the ...
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Astronomy news | Society for Interdisciplinary Studies
Astronomy and Space · Astronomy. University of Buffalo News June 11th 2002 ... this is interesting though an old post. Research has squeezed evidence out of ...
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Skymania News And Guide Space News RSS Feed. Space and astronomy news and advice . Feed type: RSS - Published: 2 months ago - Language: English ...
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