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SPACE, Astronomy News, Sep 15, 2011


Astronomers locate planet blasted away by violent star
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Using a telescope at NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers located the shredded planet orbiting relatively close to star CoRoT-2a — only about 2.8 million miles away. What they saw was surprising, but not only because of what's happening to ...
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Touch the Moon in Virginia
Sacramento Bee
In addition, NASA personnel will be around the state raising awareness about the space program and the fascinating world of science. From 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm Friday, Sept. 23, astronaut Chris Ferguson, the commander of NASA's final space shuttle mission ...
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An Invisible Planet Discovered by Harvard Scientists
Siliconindia.com
Sara is a graduate in astronomy, found the planet during a routine examination of data collected from a NASA mission, found the planet, named Kepler-19c and located 650 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lyra. She observed that the orbit of ...
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6 Tools To Get Up And Running As An Amateur Astronomer
Gizmodo Australia
By Kyle Wagner on September 15, 2011 at 10:00 am NASA's getting back in the swing of mannedspace exploration, but chances are it won't be your butt strapped to the newly unveiled SpaceLaunch System whenever it takes off. So how's a spacefan nerdboy ...
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Potentially habitable planet found
CBC.ca
"These planets will be among the best targets for future space telescopes to look for signs of life in the planet's atmosphere by looking for chemical signatures such as oxygen," said Francesco Pepe, an astronomer at the Geneva Observatory in ...
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first "Friday Nights, Celestial Lights" of the semester on Sept. 16
UTSA Today
The lecture will be given by Eric Schlegel, the Vaughan Family Endowed Professor in Physics in the UTSA Department of Physics and Astronomy. NASA has designated 2011-2012 as the Year of the Solar System, given the number of missions within our solar ...
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UTSA Today
Scoring big: Two Fairport students ace the ACT
Fairport-E.Rochester Post
Baretsky, who plans to study astronomy and astrophysics in college, says her dream job is to work for NASA someday and Zheng is considering a career in the medical field. For many high school juniors looking ahead toward college applications and SAT's ...
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NotJustTelescopes.com Expands Efforts Into the Blogosphere
PR Web (press release) (blog)
In the past year or so, there has even been a strong political bent what with the end of the NASA shuttle program, the question of the future of US domestic space programs, telescopic exploration of the universe with the potential end to the James Webb ...
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PR Web (press release) (blog)
Teachers soar in one of final 'weightless' flights; As Northrop Grumman ...
Military & Aerospace Electronics
... Mission to the Stars elective, in which students use NASA resources to plan their own spaceexpedition. Bieber said his participation in the flight would help him to explain certain concepts about physics and astronomy to students in both classes. ...
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Eastvalley Teacher is Classroom 'Hero'
Patch.com
For a space and astronomy study unit, she dressed in a full NASA flight suit, staying in character throughout multiple lessons taught from a specially created classroom space station. Hestad engages local business and civic leaders for an annual “City ...
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Astronomers plan last look at asteroid before OSIRIS-REx launch
PhysOrg.com
The next chance for ground-based astronomy is 2023, the year the spacecraft returns a sample of the asteroid to Earth." The target asteroid is about a third of a mile in diameter (575 meters). Credit: NASA/GSFC/UA 1999 RQ36 last attractedastronomers' ...
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PhysOrg.com
A Computer program to detect pain?
The Asian Age
It orbits its parent star at a distance roughly 10 times more than that between the earth and the moon, the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics reports. “This planet is being absolutely fried by its star,” says study co-author Sebastian Schroeter.
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NASA goes back to the future…again : Space and Astronomy news ...
By Jonathan Nally
NASA HAS SELECTED THE DESIGN of a new Space Launch System that will take the agency's astronauts farther into space than ever before, create high-quality jobs here at home, and provide the cornerstone for America's future human ...
Space and Astronomy news daily...
NASA launches mission to study Moon from ... - Astronomy Magazine
Home » News & Observing » Astronomy News » NASA launches mission to study ... “If there was ever any doubt that Florida's Space Coast would continue to be ...
www.astronomy.com/.../NASA%20launches%20mission%20to...
NASA satellite rainmap shows extent of ... - Telescopes Astronomy
NASA satellite rainmap shows extent of Tropical Storm Lee's heavy rainfall. Written by Administrator. Posted in News - Astronomy News. (NASA/Goddard Space ...
www.telescopesastronomy.com/.../nasa-satellite-rainmap-show...
NASA Solicitation: Concepts for the Next NASA X-Ray Astronomy ...
NASA Solicitation: Concepts for the Next NASA X-Ray Astronomy Mission - SpaceRef.
www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.rss.spacewire.html?pid=38377
NASA - Herschel Mission Finds Galactic Growth Slow and Steady
New findings from the Herschel Space Observatory paint a more tranquil picture of ... The newresults are based on Herschel's observations of two patches of sky, each about ... The results appear in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. ...
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/.../herschel20110913.html

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