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SPACE, Astronomy News, Jul 28, 2011


SPACE asteroid hunters discover rare Trojan asteroids
India PRwire (press release)
The opportunity provided by SPACE along with regular guidance and students' sincere hardwork has been instrumental in positioning India on the world map in the field of astronomy and space science.SPACE conducts a specialized workshop for each Phase ...
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Juno's Jupiter mission may yield clues to Earth's origins
Los Angeles Times
By Scott Gold, Los Angeles Times Even for scientists versed in the grand scale ofastronomy, it's never been easy to grasp the scope of Jupiter. After all, you could fit every piece of the solar system other than the sun inside Jupiter — all the other ...
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Los Angeles Times
Hunting Earth twins
Montreal Gazette
Ray Jayawardhana leans in a doorway of the University of Toronto's muggy, poorly air conditionedastronomy and astrophysics building, catching up with postdoctoral fellows who have scored coveted telescope time. "We're just finding out about next ...
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Advanced Optics That Let Telescopes See Deep Into Space Will Help Microscopes ...
Popular Science
In astronomy, adaptive optics fixes the blurring of deep-space images by correcting for the turbulence in Earth's atmosphere. These techniques have allowed the Keck telescopes in Hawaii to resolve deep-space objects with greater clarity than the Hubble ...
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Crossroads at Big Creek: Astronomy talk looks at finding Earth-like planets
Green Bay Press Gazette
More specifically, this space mission is searching for planets that resemble Earth — about the same size, solid surface and in the "habitable zone," not too hot and not too cold. Astronomers often refer to this as "the Goldilocks Zone. ...
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Share The Wonders Of The Universe With Prof Brian Cox
RedOrbit
"I always wanted to be a physicist, or an astronomer, or something to do with space exploration, from when I was very small, indeed." Professor Cox also works at CERN with the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, the Large Hadron ...
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Researcher computes universe's expansion speed
The Hindu
Florian Beutler, doctoral candidate with the International Centre for Radio AstronomyResearch (ICRAR) at The University of Western Australia, has calculated how fast the universe is growing by measuring the Hubble constant. “The Hubble constant is a ...
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The Hindu
Asteroid mirrors Earth's orbit
Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Veillet, who is in Thailand at an Asia-Pacific astronomy conference, told the Star-Advertiser by email that scientists had postulated such objects for Earth. "But they are hard to find as they are always not very far from the sun seen from Earth," ...
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European ALMA antenna brings total on Chajnantor to 16
PhysOrg.com (press release)
ALMA, an international astronomy facility, is a partnership of Europe, North America and East Asia in cooperation with the Republic of Chile. ALMA construction and operations are led on behalf of Europe by ESO, on behalf of North America by the ...
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Mountain Star Party provides celestial insight away from bright lights of ...
Ventura County Reporter
Education Park Ranger Robert Cromwell learned about space though his involvement with a group called Astronomy From the Ground Up, which helps educators, park rangers and other interested amateurs teach about space. “People have always connected with ...
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Comet blazes a trail across new gallery
Bath Chronicle
The museum, which is based in the home of 18th-century astronomer William Herschel, says it is pleased to be expanding at a time when many museums elsewhere are cutting staff or canceling exhibitions. The constraints of the building mean that space has ...
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What's Happening at the Lamar Public Library
Bent County Democrat
Mike Bosley grew up in Lamar, and is currently a professor at CSU Pueblo and teaches Astronomy. During the program he included fun facts about our solar system and each planet. To end the program he made a mock representation of each planet in the ...
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Grant bid success 'could bring 750 jobs to Goonhilly'
The Cornishman
"These upgrades will also facilitate fundamental space science research, including radioastronomy." CUGA, a consortium of universities, has already signed a contract to use the antennas. GES also plans to create an open innovation centre to facilitate ...
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New meteor shower points to a future close encounter
Discover Magazine (blog)
In my opinion, based on my understanding of astronomy and statistics, this is something we should prepare for, but not panic over. We have the technology to push something out of the way, whether it's a comet or an asteroid. If we get enough warning, ...
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Discover Magazine (blog)
Dereham Neatherd pupils and colleagues shocked by sudden loss of popular teacher
Norfolk Eastern Daily Press
He inspired many with his love of space and his astronomy club, which I think many of us will remember him for. “It is so heartbreaking to lose such an inspirational teacher.” Nick Johnson added: “You were a true inspiration, Sir. ...
