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SPACE, Astronomy News, Dec 02, 2011


Astronomers Find New Planet 352 Light-Years Away
RedOrbit
A team of more than 65 astronomers, including those working at the National OpticalAstronomy Observatory (NOAO) and NASA, discovered a new planet nearly the size of Earth, NOAO announced on Wednesday. The planet, Kepler-21b, was found circling a star ...
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Mars Rocket Take Off From Cape Canaveral
Monticello News
Witness to the launch on November 26, at the space center was Social Circle's resident Theo Ramakers. Mr. Ramakers who is a NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador as well as the outreach coordinator for the Charlie Elliott chapter of the Atlanta Astronomy ...
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Monticello News
Not exactly NASA! Ugandan space chief builds test craft in his mother's back ...
Daily Mail
He firmly believes his space shuttle will launch in the next 'four to six years' to create his version of the Apollo moon missions. The former astronomy student said: 'It isn't about money, it isn't about competition or pride. ...
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Daily Mail
Cosmic Explosion Explained Just in Time for Christmas
Space Ref (press release)
The university and the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute are also both partners in the planned Giant Magellan Telescope. Established in 1932, The University of Texas at Austin McDonald Observatory near Fort Davis, Texas, hosts multiple ...
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Malamut's Astronomy Research has been Out of this World
Wesleyan Connection (blog)
Soon after his eclipse observations were completed, NASA used one of his photographs in their official materials on the event. He also spent a week collaborating with astronomers from the University of Chile in Santiago to study Pluto's atmosphere as ...
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Wesleyan Connection (blog)
Chevy Chase resident, former factory worker co-discovers exoplanet
Gazette.Net: Maryland Community News Online
... outside of our own solar system that are capable of supporting life at his lab in the NASA GoddardSpace Flight Center in Greenbelt. NASA astronomer Richard Barry started out slinging salt in a Michigan factory, before losing his job to a robot. ...
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NASA's Nanosail-D 'Sails' Home -- Mission Complete
NASA
NASA formed a partnership with Spaceweather.com to engage the amateur astronomycommunity to submit images of the orbiting NanoSail-D solar sail during the flight phase of the mission. NanoSail-D was a very elusive target to spot in the night sky -- at...
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NASA
NASA Supports Moran's Black Hole Research
Wesleyan Connection (blog)
The project involves observations of six dwarf galaxies with the Chandra X-ray Observatory, also known as the “Hubble Space Telescope of X-ray Astronomy.” “We have identified 'active nuclei' in these objects, which are powered by the accretion of gas ...
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Early dwarf galaxies brimmed with stars
Johns Hopkins News-Letter
NASA's Hubble Space telescope was recently able to make an extraordinary discovery by looking nine billion years into the past. This discovery, made possible by Hubble's near-infrared capabilities, involves a group of dwarf galaxies that, ...
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Best Space Pictures of 2011: Editors' Picks
National Geographic
Endeavour is shown during its final mission, which was also intended to be the last flight for the 30-year-old NASA space shuttle program. Instead that honor went to thespace shuttle Atlantis, which was approved for an additional mission and launched ...
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Astronomers Look to Neighboring Galaxy for Star Formation Insight
Science Daily (press release)
"We can say with great confidence that these clouds are where the stars form, but we are still trying to figure out why they have the properties they do." The National Science Foundation and NASAsupported this work.
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Amateur stargazer's ground-breaking images
3News NZ
It has been photographed before by space agencies, such as NASA's Hubble SpaceTelescope, but never by an amateur astronomer. Computer programmer Rolf Olsen and his 25cm telescope, which he uses to stargaze from the backyard of his home in the ...
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3News NZ
On airlines, space telescopes, American politics, Mexico's army, the Sex ...
The Economist
Furthermore, NASA is not “regretting” its decision to build a successor to Hubble. The NASAadministrator has made it clear in public statements that launching the JWST is one of the agency's three priorities. Nor are the majority of astronomers ...
