SPACE, Astronomy News, Sep 14, 2011

Herschel reveals how most stars formed in the Universe Space Daily The COSMOS (Cosmic Evolution Survey) field is a 2 square degree equatorial field which was carefully chosen by a team of American, European and Japaneseastronomers. The project was implemented as a NASA/ESA Hubble SpaceTelescope Treasury Program and ... See all stories on this topic »

Planet Is “Fried” By Death Star iWeather Online The findings have been published inthe latest issue of Astronomy and Astrophysics. The other co-authors were Uwe Wolter, Holger Mueller, Klaus Huber and Juergen Schmitt, all from the University of Hamburg. Follow Irish Weather Online on Twitter, ... See all stories on this topic » iWeather Online

Glowing Supernova Debris Captured By Hubble Telescope iWeather Online By Mark Dunphy - Tue Sep 13, 7:30 pm Using the Hubble Space Telescope,astronomers are witnessing the unprecedented transition of a supernova to a supernova remnant, where light from an exploding star in a neighbouring galaxy, the Large Magellanic ... See all stories on this topic » iWeather Online

Astronomers Plan Last Look at Asteroid Before OSIRIS-REx Launch UA News (press release) Astronomers working on the US' first asteroid-sample return mission – the NASAmission named OSIRIS-REx – have begun a months-long observing campaign that is the last chance to study their target asteroid from Earth before the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft ... See all stories on this topic » UA News (press release)

7 Incredible NASA Corn Mazes: Cool Crop Circles for Science Universe Today The celebrations at each of the farms will include a visiting astronaut or other NASAofficials, as well as activities such as hobby-rocket launches, hands-on spaceeducation activities, and demonstrations from local astronomy clubs, in addition to the... See all stories on this topic » Universe Today

Harper student has Mars on her mind Chicago Daily Herald “There are so many things about NASA and astronomy that interest me,” she says. “We know a lot about the universe, but there is so much more that we don't know. So much is a mystery, and that makes it so intriguing to me.” With her general education ... See all stories on this topic »

Super Earth: Newly discovered planet could potentially support life Christian Science Monitor Astronomers have previously discovered 564 confirmed alien planets, with roughly 1200 additional candidate worlds under investigation based on data from the Keplerspace observatory, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.... See all stories on this topic » Christian Science Monitor

Counterpoint: Back to Hades, Pluto Yale Daily News Ignorance is intrinsic to astronomy and planetary science. Don't get attached to what you learned yesterday, because it will be out of date in two years. Today's nostalgia for Pluto's exalted position in what was then a relatively unexplored cosmos is ... See all stories on this topic »

UC San Diego Research Network Aids in Recent Supernova Discovery HPCwire (blog) Astronomers believe they caught the supernova just as it was about to explode, and researchers are now scrambling to observe it with as many telescopes as possible, including the Hubble SpaceTelescope. The supernova, dubbed PTF 11kly, occurred in the ... See all stories on this topic »

Astronaut's Photography Manual Universe Today But if you happen to be up in space, you'll have everything you need to get that perfect shot. Wow very cool! I'd love to use the Hasselblad in space As a camera dork and astronomy nerd, that was the best thing I've seen all day! See all stories on this topic »

Harvard: Smarter and Rubbing It In Bostonist Harvard used data collected by NASA's Kepler mission, launched in 2000 to find new planets. David Charbonneau, a professor of astronomy, called the "transit timing variation method." MIT ranked fifth among National Universities. ... See all stories on this topic » Bostonist

Concepts for the Next NASA X-ray Astronomy ... - Space Scientific By info@techandcomputer.com (Editor) Breaking news and articles on Space and Astronomy... Space Scientific

Unseen planet uncovered : Space and Astronomy news daily ... By Jonathan Nally Space and Astronomy news daily. ... NASA's Kepler spacecraft has spotted a planet that alternately runs late and early in its orbit because the gravity of a second, “invisible” world is tugging on it. This is the first definite detection of a previously ... Space and Astronomy news daily...

NASA Starts Building 1st New Deep Space Capsule to Fly NASA Starts Building 1st New Deep Space Capsule to Fly. Monday, 12 September ... Breakingnews and articles on Space and Astronomy. All Space Media in ... www.sitekhub.com/index.php?option...

NASA Solicitation: Concepts for the Next NASA X-Ray Astronomy ... NASA Solicitation: Concepts for the Next NASA X-Ray Astronomy Mission - SpaceRef. ...NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Headquarters Acquisition ... spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=38377

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