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SPACE, Astronomy News, Aug 25, 2011





5 years after demotion, Pluto still stirs debate
msnbc.com
"They created a problem for themselves and for astronomy. It (the definition) created an unworkable algorithm for deciding what's a planet and what's not." Stern particularly objects to the "clearing your neighborhood" criterion.
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Swift Telescope Captures Black Hole Ripping Apart Star
RedOrbit
“Incredibly, this source is still producing X-rays and may remain bright enough for Swift to observe into next year,” David Burrows, professor of astronomy at Penn State University and lead scientist for the mission's X-Ray Telescope instrument, ...
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James Webb Space Telescope Instrument Completes Cryogenic Testing
Science Daily (press release)
Just as the Hubble Space Telescope rewrote textbooks everywhere, Webb will find new surprises and help to answer some of the most pressing questions in astronomy," said John Mather, Nobel laureate and Webb senior project scientist at NASA Goddard. ...
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`Huge black hole emits light for 5 months after eating stars`
동아일보
An international joint research team including seven Korean researchers from Seoul National University's Center for the Exploration of the Origin of the Universe and the Korea Astronomy andSpace Science Institute announced in the Aug. ...
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Harper Observatory Offers A Night With The Stars
Patch.com
For a schedule, visit the Harper Astronomy website. By Jeffrey Westhoff Harper College astronomyinstructor Kelly Page describes the specifications and capabilities of the main, 14-inch telescope underneath the dome of the Karl G. Henize Observatory. ...
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Discovery: Planet really is a diamond in the sky
Courier Mail
Dr Michael Keith of CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, one of the research team members, said the Parkes radio telescope revealed a spinning star called a pulsar, which emits a beam of radio waves. But the 20km diameter pulsar's radio waves were being ...
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POSTPONED: 19 bands play the Mike Praytor Children Benefit
TheDay.com
According to the physics and astronomy departments at Princeton and MIT, there is simply no possible way to cram more excellent and diverse live music into space and time than will happen Sunday at the 5th Annual Mike Praytor Children Benefit. ...
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Black hole eats star
한겨레
... the first time in the world by an international joint research team consisting of a total of 58 researchers from six countries, including seven Korean scientists from Seoul National University and the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute. ...
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ASU planetarium releases fall schedule
San Angelo Standard Times
... party and learn how the telescope has helped us understand our place in space, and how telescopes continue to expand our understanding of the universe. Their conversation with anastronomer will enlighten viewers on the history of the telescope, ...
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Lucaa dishes out robot-enhanced optics
Daily News & Analysis
By DNA Correspondent | Place: Pune | Agency: DNA The Pune-based Inter-university centre forastronomy and astrophysics (Iucaa) has collaborated with the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), US, to manufacture the world's first robotic adaptive ...
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UPI NewsTrack Health and Science News
UPI.com
NASA's Swift satellite first alerted astronomers to the intense and unusual high-energy flares from a new source in the constellation Draco, a release from the space agency said Wednesday. "Incredibly, this source is still producing X-rays and may ...
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EMCOR Group, Inc. Subsidiary Awarded Contract for Installation of All ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Encompassing 3 levels and a Penthouse, which includes 13 new leading-edge physics laboratories for the department of Physics and Astronomy, scope of work will include demolition of existing labspace, and construction and installation of a number of ...
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CERN experiment confirms cosmic ray effect on climate, another blow to climate ...
Tucson Citizen
Astronomy & Geophysics 48: 1.18-1.24. Svensmark's book, The Chilling Stars, is a popularized version of his research. The original theory rested on data showing a strong correlation between variation in the intensity of cosmic radiation penetrating the ...
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Sea the stars: science fest for Galway
Irish Times
Those aged between eight months and 80 years or more will be invited to explore marine and atmospheric science and astronomy at Leisureland and the Salthill aquarium. In the lead-up to the event, artists from eight to 18 years old have been invited to ...
