SPACE, Astronomy News, Jul 24, 2011

16 things I've done: KU astronomy professor Barbara Anthony-Twarog Lawrence Journal World Some of the technology she helped develop is now in use in the Hubble Space Telescope. • Called Edwin Hubble, for whom the space telescope is named, a “revolving bastard” in class once, to mean he was a bastard from any angle you looked at him. ... See all stories on this topic »

Planetarium Hosts Space Day KUT News Austin Planetarium director Torvald Hessel said he isn't worried about citizens losing interest inspace missions. “ [From] the kids, parents and scientists that I talk to, there is so much innate interest in science, astronomy, engineering and also ... See all stories on this topic »

Moon and Jupiter team up in early Sunday sky msnbc.com ... please contact SPACE.com 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 astronomyfor The New York Times and other publications, and he is also ... See all stories on this topic »

Astronomy Without A Telescope – Bubblology Universe Today The bubbles – which are essentially independent baby universes – are true vacuums and can rationally and reasonably expand since they have four overt dimensions ofspace-time – albeit they may also have the other immeasurable and unknowable dimensions ... See all stories on this topic » Universe Today

THIS WEEK IN SPACE HISTORY: Simon's solar experiment flown to space Alamogordo Daily News Simon earned his bachelor's degree in physics and math from Grinnell College, his master's and doctorate degrees in physics (solar astronomy) from the California Institute of Technology, and later an MBA from the University of Utah. While at Cal Tech, ... See all stories on this topic »

Take the binoculars outside with you this week (Stars Over the Coast) Press-Register - al.com (blog) Sagittarius is in the Milky Way, and by viewing it, you are looking toward the galaxy's center. DID YOU KNOW? Astronomer Charles Messier (1730-1817) originally wrote the "M" catalogue to list 110 deep-sky objects for comet hunters to avoid. See all stories on this topic » Press-Register - al.com (blog)

Hubble Space Telescope Discovers Fourth Moon Orbiting Pluto HULIQ Russia launched its first astronomy observatory in 25 years Wednesday and announced that its Spectr-R Space Radio Telescope had attained its target location. Once the spacecraft has deployed its petaled-dish antenna, expected to take five days,... See all stories on this topic » HULIQ

Looming NASA layoffs sparks quasar renaming campaign The Spoof (satire) "Look, we just need a better name than APM 08279+5255, because this is something we are going to be talking about for many years in the astronomy community," he said. "We are not implying President Obama is a big black hole, wrecklessly sucking the ... See all stories on this topic »

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