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Former Hubble Repairman To Head NASA Science Division [Nature]
Space News
But Nature quotes one scientist as saying NASA-funded scientists who work outsideastronomy — in Earth science, planetary science and heliophysics — could question his leadership: “His entire reputation is based on fixing space telescopes. ...
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Space News
NASA's Curiosity rover blasts off for Mars mission
CTV.ca
"The forecasters declared conditions are now "GO" for launch after the clouds over the launch site scattered enough to allow a launch," a representative from NASA'sKennedy Space Center wrote in a message posted to Twitter.Curiosity is expected to land ...
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Trinity Professor joins NASA expedition
The University Times
Dr. Graham Harper, an astrophysicist working at Trinity College, took part in an expedition aboard SOFIA, jointly operated by NASA and DLR – the German Space Agency – earlier this month. The purpose of the expedition was to observe the star Betelgeuse. ...
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Harvard Professors Search for Alien Life
Harvard Crimson
NASA had initially funded SETI, but the initiative is now completely private, dependent on prominent donors like the founders of telecommunications company Cisco Systems and the Planetary Society, a space exploration advocacy group. ...
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Two Shore researchers think they see remains of structures on Red Planet
Asbury Park Press
Indeed, it is very easy for the eye to see what look like familiar forms in unfamiliar settings, and I'm sure that's what's happening here,” said Steven W. Squyres, an astronomy professor at Cornell University, who has been an investigator on many ...
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Three great ... space adventures
The Age
Got an aspiring astronaut in the family? Check out these space-themed activities for starters - and add your spacey tips in the comments. Mild, clear summer nights make star-gazing an obvious choice for the astronomy-inclined. ...
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The Age
Tiny Infrared Sensors Will Play Key Role in Determining Human Survivability in ...
PR Newswire (press release)
The successful launch and docking determined that the International Space Station will remain open for business in the wake of the retirement of the US Space Shuttle vehicles. Space weather, spacemedicine, human research, life sciences, astronomy and ...
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Japan calls it quits on infrared space telescope
Spaceflight Now
... astronomers to classify and create statistical analyses of celestial bodies, leading to a better understanding of the formation and evolution of galaxies, stars and planetary systems. It was the first all-sky infrared survey since 1983. NASA's WISE ...
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Spaceflight Now
Students head south to shoot the moon
Half Moon Bay Review
The school's astronomy class and its tiny crew of seven students are a go for takeoff on Tuesday, charting a course for the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. As part of an annual five-day field trip, the school science class will tour the ...
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Social Circle resident a spectator to history
Walton Tribune
Theo Ramakers has seen his share of space launches before. The outreach coordinator for the Charlie Elliott Chapter of the Atlanta Astronomy Club, Ramakers has spent a lot of time writing about space. He's spent time chronicling the previous Mars ...
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Thousands to Gather at NASA in Silicon Valley for Technology Festival ...
Space Ref (press release)
... including astronomy, biohacking, mobile development, free software, robotics, visual arts and open government. "We are delighted to host the first Silicon Valley Tech Fest at our NASA Research Park," said Ames' center director Pete Worden. ...
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Asteroid cliff is 11 times taller than Palomar
SignOnSanDiego.com
But today, we're focusing on this image of the cliff, which was featured in Astronomy Picture of the Day for November 28th. Vesta might be a stranger to you. But not to the folks up at Palomar Observatory. The 330-mile wide asteroid has been imaged ...
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The curious aftermath of Neptune's discovery
PhysicsToday.org
1 The planet Neptune was discovered in 1846 by German astronomer Johann Galle and his assistant Heinrich Louis d'Arrest. This image was captured by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in the summer of 1982. (Courtesy of NASA.) Peirce specifically requested that ...
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Helwan watches the stars
Al-Masry Al-Youm
... to travel to institutions in Europe or go to NASA doesn't mean that they should miss out on the beauty of these sciences,” he adds. Since the 1960s, the institute has been refurbished, with additions including the Kottamia Astronomical Observatory, ...
