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SPACE, Astronomy News, Aug 18, 2011

Empire of the sun
Copy of nt sun-licks-of-flame
Independent Online

High in the heavens, the folks on Pic du Midi only speak French, which can be a problem when it comes to the astronomy lectures. I had my book of useful phrases with me, but the only page I could get to in time was one which asked if I was a landscape ...
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The 'Virtual Universe' Will Be Full of Discoveries
Discovery News
In addition, amateur astronomers are becoming more heavily involved than ever because of the “democratization” of space via huge publically accessible astronomical databases. The consequences are that we are on the cusp of a knowledge explosion in ...
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Dara O Briain's search for stars - thanks to Cardiff astronomer
WalesOnline
With the support of the Institute for Astronomy in Hawaii, Cardiff University lecturer Dr Gomez provided the You're Fired host with an hour of observing time from his computer in London, capturing breath- taking images of outer space hundreds of light ...
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Final frontier
North Shore News
By Jeremy Shepherd, North Shore News August 17, 2011 Make the most of your outdoor space this summer by keeping an eye on the nighttime sky. Be prepared though; astronomy requires patience, says Michael Unger, a performer and writer at the HR MacMillan ...
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NASA's final shuttle mission crew touches down at American Museum of Natural ...
New York Daily News
The crew of the final shuttle mission touched down Tuesday at the the American Museum of Natural History, where more than 200 kids were wowed by the stars fromspace. "Hearing them speak really opened doors to astronomy for me," said Khadijah Patterson ...
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New York Daily News
Astronomy Event discusses the origin of the universe
Pravda
"When galaxies pass close to each other, they leave gas in the neighborhood and promote the formation of these blue stars," she explains, who specializes in extragalactic astronomy. It was through work with the Hubble Space Telescope, ...
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Telescope search for ET revived
BBC News
... search space for potential signals from alien life forms. Ms Foster was one of more than 2400 people who contributed to the fund to save the Allen Telescope Array. She played the lead role of an astronomer looking for evidence of aliens in the 1997 ...
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BBC News
Gaithersburg officials move to secure raises, benefits
Gazette.Net: Maryland Community News Online
Masaki Ozawa, the mayor of Oshu, Japan, and Masatsugu Ooe, the director of the Oushu Spaceand Astronomy Museum in Oshu, sent letters to Gaithersburg officials July 14 thanking them for their gifts. At a May 16 city council meeting, ...
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AARNet joins forces with consortium partners to work towards the world's most ...
PRWire
Time and frequency measurements are essential for many of the technologies underpinning modern life including telecommunications, broadcasting, commerce, IT and scientific projects such as radioastronomy. Recent advances in optical fibre technology ...
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Cosmic Matters: Interns find opportunities at Keck
Hawaii 24/7 (press release)
She was not only able to work on a real astronomy project with astronomers at a world-class observatory, but she also discovered there are skills involved in being an astronomer that go beyond understanding physics and outer space. ...
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There's NO UFO Fleet Following Elenin… Get Over It!
Paranormal Utopia
... the Chinese Space Agency. He's a South American PR Journalist for NASA. Let's clear that up. That's assuming that this was a name pulled out of the air of astronomyand this isn't completely a coincidence on a bunk story that was being created. ...
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Paranormal Utopia
New Release Offers Physic Professor's Own Prophecy on World Ending in 2012 ...
PR Web (press release)
This is the first book for popular reading by author Christopher Keating, a professor of physics with 20 years of experience conducting research in space physics, has taught undergraduate physics,space science and astronomy. ...
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NASA Research Confirms it's a Small World, After All
Space Fellowship
Very-long baseline interferometry — a radio astronomy technology that combines observations of an object made simultaneously by many telescopes to simulate a telescope as big as the maximum distance between the telescopes. ...
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Shooting star, seen from above : Space and Astronomy news daily ...
By Jonathan Nally
THIS ASTRONAUT PHOTOGRAPH, taken from the International Space Station (ISS) while over China (approximately 400 kilometres to the northwest of Beijing), provides the unusual perspective of looking down on a meteor as it passed through ...
Space and Astronomy news daily...
First Fridays at the Castle: Death from Space | BCO: CIT Blackrock ...
Emmet has also written news and feature articles for Astronomy Ireland's magazine, Astronomy &Space, of which he is a former editor. In 2001 he moved to Tasmania and ran the planetarium in Hobart's Southern Ocean and Antarctic Science ...
BCO: CIT Blackrock Castle Observatory
Space and Earth Sciences News :: Stargazers spot darkest exoplanet
Researchers spot the darkest known alien world, TrES-2b - describing it as " blacker than the darkest coal".
www.news-about-space.org/astronomy-news/cluster10933101/
Win a New iPhone Astronomy App: AstroView » Space Times News
There's a brand new astronomy app for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad that provides information on what you should be able to see with different ...
www.spacetimesnews.com/.../win-a-new-iphone-astronomy-ap...
A cosmic exclamation point forms in space - Topix
The deep space object VV 340, also known as Arp 302, is a textbook example of two colliding galaxies in a ... Email me Astronomy news. Learn more. Comments ...
www.topix.com/forum/science/.../TO8G0PQEMVLDQELSQ

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