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SPACE, Astronomy News, Oct 11, 2011


Scientific Computing
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center manages the telescope. The SpaceTelescope Science Institute (STScI) conducts Hubble science operations. STScI is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., in Washington, ...
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Astronomers make the first detection of abundant carbon in the early universe
Astronomy Magazine
By Subaru Telescope Facility, Hilo, Hawaii — Published: October 10, 2011 The optical image of TN J0924-2201, a very distant radio galaxy at z = 5.19, obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA/STScI/NAOJ A research team of astronomers,...
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Ex-astronaut shoots down NASA
London Free Press
His enthusiasm and experience are qualities associate professor Phil Stooke hopes will inspire young people to became curious and interested in astronomy. “We want to get them interested in space,” said Stooke, who teaches students about planetary ...
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NASA Solicitation: Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy
Space Ref (press release)
The primary goal of the SOFIA program is to further scientific knowledge in the field ofastronomy and astrophysics. Authority is FAR 6.302-1 - Only one responsible source. Justification is based upon the following facts: 1) the performance schedule ...
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Damian Peach captures space images to rival Nasa with garden telescope
Metro
Mr Peach, from Selsey in West Sussex, last year became the only Briton to win the Astronomy Photographer of the of Year Award for his composite photograph of Jupiter's moons, Ganymede and Io, orbiting the stormy surface of the gas giant. ...
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Metro
GISH honored alumnus tells students of future in space travel
Grand Island Independent
During his time in the planetarium, Ridenoure said that he has never been part of NASA, although he has been contracted to work on several NASA space missions. One area of expertise is creating onboard video systems for rockets and spacecraft. ...
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Europe plans solar orbiter and dark energy probe
Astronomy Now Online
With the likelihood of NASA contributions reduced, ESA delayed the selection of a large-class science mission to evaluate how Europe could take on a larger share of the costs without the help of the United States. Our latest 116-page Astronomy Now ...
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Astronomy Now Online
Study Abroad Fair set for Friday
Binghamton University Pipe Dream
NASA has been working to build its James Webb Space Telescope, which is intended to take the place of the Hubble Space Telescope in orbit around the Earth. However, the telescope's launch is still years away and plans for its development have become ...
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Big Rocks, Big Science
Scientific American (blog)
Where there was once primarily our manned space program, NASA's priorities now include climate research, deep-space astronomy, and unmanned exploration of extra-planetary bodies of every kind. These expanded missions are signs of progress and growth ...
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Amazing New View of the Mt. Everest of Vesta
Universe Today
Dr. Ken Kremer is a speaker, scientist, freelance science journalist (Princeton, NJ) and photographer whose articles, space exploration images and Mars mosaics have appeared in magazines, books, websites and calanders including Astronomy Picture of the ...
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Universe Today
Suitable For Framing: Latest Eye Candy from Cassini
Universe Today
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Nancy Atkinson is Universe Today's Senior Editor. She also is the project manager for the 365 Days ofAstronomy podcast, works with Astronomy Cast and is host of the NASALunar Science Institute podcast. ...
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Universe Today
First comet found with 'ocean water'
Futurity: Research News
Herschel, a European Space Agency mission with NASA participation, is an orbiting telescope that allows astronomers to observe at the far-infrared wavelengths where organic molecules and water emit their chemical signatures.
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Satellite re-enters atmosphere with no witnesses
District
NASA's official Re-Entry and Risk Assessment of UARS states that the satellite never posed a threat, being “a moderate-sized space object,” and that “uncontrolled re-entries of objects more massive than UARS are not frequent, but neither are they ...
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Video: A Rover's 3-Year Drive Across Mars
Universe Today
Nancy Atkinson is Universe Today's Senior Editor. She also is the project manager for the 365 Days of Astronomy podcast, works with Astronomy Cast and is host of theNASA Lunar Science Institute podcast. Nancy is also a NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador.
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Welcome To The Heart Of The Milky Way…
Universe Today
I strongly urge you to investigate these NASA's Great Observatories – Galactic Center Image Locations and take the time to visit in person. My many thanks go to Rich Ruggles of Astronomy 1 On 1 for opening my eyes to all the joy, wonder and mystery all ...
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Universe Today
Open your eyes–evidence of alien visitations is around us
Inquirer.net
There are huge monoliths and structures, such as the pyramids in Egypt and Mexico, the Stonehenge in England and the huge statues of heads at Easter Island, which could not have been built except by people with exact knowledge of astronomy, mathematics...
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How a Team of Enthusiasts Are Mapping Dark Matter
Popular Science
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory sponsored the competition in cooperation with Kaggle, a startup that hosts prediction and data modeling competitions. In all, 73 teams signed up to measure the ellipticity of galaxies in astronomy images, a key element ...
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Popular Science
Bowdoin Gets Strong Grant Support For Research, Arts
Bowdoin News
Thomas Baumgarte (Physics/Astronomy) was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to continue and extend his research project titled Research at an Undergraduate Institution: Numerical Simulations of Black Holes, Neuron Stars and ...
