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SPACE, Astronomy News, Oct 18, 2011


A flying telescope? Observing NASA's SOFIA airborne observatory
CNET
by James Martin October 17, 2011 4:01 PM PDT Follow @Jamesco NASA this past weekend offered up tours of its recently souped up airborne telescope, built inside a modified Boeing 747 aircraft. The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, ...
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Fallen German Sattellite Could Prove More Dangerous Than UARS
Christian Post
The ROSAT X-ray astronomy observatory may be smaller in size and less massive in weight than NASA's Upper Atmospheric Research Satellite (UARS), but German spaceofficials predict it will spread three times more debris and pose a greater threat to ...
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ASU in space: 7 current missions, more in the wings
Space Daily
With Mars and solar system exploration growing, in 2006, ASU's School of Earth andSpace Exploration was born through the interdisciplinary combination of the department of geological sciences with astronomy and astrophysics researchers and students ...
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Galaxy mergers not the trigger for most black hole feeding frenzies
Space Daily
Looking deep into space gives astronomers a window back in time, revealing earlier stages in the evolution of the universe. This study covered a period when the brightest active galaxies, known as quasars, were at their peak, and theoretical models ...
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Space Daily
Public invited to monthly Friends of Galileo Astronomy Club meeting
Longview Daily News
Les Hastings of Stevenson, Wash., will speak about "October skies and What's up forNASA." His talk will include pictures of some of the lab's latest space projects and a discussion of NASA's direction now that it has retired the Space Shuttles. ...
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Seeing double
Texas A&M The Battalion
If exoplanet discoveries created a hiccup in planetary formation theory 19 years ago, a recent finding has taken complications one step further, says astronomy professor Darren DePoy. Using data from Kepler — a NASA space telescope dedicated to find ...
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NASA Saturn scientist to speak at University of Louisville
Louisville Courier-Journal
Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at California Institute of Technology, will give the free 2011 Bullitt lecture in astronomy at 7 pm in Gheens Science Hall and Rauch Planetarium. The annual lecture is open to ...
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The Day All Life on Earth Almost Ended
Gizmodo
[Cornell University Library via Technology Review, SlashDot; Science; Bad Astronomy; Image credit: NASA, ESA, H. Weaver (APL/JHU), M. Mutchler and Z. Levay (STScI) via APOD] Skeptic's Update: Phil Plait, who writes the exceptional Bad Astronomy blog, ...
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Guest Post by Author Peter Shaver: Cosmic Time Scales
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 AstronomyCast and is host of the NASA Lunar Science Institute podcast. Nancy is also a NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador.
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Universe Today
Coming in 2012: Our Last Transit of Venus
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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Advances in large-format visible focal plane technology
SPIE Newsroom
The next generation of focal plane arrays (FPAs) for space-based remote sensing must be able to support planetary missions with 30× higher radiation levels (eg, Jupiter) than existing earth orbit missions such asNASA's Landsat or the Moderate ...
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SPIE Newsroom
Out of this atmosphere: Fall Astronomy Festival is a success
UNH The New Hampshire (subscription)
Lee Morin, MD, Ph.D. and astronaut gave one of the most monumental talks of the day, which he called "Transforming Fantasy: Building a Space Station." Each chair in the tent was filled during his speech, as cameras captured his blue NASA jumpsuit and ...
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A Tale of Three Moons: Is There Life in the Outer Solar System?
Universe Today
Paul Scott Anderson is a freelance writer and blogger, focusing on spaceexploration, astronomy and related subjects. His blog The Meridiani Journal is a chronicle of planetary exploration. He also writes for Examiner.com (Space Exploration Examiner).
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Universe Today
Wake Up! The Orionid Meteor Shower Peaks On October 20…
Universe Today
“Every year around this time Earth glides through a cloud of dusty debris from Halley's Comet,” explains Bill Cooke of the NASA Marshall SpaceFlight Center. “Bits of dust, most no larger than grains of sand, disintegrate in Earth's atmosphere and ...
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Universe Today
NASA Solicitation: Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy ...
NASA Solicitation: Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy - SpaceRef.
www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=38689
NASA Releases New Interactive Space Communications Game ...
NASA has released an interactive, educational video game called NetworKing ... You are here: Astronomy News » Astronomy Software » NASA Releases New ...
www.nightskyobserver.com/.../nasa-releases-new-interactive-s...
uuworld.org : nasa fellowship named for uu astronomer
Home / News / NASA fellowship named for UU astronomer ... Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, with a model of the Goddard Space Flight Center's Orbiting Solar ...
www.uuworld.org/news/articles/188407.shtml
'Doomsday' Comet Elenin Makes Closest Approach To Earth
Astronomers and other space enthusiasts have long pondered the question of ... up while internet forums are awash with suggestions that NASA has failed to ...
www.irishweatheronline.com/news/space/.../42035.html
Should we put human spaceflight on hold a year to save astronomy?
The biggest controversy in the world of astronomy today is the James Webb SpaceTelescope, the successor to the wildly popular Hubble Space Telescope. ...
blog.chron.com/.../should-we-put-human-spaceflight-on-hold-...