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Irish Times
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Absolutearts.com
Photo: Courtesy of Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum. Hans Sebald Beham, Man's Head (detail), 1542. Engravings from two plates on single sheet. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gray Collection of Engravings Fund, G8908. More.
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Vale's role designing WWII weapons for 'Winston Churchill's Toyshop' – or how ...
Aylesbury Today
Now years' later Gordon Rogers, 79, who gives astronomy lectures to schools and societies, is planning to talk about what went on in the building which still stands today and is known as The Firs. Mr Rogers has always been interested in explosives and ...
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Aylesbury Today
Why I Chose Boston University
Huffington Post (blog)
As the college search got more serious, I also realized that I wanted a school with a goodastronomy program that wasn't too far from my home on Long Island, New York. So, even though I applied to other schools, Boston University remained on my list. ...
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Aviation High School Breaks Ground On New Building
KUOW NPR
O'Toole Kelly: "She loves science, she loves math, she loves researching, she loves to read, she loves astronomy." Deanta Kelly: "I think it's cool just because there's some pretty weird stuff up there." She'll get to study a lot of her favorite ...
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Brothers seek Eagle Scout status by renewing cemetery's flag poles
Grant Tribune Sentinel
Earning his Eagle Scout badge will be an important accomplishment to the young man who has already earned 30 merit badges, including emergency preparedness, first aid/CPR, citizenship and personal management as well as rock climbing, astronomy and ...
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Community Calendar
Community Press
A guided tour of the night sky with Canada's foremost author of astronomy books as your tour guide. In the event of inclement weather please join us upstairs at the Campbellford Legion and Terence will share with us his power point presentation. ...
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Teradata: A Step Above In Business Intelligence
Seeking Alpha
According to the most recent Teradata 10-K: "...examples include web logs, radio-frequency identification, sensor and social network data, Internet text and search indexing, call detail records, genomics, astronomy, biological research and military ...
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Aliens to come to Earth to enslave and eat humans
Pravda
Andrei Finkelstein, the director of the Institute of Applied Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said at the international conference devoted to the search for extraterrestrial life at the end of June that the origin of life was just as ...
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Local briefs
San Angelo Standard Times
Angelo State University's Global Immersion Center, formerly the Planetarium, will present four full-dome public astronomy shows this fall, beginning Sept. 1 in the Vincent Nursing-Physical Science Building, 2333 Vanderventer Ave. ...
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Mount Graham International Observatory Telescope tours resume
Eastern Arizona Courier
... researchers to see further and clearer into the depths of space than any other telescope in the world. The tour concludes with a return to the EAC Discovery Park Campus, where tour participants can enjoy the “History of Astronomy” Gallery exhibits, ...
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Space and Earth Sciences News :: Researchers detail how a distant ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- Two studies appearing in the Aug. 25 issue of the journal Nature provide new insights into a cosmic accident that has been streaming X-rays toward Earth since late March. NASA's ...
Space and Earth Sciences News
Astronomers Find Potential Super-Earth - Space News - redOrbit
A team of scientists at Germany's Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy has discovered a potentially habitable planet about 3.6 times as massive of Earth ...
www.redorbit.com/.../astronomers-find-potential-super-earth
Astronomy and Space Exploration News » BuzzTracker News Headlines
Yesterday, "amateur" astronomer César Cantú took an amazing mosaic image of the Sun, showing our star boiling and writhing under its own dynamic forces: ...
www.buzztracker.com/.../astronomy_and_space_exploration
Astronomers solve mystery of Titan's arrow
Read more: http://www.spacescientific.com/msnbc-cbsnews/506-msnbc-space-news/ 16911-astronomers-solve-mystery-of-titan-s-arrow.html ...
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Today's Astronomy News (August 2011) - Page 2 - Astronomy Forums ...
Today's Astronomy News (August 2011) - General Astronomy Forum. ... to the International SpaceStation reaches another milestone on Wednesday, Aug. 24. ...
www.astronomyforum.net/.../115901-todays-astronomy-news-...

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