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SPACE, Astronomy News, Oct 21, 2011



Astronomer Squyres becomes NASA aquanaut

PhysOrg.com
... about asteroid exploration and NEEMO for the course, The History of Exploration: Land, Sea and Space, that he is co-teaching at Cornell with Mary Beth Norton, the Mary Donlon Professor of American History.Astronomer Squyres becomes NASA aquanaut.
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Herschel and Spitzer find water in alien solar systems
Astronomy Now Online
The Herschel Space Observatory research is reported in today's issue of the journal Science; the Spitzer findings have been accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. Our latest 116-page Astronomy Now special edition is an extravaganza of ...
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Astronomy Now Online
Pandor's astronomy plans welcome
Times LIVE
This body had been provisionally named the SA National AstronomyAgency, it said. Pandor announced on Wednesday this week that her department would be instituting some of the recommendations made by the astronomy desk. NASA handout image of an artist's ...
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Times LIVE
Knacke: Weber Space Telescope crucial to American science
GoErie.com
Ending the Webb Space Telescope would devastate American astronomy. When Congress canceled the Superconducting Super Collider in the 1990s, the center of experimental particle physics shifted to Europe's Large Hadron Collider. ...
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Failed Star Is One Cool Companion
Universe Today
The stars were identified by a team led by Penn State Associate Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kevin Luhman using images from NASA'sSpitzer Space Telescope. Two infrared images taken in 2004 and 2009 were overlaid on top of each other and ...
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Universe Today
Nasa's flying Sofia telescope in pictures
ZDNet UK
By James Martin, CNET News, 21 October, 2011 16:00 Nasa recently offered tours of its souped-up airborne telescope, built inside a modified Boeing 747 aircraft. The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or Sofia, is the world's largest ...
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ZDNet UK
Lifting Space Exploration to New Heights
UA News (press release)
"We are delighted that NASA elected to support for development studies both of the Explorer proposals submitted from the UA," said Peter Strittmatter, who heads of the UA's Steward Observatory and astronomydepartment. "This is a remarkable achievement ...
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UA News (press release)
University of Hawaii Astronomer Finds Planet in the Process of Forming
International Business Times
Kraus presented the discovery at an Oct. 19 meeting at NASA's GoddardSpace Flight Center. The meeting followed the acceptance of a research paper on the discovery by Kraus and Ireland by The Astrophysical Journal. The optical sleight of hand used by ...
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International Business Times
Star, WD 0806-661 B, with 'summer day on Earth' temperature discovered
Daily Mail
Penn State Associate Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kevin Luhman, who discovered the object said, 'It is a very small star with an atmospheric temperature about as cool as the Earth's.' The astronomersused Nasa's Spitzer space telescope - the ...
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Daily Mail
You can help in the hunt for exoplanets, astronomer says
University of Delaware
“It wasn't till the astronauts left Earth's orbit that it sunk in that we as a species were on a planet hanging in space,” Laughlin noted. Now, with sophisticated telescopes like NASA's Kepler and the James Webb SpaceTelescope (set to launch in 2018), ...
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University of Delaware
Wernicke: To the moon -- and way beyond
Pensacola News Journal
His talk: "NASA at mid-life: The future of human space exploration." NASA has always had a prominent place in IHMC's lecture series because of the institute's close professional relationship with the agency. Institute founder Ken Ford developed NASA's...
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Explore 'Mars & Beyond' right at Congress & Fifth
Arizona Daily Star
"Mars and Beyond," slated to run for a full year, will highlight the work of UA scientists in planetary sciences, astronomy, optics and imaging. It will be followed by exhibits mounted by other departments in the UA's College of Science, Martin said. ...
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Lincoln-Way North freshmen to share passion for reading
TribLocal
Piper was one of six teachers selected by NASA last summer to work alongside scientists as they conducted research flights aboard the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) — a highly modified Boeing 747SP aircraft fitted with a ...
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NASA's Spitzer detects comet storm in nearby solar system
Astronomy Magazine
