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SPACE, Astronomy News, Oct 05, 2011

Space Telescopes Reveal Secrets of Turbulent Black Hole
Space Daily
by Staff Writers A fleet of spacecraft including NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered unprecedented details in the surroundings of a supermassive black hole. Observations reveal huge bullets of gas being driven away from the gravitational ...
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Eye on the cosmos
Baltimore Sun
Its loss would jeopardize all the advances made since Hubble was launched as well as America'sposition of leadership in astronomy and space exploration. This year, a House subcommittee threatened to zero out funding for the Webb telescope because of ...
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Adapting NASA Technologies to Environmental and Energy Applications
Environmental Leader
In addition to its obvious value in space exploration and astronomy, image processing is also critical to Earth science involving the monitoring of our planet's surface features, in fields such as agriculture and energy production. ...
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Environmental Leader

Looking Into The Eye Of A Monster – Active Galaxy Markarian 509
Universe Today
An international team of astronomers using five different telescopes set their sites on 460 million light-year distant Markarian 509 to check out the action surrounding its huge black hole. The imaging team included ESA's XMM-Newton, Integral, NASA/ESA...
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Universe Today

Happy 54th birthday to Sputnik I and the space race
Medill Reports: Chicago
“Unfortunately, the manned space life program in the US has been greatly rolled back. We don't have anything comparable and anything in the near future to take over,” Smutko said. “NASA and the astronauts in the US have to sign up for a ticket to space ...
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NASA Ames to Celebrate Moon at Festive Event
Space Ref (press release)
7:30 to 11 pm- Weather-permitting, participants will be able to view the moon through telescopes set up by members of local amateur astronomy societies. The viewing will be accompanied by a guided tour of lunar features, and speaker Tony Colaprete, ...
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Space Ref (press release)

In Gaithersburg, a retired lawyer, 88, searches for answers in outer space
Gazette.Net: Maryland Community News Online
by Jen Bondeson, Staff Writer Chris Rossi/The Gazette Retired attorney Bill Kraham, 88, ofGaithersburg has recently begun studying astronomy. He created a website,www.allenergyandmatter.com, to share basic information about the cosmos. ...
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Draconid Meteor Outburst
Space Daily
Led by Science@NASA's Tony Phillips, the 15 students have been launching helium balloons to the edge of space since May of 2011. With more than 95% of Earth's atmosphere below the balloon, the sky above looks almost as black as it would from a...
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Space Daily

ALMA captures pix of Isis crystal skull galaxy
The Spoof (satire)
"Of course the Pope's bound to go nuts," a NASA PR source explained, "kinda flushes their paternalistic agenda straight back down the toilet where it really belongs." The image is being studied by astronomers around the world with the Beijing Astronomy ...
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Exomoons ever closer
Scientific American (blog)
Many moons have signs of active and quiescent cryo-volcanism – from Enceladus to Triton (check out the movie made in 1990 by NASA from Voyager 2 images) and Europa. They also show quite compelling evidence for subsurface liquid water oceans that ...
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Scientific American (blog)

NASA - Hubble Space Telescope Contributes to Nobel Prize in ...
News. Text Size. Grow Text SizeShrink Text Size. Hubble Space Telescope Contributes ... Adam Riess, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute ...
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/.../hubble-nobel.html
Private space plans get astronauts aloft before NASA
Latest Space and Astronomy News / updates every 3 minutes ... NASA's next crew-carrying rocket, the heavy-lift Space Launch System, will blast off on its first ...
www.spacescientific.com/.../19148-private-space-plans-get-ast...
iPhone, iPad Apps for Astronomers at Heart - Mobile and Wireless ...
In addition to offering official space agency applications like NASA's, the Apple ... customizes and delivers an extensive selection of news, images and videos. ...
mobile.eweek.com/.../iPhone-iPad-Apps-for-Astronomers-at-H...

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