ENTERTAINMENT News, Jul 01, 2011

Family friendly evening North Platte Telegraph Fri, 01 Jul 2011 06:36 AM PDT The North Platte Telegraph Family friendly and Christ centered was the nature of entertainment Monday night at the Wild West Arena. Family Night is an event put on by local churches and businesses. Guests attending the free event were greeted with a free cookie and ice cream social before the entertainment started. A concert was given by New Way Singers and comedians Bean and Bailey performed ...

This week's Top 5 arts & entertainment stories The Jackson Citizen Patriot Fri, 01 Jul 2011 06:30 AM PDT Jackson gears up for plenty of Fourth of July activities

Denis Leary launches (fictional) new awards show, The Dennys Entertainment Weekly Fri, 01 Jul 2011 06:26 AM PDT In the new issue of Entertainment Weekly, guest columnist Denis Leary â the co-creator and star of FXâs Rescue Me, which premieres its final season July 13 at 10 p.m. on FX â combats his seriesâ lack of Emmy love by creating his own awards show. Click through to read an excerpt of Denis Learyâs

Cablevisionsâs three companies Long Island Business News Fri, 01 Jul 2011 06:24 AM PDT Cablevision assets Businesses that will remain part of Cablevision include the cable and telecommunications subsidiaries, Newsday, News 12 Networks, MSG Varsity and Clearview Cinemas. AMC Networks assets National programming networks AMC, WE tv, IFC and Sundance Channel. AMC/Sundance Channel Global, the companyâs international programming business, and IFC Entertainment, an independent film ...

Fixing NJ American Dream Development To Be Costly OfficialWire Fri, 01 Jul 2011 06:18 AM PDT Fixing New Jersey's massive American Dream Meadowlands shopping and entertainment complex could cost tens of millions of dollars. The Record newspaper reports deep problems at the long-planned center, which has never opened.

Martha Stewart Encourages Kids to Get Creative with Inspired New Multimedia Brand âMartha & Friendsâ¢â Business Wire Fri, 01 Jul 2011 06:17 AM PDT LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A Squared Entertainment, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia and AOL unveil âMartha & Friendsâ¢,â an animated multimedia series for kids that is designed to inspire creativity, foster independent thinking

Architect Chosen for Convention Center Replacement Los Angeles Downtown News Fri, 01 Jul 2011 06:12 AM PDT DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES â When it came to selecting an architect for Farmers Field, developer Anschutz Entertainment Group chose a familiar name: Gensler, which had also designed the companyâs Downtown Ritz-Carlton/J.W. Marriott hotel tower.

Hometownstations.com-WLIO- Lima, OH News Weather SportsFixing NJ American Dream development to be costly Your Hometown Lima Stations Fri, 01 Jul 2011 06:07 AM PDT EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) - Fixing New Jersey's massive American Dream Meadowlands shopping and entertainment complex could cost tens of millions of dollars.

Lessons from a band man The Wenatchee World Fri, 01 Jul 2011 06:02 AM PDT When you write a small-business column, you see entrepreneurial advice in just about any book you pick up. It goes with the territory. Truth is you can get business lessons from just about anyone in any field. So just yesterday, I finished reading the autobiography of one of the great entertainment-industry entrepreneurs of the last century â the co-founder of a successful organization that will ...

