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SPACE, Astronomy News, May 29, 2011

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          Astro-H Satellite Will Gather Elusive X-ray Data From Black Holes and Supernovae
Space Ref (press release)
The Society supports committees on Optical and Infrared Astronomy, Radio Astronomy, Space Astronomy, Theoretical Astronomy, Education, Heritage, Canadian Grad Students, and Awards. Cassiopeia, the quarterly newsletter of the Society, is published at ...
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Space Ref (press release)

Remembering Spirit: Q & A With Mars Rover Chief Steve Squyres
Space.com
SPACE.com recently caught up with Steve Squyres, lead scientist for Spirit and Opportunity's mission and an astronomy professor at Cornell University. In an email interview, Squyres talked about Spirit's accomplishments, its legacy and what the rover's ...
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Space.com

Astronomers to provide free telescope viewing at Grand Canyon National Park
Sierra Vista Herald
When traveling in the park on the South Rim, it is best to find a parking space and use the free shuttle bus system to access points of interest in the Grand Canyon Village area. See the Park Guide for tour bus routes and schedules. ...
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The digitization of astronomy
PhysicsToday.org (blog)
Later in my career, when I was a researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, I witnessed other significant developments in the digitization of astronomy.Astronomers began to archive data in standard, easy-to-use formats, the World Wide...
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PhysicsToday.org (blog)

G2 Geomagnetic Storm Going On
AccuWeather.com (blog)
I want to say thank you very much to Mark and Daniel and other followers of AccuWeatherAstronomy on facebook for all of the information that you share with me and everyone else. Please join the AccuWeather.com Astronomy fanpage by clicking here. ...
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Supernova Sonata Makes Music From the Stars
Escapist Magazine
"These explosions are extremely energetic," explained astronomer Alex Parker of the University of Victoria, "and can be seen across vast distances in space." Even though the telescope was only able to monitor about 1/10000th of the entire sky, ...
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JAXA Hopes To Keep Akari Going Despite Power Failure
Space News
By Space News Staff Engineers at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) are still hoping they can keep the partially crippled Akari infrared astronomy satellite running despite a major electrical failure that renders the satellite's science ...
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Four planets align near moon on holiday weekend
msnbc.com
... contact managing editor Tariq Malik at: tmalik@space.com. Joe Rao serves as an instructor and guest lecturer at New York's Hayden Planetarium. He writes aboutastronomy for The New York Times and other publications, and he is also an on-camera ...
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msnbc.com

The Largest Telescope Ever Built Will Rely On Citizens to Analyze Its Reams of ...
Popular Science
By Clay Dillow Posted 05.27.2011 at 2:15 pm 5 Comments The Square Kilometer Array (artist's impression) That's a lot of space data. SKA Project Development Office and Swinburne Astronomy Productions via Wikimedia Australia wants to host the world's ...
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Popular Science

Green crystals rain in outer space
Examiner.com
They were then shot up into a gas cloud surrounding the sun, and rained down in the outer edge of our solar system. Join organizations like the Grand Rapids Astronomy Associationto learn more about what's in our celestial skies.
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SETI scours Earth for cash
Record-Searchlight
While there are other radio telescopes around the world looking for signs of intelligent life in space occasionally, the Allen Array was the only one with the search as its main mission, said Seth Shostak, senior astronomy for SETI. ...
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Lectionary Commentary: “Progressive Christianity on Ascension Sunday” (for ...
Patheos
Modern astronomy tells us, not only that the earth is the “third rock from the sun,” but also that what we call the “sun” is only one star among over 400 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy alone. Our sun is not even a central star. ...
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Planet-hunting pioneer calls for probe to Alpha Centauri - May 27, 2011
Nature.com (subscription) (blog)
“I'm going to describe some of my anger,” Marcy said, and started out by slamming the National Academy's Astro2010 decadal survey of astronomy and astrophysics for the low priority it gave to planet-hunting missions, saying the panel was "disingenuous" ...
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Nature.com (subscription) (blog)

AAS etc space news - Knight Science Journalism Tracker
By Charlie Petit
Here is a sampling of stories on one heavily covered piece of news, filed by reporters there or following things via the web, teleconference, and other remote means. Below that is another piece ofspace news that broke at about the ... Bad Astronomy blog – Phil Plait : Most distant object ever seen … maybe ; Usual spicy stuff from Dr. Astronomer – with such lines as “this takes a wee bit o'explaining … after all, it's an explosion so big it'll crush your mind into dust. ...
Knight Science Journalism Tracker - http://ksjtracker.mit.edu/

Star that changed the universe : Space and Astronomy news daily ...
SpaceInfo … astronomy and space exploration news and images, updated daily. Check out the SpaceInfo Shop too (link above) for astronomy books, space DVDs, ...
spaceinfo.com.au/2011/05/24/star-that-changed-the-universe/

Memorial Day in Space: No Holiday for Shuttle Astronauts - Yahoo! News
[Last Chance to See Space Shuttle Endeavour in Night Sky] ... Follow Yahoo! News on Twitter, become a fan on Facebook ... More on Space & Astronomy ...
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Scouring Space for Life: More Earths Out There than We Thought ...
Astronomy. News · Forums & Polls. Scouring Space for Li... Real-Time News ... More AstronomyDiscussions ». Email me Astronomy news. Learn more. Comments ...
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