When New Yorkers Look Up: Skywatching in the Big Apple
Space.com
"They're suns," said Timothy Ferris, an award-winning astronomy book author and documentary filmmaker. Suns are thermonuclear devices, he explained, which undergo fusion reactions that spew heat into space. Stars that twinkle with a blue-ish hue burn...
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Space.com
When Astronomy Met Computer Science
Discover Magazine
For Kirk Borne, the information revolution began 11 years ago while he was working atNASA's National Space Science Data Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. At a conference, another astronomer asked him if the center could archive a terabyte of data that ...
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Discover Magazine
Space Station: Gunwharf Quays
AboutMyArea
Plus, shoppers will have the chance to try solar telescopes courtesy of the University of Portsmouth, buy space art and astronomy books as well as speaking to experts from Astrium about building satellites.
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'Live' airborne astronomy
Space Daily
The presence of several protoplanetary dust discs, or proplyds, in the vicinity has been verified with the Hubble Space Telescope. GREAT can also, for the first time, observe the C+ line from S106. It is now 02:33. I suddenly feel exhausted, ...
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Space Daily
Bright sparks among 'Asia's Nobel Prize' winners
Inquirer.net
NASA scientist Gerald Fishman and Italian astro-physicist Enrico Costa won the astronomy prize for their work on gamma rays. A press statement from the organisers said they were picked “for their leadership of space missions that enabled the ...
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ISRO to begin flight testing of GSLV MkIII in next two years
Economic Times
Astrosat is India's first dedicated astronomy satellite whereas Aditya is a spacecraft whose mission is to study the Sun. Speaking on the occasion, Science and Technology Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said the private industry should also start ...
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No seconds to lose in UD physicist's research
The News Journal
Dr. Marianna Safronova is an associate professor in the department of Physics and Astronomy at UD. / THE NEWS JOURNAL JENNIFER CORBETT Dr. Marianna Safronova, associate professor in the department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware, ...
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Reaching for the stars: It's alive out there! Scientists seek out the evidence
The Republic
The scientific breakthroughs of the field reflect its breadth: Astrobiology takes in fields ranging from microbiology to chemistry, astronomy and planetary science to cosmology. From the world of microbiology, for instance, scientists have learned that ...
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Pakistan's first astronaut: A star is launched
The Express Tribune
Holding a Master's in international affairs from Columbia University, Salim was an active member of astronomy clubs in college and university and was also the first female member of the Amateur Astronomy Society of Pakistan. ...
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The Express Tribune
Nobelist Steven Weinberg Calls for Bigger Science, More Taxes
Science AAAS
Astronomers and NASA also compete for dollars by selling human-occupied space flight as if it were scientific research, even though "it's nothing of the sort," Weinberg said. As for unoccupiedspace projects, the international space station was sold as ...
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Bright lights shine for Shaw prizes
Nature.com (subscription) (blog)
The astronomy prize was shared by Enrico Costa of the Institute of SpaceAstrophysics and Cosmic Physics in Rome and Gerald Fishman of NASA's MarshallSpace Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama for leading missions that determined the origins of gamma ...
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Rain can't ruin fun for area cub scouts -6/6/2011, 1:15 PM
Hays Daily News
Andrew Prine, 8, Hays, said the astronomy lesson was his biggest learning experience of the event. "I learned about science and space when we built rockets and saw the stars," Prine said. During the overnight portion, Custer and the other camp leaders ...
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San Luis Obispo man getting a lot of attention for video of Mars
KSBY San Luis Obispo News
McEwen says, "with space images that are taken outside our magnetosphere, such as those taken by orbiting telescopes, it's very common to see these cosmic ray hits." Martines says he's not anastronomy expert and doesn't know what the image is but ...
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Two engineering faculty members named fellows with renowned science group
UTSA Today
... professor and chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy; and David J. McComas, senior executive director of the Space Science and Engineering Division at Southwest Research Instituteand UTSA adjoint professor of physics; and CL Philip Chen, ...
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14 Days calendar listings- Edition of June 9, 2011
Shore News Today
South Jersey Astronomy Club holds free public meetings 7:30 pm every second Thursday at the Egg Harbor Township library on Ocean Heights Avenue. For information visit www.SJAC.us. Amateur Radio Operators (Hams) Meeting 7:30 pm the second Thursday of ...
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Astronomy Without A Telescope – Enough With The ... - Space Times News
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Enough With The Dark Already. Universe Today staff; SpaceTimes News; Posted June 4, 2011 at 5:30 p.m. ...
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Spitzer sees crystal 'rain' in outer clouds of infant star - World ...
Posted 13 hours ago by PHYSorg.com: Space Exploration News. Hunting for transits of Super-Earth GJ 581e. Posted 13 hours ago by PHYSorg.com: Astronomy News ...
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