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SPACE, Astronomy News, Aug 27, 2011

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NASA: James Webb Space Telescope to Now Cost $8.7 Billion
Space.com
WASHINGTON — NASA has confirmed a new cost estimate for its James WebbSpace Telescope (JWST) that a key congressional appropriator and critic cited in July in proposing to terminate the flagship-class astronomy mission. "NASA has completed a JWST ...
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Space.com
Astronomical Community Lit Up By 'Once In A Generation' Supernova
Irish Weather Online
Astronomers believe they caught the supernova within hours of its explosion, a rare feat for events of this type. The discovery of the supernova on Wednesday has sent scientists around the world scrambling to observe it with as many telescopes as ...
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Irish Weather Online
Meteorite hunt underway in the North while stargazers gather for a cosmic ...
thejournal.ie
ASTRONOMY IRELAND IS asking people interested in looking for a potentially valuable meteorite to get involved in a search for a rock from space somewhere in the north of the country. David Moore from Astronomy Ireland has told TheJournal.ie that the ...
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Buzz Out Loud 1540: Astronomy is a girl's best friend (Podcast)
CNET
On today's show, we discover the universe's biggest diamond floating out there in space. Plus, the FCC is investigating why cell phone networks went down during this week's East Coast earthquake, especially with Hurricane Irene bearing down on the East ...
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Black Hole Behemoth Found Guilty of Star's Murder
Discovery News
This violent event was noticed on March 29 after NASA's Swift space telescope detected X-rays being generated in the center of a distant galaxy, a galaxy with a supermassive black hole in its core that has, until now, remained dormant. Astronomers ...
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Astronomers Find Planet Made of Diamonds in Our Milky Way Neighborhood [Photos ...
International Business Times
"The planet is likely to be largely carbon and oxygen, because a star made of lighter elements like hydrogen and helium would be too big to fit the measured orbiting times," said Michael Keith of CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, and a member of the ...
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International Business Times
Where do Republican candidates stand on evolution?
Examiner.com
Now, while this is a big problem for biologists, the same can be held true for space scientists. After all, both biology and astronomy/cosmology seek to answer the question of how we got here, with the answers provided by each flying straight in the ...
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Blazing Starry Trail: Accountant Finds Sixth Comet in Nine Months
Daijiworld.com
... which is a space observatory between the sun and earth, some 1.5 million km away from our planet. "It beams one image every 12 minutes which is uploaded on its official website 24x7 and picked up by astronomers worldwide. I also studied them, ...
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Written in the Stars
The St. Augustine Underground
Around age 13 when he lived in New York, Berman befriended a neighbor — an amateur astronomer who had a telescope and observatory. Berman said he learned a lot about outer space and astronomy from the neighbor, which fueled Berman's interest in ...
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The St. Augustine Underground
The Diary: James Naughtie
Financial Times
I did, however, discover SAstroS (Sark Astronomy Society), which apart from being one of the better acronyms I've come across in recent times, is a signal of one of the island's great gifts. Sark has no light pollution. The population of 600 doesn't ...
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TV Saturday-Sunday: Tony Bennett to pay tribute to Amy Winehouse at MTV Awards
Montreal Gazette
(PBS, 9 pm) episode, Inspector Lewis: Dark Matter, in which Kevin Whately's DI Robert Lewis and DS James Hathaway (Laurence Fox) investigate the untimely demise of an Oxford astronomyprofessor who loudly proclaims he is about to have an “excess of joy ...
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Barnidge: Bay Area atheist groups are a godsend for non-believers
Oakland Tribune
Golden claims he has been an atheist since he was 11 years old, when he fell in love withastronomy, looked deep into space and decided there couldn't be a single entity in charge of all that. He understands that more people believe than not, ...
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Emcor Services Scalise Receives Contract for Fire Protection and Mechanical ...
AZoBuild
... advanced technology physics laboratories for the Astronomy and Physics department of the University. Emcor Services Scalise has been entrusted with the task of demolishing the present labspace and building and installing several advanced systems. ...
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Editorial: Like a diamond in the sky
ScrippsNews
Astronomers have spotted a planet of such unprecedented density that it almost has to be crystalline carbon -- in other words, solid diamond. The only drawback to this galactic girl's best friend is that it sounds like a terribly inhospitable place. ...
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Stock Market Rising Despite Bad Economic News
Retirement Planning
Economic news worth mentioning for all its negative implications is the end of the Atlantis, a United States space shuttle that has served the world of astronomy for 30 long years. The question now is, where will the 9000 workers who work for NASA get ...
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NASA: James Webb Telescope Expected To Cost $8.7 Billion
Space News
By Dan Leone WASHINGTON — NASA has confirmed a new cost estimate for its James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) that a key congressional appropriator and critic cited in July in proposing to terminate the flagship-class astronomy mission. ...
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Space News
AR Newsline Report 1776 -- Aug. 26 2011:
eHam.net
The results of the study were presented by postgraduate student Fraser Lewis at the RAS NationalAstronomy Meeting in Llandudno, Wales, on April 18. (Science OnLine) On the air, listen out for the for the Kansas Sesquicentennial QSO Party on August ...
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Shooting star, seen from above : Space and Astronomy news daily ...
THIS ASTRONAUT PHOTOGRAPH, taken from the International Space Station ( ISS) while over China (approximately 400 kilometres to the northwest of Beijing), ...
spaceinfo.com.au/2011/08/17/shooting-star-seen-from-above/
News | Physics and Astronomy | College of Engineering ...
International team to use Hubble Space Telescope to answer key astronomy questions. An international team of scientists led by the University of Exeter is ...
emps.exeter.ac.uk/physics-astronomy/.../title_150790_en.html
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