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SPACE, Astronomy News, Sep 16, 2011


Former NASA astronauts teach astronomy, engineering at MU
UM Maneater
MU graduate Linda Godwin and her husband Steven Nagel integrate their space exploration experience in teaching. By Caitlin Holland While working for NASA, astronomy professor Linda Godwin transported cargo to astronauts staying at the International ...
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Star Wars-Like Discovery: A Double-Sun Planet Really Exists, NASA Says
International Business Times
The planet circles its twin stars in the constellation Cygnus about every 229 days,NASA researchers reported in "Science." "The reality goes beyond the imagination of the most creative theorist in astronomy or science fiction writer," said ...
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International Business Times
No conspiracy here, JPL expert says of greenish meteor
Los Angeles Times
NASA officials checked for the possibility that the object was a wayward spacecraft or space junk but, for the most part, ruled those out, Yeomans said. It's not uncommon to look skyward on any given night and see streaking asteroid detritus. ...
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WKU professor continues projects with NASA
College Heights Herald
Louis Strolger, an associate professor of astronomy and physics, has been working with NASA on a projects for the past few years. Strolger said NASA has a large community of scientists working together to do different projects. ...
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Herschel Mission Finds Galactic Growth Slow and Steady
Space Daily
Herschel is a European Space Agency mission with important contributions fromNASA and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "Galaxy mergers play an important role in producing the most powerful starbursts today," said Lee Armus, ...
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Space Daily
Hindu astronomy traces wonder of heavens (LifePoints)
The Huntsville Times - al.com (blog)
(AP Photo/NASA) HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- The Hindu astronomy is one of the ancient astronomical systems of the world. Early cultures in India identified celestial objects with gods and spirits. They related these objects and their movements to phenomena ...
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The Huntsville Times - al.com (blog)
The turbulent lives of stars
PhysOrg.com
In the framework of her PhD thesis the scientist examined hundreds of stars observed with NASA's Kepler space telescope for solar-like oscillations and made a detection: the Delta Scuti star called HD 187547 is the first representative of the group ...
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PhysOrg.com
Well done sunshine!
The Star
His spectacular pictures are now being viewed by millions of space fans around the globe who regularly log on to the world-famous website. Andy, aged 55, a retired colliery manager, who has been an amateur astronomer for six years, uses a host of...
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The Star
Small distant galaxies host supermassive black holes
EurekAlert (press release)
SANTA CRUZ, CA--Using the Hubble Space Telescope to probe the distant universe, astronomershave found supermassive black holes growing in surprisingly small galaxies. The findings suggest that central black holes formed at an early stage in galaxy ...
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Herschel Mission Finds Galactic Growth Slow and Steady
Clarksville Online
The results appear in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. Read more at Herschell . Herschel is a European Space Agency cornerstone mission, with science instruments provided by consortia of European institutes and with important participation by NASA ...
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The Two-Way : NPR
NPR
Today, said Gore, "carbon polluters" are paying for climate change doubters to say similar things. by Eyder Peralta If things go without a hitch, NASA said its newly unveiled Space Launch System could take its first manned test flight in 2017. ...
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Planetary Pitchman
Pasadena Weekly
What's new is a recent focus on observing Earth from space for the purpose of studying climate change and maintaining programs and interest in the face of NASA'sshrinking budget. To that end, Anderson is hopeful Nye's tenure will engage new ...
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Pasadena Weekly
The Best of the 2011 Astronomy Photographer of the Year Contest
Popular Science
Also see our PopSci DIY feed This month, discover the 30 most awesome college labs in the world, and admire brilliant high-school inventors. Plus: The reinvention of the car,NASA's methane-lake space-boat, homemade gunpowder, and much more.
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Popular Science
Fiery Ball Lights Up Sky
NBC San Diego
A NASA spokesperson said that's most likely what it was. The spokesperson said it was the size of a basketball or baseball. SDSU Astronomy Professor Paul Etzel said he believes it may have been a piece of debris that had fallen off a man-made satalite ...
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Kepler-16: A Transiting Circumbinary Planet
Science Careers Blog (subscription)
3 Hubble Fellow, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA. 4 NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA. 5 Department of Physics and Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, ...
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NASA: Announces discovery of first-ever - 'Star Wars' - planet that orbits ...
San Jose Mercury News
"The imagination got there first," said the ponytailed Doyle, in a Thursday announcement at NASAAmes, in a nod to the "Star Wars" saga created by George Lucas. "Science confirms things, but intuition leads you there." Astronomers believe that these ...
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WHIZ KID: Hindley Williams Goes to Washington
Patch.com
Hindley will be attending Space Camp at NASA in Huntsville, AL, in a little more than a week, to pursue her science interests. After attending a science camp this summer at Towson University, sponsored by the National Federation of the Blind, ...
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Star Blasts Planet With X-rays
Media Newswire (press release)
These results were published in the August 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. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville ...
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Large black holes found in small galaxies
UPI.com
UPI/NASA SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Sept. 15 (UPI) -- US astronomers say finding supermassive black holes in surprisingly small galaxies suggests central black holes form at an early stage in galaxy evolution. All massive galaxies host a central supermassive ...
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“Star Wars” planet discovered : Space and Astronomy news daily ...
By Jonathan Nally
Space and Astronomy news daily. ... Kepler is the first NASA mission capable of finding Earth-size planets in or near the “habitable zone,” the region in a planetary system where liquid water can exist on the surface of the orbiting planet. ...
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Space and Earth Sciences News :: Kepler spots world with two suns
Worlds aplenty dot our galaxy, even orbiting twin stars, suggests NASA's Kepler space telescope team. ... Space and Earth Sciences News ... For the first time, astronomers have captured a planet that orbits around two stars instead of one. ...
Space and Earth Sciences News
Latest Space News 2011-09-16 - Echoes of Apollo
By Robert Brand
Space Station Crew to Return to Earth Tonight; American Astronautical Society Statement onNASA's SLS Decision; Statement by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Senate Funding to Restore American Human Spaceflight Capability; Next Space ... of Other Worlds; NASA Mars Research Helps Find Buried Water on Earth; ORBCOMM Prepares for Launch of AIS Satellite; Opportunity on Verge of New Discovery; Bright Green Fireball Amazes Skywatchers in Southwest US; Astronomers...
Latest Space News - Echoes of Apollo
Space and Earth Sciences News :: NASA To Announce Kepler ...
NASA will host a news briefing at 11 a.m. PDT, Thursday, Sept. 15, to announce a new discovery by the Kepler mission.
news-about-space.org/astronomy-news/.../page2.html
Returning America to Space | Deseret News
Returning America to Space. ... Nightly news: astronomy ... [NASA concept of the proposedSpace Launch System on the launchpad, ATK boosters at the sides] ...
www.deseretnews.com/.../Nightly-news-astronomy-Returning-...
Exposing PseudoAstronomy Podcast Tackles Elenin Nonsense
All Space Media in one place with hourly updates... Astronomy. Latest outer space and sciencenews, NASA information. exclusive solar system Images, ...
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NASA Satellite Photo Shows Earth Eclipsing the Sun (SPACE.com ...
Space, Astronomy, Astronaut, NASA News from Kepea. Science, Space, Astronomy and NASA News from off the planet! Home. « NASA's New Giant Space ...
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NASA unveils new Space Launch System - Unexplained Mysteries
You are viewing: Home > News > Space & Astronomy > News story ... I'm all for NASA and thespace program, but can't we dump more of that money into R & D ...
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