SPACE, Astronomy News, Jun 26, 2011

Pluto Casts A Shadow Over The Pacific Ocean Irish Weather Online By Mark Dunphy - Fri Jun 24, 10:10 pm NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for InfraredAstronomy (SOFIA) observed the dwarf planet Pluto as it passed in front of a distant star on Thursday. This event, known as an “occultation,” allowed scientific ... See all stories on this topic »

Kyoto Prize for Russian astronomer The Voice of Russia ... in Germany and is a senior researcher at the Institute of Space Exploration in Moscow. He won the prestigious award for his studies of Universe expansion after the Big Bang, and for his outstanding contribution to the astronomy of high energies. See all stories on this topic » The Voice of Russia

University of Delaware wins NASA money Newsworks.org According to the university, the second research project, headed by UD Physics and AstronomyProfessor John Xiao, takes advantage of cutting-edge physics allowing scientists to see things in a more detailed manner than they have ever been able to see ... See all stories on this topic »

West-side Ottawa street goes dark in July to take on light pollution Ottawa Citizen About 20 artists have contributed paintings, sculpture, photos of distant places in space, and an electronic piece that shows whether the sky is clear for astronomy, in Ottawa and three other parts of Canada. There will be lectures from astronomers ... See all stories on this topic »

Weekend Spotlight: Stargazing with the Montauk Observatory Patch.com By Matthew Margolis | Email the author | 6:00am Astronomer Tom Madigan will lead MontaukObservatory members and guests in a guided tour of the summer night sky on Saturday night at the Ross School. Madigan is an astronomy professor in the State ... See all stories on this topic »

Black Moon is mostly in the dark Globe and Mail In astronomy, a black moon can signify any number of things: a month without a new moon, the occurrence of two new moons in a single month, a month without a full moon, the third new moon in a season... In other words, no one seems to really know what ... See all stories on this topic » Globe and Mail

Asteroid on path to pass close to Earth Providence Journal Skymania quoted Emily Baldwin, of the magazine Astronomy Now, as saying, “We are certain that it will miss us, but if it did enter the atmosphere, an asteroid this size would mostly burn up in a brilliant fireball, possibly scattering a few meteorites. ... See all stories on this topic »

Nelly Furtado helps celebrate club's new addition insideTORONTO.com As it resumes its popular programs, the club's members will benefit from more than 4500-square feet of new space, including a greenhouse, a theatre-dance studio, an astronomy and science room, a teen lounge and a computer lab. Perhaps most importantly ... See all stories on this topic »

Merry-Prankster Physicists Wall Street Journal The key developments in what has been described as the "quantum revival" were made by sober scientists working in conventional laboratories far removed in both space and time from the psychedelia of early-1970s Berkeley. But the hippie-physicists did ... See all stories on this topic »

Brain rhythm associated with learning also linked to running speed, UCLA study ... UC Los Angeles "The gamma rhythm is known to be controlled by attention and learning, but we find it is also governed by how fast you are running," said Mehta, an associate professor of physics andastronomy, neurology, and neurobiology and the senior author of the ... See all stories on this topic »

Nikki Haley is India Abroad Person of the Year Rediff With this category having seen winners like astronaut Sunita Williams [ Images ] (2006), who memorably greeted the awards ceremony from space, and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jhumpa Lahiri [ Images ] (2008), the anticipation was palpable. ... See all stories on this topic » Rediff

Satellites needed for NBN : Space and Astronomy news daily ... By Jonathan Nally With Australia's investment in new communications satellites as part of creating the National Broadband Network (NBN), it is more important than ever to understand the benefits of spacetechnology. ... Space and Astronomy news daily...

Asteroid to Pass Extremely Close By Earth On Monday - Yahoo! News Science Video · Weather News · Space & Astronomy · Animals & Pets ... space.com – Sat Jun 25, 2:00 am ET. UPDATE for 5:35 p.m. ET: NASA has recalculated the ... news.yahoo.com/.../asteroidtopassextremelyclosebyearthonmo...

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