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SPACE, Astronomy News, Sep 28, 2011


iPhone, iPad Apps for Astronomers at Heart
eWeek
In addition to offering official space agency applications like NASA's, the Apple App Store offers apps for stargazing and learning about our solar system, as well as ones aimed at improving your astronomy education. Fascinated by the moon? ...
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NASA Announces California Tweetup to Tour Airborne Observatory
Sacramento Bee
27, 2011 -- /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA will host a Tweetup for 50 of its Twitter followers on Oct. 14 at the agency's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. The Tweetup includes a tour of the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy ...
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Venus Weather Not Boring After All, NASA/International Study Shows
NASA
However, Venus has been tilted so much, it's almost completely upside down, leaving it with a net tilt of less than three degrees from the sun, so the seasonal effect is negligible," explains Livengood, who is stationed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight ...
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Space officials determine dead NASA satellite plunged into south Pacific, far ...
Washington Post
By AP, WASHINGTON — That dead NASA satellite fell into what might be the ideal spot — part of the southern Pacific Ocean about as far from large land masses as you can get, US space officials said Tuesday. New US Air Force calculations put the 6-ton ...
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Sunspot's Solar Flares Could Potentially Blow Every Electrical Circuit on Earth
IBTimes
NASA have stated that "anything electrical" can be affected by the activity. Dr Ian Griffin an Astronomer and CEO of Science Oxford said: "Active Region 1302 is the source of all of the auroras seen yesterday, and may well be the source of some more...
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Learning astronomy takes more than a telescope
HollandSentinel.com
So NASA and others have built a multitude of different instruments to study a multitude of different things. Hubble works in visible light and has actually imaged one of the most distant galaxies. This was done by taking a very long time exposure of ...
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Origin of Earth's Water - Astrobiology Postdoctoral Fellow
Space Ref (press release)
The Institute for Astronomy (IfA) invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellowship with interests in the origin of Earth's water to work with the University of Hawai'i's NASA Astrobiology Institute lead team (see http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/UHNAI/). ...
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Star party attracts guests
UND The Dakota Student
Research is funded by NASA and student research opportunities include studying near-Earth and main-belt asteroids, solar astronomy, spacesuit and spacecraft simulator design and construction, development of Lunar and Mars bases, remote sensing of the ...
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Cornell Staffer Bikes for Crohn's Cure
Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun
She was invited to join NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Team at Cornell. Working as project coordinator for the mission, Mulvanerton was finally able to be true to the “space geek” she had always been. “I've always been in love with science,” she said. ...
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Radio Free Science: NSF's new Web-based stream offers science news
FCW.com
The programming includes more than 100 radio shows, including a daily show called "365 Days ofAstronomy"; one-minute news broadcasts on earth, space or technology; and shows contributed by partners including NASA, the National Institutes of Health, ...
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Westwood should remain in the hands of a woman
Purdue Exponent
She was a chief scientist at NASA, has a Ph.D. in physics and was a distinguished professor ofastronomy at University of California Riverside. There is no debate that she is smart. And with a quick Google search to confirm all of that, I learned she ...
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North County FYI Datebook
SignOnSanDiego.com
Life at MiraCosta: “NASA Update” with Rica French, MiraCosta astronomy professor, at 1 pm Oct. 7 and “Competition and Choice in Public Education” with Raquel Jacob-Almeida, University of California San Diego sociology professor 2:30 pm at MiraCosta ...
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