SPACE, Astronomy News, Jul 01, 2011

Missile exhaust blows giant bubble in the sky New Scientist (blog) What looks like a giant bubble rising and expanding in space in this video taken on 22 June from Hawaii is actually just exhaust from a missile launch. Astronomer Phil Plait brought the video – and the missile explanation – to public notice yesterday ... See all stories on this topic »

Last flight: Shuttles soar into history OCRegister The launch, and later repair in orbit, of the Hubble Space Telescope. Satellite launches and spacewalks. More than 2000 experiments, including precision mapping of Earth as well as biological and materials science and astronomy. ... See all stories on this topic »

Master of the universe Sydney Morning Herald His scientific reputation is based on his pioneering use of fibre optics in astronomy and the development of high-tech instruments to explore space. Between 2001 and 2009 he was part of the team that surveyed more than 130,00 galaxies to produce a map ... See all stories on this topic » Sydney Morning Herald

HartRAO forms heart of SA's astronomy Albuquerque Express It is the presence of this radio telescope - a relic of the early space age and the local community of radio astronomers - that led to astronomy development in the country,'; he said.The HartRAO also helped the development of the Karoo Array Telescope ... See all stories on this topic »

Africa seeks to become astronomy hub The Southern Times 'This is turning our dream of establishing space programmes into reality. It is putting us on the global map of astronomy, thus providing career opportunities for the youth in high quality science and technology,' said Adelaide Asante, ... See all stories on this topic »

Across the Universe: Intergalactic Travel School Library Journal Overviews of the history of astronomy, the Big Bang, black holes, and more will enrich any reader's understanding of what the pictures reveal. Gr 4-6–In addition to discussing “Space Tourism,” this spectacularly illustrated tour sweeps viewers along ... See all stories on this topic »

Earthlings to Meet Aliens by 2031 AllMediaNY Not only will humanity make contact with life from outer space by 2031, but our interplanetary neighbors have bodies that resemble our own, Russian Academy of Sciences' Applied Astronomy Institute director Andrei Finkelstein said Monday. ... See all stories on this topic » AllMediaNY

North Adams Children Learn Rocket Science iBerkshires.com The North Adams school system's Summer Science Camp had a guest teacher Tuesday and Wednesday in NASA's own Rick Varner from the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. Varner taught the children about astronomy and helped them construct their own ... See all stories on this topic » iBerkshires.com

Neutron Star Gobbles Hot Gas, Burps X-rays Sky & Telescope As he and his team report in a forthcoming article in Astronomy & Astrophysics, the dramatic outburst likely resulted from a blob of matter some 10 million miles (16 million km) across and having 10 16 tons of mass. Few objects in the universe are as ... See all stories on this topic »

Kenny & the Kids | Neptune celebration will be star-studded event Louisville Courier-Journal An open house and “Star Party” celebrating the birthdays of Neptune and our country will begin at 8:30 pm Sunday at the James G. Baker Center for Astronomy in Crawford County, Ind., about 40 miles west of downtown Louisville. ... See all stories on this topic »

'Hubble' was a cinematic treat John O'Groat Journal There is no direct connection to skywatching in this observation, unless you count the influence of astronomy on past and present calendars, but this month has five Fridays, five Saturdays and five Sundays - a sequence of weekends which is repeated ... See all stories on this topic »

Green Space Management - A park life strategy for planning services Horticulture Week Astronomy, because clear skies and opportunities for uninterrupted observation are readily found in the middle of reasonably-sized parks. - Night walks and talks for insomniacs and shift workers. - Theatre group performances that treat nature as the ... See all stories on this topic »

High Quality Bellevue High Schools And The Danger Of Space Junk KUOW NPR Don Brownlee is professor of astronomy at the University of Washington. He worked on NASA's Stardust mission to collect a comet sample, and has an asteroid, 3259 Brownlee, named after him. KUOW does not endorse or control the content viewed on these ... See all stories on this topic »

Epic White Halo in Hawaii's Night Sky Fuels Speculation Hawaii Reporter According to several sources including online astronomy forums, it is likely that the space bubble was caused by a third-stage release of exhaust and fuel away from a Minuteman III Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), which had been fired a few ... See all stories on this topic » Hawaii Reporter

Colourful spectacle lights up sky Herald Sun The phenomenon was most likely caused by space junk or a meteor entering our atmosphere, according to Australasian Science Magazine astronomy expert David Reneke. "My favourite (possibility) is always the fireball - that is, a meteor that's on fire," ... See all stories on this topic »

Appalachian and Discovery Place partner to enhance science and math education Appalachian State University Visitors to Discovery Place can see a bee's eye magnified as much as 30000 times actual size with the aid of Appalachian State University Department of Physics and Astronomy's portable scanning electron microscope. The scope is on loan to the science ... See all stories on this topic » Appalachian State University

