SPACE, Astronomy News, Oct 17, 2011

'Doomsday comet' makes closest approach to Earth The Nation, Pakistan “But the truth is there are few maybes; there is a lot of accuracy with understandingspace science, more than there is an understanding of what's at the bottom of the oceans. If there was any issue of concern, NASA or any professional astronomerwould ... See all stories on this topic »

NASA fellowship named for UU astronomer uuworld.org She joined NASA in 1959, a few months after its formation, to set up a program ofastronomy from space. As part of her job she traveled around the country trying to learn what astronomers wanted from NASA. She knew they wanted spaceobservations from ... See all stories on this topic » uuworld.org

Take cover: Another satellite is plunging to Earth USA Today Bits of rocket engines, spare parts and other sizable space junk fall weekly from the sky, according to NASA space debris expert Nicholas Johnson of Johnson SpaceCenter in Houston. Satellite plunges of the size of UARS, six tons, happen about once a ... See all stories on this topic » USA Today

Astronomy festival offers rare glimpse at the sun at UNH Foster's Daily Democrat Throughout the event there were also talks by amateur astronomers, professional scientists and keynote speaker Lee Morin, a NASA astronaut and UNH alumnus. The idea for the event was thought up with John Gianforte and Tom Coccchiaro while attending an ... See all stories on this topic »

Dark Matter Bends Light Inside Galaxy Cluster iWeather Online By Paul Vaughan - Mon Oct 17, 3:27 am This image of galaxy cluster MACS J1206.2-0847 (or MACS 1206 for short) is part of a broad survey with NASA's Hubble SpaceTelescope. The distorted shapes in the cluster are distant galaxies from which the light is ... See all stories on this topic » iWeather Online

'Doomsday' Comet Elenin Makes Closest Approach To Earth iWeather Online Astronomer Don Yeomans of the Near-Earth Object Programme Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California said there have been incorrect speculations on the Internet that alignments of comet Elenin with other celestial bodies could ... See all stories on this topic » iWeather Online

BU Astronomers Take a Giant Step Forward BU Today Jackson says the new agreement will improve the chances that BU research projects will be funded by agencies such as NASA. It will also help draw top faculty, a concern for the department as a good number of its professors near retirement age, ... See all stories on this topic » BU Today

Von Braun Astronomical Society rededicates Monte Sano observatory founded in 1954 al.com (blog) In the early 1960s, NASA used the observatory's telescope - at the time the second-largest in the Southeast - to scout possible lunar landing sites. "Von Braun wanted to educate people" about space, Reisz said. "What we're doing is continuing his ... See all stories on this topic » al.com (blog)

Is M85 Missing a Black Hole? Universe Today Yet a recent study by astronomers from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor seems to have found an exception: The well known M85. To determine the mass of the CMBH, the team used the spectrograph on board the Hubble Space Telescope to examine the pull ... See all stories on this topic » Universe Today

Space News Now: A Tour of NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for ... Space News Now ... I enjoyed a tour of NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy(SOFOA), which was on display at Moffett Field near San ... www.spacenewsnow.com/.../tour-of-nasas-stratospheric-observ...

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