SPACE, Astronomy News, Dec 10, 2011

NASA Mission, Texas Astronomers Collaborate to Find Goldilocks Planet, Others The FINANCIAL Astronomers from The University of Texas at Austin's McDonald Observatory involved in this and other Kepler research will present their findings at the first Kepler Science Conference this week atNASA's Ames Research Center.Kepler is a space telescope ... See all stories on this topic »

Delaware case widens hunt for moon rocks The News Journal Given the widespread problems, Shipman is not inclined to believe that NASA didn't receive the samples from Mt. Cuba just because the federal space agency says it didn't. "They had a bunch of these things coming back to Houston, and they don't know ... See all stories on this topic »

Big picture: Heavenly photos for Advent Washington Post (blog) Q. You do a lot of photographs in general from NASA and of space. Does that bring out a spiritual side in you? I've been utterly fascinated with astronomy since I was very little, so it comes naturally. I often feel that the (public domain) imagery ... See all stories on this topic »

Astronomy buffs get ready for 'Red moon' spectacle Gulf Today ... Nasa noted on its website. This is the last lunar eclipse that will be visible to residents in the UAE for three years. The Dubai Astronomy Group has invited those interested to watch the eclipse from its Zubair camp for free, but residents can ... See all stories on this topic »

South Students, Staff Chosen to Work With NASA Patch.com A Council Rock South astronomy teacher, Fetter said he first became involved with NASA back in 2003 when he and another teacher on the team applied for NASA's Network of Educator Astronaut Teachers. They made it down to a group of 10 and, although they ... See all stories on this topic »

In glowing, swirling dust, new stars are born PhysOrg.com An image of a stellar nursery about 450 light years away featured as NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day on Dec. 8 reveals the beauty and violent story of Sh2-239, a region where stars are being born and ignite the cosmic dust with their new-found ... See all stories on this topic » PhysOrg.com

The Space Program Is Over? Nobody Told Us! 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 ... See all stories on this topic » Universe Today

Mars Mission Hoping To Satisfy Curiosity Space Daily The University of Leicester's Space Research Centre in the Dept. of Physics and Astronomy is heavily committed to Mars instrumentation, particularly for the 2018 ExoMars mission. Leicester scientists also study Martian meteorites in great detail with ... See all stories on this topic »

Visions of the universe American Libraries The opening featured a talk by Ron Shaneyfelt, NASA speaker and astronomy teacher, who told the crowd he will be in Charleston, South Carolina, April 21, 2017, to get a good view of the first total solar eclipse. The exhibit, which celebrates Galileo's ... See all stories on this topic »

Strike on campus ETH Life The project is backed by the United Nations and NASA under the project ISWI (International Space Weather Initiative). To fill in a blank spot on his world map, he travelled to Kazakhstan in May and Egypt in October. Antenna construction in the ... See all stories on this topic » ETH Life

Earth's Date with Asteroid 2005 YU55 The Hindu The society takes up several programmes in schools of the twin cities providing information to students about astronomy. Asteroid 2005 YU55's crossing path which was even closer to that of the moon's orbit of the earth was a rare celestial event. ... See all stories on this topic » The Hindu

Cosmic Explosion Explained Just in Time for Christmas Space Daily Soojong Pak received his PhD at Texas, and is working with the university on another forthcoming instrument called IGRINS. The university and the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute are also both partners in the planned Giant Magellan ... See all stories on this topic »

Team SpaceIL's Dream: 'Fly Me to the Moon' Arutz Sheva Today, space and astronomy hold a marginal stature in the Israeli educational landscape. Space IL is committed to revolutionizing this situation by dedicating all the proceeds from the prize to nurture and promote education in these fields. ... See all stories on this topic » Arutz Sheva

NASA hunts for Goldilocks planets, 'just right' for life Charlotte Observer None are known to be habitable - let alone inhabited - but astronomers who are making the discoveries with NASA's Kepler spacecraft are meeting this week in California to review the first two years of their quest, which seems tantalizingly close to... See all stories on this topic » Charlotte Observer