To-Do List: June 29-July 10 Green Bay Press Gazette ASTRONOMY, 7 pm "Manned vs. Unmanned Missions to Space" discussion; refreshments, public welcome. Sponsored by Door Peninsula Astronomical Society. Crossroads at Big Creek, Utah Street and Cove Road, Sturgeon Bay. (920) 743-5895. ... See all stories on this topic »

Future of MeerKAT radio telescope array project assured Creamer Media's Engineering News Hanekom was speaking on Friday at the 50th anniversary celebrations of the 26 m diameter dish at the Hartesbeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (HartRAO), west of Pretoria. Originally built by the Americans to track National Aeronautical and Space ... See all stories on this topic »

Incredible lunar eclipse floats near the Lagoon Discover Magazine (blog) That would make the Moon is 40 million times farther away than the tree… but the Lagoon Nebula, at 4000 light years distant, is 100 billion times farther away than that. I love astronomy for the incredible artistic appeal it provides, but man, ... See all stories on this topic »

New Exhibition Makes US Debut at McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center NewHampshire.com The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center features 21st century interactive exhibits on aviation, astronomy, Earth and space sciences, a state-of-the-art planetarium and a variety of science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs. ... See all stories on this topic »

Only penguins can see solar eclipse The Hindu Partial solar eclipses taking place over the polar region, such as this one over the Antarctica, are peculiar in the sense that the centre of the shadow of the moon just misses the earth, Arvind Paranjpye of Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and ... See all stories on this topic » The Hindu

Families: Have a blast at Uncle Sam Jam Lincoln Journal Star Planetarium astronomy shows -- "Touching the Universe," 2 pm Tuesdays through Sundays; "Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure," 3 pm Tuesdays through Sundays, 7 pm Thursdays. Admission: $8 adults, $5.50 ages 5-18, $2.50 ages 4 and under (includes ... See all stories on this topic »

Clocking Neptune's spin Astronomy Magazine In the 1950s, when astronomers built the first radio telescopes, they discovered that Jupiter sends out pulsating radio beams, like a lighthouse in space. Those signals originate from a magnetic field generated by the rotation of the planet's inner ... See all stories on this topic »

NASA sets launch date for final space shuttle mission - Astronomy ... Astronomy.com is for anyone who wants to learn more about astronomy events, cosmology, planets, galaxies, asteroids, astrophotography, the Big Bang, ... www.astronomy.com/.../NASA%20sets%20launch%20date%2...

Will We Really Find Alien Life Within 20 Years? Space.com SETI can narrow down its search by directing its attention to stars that astronomers discover to have planets in their habitable zones. So far, 1235 exoplanets have been found by NASA's Kepler spacecraft, a probe that surveys regions of space, ... See all stories on this topic » Space.com

A curtain call for Venus, moon early Thursday msnbc.com ... and would like to share it with Space.com for a future story or gallery, contact managing editor Tariq Malik at tmalik@space.com. Joe Rao serves as an instructor and guest lecturer at New York's Hayden Planetarium. He writes about astronomy for The ... See all stories on this topic » msnbc.com

'Odd couple' binary makes dual gamma-ray flares R & D Magazine ... which gives us the most complete gamma-ray observations of this system," said Julie McEnery, the Fermi project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Astronomers are continuing to analyze their bounty of data and working ... See all stories on this topic »

Astronomy Content to Project Share Online Teachers Community The FINANCIAL StarDate( http://stardate.org/), the public education and outreach arm of the University of Texas McDonald Observatory, will contribute high quality video, podcasts, scripts and photos of astronomy and space exploration from its vast content library, ... See all stories on this topic »

Found: A Quasar From the Dawn of Time TIME For one thing, writes Chris Willott, of the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre in a Nature commentary, "The quasar is a monster." Indeed it is, weighing in at 2 billion times the mass of the Sun. What makes such a big body even more improbable is that it ... See all stories on this topic »

UMass telescope, 20 years in the planning, plumbs deep space GazetteNET The spectrum is superimposed on an image of the galaxy obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope. NORTHAMPTON - It's been a long journey to the top of the astronomy world for Peter Schloerb - or in this case, a very tall volcano in Mexico. ... See all stories on this topic » GazetteNET

Lunar Eclipse Creates Interest In Astronomy Bernama Hosted by the mosque, this public sighting event was organised by the National Planetarium under the National Space Agency (Angkasa). According to Angkasa's Space Science Education Unit Director, Azreena Ahmad, a total lunar eclipse occurs when the ... See all stories on this topic »

