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SPACE, Astronomy News, May 25, 2011

The Great Cosmic-Ray Sniffer Reaches Orbit, on the Hunt for Dark Matter
TIME
(See "TIME's Complete Coverage: Space, Astronomy, NASA and More.") It's also quite possible that AMS-2 won't solve either mystery, since in both cases the hoped-for detections depend on a series of "ifs" — if there's a lot of antimatter out there, ...
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Kepler's Insight to Physical Nature of Planetary Systems
Discovery News
Kepler team members met in Boston this week at the meeting of the American Astronomical Society(AAS) to give a status report on their progress toward answering one of the most timeless questions in astronomy: how abundant are Earth-sized planets in ...
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Astronomers put a new spin on the age of stars
physicsworld.com
Using NASA's Kepler space telescope as part of the "Kepler Cluster Study", Meibom and his collaborators measured the rotation rates for stars in a one billion year old cluster called NGC 6811. The rotation is detected by looking for tiny changes in the ...
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Brilliant but Solitary Superstar Discovered in Nearby Galaxy
Science Daily (press release)
Never before have astronomers observed two of these powerful stellar explosions occurring ... > read more Hubble Sees Graceful Dance Of Two Interacting Galaxies (Nov. 1, 2007) — Two galaxies perform an intricate dance in this new Hubble Space ...
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Outer space volcano eruption plumes 7 times higher than Iceland
Asylum.co.uk
While Iceland threatens to share yet another ash cloud with its neighbours (although this time from the marginally more pronouncable Grímsvötn volcano) we're casting an eye to the volcanoes of outerspace. NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day has ...
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Joint Fact Sheet: US-UK Higher Education, Science, and Innovation Collaboration
Whitehouse.gov (press release)
The leaders also acknowledged the significant contributions to understanding our own planet and noted the UK's important contributions, through the European Space Agency and in collaborations with the US, relating to Mars exploration, astronomy, ...
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ASU planetarium shows scheduled
San Angelo Standard Times
Angelo State University's newly updated Global Immersion Center (GIC), formerly the Planetarium, will feature three full-dome public astronomy shows during its summer schedule running fromThursday, June 2 to Friday, July 22. ...
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Civil War Encampment to be held at Fort Churchill on Saturday
Reno Gazette Journal
Then on June 4, an Astronomy Party will be held at Fort Churchill State Park just west of the Buckland Cemetery. The viewing will take place after dark. Astronomers Jay Lawson and Adam Kremers will bring telescopes for the public to view outer space. ...
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Unabridged budget vote: Science & Technology: Minister Naledi Pandor
DefenceWeb (press release)
... as paleontology and astronomy, and technology missions such as advanced manufacturing associated with our mineral wealth, the hydrogen economy, the bioeconomy, energy security and renewable sources of energy, space science and related industries, ...
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Meteorites land in science class
St. Thomas Times-Journal
"These are all rocks in space," said Gordon Osinski, professor of earth, science and astronomy. "These are all things that don't form on the ground." Meteorites commonly come from the asteroid belt found in space between Mars and Jupiter. ...
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Hubble Views the Star That Changed the Universe
Media Newswire (press release)
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has been trained on a single variable star that in 1923 altered the course of modern astronomy. V1 is a special class of pulsating star called a Cepheid variable that can be used to make reliable measurements of large ...
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Noted astrophysicist says 3-D museums not that far off
Houston Chronicle
... a 3-D space walk in progress." At the Houston Museum of Natural Science's Burke Baker Planetarium, visitors already can experience the "equivalent of 3-D immersion," said Carolyn Sumners, museum vice president for astronomy and physical sciences....
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Houston Chronicle

Adler Planetarium Chooses Global Immersion for 8K True Black Digital Dome Theater
PRLog.Org (press release)
The Uniview™ real-time data and astronomy visualization platform from SCISS will be used for astronomy presentations. “The system in the Grainger Sky Theater surpasses anything we have done before in terms of display performance,” says Andrew ...
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PRLog.Org (press release)

NASA closes book on Spirit rover's historic mission
Astronomy Now Online
"However, while we no longer believe there is a realistic probability of hearing from Spirit, the Deep Space Network may occasionally listen for any faint signals when the schedule permits." Our latest 116-page Astronomy Now special edition is an ...
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Astronomy Now Online

Other NI News In Brief
4ni.co.uk
Sinn Fein Minister, Carál Ní Chuilín said: "The Armagh Observatory is at the forefront ofastronomy - together with groups in Queen's University Belfast and other universities across the island. Their work helps to promote a positive image of Ireland ...
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4ni.co.uk

Cray Unveils Its First GPU Supercomputer
HPCwire
The system is to be used to support scientific research in weather forecasting, climatology, chemistry, physics, material sciences, geology, biology, genetics, experimental medicine,astronomy, mathematics and computer sciences. ...
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Black holes spin faster and faster
Astronomy Magazine
Dana Berry/STScI Two United Kingdom astronomers have found that the giant black holes in the center of galaxies are on average spinning faster than at any time in the history of the universe. Alejo Martinez-Sansigre from the University of Portsmouth ...
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Space Station Crew to Return to Earth Today - Yahoo! News
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Suborbital Rocket Launches Human Remains, Wedding Rings into Space ...
Photo in Slideshow: NASA astronaut Cady Coleman attends a news conference at … ... More onSpace & Astronomy. Astronauts take 3rd spacewalk for laying cable ...
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