SPACE, Astronomy News, Jun 30, 2011

The next generation of radio astronomers El Defensor Chieftain July's "First Saturday Tour" of the Very Large Array focuses not on distant astronomical phenomena and cutting-edge discoveries in space, but instead on people — the future astronomers being groomed to follow in the footsteps of the pioneers of radio ... See all stories on this topic »

Will Newly Discovered Comet Dazzle or Disappoint in 2013? LiveScience.com This story was provided by SPACE.com, sister site to LiveScience. 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 ... See all stories on this topic » LiveScience.com

Williams College and MIT Astronomers Observe Pluto and its Moons iBerkshires.com The consortium has the cooperation of David Tholen of the University of Hawaii's Institute forAstronomy, who provided late corrections to the position of Hydra based on Hubble SpaceTelescope observations, with the tiny motions of the stars across the ... See all stories on this topic »

Young Qataris 'need to be inspired' into astronomy Gulf Times By Peter Townson The future of space exploration in Qatar will depend on the interest of young Qataris who wish to learn more about the subject and take advantage of the country's focus on science, technology and development, a leading local scientist ... See all stories on this topic » Gulf Times

Pitt researchers tackle flood of space data with $1.6 million project PhysOrg.com (press release) Large "survey" projects have been a key development in astronomy during the past decade, allowingastronomers the world over to pore over uniformly high-quality images of deep space. Studies of distant galaxies were previously limited to a few ... See all stories on this topic »

Amateur astronomers watch asteroid "buzz" Earth Astronomy Now Online That's why the Faulkes Telescope project allocated time to Astronomy Now's equipment consultant Nick Howes and BBC Stargazing Live's Mark Thompson to collect data and image this fast-moving space rock. Asteroid 2011MD swung past the Earth on 27 June. ... See all stories on this topic » Astronomy Now Online

Rare Venus occultation tomorrow Daily Pioneer ... Paranjpye of Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics told PTI. In the national capital, Venus will be covered by the bright edge of the Moon at about 13:18:59 PM and emerge from its dark side at 14:41:55 PM, CB Devgun of SPACE said. ... See all stories on this topic »

Will humans come into contact with an alien civilization by 2031? DigitalJournal.com Reuters first reported that during an international forum on extraterrestrial life, director of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Applied Astronomy Institute, Andrei Finkelstein, boldly stated that by the year 2031 we will have encountered alien ... See all stories on this topic » DigitalJournal.com

Vortex Galaxy Live Wallpaper for Android V3.co.uk The Galaxis live wallpaper does look good and work well, and should suit people that are interested in space and astronomy as well as those that just like to look at nice images. The application is optimised for use on tablets, which is good ... See all stories on this topic » V3.co.uk

Sun is the star at Gibraltar Point Skegness Standard Theose who attended were treated to a view of a sun spot and huge 'prominences' as large as three or four Earths, which stretched away from the surface into out space.Astronomer Paul Money then gave an illustrated talk about the Sun, and the progress... See all stories on this topic » Skegness Standard

Star Party slated for this weekend White Mountain Independent See Saturn's rings and moons, the International Space Station pass overhead, sunlight glint off the solar panels of Iridium satellites, star clusters, galaxies and nebula galore. Meet your neighborhood amateur astronomers and see the sights through ... See all stories on this topic »

Lincoln school opens £1.4 million science centre with planetarium This is Lincolnshire Primary and secondary school pupils from Lincolnshire and across the country can use the facilities to help further their understanding of space and astronomy. Head teacher Ian Jones said the centre was a very exciting educational development. ... See all stories on this topic »

Awesomely weird expanding halo of light seen from Hawaii Discover Magazine (blog) I first saw this video on Starship Asterix, the discussion forum for the wildly popularAstronomy Picture of the Day website. The conversation there about this event is going pretty well, and I think this whole thing has been nailed down to a ... See all stories on this topic » Discover Magazine (blog)

Russian Physicist Awarded a Kyoto Prize Russia-InfoCenter ... was awarded for the theory of fluctuations in space microwave background radiation, which allowed better understanding of how the universe expanded after the Big Bang. Another reason for awarding is Suniaev's contribution to high-energy astronomy. See all stories on this topic » Russia-InfoCenter

Cruising in the ruins of the university Wired (blog) Medieval university studies were ostensibly contained by the trivium (grammar, logic, and rhetoric) and quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy), but the meanings of, and divisions between, these subjects were under constant ... See all stories on this topic »

Tompkins health watch: Ithaca woman races for Crohn's cure Ithaca Journal Mulvanerton is associate director of the Center for Radiophysics and Space Research and the Department of Astronomy at Cornell University. Cayuga Addiction Recovery Services (CARS) offers same-day addiction recovery and chemical abuse services at its ... See all stories on this topic »

Neutron star bites off more than it can chew Astronomy Magazine ESA-C. Carreau The European Space Agency's (ESA) XMM-Newton space observatory has watched a faint star flare up at X-ray wavelengths to almost 10000 times its normal brightness.Astronomers believe the outburst was caused by the star trying to eat a ... See all stories on this topic »

Balboa Park After Dark: 5 Ways to Get Social this Summer SanDiego.com Inside the Fleet's Heikoff Dome Theater, expert astronomers describe the sky and present on special topics; upcoming topics include "Summer Solstice and Constellations" on July 6 and "The Milky Way" on August 3. The more social part comes before the ... See all stories on this topic » SanDiego.com

Asteroid Zips Past Earth, Avoiding Collision PC Magazine For a time, astronomy fans might have been able to view it via a modest-sized telescope, according to NASA. Those fearing a real-life space disaster movie here on Earth should stop worrying. NASA said the probability of a near-Earth object (NEO) like ... See all stories on this topic »

Space Shuttle Atlantis Launch Scheduled for July 8: NASA eWeek More than 2000 experiments have been conducted on the shuttles in the fields of Earth, biological and materials sciences and astronomy. In launch configuration, the space shuttle, external tank, twin solid rocket boosters, and the three space shuttle ... See all stories on this topic »

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