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SPACE, Astronomy News, Jun 15, 2011


European astronomers unveil ten exoplanets
USA Today
"Ever since the early days of exoplanet astronomy, we've been amazed by the variety of planets that have been discovered," said European Space Agency CoRoT team scientist Malcolm Fridlund, in a statement. "The new set of ten planets that we announce ...
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Festivities reaching for the skies
West Sussex Today
Festivities general manager Pippa Cleary said: “Inspired by the city's motto Heaven's Light Our Guide, our programme will mark Portsmouth's role as a centre of excellence for cosmology,astronomy and space technology. “Science fiction will also feature ...
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NASA program teaches space science that's fun
Brownsville Herald
Each teacher prepared to teach one of four subjects: rocketry, engineering, astronomy and spacescience. Two teachers from each school in the Brownsville Independent School District were chosen to participate. Ghionzoli and fellow teacher Daniel ...
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What is it? Star party for astronomers
Suburban Life Publications
And a star party on Oct. 7 will feature Bart Benjamin, director of River Grove's Cernan Space Center, as co-host. Ginger Zee, NBC 5 meteorologist, will co-host a star party July 14 at American's Chicago location. The Fox Valley Astronomical Society ...
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Slooh, in Collaboration With Google, to Broadcast Live Feed of Total Lunar Eclipse
PR Newswire (press release)
... of many astronomy films and TV shows including "In the Shadow of the Moon", an award-wining film about the Apollo astronauts. To listen to the audio narration and capture live photographic images of the lunar eclipse with the Slooh Space Camera, ...
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Science: In Ogden, it's child's play in the park
Salt Lake Tribune
By Brian Maffly Ogden • Zander Adkinson's interest in science has been honed from watching documentaries about astronomy and planets beyond our solar system. “I like space. Scientists have found a planet with liquid water, but no life on it,” said the ...
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NASA Spacecraft Discovers 122 Pairs of Star Twins
Space.com
The team presented some initial results in April at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting in Wales. They will be detailed in an upcoming issue of the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Follow SPACE.com for...
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CoRoT's New Detections Highlight Diversity of Exoplanets
Space Ref (press release)
Astronomers exploit the joint power of dedicated space-based facilities, such as CoRoT, and high-quality data from the ground in order to pin down the characteristics of a large number of planets. With these data at hand, it is possible to tackle ...
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Stage set for longest lunar eclipse in 11 years
DAWN.com
Fortunately for space aficionados, the lunar eclipse will not give off any harmful radiations, said astronomy expert Dr Mohammad Shahid Qureshi. “It means that they will be able to view the phenomenon without reserve, unlike a solar eclipse. ...
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The Dance of Saturn
NPR (blog)
by Adam Frank A couple of days ago Astronomy Picture of the Day posted this beautiful compilation of the Cassini mission's results from Saturn. Its remarkable how much these space probes are giving us that we are not even aware of. ...
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Telops Wins Contract To Upgrade The Telescope Of The Mont
Photonics Online
The Laboratory of Experimental Astrophysics and the Mont-Mégantic Observatory follow a project approach and therefore promote their mission of training experts in high-tech instrumentation forastronomy and space science. The Laboratory of Experimental ...
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Help in the Efforts to Save the David M. Brown Planetarium!
Patch.com
Local astronomy-lovers were not going to let the building go down without a fight. After creating a petition, the members of the nonprofit organization, Friends of the Planetarium, have done everything in their power to keep the planetarium up and ...
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SMOS Gains Clearer View As Illegal Transmitters Shut Down
RedOrbit
According to radio regulations set by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), 1400–1427 MHz is allocated to the Earth Exploration Satellite Service, space research and radio astronomy – other transmissions in this band are prohibited. ...
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Scientists Prove Existence of 'Magnetic Ropes' that Cause Solar Storms
ScienceBlog.com (blog)
Zhang is an associate professor in the School of Physics, Astronomy and Computational Sciencesand works with the Space Weather Lab at George Mason University. His results were reported at theAmerican Astronomical Society Solar Physics Division ...
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SF Planetarium's Albury Selected to Co-Host PBS' "Star Gazer"
Santa Fe College
At 15, Albury began working part-time as a console operator at the Miami SpaceTransit Planetarium (where Horkheimer was executive director). He continued in that role for eight years while also earning a bachelor's degree in astronomy at the ...
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The Hunt for Extraterrestrial Life Moves From Science Fiction to Real World ...
Sacramento Bee
It explains, in simple language, and with more than 180 high resolution colour photographs and illustrations: Jerry says that his scientific training - in psychology and the brain sciences and notastronomy - gives this book a vital edge: "Being both a ...
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How LRO Plans to Watch the Lunar Eclipse from the Moon
By Nancy Atkinson
You can follow Universe Today senior editor Nancy Atkinson on Twitter: @Nancy_A. Follow Universe Today for the latest space and astronomy news on Twitter @universetoday and on Facebook. Taggedas: eclipses, LRO, LRO's Diviner Instrument ...
Universe Today
A new, distant arm of the Milky Way galaxy - World Astronauts
Posted 1 hour ago by PHYSorg.com: Space Exploration News. Oh-My-God Particles. Posted 3 hours ago by PHYSorg.com: Astronomy News. A new, distant arm of the ...
worldastronauts.com/.../a-new-distant-arm-of-the-milky-way-g...
Nasa Outer Space Pictures
Launch of space astronomy and science related searches Spaceaol news has reached an important Find the last launch on calie space photos from outer itt ...
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Universe Today - Info | Facebook
Universe Today is one of the most popular space and astronomy news websites, and has been providing the latest news from the cosmos since 1999. ...
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SPACE: Astronomers discover new type of supernova
LOS ANGELES ---- A team led by astronomers at the California Institute of Technology has discovered a new type of.
www.nctimes.com/.../article_02a5bc4d-ce2f-5f32-a943-dc57b...
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