SPACE, Astronomy News, Sep 07, 2011

Images Cloud Star Birth Theory Laboratory Equipment Movies made using images collected by Hubble Space Telescope over 14 years are forcingastronomers to rethink the late stages of star birth. Rice Univ. astronomer Patrick Hartigan created the time-lapse movies that offer astronomers their first glimpse ... See all stories on this topic »

2012 Doggett Prize Goes to Woodruff T. Sullivan III Space Ref (press release) For the History Department at the University of Washington, he offers a course, "The History of Physics and Astronomy, 1800-1940." Through such pedagogy, Woody Sullivan has introduced the history of astronomy to many students and made vital space for ... See all stories on this topic »

Tiny bits of debris are a big problem in space, says Stanford astronautics ... Stanford Report She and Peter Brown, a professor of astronomy at the University of Western Ontario, wrote the section on meteoroids. Meteoroids come in all different sizes, but most are usually tiny – weighing on the order of a billionth of a gram or less and ... See all stories on this topic » Stanford Report

Vernon Lecture highlights the hunt for another Earth University of Delaware Using infrared sensors on NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, Laughlin and his colleagues discovered that, in just six hours, the surface of HD 80606b heats up from 800 to 1500 Kelvin (980 to 2240 degrees F), giving the orb a fiery-red glow. ... See all stories on this topic » University of Delaware

How science shaped the stories of Ray Bradbury New Scientist (blog) These included two Life magazine articles in the 1960s: "Cry the Cosmos" and "An Impatient Gulliver Above Our Roofs", which played a key role in maintaining public support for NASA's Apollo spaceprogramme. For all his fascination with technological ... See all stories on this topic »

The Information Galaxy Home Screen Lifehacker Minhtam's set up a rotating wallpaper with Tasker that grabs a new wallpaper from NASA's Astronomy Pic of the Day. You can find more information on how to do that on this XDA thread. Do you have an awesome, tweaked-into-oblivion home or lock screen of ... See all stories on this topic »

Space junk reaches 'tipping point' : Space and Astronomy news ... Space and Astronomy news daily – SpaceInfo.com.au ... ALTHOUGH NASA'S PROGRAMMES to track meteoroids and orbital debris have responsibly used their ... spaceinfo.com.au/2011/09/.../space-junk-reaches-tipping-point...

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