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SPACE, Astronomy News, Aug 06, 2011


NASA's Juno probe lifts off for Jupiter
Examiner.com
With astronomy always a weather-allowing pursuit, be sure to keep an eye on the Cleveland weather forecast and, for hour-by-hour cloud predictions, the Cleveland Clear Sky Clock. Live somewhere else? Find a clock and see if it will be clear near you. ...
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Major scientific programs could be slashed or eliminated under debt-reduction deal
EurekAlert (press release)
Successor to the extraordinarily successful Hubble Space Telescope with similar potential to transform astronomy, JWST is the centerpiece of the future American space astrophysics program. It was the highest-ranked mission in the 2000 National Academy ...
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NASA Picks Hartland Man's Nighttime Shot For Astronomy Picture of the Day
Patch.com
ROSINSKI: Simply, I'm fascinated with space, the heavens above, man's role in the universe, and all that. The wonder when looking above never gets old. Sometimes I set-up my gear and a cloud bank will come over, and I get frustrates, then as the clouds ...
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European telescope finds new star clusters in Milky Way
Deutsche Welle
Their results will be published in a forthcoming edition of the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. The problem facing astronomers is the fact that stellar clusters form in very dusty regions of space, which absorb and diffuse most of the visible light ...
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Brevard's space tourism sector all smiles
Florida Today
They drove down Wednesday from Virginia Beach, where Ken, 57, is an astronomy professor at Tidewater Community College, and Katelyn, 22, is a college student. They plan to stay until Sunday. "It gives me some experiences coming here to talk about in ...
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Neptec expands laser tech to telescope
Ottawa Business Journal
This is the first time Neptec has used its laser expertise for astronomy, but it also has three working systems that have been used for the shuttle and the International SpaceStation – not a bad percentage out of the six tested in space, Mr. Christie ...
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Ottawa Business Journal
Night sky to show off the season's brilliant constellation
Boston Globe
It was founded in 1911 at Harvard, with help from a popular astronomy writer, to encourage and collect careful, precise estimates of what variable stars all over the sky were doing. By Thursday afternoon its online archive contained 20575374 brightness ...
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Look for meteors prior to Perseid show
LaSalle News Tribune
... according to space.com. The peak of the annual Perseid shower is expected to be Friday the 13th, but because of the moon, try looking in early morning or in the days leading up to or after the Aug. 13 peak, according to astronomy.com. ...
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Monkey business reaches starry heights
Boston Globe
The Reys' Manhattan apartment was anything but conducive to Margret's love of gardening and HA's passion for astronomy, so in 1958 the couple built their White Mountain retreat. They instantly became a part of the Waterville Valley community, ...
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Boston Globe
Patch Picks
Patch.com
Open from 9 am until 5 pm daily, you'll be able to see the dress rehearsal for the actual landing and learn about astronomy and space exploration. Snoopy will be on board for the showing of a video of the Apollo 10 crew as there will also be a play ...
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Star Wars' SFX Take on Mars (1977)
The Atlantic
These were sanded and painted to match images in astronomy books and observatory photos. Shooting one frame at a time meant we never got more than a few seconds of film shot in a day. One long shot involved the camera moving in on Mars. ...
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Higher levels of uptake in science subjects
Herald Scotland
Professor Martin Hendry, from the School of Physics and Astronomy at Glasgow University and a representative of the UK-wide Science and Technology Facilities Council, agreed. “We have come from a situation where those taking up harder sciences have ...
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Hidden star groups uncovered : Space and Astronomy news daily ...
By Jonathan Nally
In order to spot the youngest star clusters, the astronomers concentrated their search towards known star-forming areas. They found that regions that looked empty in previous visible-light surveys, actually held lots of clusters. ...
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Celestial Lights, August 2011; Space astronomy news | AtenciĆ³n San ...
Celestial Lights, August 2011; Space astronomy news. By Phyllis B. Pitluga (05/ 08/11). Pluto: A new moon was just discovered orbiting around the dwarf ...
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Orbiter.ch Space News: Astronomers searching for oxygen can ...
Astronomers searching for oxygen can breathe more easily. ESA - HERSCHEL Mission patch. 1 August 2011 ESA's Herschel space observatory has found molecules ...
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