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Norfolk Eastern Daily Press
Carnival of Space 207
Next Big Future
Neptune's discovery was a famous triumph of nineteenth century astronomy. Less well-known is the aftermath, when a ninth solar planet was discovered. This planet was called Vulcan. Once thought to be a certainty to exist, our Solar System's Vulcan is ...
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Next Big Future
The Delta Aquarid Meteors are coming!
Examiner.com
Fortunately, the Moon is past Third Quarter at the time of the Delta Aquarids, which is ideal as this means that the Moon will be very dim. With astronomy always a weather-allowing pursuit, be sure to keep an eye on your local weather forecast or, ...
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Out-of-this-world tales
York County Coast Star
But Fowler's intellect and doggedness in researching paranormal events has garnered him praise from the world's top experts in their fields, including the deceased astronomer and former chairman of Northwestern University's Department of Astronomy, ...
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'Science is a global business'
The Hindu
With Indian scientists and institutions we are talking about nanotechnology, biotechnology, water conservation, and astronomy — we have a broad engagement. The Australia-India Strategic Research Fund, which started in 2007, has a contribution of A$65 ...
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Library listings July 28 to Aug. 3
Plain Dealer
Solar Astronomy: Seeing the Sun, 3-4:30 pm Aug. 10. Telescopes, specially filtered for safety, will be set up allowing us to view sunspots (if any are present) and prominences: the amazing fountains of solar material stretching into space. ...
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'NATION'S PROGRESS DEPENDS ON INVESTMENTS IN HUMAN RESOURCE AND TECHNOLOGY'
Star of Mysore
Dr. Kasturirangan cited the examples of areas like space and ground-based astronomy, particle physics, nuclear fusion for clean energy and synthetic and systematic biology for investment. It is imperative that science and technology is playing an ...
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How universities will produce the next generation of ICT stars
Computerworld New Zealand
AUT also has a growing number of PhD positions and research centres, for example the radioastronomy institute that is involved in the local component of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project. “The SKA project could change the face of computing in ...
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When does a black hole begin to take hold? New research by UA, NASA finds the ...
al.com (blog)
"A leading mystery in astrophysics is how the area around massive black holes can stay so dim, when there's so much fuel available to light up," said co-author Dr. Jimmy Irwin, assistant professor in UA's department of physics and astronomy. ...
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al.com (blog)
Make iPhone Astrophotography Easier With The AstroClip!
Universe Today
... you will be taking great photos of outer space in no time at all.” Honestly, I have no connection personally with this project or with Matthew… I just think this is something that would be very popular with iPhone users and astronomy enthusiasts. ...
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Universe Today
Cosmic expansion rate confirmed : Space and Astronomy news daily ...
By Jonathan Nally
A STUDENT WITH THE with the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) at the University of Western Australia, has calculated how fast the Universe is growing by measuring the Hubble constant. ...
Space and Astronomy news daily...
WISE finds the very first Earth Trojan asteroid | Bad Astronomy ...
By Phil Plait
Astronomy | 2010 TK7 | NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has found the very first asteroid that (more or less) shares an orbit with Earth! Called 2010 TK7, this astero. ... more: BadAstronomy, Guardian Share this article: Share This entry was posted in AstronomyNewsSpace & Earth [...] 67. walter franklin Says: July 28th, 2011 at 5:50 am. so bottom lin what u are saying this is the asteroid thats said gonna smash into the earth in 2012 to end it all? ...
Bad Astronomy
Space Fan News #25: Playing Astronomy Catchup‏ - YouTube
Want to use Facebook? http://www.facebook.com/SpaceFan Let's see how that goes.. .. Lots of catching up to do after my haitus. Here are the ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujyTpOBdvpM
Space and Earth Sciences News :: Caltech-led astronomers discover ...
Two teams of astronomers, each led by scientists at the Caltech, have discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe.
www.news-about-space.org/astronomy-news/.../page3.html
Astronomy Discovery Could Help… | Space News Daily
Astronomy Discovery Could Help Treat Cancer Patients: Astronomers are applying their knowledge of s… http://bit.ly/pDlWvx #space #rbsn ...
spacenewsdaily.com/2011/.../astronomy-discovery-could-help/
Space and Astronomy News Headlines – Yahoo! News | Miguel Olmos
Posted on 27 julio, 2011 by Space and Astronomy News Headlines - Yahoo! News. An icy moon around Saturn is showering rain water onto its home planet, ...
miguelolmos.tk/.../space-and-astronomy-news-headlines-yaho...

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