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Scientifically Speaking, 11/27
Denver Post
23, 25 and 26, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Blvd., is offering interactive programming live from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida free with Museum admission. There will be special launch coverage on Nov. 26. ...
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MTSU Star Party to feature Higgins' 'Juno to Jupiter'
Murfreesboro Post
He has been at MTSU since 2001 and serves as the MTSU Astronomy Club adviser. Higgins has authored and coauthored numerous professional publications and he has participated in many presentations. Along with MTSU Space Grant coordinator Mark Abolins, ...
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Hubble spacecraft gets kindred music; botanical names for all your flora
Washington Post
Astronomy: Space music “Hubble's Hubble,” Hubble Working under the pseudonym Hubble, Brooklyn-based composer Ben Greenberg writes hypnotic instrumentals that are part avant-garde classical music, part heavy metal. Now he's getting the chance to ...
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Rovers first, then humans on Mars
Columbus Dispatch
In the meantime, machines can do the prospecting — without the need for food or water. There's a lot of science to be done before sending humans there. Kenneth Hicks is a professor of physics and astronomy at Ohio University in Athens.
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Columbus Dispatch
The progenitor problem
PhysOrg.com
Surprisingly, the white dwarf merger scenario seems the more likely cause of Type 1a supernovae, based on current (though largely circumstantial) evidence (Credit: BadAstronomy/Discovery). But when you try to model the processes leading up to a white...
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PhysOrg.com
Searching for Dark Matter in Exoplanet Data
Physical Review Focus
Kim Griest, of the University of California in San Diego, and colleagues believe that part of this “observational gap” could be explored by piggybacking on a separate astronomy survey. NASA'sKepler satellite was designed to search for planets around ...
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In the heart of Cygnus, NASA's Fermi reveals a cosmic-ray cocoon
... stellar construction zones. Astronomers viewing the region at visible wavelengths see only hints of this spectacular activity thanks to a veil of nearby dust clouds forming the Great Rift, a dark lane that splits the Milky Way, a faint band of light marking our galaxy' ... Now, a study using data fromNASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope finds that the tumult of star birth and death in Cygnus X has managed to corral fast-moving particles called cosmic rays. Cosmic rays are subatomic ...
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In a star's final days, astronomers hunt 'signal of impending doom'
An otherwise nondescript binary star system in the Whirlpool Galaxy has brought astronomerstantalizingly close to their goal of observing a star just before it goes supernova. ... Source:NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center | Comments: 0 ...
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NASA's Swift Telescope Finds a Gamma-Ray Burst With a Dual ...
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NASA launches most capable and robust rover to Mars - Astronomy ...
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In the heart of Cygnus, NASA's Fermi reveals a ... - News Astronomy
Space / Astronomy News and Articles ... Now, a study using data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-raySpace Telescope finds that the tumult of star birth and death in ...
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NASA launches super-size rover to Mars: 'Go, Go!' - Yahoo! News
News: A rover of "monster truck" proportions zoomed toward Mars on an ... Space Center on Saturday morning to witness NASA's first launch to Mars in four years ... This is the thirdastronomical mission to be launched from Cape Canaveral by ...
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The City of St. Petersburg has released the final three designs ...
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Space and Earth Sciences News :: In the heart of Cygnus, NASA's ...
The constellation Cygnus, now visible in the western sky as twilight deepens after sunset, hosts one of our galaxy's richest-known stellar construction zones.
www.news-about-space.org/astronomy-news/.../page2.html
NASA Space Exploration Workshop Discusses Moon vs. Asteroids ...
ContributorNetwork - NASA conducted a workshop on the Global Exploration Roadmap, the plan for the human exploration of the moon, near Earth asteroids, ...
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Curiosity Mars Rover Launch Gallery – Photos and Videos
News and Articles. ... NASA's Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover blasts off on Nov. 26.... Breaking news and articles on Space and Astronomy. ...
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