Scientists discover brightest, earliest quasar The Associated Press In an editorial accompanying the research, Chris Willott of the Canadian Astronomy Data Center called the quasar a "monster" that could upend current theories about the growth of black holes. "The existence of this quasar will be giving some theorists ... See all stories on this topic »

Saturn struts its stuff PhysicsCentral.com (blog) The photos from this music video that appeared on NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day were compiled from images taken by the Cassini spacecraft - a space-based detective charged with full-time surveillance of Saturn and its many moons. ... See all stories on this topic »

Green Ring Fit for a Superhero Scientific Computing This glowing emerald nebula seen by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is reminiscent of the glowing ring wielded by the superhero Green Lantern. In the comic books, the diminutive Guardians of the Planet "Oa" forged his power ring, but astronomers believe ... See all stories on this topic » Scientific Computing

Sakura Sojourn: Museums of the Smithsonian in Washington DC Economic Times The model of the spacecraft of the 1975 Apollo Soyuz test project was just massive and those who had a penchant for astronomy gathered around the Hubble telescope. The model of Skylab, the first US space station predictably had a huge crowd inside it! ... See all stories on this topic »

NY Gay Marriage Affects Partner Benefits UC Los Angeles Christopher Russell, UCLA professor of geophysics and space physics and the Dawn mission's principal investigator, is cited. Investor's Business Daily reports today on research led by Mayank Mehta, UCLA associate professor of physics and astronomy, ... See all stories on this topic »

The Art Scene 06.30.11 East Hampton Star Alicia Longwell, the chief curator at the Parrish Art Museum, will resume the Fridays at Noon series of lunchtime talks tomorrow with a discussion of mathematics and astronomy and applications of the golden mean in the work of Dorothea Rockburne, ... See all stories on this topic »

What's On - from June 30 West Sussex County Times THE Southern Area Group Of Astronomical Societies' Summer Event is being hosted by Horsham Astronomy Group at the New Science School at Christ's Hospital School, July 3, starting with registration at 10am. If you are interested in astronomy and would ... See all stories on this topic »

IU physics PhDs offer tutoring assistance in math, physics to area high school ... Indiana University ... the College's associate dean for graduate education and a professor of astronomy. "This year, the students successfully applied for external funding from the Indiana Space Grant Consortium to support the program -- they have just been awarded $3600 ... See all stories on this topic » Indiana University

It's Not Plagiarism If You Link To It Apologizes A Trillion Times Black Heart Gold Pants Look at the big brain on Marcus: One of the reasons he chose Iowa out of DeMatha Catholic High School in Maryland, he said, was the school's department of physics and astronomy. Coker is pursuing a double major in both fields and says his dream is to ... See all stories on this topic »

We Now Know How Long a Day on Neptune Is AccuWeather.com (blog) "Neptune has two features observable with the Hubble Space Telescope that seem to track the interior rotation of the planet. Nothing similar has been seen before on any of the four giant planets." Please join the AccuWeather.com Astronomy fanpage by ... See all stories on this topic »

Backyard Universe: Make plans to see upcoming astronomical events Fayetteville Observer Talk about rare astronomical events - the sight of the planet Venus crawling across the face of the sun has to be one of the rarest predictable events in astronomy. It happens just days after the May 20 annular eclipse and is also observable from the ... See all stories on this topic »

Foreign Policy Conference stimulates Indian NewsLink ... University of Queensland Rhetoric & Science Communication Lecturer Dr Joan Leach, Newmont Waihi Gold External Affairs Manager Sefton Darby, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China) Professor Dr Ailikun, CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science Square Kilometre ... See all stories on this topic »

Community news briefs MyCentralJersey.com Learn how author JK Rowling used astronomy as the inspiration for some of her characters' names. Admission to each show is $6 per person. The program is appropriate for families with school-age children, and “Harry Potter” fans of any age. ... See all stories on this topic »

Daily Briefing: Thurs. Mother Nature Network (blog) "The existence of this quasar will be giving some theorists sleepless nights," said Chris Willott of the Canadian Astronomy Data Center. It was discovered using the Infrared Telescope perched near the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii. ... See all stories on this topic » Mother Nature Network (blog)

Astronomy & Spaceflight News - STS 135 Atlantis - Today's News ... Launch pad technicians at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida are in the process of closing out space shuttle Atlantis' payload bay in preparation for liftoff from Launch Pad 39A on July 8 at 11:26 a.m. EDT. AstroNews - Daily Astronomical...

Space and Astronomy News Headlines - Yahoo! News Space and Astronomy News Headlines. Moon & Venus to Shine Together at Dawn Thursday SPACE.com - Wed, Jun 29, 2011. The planet Venus has been hanging around ... news.yahoo.com/astronomy/

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