Evidence for this barrage comes from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope whose infrared detectors picked up indications that one or more comets was recently torn to shreds after colliding with a rocky body. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA's Spitzer Space ...
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Answer for This Week's WITU Challenge Now Posted
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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Strong Evidence Life Spread by Comets, Astronomers Say
Using NASA's Spitzer Space telescope, the astronomy team analyzed the warm dust surrounding Eta Corvi, a billion-year-old star 60 light years away from ...
www.foxnews.com/.../striking-evidence-comet-delivering-wat...
Astronomer Squyres becomes NASA aquanaut
"We will use a small sub to simulate a small space module. We will experiment with thruster packs as well. ... Astronomer Squyres becomes NASA aquanaut.
www.physorg.com/.../2011-10-astronomer-squyres-nasa-aqua...
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...
NASA finds 600 mysteries in space - Forums - Astronomy.com ...
http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/18/nasa-one-third-of-gamma-ray- ... Receivenews, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's ...
cs.astronomy.com/asycs/forums/p/53109/477393.aspx
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
NASA Solicitation: Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy ...
STATUS REPORT Date Released: Monday, October 10, 2011. Source: Dryden Flight Research Center. NASA Solicitation: Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared ...
www.comspacewatch.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=38689
'Doomsday comet' makes closest approach to Earth
If there was any issue of concern, NASA or any professional astronomer would ...Comet Elenin will now continue outward, back into space where it came from, ...
nation.com.pk/.../Doomsday-comet-makes-closest-approach-to...
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
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 Dawn ... - News Astronomy
Space / Astronomy News and Articles ... NewsAstronomy (Oct. 11, 2011) — A new image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a mountain three times as high as ...
www.newsastronomy.com/.../13685-new-view-of-vesta-mount...
NASA - NASA'S Next-Generation Space Observatory Comes To ...
NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration ... in Physics, professor ofastronomy and physics at the Johns Hopkins University, and a senior member ...
www.nasa.gov/home/.../HQ_M11-210_JWST_Baltimore.html
Pollutants linked to 450 percent increase in risk of birth ... - News
All Space Media in one place with hourly updates... Astronomy. Latest outer spaceand science news, NASA information. exclusive solar system Images, ...
www.blogerooz.com/index.php?...id...
Alcohol consumption greatly increases serious injury risk for heavy ...
All Space Media in one place with hourly updates... Astronomy. Latest outer spaceand science news, NASA information. exclusive solar system Images, ...
www.bankesms.com/index.php?...id...
Halo effect: Family members of gastric-bypass patients also lose ...
All Space Media in one place with hourly updates... Astronomy. Latest outer spaceand science news, NASA information. exclusive solar system Images, ...
www.bankepool.com/index.php?...id...
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...
Today's NASA Breaking News :ScienceLine
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden met with Space Coast community leaders, Kennedy Space Center employees and news media representatives during a ...
www.scienceline.eu/2011/10/.../todays-nasa-breaking-news-14...
Astrotech Subsidiary Awarded Task Order for NASA Mission
All Space Media in one place with hourly updates... Astronomy. Latest outer spaceand science news, NASA information. exclusive solar system Images, ...
www.yesitekhub.com/index.php?option...
Astronomer Squyres becomes NASA aquanaut
Cornell professor of astronomy Steven Squyres, the lead scientist for NASA's Rover mission to Mars, has ... Science and technology news ... and NEEMO for the course, The History of Exploration: Land, Sea and Space, that he is co- teaching at ...
www.physorg.com/.../2011-10-astronomer-squyres-nasa-aqua...
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...
NASA's space shuttle operations chief heading to ... - Yahoo! News
Read 'NASA's space shuttle operations chief heading to Virgin' on Yahoo! News. ...Discover News based on what your friends are reading and publish your own reading activity. .... More »Hawaii astronomer captures image of forming planet ...
news.yahoo.com/nasas-space-shuttle-operations-chief-heading...
NASA's Dawn science team presents early science results - News
NewsAstronomy (Oct. 14, 2011) — Scientists with NASA's Dawn mission are sharing with other ... Breaking news and articles on Space and Astronomy. ...
www.yesitekhob.com/index.php?option...
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 Detect Water-Covered Planets - Space News - redOrbit
The Herschel Space Observatory has helped astronomers detect water-covered ...NASA project scientist for the Herschel Space Observatory at the agency's Jet ...
www.redorbit.com/.../astronomers-detect-water-covered-planet...

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