Harrisburg University: A Decade Later Patriot-News Jennifer worked with SETI scientists and the NASA Ames Research Center on projects that spanned the field of astrobiology, from microbiology to observational astronomy. Jennifer is just one student among those exploring 24 undergraduate and 35 graduate... See all stories on this topic » Patriot-News

Vampire Star Reveals its Secrets Space Ref (press release) By combining the light captured by four telescopes at ESO's Paranal Observatory they created a virtual telescope 130 metres across with vision 50 times sharper than theNASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Surprisingly, the new results show that the ... See all stories on this topic » Space Ref (press release)

Apple in 2012: Its Own Worst Enemy The Mac Observer During his five years at Apple, he worked as a Senior Marketing Manager for science and technology, Federal Account Executive, and High Performance Computing Manager. His interests include alpine skiing, SciFi, astronomy, and Perl. ... See all stories on this topic » The Mac Observer

Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart to play Phoenix show The State Press Hart has long been fascinated with astronomy and the formation of the universe has apparently been his muse for composing this album. “For the last two or three years I've been sampling light waves from the cosmos, starting 13.7 billion years ago with ... See all stories on this topic » The State Press

UFO enthusiasts insist Mercury is being visited by an alien craft HULIQ The gigantic object the size of a planet has appeared on astronomers' screens in what scientists are calling a fluke of telemetry. The object appears seemingly out of nowhere in a sequence of images of a coronal ejection from the sun, taken by the NASA ... See all stories on this topic » HULIQ

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NASA's New Horizons Becomes The Closest Spacecraft to ... NASA's New Horizons mission reached a special milestone yesterday, Dec. ... You are here:Astronomy News » Pluto » NASA's New Horizons Becomes .... Visit the Night Sky Observer for more astronomy and space news or are looking for . ... www.nightskyobserver.com/.../nasas-new-horizons-becomes-t...

NASA vows $8.8 bn space telescope on track for 2018 All Space Media in one place with hourly updates... Astronomy. Latest outer space and sciencenews, NASA information. exclusive solar system Images, ... www.niksalihi.com/index.php?option...

Space and Earth Sciences News :: Nasa's Voyager 1 in 'cosmic ... Nasa's Voyager 1 has entered a new region of space between the Solar System and ... Your daily source for the latest space and earth sciences news ... www.news-about-space.org/space...news/cluster12432840/

NASA - Super Earth-size Planet Confirmed Around Bright F6 ... NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration · NASA Home; > ... To read the press release from the National Optical Astronomy Observatory visit: ... www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/news/kepler-21b.html

NASA ready to test upgraded J-2X powerpack Science and technology news ... It will provide upper-stage power for NASA's new Space Launch System. ... More from Physics Forums - General Astronomy ... www.physorg.com/.../2011-12-nasa-ready-j-2x-powerpack.ht...

In a star's final days, astronomers hunt "signal of impending doom" Faster Than Space - News, images, podcasts, videos and everything you want to ... NASAAstronauts -- Including Space Station Crew Member From Maryland ... www.fasterthanspace.com/.../3401-In%20a%20stars%20final%...

Curiosity on its Way to Mars - Space / Astronomy - About.com Free Space / Astronomy Newsletter! Sign Up. Discuss in my ... NASA's next generation Mars rover is currently hurtling toward the red planet. With the goal of ... space.about.com/b/2011/12/.../curiosity-on-its-way-to-mars.ht...

Space Videos | echostartr50.com View disdainful solar complement Images, latest astronomy news . ... Instead NASA SpaceShuttle Enterprise exam Take advantage child' healthy mindfulness ... www.echostartr50.com/space/space-videos.htm

NASA's Kepler finds new planet, most Earth-like yet - National ... NASA's Kepler finds new planet, most Earth-like yet ... Space News Examiner ... a Sun-like star all while actually being confirmed to exist in an astronomical first. ... www.examiner.com/.../nasa-s-kepler-finds-new-planet-most-ea...

Science neWS - Science AZ stories in astronomy. A Great White Spot ... appleuzr; bottom right: Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute ... Science in the neWS. 2011: Big ... www.sciencea-z.com/.../download.do?dlType...

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