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Citizen astronomy
The Economist
This approach has proved particularly fruitful in astronomy, a science with a long history of amateur contributions. Armchair astronomers have already helped classify galaxies seen by Hubble, the main orbiting telescope of America's space agency, NASA. ...
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Space Telescopes Reveal Secrets of Turbulent Black Hole
eNews Park Forest
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, G. Kriss (STScI), and J. de Plaa (SRON Netherlands Institute for SpaceResearch). Source: Hubblesite.org BALTIMORE-(ENEWSPF)- An international team of astronomersusing five different telescopes has uncovered striking features ...
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Astronomy Team Looking For Lost 'Snoopy' Module From Apollo 10
RedOrbit
The lunar surface in the background is near, but beyond the eastern limb of the moon as viewed from earth (about 120 degrees east longitude). The red/blue diagonal line is the spacecraft window. ID: AS10-34-5112 Credit: NASA Johnson Space Center ...
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Promoting Science Through Astronomy
Reston Connection
Astronomy program at Herndon, Thomas Jefferson high schools to work with Analemma Society on automated, remote access to new Observatory Park telescope. By Jean T. Jianos Mary Blessing has worked with scientists during research flights aboard NASA's ...
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China's space ambition soars
CNN International
China is not part of the International Space Station (ISS), which currently orbits the Earth whilespace experts and astronauts conduct experiments in a range of fields, from physics to astronomy. The ISS is a consortium among NASA, Russia's RKA space ...
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Space telescopes reveal secrets of turbulent black hole
Science Daily (press release)
An international team of astronomers led by Dr. Jelle Kaastra from the SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research took the opportunity to observe and map such an extreme environment around one of the brightest supermassive black holes known to us. ...
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Frontiers of astronomy presentation: How big is the universe, anyway?
Mountain Xpress
Located in the Pisgah Forest 30 miles southwest of Asheville, NC, the PARI campus is a dark sky location for astronomy and was selected in 1962 by NASA as the site for one of the first US satellite tracking facilities. Today, the 200 acre campus houses ...
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Flashes of genius take space prize
Hong Kong Standard
The US$1 million (HK$7.80 million) award, also known as the Asian equivalent of the Nobel Prize, will be jointly shared by Gerald J Fishman, chief scientist at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, and Enrico Costa, director of research at the Italian ...
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Researchers Merge Art and Science
Harvard Crimson
The popularity of websites such as NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows that celestial images are compelling to the general public, but A&A researchers initially thought that this attention was solely aesthetic in nature. ...
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New Black Hole Anatomy Revealed
RedOrbit
“XMM-Newton really led these observations because it has such a wide X-ray coverage, as well as an optical monitoring camera,” says Jelle Kaastra, SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, who coordinated an international team of 26astronomers ...
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RedOrbit
Astronomy Night at the Peak spans universe in 10 Easy Steps; STARLAB, crafts ...
PinalCountyToday.com
While Vangilder is presenting, Dr. Wayne Pryor will make available CAC's twin NASA telescopes that boast large reflectors with 24-inch and 14-inch diameter mirrors. In addition, Pryor will open an array of smaller telescopes used to view various ...
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You probably weren't imagining that flash in the Treasure Coast sky earlier ...
TCPalm
It will be another 25 years before anything rivaling the latest failed NASA satellite falls back uncontrolled. However, a smaller German astronomy satellite is to fall somewhere in October or November, records show.
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Where In The Universe Challenge #152
Universe Today
She also is the project manager for the 365 Days of Astronomy podcast, works withAstronomy Cast and is host of the NASA Lunar Science Institute podcast. Nancy is also a NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador. My first thought was that it was the Neptune ...
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Universe Today
Habitable Zone Planet Finder Funded
ScienceBlogs (blog)
... the NASA Origins program, and the NASA Astrobiology Institute for the technology development that lead to our now being able to develop this instrument." The HPF development-and science team also includes Penn State Evan Pugh Professor ofAstronomy ...
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ScienceBlogs (blog)
Cal Poly to Host Oct. 8 Talk on Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence
Cal Poly State University
She received her Bachelor of Engineering Physics Degree with Distinction from Cornell University and her master's and doctorate degrees in Astronomy from the UC Berkeley. She has served as Project Scientist for NASA's SETI program, the High Resolution ...
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Supercomputer shows UCSC Scientists how the Universe was Created
Patch.com
... professor of astronomy at New Mexico State University, lead the team that produced the Bolshoi simulation, according to the UCSC release. Klypin wrote the computer code for the simulation, which was run on the Pleiades supercomputer at NASA Ames ...
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NASA: Explorer Outcome
ScienceBlogs (blog)
ASTRE - Atmosphere-Space Transition Region Explorer (ASTRE) Robert Pfaff Jr., PI, NASA'sGoddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. -- The mission would study the interaction between the Earth's atmosphere and the ionized gases of space. ...
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Sky & Telescope November 2011
SkyandTelescope.com
Crowdsourcing in astronomy has exploded – think of Planet Hunters and Moon Zoo – but I never knew how it all began. There's a great story about NASA's Dawn spacecraft achieving orbit around Vesta, a large asteroid between Mars and Jupiter. ...
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The Ancient Astronaut Puzzle: Ancestors and Descendants
UFODigest
Also, if ancient astronauts actually visited the Mayans, why did they need to ride high octane, primitive-looking rockets into the sky like NASA astronauts? Why did they need enclosed helmets, insulated space suits and breathing apparatus? ...
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Australia celebrates 50 years of 'The Dish'
Computerworld Australia
CSIRO Chief Executive, Dr Megan Clark, and Chief of CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, Dr Phil Diamond, will preside at short ceremony to commemorate its commission. 'The Dish' is operated by CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science (CASS), a business unit of ...
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Astronomer Michael Drake, Lead Scientist for NASA ... - Space.com
Drake served as the lead scientist for NASA's Osiris-Rex asteroid mission, slated to. ... SpaceSciences Building, and most of his colleagues came from astronomy. ... Visit SPACE.com for the latest in space science and exploration news on ...
www.space.com/13113-astronomer-michael-drake-obituary.ht...
NASA's Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite reenters Earth's ...
Home » News & Observing » Astronomy News » NASA's Upper Atmosphere ... orbit," said Nick Johnson from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. ...
www.astronomy.com/.../NASAs%20Upper%20Atmosphere%2...
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 Astronomy in the news? NASA ...
Astronomy in the news? NASA satellite to crash Friday. Fall Equinox Friday, September 23 at 4:05 a.m. CDT. International Space Station graphic – find it? ...
www.as.utexas.edu/astronomy/education/fall11/.../Day.10.pdf
Tests under way on the sunshield for NASA's ... - News Astronomy
Space / Astronomy News and Articles ... 19, 2011) — NASA is testing an element of the sunshield that will protect the James Webb Space Telescope's mirrors ...
www.newsastronomy.com/.../13607-tests-under-way-on-the-s...
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