Today: SPACE, Astronomy News, May 30, 2011

May 30, 2011

SPACE, Astronomy News, May 30, 2011

The Last Time to See Endeavour in the Night Sky
AccuWeather.com (blog)
Satellites (such as Endeavour and the space station) become visible only when they are in sunlight and the observer is in deep twilight or darkness. This usually means shortly after dusk or before dawn. Please join the AccuWeather.com Astronomy fanpage ...
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Saturn and its rings take center stage to kick off summer
Washington Post
June 5 — “Astronomy on Ice,” Roopesh Ojha, senior fellow at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, explains the experience living at the Antarctica Submillimeter Telescope/Remote Observatory. At the David M. Brown Planetarium, 1426 N. Quincy St., Arlington ...
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Astronomy Without A Telescope – Holographic Dark Information Energy
Universe Today
The holographic principle has it that all the information about physical phenomena taking place within a 3D region of space can be contained on a 2D surface bounding that region of space. This, like information theory and entropy, is something that ...
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Universe Today

Penn Researchers Help Nanoscale Engineers Choose Self-Assembling Proteins
Media Newswire (press release)
Their colleagues included members of the Department of Physics and Astronomy in SAS. Their research was published in the journal Science today. The team set out to design proteins that could wrap around single-walled carbon nanotubes. ...
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Around Your Town: 05/29/11
Sierra Vista Herald
The Patterson Observatory, located on the University of Arizona South's campus in Sierra Vista, will join the Huachuca Astronomy Club on June 9 to observe the wonders of the night sky. The program will start at about 7:30 pm and, weather permitting, ...
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Astro Space News 30 May 2011 « David Reneke
By Dave
Here we present a number of breaking space/astronomy news stories and those that were a little too late to present in the current newsletter. Stories originate from any country engaged in space research and cover the entire spectrum ...
David Reneke - http://www.davidreneke.com/

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Billions of Lonely Planets, Adrift in Space - Topix
Astronomy News · Green Gems Rain in Space as New Star Forms · A world of discovery at stargazers' new home · Black Holes Spin Faster and Faster ...
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Astronauts unload space-scanner at station (AFP) : AFP ...
Posted on 19 May 2011 by Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy. The Space Shuttle Endeavour lifts off on its final mission May 16, at the Kennedy ...
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Twitter for Space Geeks
Astrobiology Magazine
Following this feed, you are just as likely to watch a space station crew give their best wishes to the newly wed royal couple as you are to read a challenging technical essay on how new telescope technology will allow astronomers to measure the size ...
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Astrobiology Magazine

The Wonders of Space: Crystal Rain on a Distant Star
TIME
The data it gathered, like much of the information all space telescopes collect, was initially recorded and banked, awaiting the time astronomers could break it down and analyze it. That analysis was just completed and the findings were published in ...
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San Bernardino Valley College's landmark is mystery to most
Press-Enterprise
The telescope opened a wide swath of the stars to students who packed astronomy classes when the observatory was built, he said. Viewers could see millions of light years out into space. NA Richardson Astronomical Observatory measures about 25 feet ...
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Autorickshaw driver's son sets sights on space
The Hindu
The institute is reputed for aviation and space engineering. After B.Tech, Ramesh wants to study M.Sc. (astronomy) in the University of Arizona and get a doctorate in pure astronomy. His aim now is to work on a Google Lunar X project on sending the ...
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The Hindu

$80m centre to aid in computer space search: Pawsey Centre Project
The Australian
The facility, known as the Pawsey Centre, will provide supercomputing resources to support the radioastronomy research community as well as other areas of computational and data-intensive science.
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The Pattern Seekers
Big Think
The Hubble telescope is a space-based observatory that revolutionized astronomy by providing unprecedentedly deep and clear views of the universe. Meta Pattern: Not only do all things possess numbers, all things are numbers. Meta Pattern: Radioactivity ...
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L-Way North teacher set to fly high with NASA
SouthtownStar
By Caitlin Hill Medill News Service May 29, 2011 03:50PM Physics, astronomy and meteorology teacher Margaret Piper points out variations in light curves for asteroids on a graph for students (left to right) Bill Shake, Ryan DePorto, Joseph Wiggs and ...
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Look up at the starry sky at Parramatta Observatory
Parramatta Advertiser
BUDDING astronomers, get your telescopes ready as Parramatta Park will be hosting a stargazing evening on Saturday, June 4. Amateur astronomers from the Sutherland, NSW and Western Sydney astronomy societies will be supplying telescopes to use....
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