Palace Sports CEO Ostfield fired The Oakland Press Fri, 01 Jul 2011 06:02 AM PDT Crain's Detroit is reporting Alan Ostfield has been fired as president and CEO of Palace Sports & Entertainment.  Family friendly evening North Platte Telegraph Fri, 01 Jul 2011 06:36 AM PDT The North Platte Telegraph Family friendly and Christ centered was the nature of entertainment Monday night at the Wild West Arena. Family Night is an event put on by local churches and businesses. Guests attending the free event were greeted with a free cookie and ice cream social before the entertainment started. A concert was given by New Way Singers and comedians Bean and Bailey performed ... This week's Top 5 arts & entertainment stories The Jackson Citizen Patriot Fri, 01 Jul 2011 06:30 AM PDT Jackson gears up for plenty of Fourth of July activities Denis Leary launches (fictional) new awards show, The Dennys Entertainment Weekly Fri, 01 Jul 2011 06:26 AM PDT In the new issue of Entertainment Weekly, guest columnist Denis Leary â the co-creator and star of FXâs Rescue Me, which premieres its final season July 13 at 10 p.m. on FX â combats his seriesâ lack of Emmy love by creating his own awards show. Click through to read an excerpt of Denis Learyâs Cablevisionsâs three companies Long Island Business News Fri, 01 Jul 2011 06:24 AM PDT Cablevision assets Businesses that will remain part of Cablevision include the cable and telecommunications subsidiaries, Newsday, News 12 Networks, MSG Varsity and Clearview Cinemas. AMC Networks assets National programming networks AMC, WE tv, IFC and Sundance Channel. AMC/Sundance Channel Global, the companyâs international programming business, and IFC Entertainment, an independent film ... Fixing NJ American Dream Development To Be Costly OfficialWire Fri, 01 Jul 2011 06:18 AM PDT Fixing New Jersey's massive American Dream Meadowlands shopping and entertainment complex could cost tens of millions of dollars. The Record newspaper reports deep problems at the long-planned center, which has never opened. Martha Stewart Encourages Kids to Get Creative with Inspired New Multimedia Brand âMartha & Friendsâ¢â Business Wire Fri, 01 Jul 2011 06:17 AM PDT LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A Squared Entertainment, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia and AOL unveil âMartha & Friendsâ¢,â an animated multimedia series for kids that is designed to inspire creativity, foster independent thinking Architect Chosen for Convention Center Replacement Los Angeles Downtown News Fri, 01 Jul 2011 06:12 AM PDT DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES â When it came to selecting an architect for Farmers Field, developer Anschutz Entertainment Group chose a familiar name: Gensler, which had also designed the companyâs Downtown Ritz-Carlton/J.W. Marriott hotel tower. Hometownstations.com-WLIO- Lima, OH News Weather SportsFixing NJ American Dream development to be costly Your Hometown Lima Stations Fri, 01 Jul 2011 06:07 AM PDT EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) - Fixing New Jersey's massive American Dream Meadowlands shopping and entertainment complex could cost tens of millions of dollars. Lessons from a band man The Wenatchee World Fri, 01 Jul 2011 06:02 AM PDT When you write a small-business column, you see entrepreneurial advice in just about any book you pick up. It goes with the territory. Truth is you can get business lessons from just about anyone in any field. So just yesterday, I finished reading the autobiography of one of the great entertainment-industry entrepreneurs of the last century â the co-founder of a successful organization that will ... Palace Sports CEO Ostfield fired The Oakland Press Fri, 01 Jul 2011 06:02 AM PDT Crain's Detroit is reporting Alan Ostfield has been fired as president and CEO of Palace Sports & Entertainment.

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SPORTS, Athletics News, Jul 01, 2011

Nebraska officially joins Big Ten, becomes conference's 12th member Washington Post SuperFan badge holders consistently post smart, timely comments about Washington area sports and teams. If your comments or those of another user measure up, please let Post editors know. Fact Checkers contribute questions, information and facts to The ... See all stories on this topic »

Youth soccer, flag football registration opens WCNC by News Release Charlotte, NC -- Mecklenburg County Park and Recreation invites parents with children interested in playing soccer, ages 4-6, 7-8 and 9-10, or flag football, ages 4-6, and 7-8 to register for the upcoming fall coed recreation season. ... See all stories on this topic »

BYU officially out of the MWC, independent in football Salt Lake Tribune BYU's softball program joins the Western Athletic Conference, while its men's and women's track programs and men's and women's swimming and diving programs will join the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, which already hosts its men's volleyball ... See all stories on this topic »

As Drought Intensifies, Towns and Schools Worry About Maintaining Athletic Fields New York Times ... and Midland's high school football fields will continue to get water several times weekly, though junior high football fields get water twice weekly. Of course, sports fields experience wear and tear even in the best conditions — near soccer goals ... See all stories on this topic »

Campbell University Athletics returns to the Big South Conference on July 1 Garner News Campbell sponsors 20 varsity sports at the Division I level, 17 of which are sponsored by the Big South: men's and women's basketball, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's cross country, men's and women's tennis, baseball, softball, ... See all stories on this topic »

McCluer North Graduate Jones Named All-Star Soccer MVP Patch.com ... announced as the Most Valuable Player of the North Team in her team's 6-2 victory at the 2011 UMB Bank High School Senior Soccer All-Star Game, which was hosted by the Missouri Athletic Club and played Thursday night at the Anheuser-Busch Center. ... See all stories on this topic »

