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SPACE, Astronomy News, Aug 19, 2011


Astronomers Detect Presence of Fullerene Molecules in Space
AZoNano.com
By Cameron Chai An astronomy team at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory has detected the presence of the C60 and C70 fullerene molecules in space utilizing the Spitzer SpaceTelescope. The team is also working on the first extragalactic ...
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Nightly news: astronomy A Fabulous Space Telescope -- If It Flies
Deseret News (blog)
The James Webb Space Telescope. [NASA illustration of the James Webb SpaceTelescope in position about 1 million miles from Earth. The sunshield, shown in blue, is nearly the size of a tennis court. The observatory stands to vastly enlarge our ...
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Deseret News (blog)
Exoplanets team wins Hubble 'coup'
The Press Association
An international team of scientists led by the UK is aiming to answer some of the biggest questions facing astronomy after securing a "major coup" on Nasa's Hubble space telescope. The team is planning to explore the atmospheric conditions of planets ...
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Star gazing event draws local astronomers
The Downey Patriot
by Rebekah Jin, Contributor DOWNEY – Both local and out-of-town astronomy enthusiasts gathered at the Columbia Memorial Space Center last Friday for its second star gazing party of the summer. Thanks to the effort of volunteers, a variety of telescopes ...
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World's largest radio telescope project will not include US
Richmond County Daily Journal
Gibson has used his own 'Ham' radio to contact and speak to astronauts on the Space Station. “Radio astronomy has an interesting subject,” said Gibson. “It all started when Karl Jensky was tasked by Bell Labs to figure out why they were getting noise ...
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Summer send-off programs for kids
Canada.com
Blast off on a journey of discovery in Kids in Space. Learn about the solar system, astronomy, rockets and the Space Station. Hands on experiments, crafts, stories, and astronaut missions will complete this program for 3 to 5 year olds. ...
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Sun heats up for a new cycle
Albany Times Union
Bob Berman of Woodstock is the astronomy editor of the Old Farmers Almanac and a contributing editor of Astronomy magazine. He is the author of "The Sun's Heartbeat -- And Other Stories from the Life of the Star that Powers Our Planet," published this ...
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RPI's Xi-Cheng Zhang to take helm at UR Institute of Optics
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Zhang, who is currently acting head of the Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomyat Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, is author or co-author of 19 books and has 26 US patents. He succeeds Wayne Knox, who will become associate ...
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Taking the Pulse of Molecular Rotational Spectroscopy
Science Careers Blog (subscription)
High-resolution molecular rotational spectra at terahertz frequencies are now being acquired by the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory and NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). Early results from Herschel have ...
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Making Interdisciplinarity Possible
Inside Higher Ed
Elizabeth H. Simmons is dean of the Lyman Briggs College and a professor in the department of physics and astronomy at Michigan State University. Michael P. Nelson holds a joint appointment as an associate professor of environmental ethics and ...
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Ground-Breaking Electromagnetic Wave Technology to Turn Science-Fiction to ...
Send2Press Newswire (press release)
For those familiar with the spectrograph commonly used in astronomy – which determines the elemental make-up of celestial objects based on how those objects affect light passing through them – this is not an entirely unfamiliar concept. ...
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UVU in continuous state of building
Daily Herald
It has a greenhouse on top, and an astronomy viewing area." The science building will also have state-of-the-art labs for biology, physics and chemistry. This allows more students the ability to be on schedule with their individual programs. ...
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Comet Elenin poses no threat to Earth
Astronomy Magazine
You are correct that the way astronomers measure the mass of one object is by its gravitational effect on another, but comets are far too small to have a measurable influence on anything.” If we had a black or brown dwarf in our outer solar system, ...
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Carnival of Space #211 | Vintage Space
By asteitel
Back by popular demand is the video blog series Meet An Astronomer, this week featuring Harvard associate professor in the astronomy department Julia Lee. Discovery News looks at a monster of a quasar – a reminder that we don't know the ...
Vintage Space
Which Astronomical Object Do YOU Want to See? : Discovery News
On Friday, BBC astronomer Mark Thompson will use a multi-million dollar telescope to zoom in on an object chosen by Discovery News readers.
news.discovery.com/.../social-astronomy-faulkes-telescope-11...
Russia loses newly launched telecom satellite (AP) | Space ...
Science, Space, Astronomy and NASA News from off the planet! Home. « Meteorites Possible From Midwest US Fireball (SPACE.com) ...
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Scientists solve mystery of space blob's glow - Topix
Scientists solve mystery of space blob's glow. Full story: MSNBC. This image shows one of the largest ... Email me Astronomy news. Learn more. Comments ...
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