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NASA space telescope finds fewer mid-size ... - Astronomy Magazine
Home » News & Observing » Astronomy News » NASA space telescope finds fewer ...The findings also indicate NASA has found more than 90 percent of the ...
www.astronomy.com/~/link.aspx?_id=5e23238e-cc04...
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
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-02 | The Barefoot Astronomer
RT @astronomymag: News: Study shows Venus' weather isn't boring after all, ... RT @AstronomyMag: News: NASA space telescope finds fewer mid-size range ...
barefootastronomer.com/.../twitter-weekly-updates-for-2011-1...
NASA Solicitation: Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy ...
NASA Solicitation: Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy - SpaceRef.
www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.rss.spacewire.html?pid=38689
Astronomers Find Elusive Planets in Decade-old Hubble Data
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center manages the telescope. ... STScI is operated forNASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., ...
www.scientificcomputing.com/news-DA-Astronomers-Find-El...
Foothill College Astronomy Program
Foothill Astronomy Instructor Andrew Fraknoi has a Facebook page for astronomy news called "Andrew Fraknoi (The AstroProf)": ... Astronomy Picture of the Day: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html (Two space scientists scour the ...
www.foothill.edu/ast/astrolnk.php
Carnival of Space #217 | Dear Astronomer | Answering your ...
Also coming from Discovery news is a great article on solar astronomy by Nicole ...exploration will enjoy a write-up on Vintage Space covering NASA's ten-year ...
www.dearastronomer.com/2011/10/03/carnival-of-space-217/
Space and Earth Sciences News :: Astronomers find elusive planets ...
Your daily source for the latest space and earth sciences news ... NASA said on Thursday that astronomers have found evidence for two extrasolar planets using ...
www.news-about-space.org/astronomy-news/cluster11628912/
Cosmic Log - Astronomers downsize their estimate for risky asteroids
Sorry, no Planet X has been discovered yet ... which is good news, come to think of it.... Quantum fluctuations in science, space and society, from quarks to Hubble ...Mainzer. an astronomer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, reported today ...
cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_.../8037955-astronomers-downsiz...
NASA's moon twins going their own way - News Astronomy
Space / Astronomy News and Articles ... NewsAstronomy (Oct. 7, 2011) — NASA'sGravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL)-B spacecraft successfully ...
www.newsastronomy.com/.../13671-nasa-s-moon-twins-going...
HubbleSite - NewsCenter - Astronomers Find Elusive Planets in ...
News release from NASA: FOR RELEASE: 9:00 am (EDT) October 6, 2011. Ray VillardSpace Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md. 410-338-4514 ...
hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2011/29/text/
Would a President Romney Deploy Space Weapons ...
Space, Astronomy, Astronaut, NASA News from Kepea. Science, Space, Astronomyand NASA News from off the planet! Home. « Air and Space Museum Clash ...
kepea.com/.../would-a-president-romney-deploy-space-weapo...
NASA tests deep space J-2X rocket engine
The test at NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center in south Mississippi came just two ...http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15203788 Astronomers ...
www.physorg.com/.../2011-09-nasa-deep-space-j-2x-rocket.ht...
ESA Selects Solar Orbiter and Astronomy Telescope ... - Space News
PARIS — Europe's space science decision-making body on Oct. 4 selected a satellite to be developed with NASA to fly closer to the sun than any previous ...
www.spacenews.com/.../111005-esa-selects-solar-orbiter-eucli...
AstroBlog Follow Friday & Weekly Stumbles For 2011-09-30 ...
Your universal news and offbeat portal. About us • Advertise with ... space explorationnews. For more Twitter follow suggestions see our astronomy list @ TheAstroBlog/astronomy ... NASA Space Telescope Finds Fewer Asteroids Near Earth...
astroblog.cosmobc.com/.../astroblog-follow-friday-weekly-stu...
Astronomer Michael Drake, Lead Scientist for NASA Asteroid ...
Thursday, September 29, 2011 - 10:00 in Astronomy & Space. Michael Drake served as the lead scientist for NASA's Osiris-Rex asteroid mission. ...
esciencenews.com/.../astronomer.michael.drake.lead.scientist.n...
The Sky's <em>Not</em> the Limit at N.E. Astronomy Fest at UNH ...
"This festival is about passing along the passion for astronomy to our neighbors in ...selected as a NASA astronaut candidate in 1996 and took part in the 13th spacemission ... http://unh.edu/news/campusjournal/2010/Mar/31gsa01-morin. jpg ...
www.unh.edu/news/cj_nr/2011/oct/bp03observatory.cfm
The man behind the Hubble Space Telescope retires - National ...
Anyone, whether interested in astronomy or not, has heard of the Hubble SpaceTelescope. More so ... Space News Examiner ... Now, after a 33-year career at NASA, Ed Weiler, who was in charge of the Hubble for nearly 20 years, is retiring. ...
www.examiner.com/.../the-man-behind-the-hubble-space-teles...
Nasa chief stresses global cooperation | Science | guardian.co.uk
Nasa chief Charles Bolden said he hoped the James Webb space telescope .... The world's most powerful astronomical device, the Atacama Large ... Zeitgeist is an experiment in showing trending news, topics and articles from the Guardian. ...
www.guardian.co.uk/.../nasa-chief-global-cooperation-space

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