SPACE, Astronomy News, Aug 09, 2011

A Once in 10000 years Event: A Star is Torn Apart International Business Times AU The international team of astronomers, including Sydney University astrophysicist Sean Farrell, has spent the last three years analyzing archival footage taken by the European Space Agency's X-ray telescope in the hope of spotting a rare object or ... See all stories on this topic » International Business Times AU

Shooting for the stars ABC Local "Even from my backyard, I can do deep space photography," Tony said. Tony's interest in astronomy began in 1998 when he purchased his first telescope. Eager to learn more about the hobby, in 2002 he joined the Central West Astronomy Society based in ... See all stories on this topic » ABC Local

Russian scientists to develop space rover to study the Sun Channel 6 News Online MOSCOW, RUSSIA (BNO NEWS) -- Russian scientists are developing a space rover which will conduct studies of the Sun from a closer distance than ever before, the Russian academy of Sciences announced. The Institute was cited by the Russian news agency ... See all stories on this topic »

With New Funding, Quest for Alien Life Is Back On Fox News ... senior astronomer at the institute, said at the time. "We've lost the instrument that's best for zeroing in on these better targets." The 42 radio dishes that make it up had scanned deep space since 2007 for signals from alien civilizations while ... See all stories on this topic » Fox News

Perseid meteor shower: Best times to see the 'shooting stars' Christian Science Monitor ... please 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 aboutastronomy for The New York Times and other publications, and he is also an ... See all stories on this topic » Christian Science Monitor

Staring at the sun Labradorian Power grids have shut down because of the sun.” Mr. Mestre said his next step is to take his findings back to his students in Connecticut. For an astronomer used to studying an unexplored expanse of space, it was Labrador that was surprising. ... See all stories on this topic » Labradorian

Harry Potter's Invisibility Cloak Becoming a Reality International Business Times According to a research paper titled, "Invisibility cloaking without superluminal propagation," published on Monday by Janos Perczel of School of Physics andAstronomy, University of St Andrews, Tomáˇs Tyc, Faculty of Science, Kotlarska and Ulf ... See all stories on this topic » International Business Times

DePauw-Launched Balloon Reaches 8th Highest Altitude Ever DePauw University "This is the eighth highest altitude ever achieved by a latex balloon, and exceeded the previous record in the BASE program by more than 20000 feet," according to Howard L. Brooks, Paul B. Kissinger Professor of Physics and Astronomy at DePauw and ... See all stories on this topic » DePauw University

Nemesis No More? Comet-Hurling 'Death Star' Most Likely a Myth LiveScience.com NASA Scientist Says No] "There is a tendency for people to find patterns in nature that do not exist," said study author Coryn Bailer-Jones, of the Max Planck Institute forAstronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, in a statement. ... See all stories on this topic » LiveScience.com

Space and Earth Sciences News :: Trojan rock seen in Earth's orbit Astronomers detect an asteroid not far from Earth, moving in the same orbit around the Sun, that could be a target for future manned space missions. www.news-about-space.org/astronomy-news/cluster10725477/

IAC2009: The Contribution of Space Science to Astronomy ... Astronomy, one of the worlds oldest sciences, has benefited greatly since the advent of spacescience fifty years ago. Space science allows an ever ... sciencenewstweets.com/.../iac2009-the-contribution-of-space-s...

Astronomy Supplies: Article Astronomy News Astronomy Supplies. A blog about the best things of astronomy news. ... mainly concerned with analytical models to describe objects and phenomena in space. ... littlepapershop.blogspot.com/.../article-astronomy-news.html

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