MESSENGER's First Day, Nasa Image, Space Shuttle, Astronomy ...
NASA Space Information,Shuttle Station,Climate Change,Earth Moon Mars,Solar System · NASA Image NASA Astronomy Picture NASA News Global Climate ...
nasa-image.blogspot.com/2011/10/messengers-first-day.html
European Association for Astronomy Education » NASA releases ...
NASA releases new interactive Space communications game ... If you are anastronomy teacher and want to be part of our news team (Contributors), all you ...
eaae-astronomy.org/blog/?p=4140
NASA - NASA Takes Oct. 8 Moon Event to an International Level
News Releases. Text Size. Grow Text SizeShrink Text Size. Kim Newton MarshallSpace Flight Center, Huntsville Ala.             256-544-0034       kimberly.d.newton@nasa....
www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/news/.../M11-117.html
NASA Image That Makes A Cosmic Spectacle Of Nebula
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope exposes the depths of this dusty nebula with its infrared vision, showing stellar infants that are lost behind dark clouds ...
www.irishweatheronline.com/news/space/.../42121.html
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
Space News Now: A Tour of NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for ...
Space News Now ... I enjoyed a tour of NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for InfraredAstronomy (SOFOA), which was on display at Moffett Field near San ...
www.spacenewsnow.com/.../tour-of-nasas-stratospheric-observ...
New view of Vesta mountain from NASA's ... - Astronomy Magazine
Astronomy.com is for anyone who wants to learn more about astronomy ... quasars, observing, telescopes, NASA, Hubble, space missions, stargazing, and more. ...Astronomy News » New view of Vesta mountain from NASA's Dawn mission ...
www.astronomy.com/~/link.aspx?_id=f3d6c4bc-c26a-4e0f...
New view of Vesta mountain from NASA's Dawn ... - News Astronomy
Space / Astronomy News and Articles. Blog. Login. Username. Password ... NASA'sDawn science team presents early science re... Hubble survey carries out a ...
www.newsastronomy.com/.../13685-new-view-of-vesta-mount...
NASA takes Apollo astronaut to court over camera - National Space ...
Over the summer, NASA filed a lawsuit against Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell after the former ... Space News Examiner ... Cleveland Astronomy Examiner ...
www.examiner.com/.../nasa-takes-apollo-astronaut-to-court-ov...
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/
NASA Mission Control & ISS Talk About Editing UFO Video Sept 20 ...
SECRET VIDEO LEAKED FROM NASA http://tinyurl.com/68nzc8c NASA Mission ...Talk About Editing UFO Video Sept 20, 2011, UFO Sighting News NASA Missio . ... lie, lying, conspiracy, paranormal, MIB, space, astronomy, orbit, moon, 2011, ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mi0pRwY7pE&feature...
Space Observatory Provides Clues to C... - Astronomy - tribe.net
www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm. PASADENA, Calif. -- Astronomers have found a new cosmic source for the same kind of water that appeared on Earth billions ...
astro.tribe.net/thread/87a0ae47-f3c9-41f8-b0c1-f9b64c26c927
NASA's space shuttle operations chief heading to ... - Yahoo! News
Read 'NASA's space shuttle operations chief heading to Virgin' on Yahoo! News. CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Deputy space shuttle program ...
news.yahoo.com/nasas-space-shuttle-operations-chief-heading...
CSExtra – Thursday, October 13, 2011 « Coalition for Space ...
From Nature News: Astronomer Ed Weiler, who recently retired as NASA associate administrator for science after three decades with the space agency, ...
spacecoalition.com/.../csextra-thursday-october-13-2011
Astronomers make the first detection of abundant carbon in the early ...
Faster Than Space - News, images, podcasts, videos and everything you want to know about space ... Astronomy Magazine News Article - Released:10/10/2011 ...
www.fasterthanspace.com/.../2992-Astronomers%20make%20...
Astronomers Used Old Hubble Data To Confirm Extrasolar Planets ...
NASA said on Thursday that astronomers have found evidence for two extrasolar planets using Hubble Space Telescope data from 1998.
www.redorbit.com/news/space/...used-old.../index.html
Want to be an Astronaut? Try ... - Space / Astronomy - About.com
Free Space / Astronomy Newsletter! Sign Up ... Now that the space shuttle fleet has retired, it would seem logical that NASA would pare down its astronaut corps. ...
space.about.com/.../want-to-be-an-astronaut-try-learning-russi...
A flying telescope? Observing NASA's SOFIA ... - CNET News.com
NASA gives tours of its Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, ...James Martin is the staff photographer at CNET News, covering the geeks and ... NASAwill send up to 1300 pounds of experiments to the edge of space on ...
news.cnet.com/.../a-flying-telescope-observing-nasas-sofia-air...
NASA to Test New Atomic Clock - Space
Latest Space and Astronomy News / updates every 3 minutes ... The third technology demonstration planned by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is the Deep ...
www.spacescientific.com/.../19810-nasa-to-test-new-atomic-cl...

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