NBA star, soccer aficionado Steve Nash wins Street Soccer USA honor Potomac Soccer Wire The Sport for Social Change Awards recognize national figures and organizations -- from people overcoming homelessness to professional athletes and businesses -- and are designed to promote and drive the use of athletics as a means to foster measurable ... See all stories on this topic » Potomac Soccer Wire

Why soccer is ready to overtake baseball Delaware County Daily Times I love all these "traditionalists" who somehow feel threatened because soccer is becoming popular. What? Are you losing a bar bet? Who cares? Soccer is here and its a good thing. In this world we need as many opportunities for distraction and athletics ... See all stories on this topic »

UW Athletics among nation's best University of Wisconsin Badgers Scoring 96 points in the spring season the Wisconsin athletic department has finished 26th in the nation in the final Learfield Sports Directors' Cup Standings, which were announced Friday. In the spring season, the Badgers received points for NCAA ... See all stories on this topic »

Man-Boy Culture Holds Back Title IX Gains For Women Patch.com She looks strong and confident, athletic and pretty. In other words, she looks like everything you hope your daughter will grow up to be. The striking thing is how seldom we see pictures like this of women in “Sports Illustrated. ... See all stories on this topic »

Tale of two cities at the World Cup ESPN (blog) Public viewings of sports can be dicey -- either the city digs it and there's a chance for people to randomly hug and high-five in public, or the whole thing is ignored and massive screens of athletic action play in front of empty patio furniture. ... See all stories on this topic »

Fewer students playing sports Payson Roundup All the other sports reported drops, including baseball, soccer, cross country, girls basketball, golf, girls soccer, softball and track. The figures revealed a big drop in the financial account for the football team. Last year, the football program ... See all stories on this topic »

Happy Campers LubbockOnline.com On any given day, there are football fields, basketball courts, baseball and softball diamonds, soccer pitches and athletic tracks teeming with boys and girls ranging in age from 6 to 18. Former Texas Tech baseball player Joey Kenworthy, left picks out ... See all stories on this topic »

Community Sports Calendar SouthtownStar Apply to athletic director Darlene Graf, grafd@queenofpeacehs.org, (708) 496-4736. Southland: St. Xavier's girls basketball camp, open to girls ages 7 to 15 and conducted by women's coach Bob Hallberg, runs from July 11 to 15 at the Shannon Center on ... See all stories on this topic »

Local Sports Roundup, 7/1 San Angelo Standard Times By Staff Report The Angelo State Athletic Department has announced its 2011-12 ticket packages and pricing. As in years past, Angelo State will offer single-game and season tickets for football and men's and women's basketball, and single game tickets ... See all stories on this topic »

Schutta: A school year full of athletic fireworks NorthJersey.com Moments like Konrad Plewa's amazing 80-yard dash in Wallington's 2-1 victory over Midland Park in the North 1, Group 1 soccer championship. The senior blocked a shot deep in his end and sent a long clearing ball toward the far corner in the offensive ... See all stories on this topic »

Summer sports camps in full swing for Southwest Missouri Yahoo! Sports The Springfield area has three great institutions of higher learning that stay busy all summer long with sports camps for boys and girls in all athletic competitions. Team and individual camps offer a chance for players to hone their skills. ... See all stories on this topic »

Kranjc of Hastings College wins coach of year Lincoln Journal Star Kranjc's background in sports still helps him coach today. He played football in high school at Millard North for Fred Petito and played high school soccer. Later, after working as an assistant at Omaha Burke, he played for Bellevue University. ... See all stories on this topic »

Regents approve SDSU, USD facility studies Madison Daily Leader SDSU's athletic teams compete at the NCAA Division I level. The University of South Dakota's switch to Division I is effective in fall 2012. SDSU President David Chicoine said the indoor practice facility and the football stadium are two projects that ... See all stories on this topic »

Tiverton High Honors 2010-11 Top Athletes Patch.com The ceremony was the final culmination a very successful year for THS athletics. An impressive eight of Tiverton's 16 teams made the playoffs.The girls soccer team won its division in its first year at the Division II level (they were previously in ... See all stories on this topic »

A passion for sports The Daily Planet Her experience includes working as an athletic trainer for the Major League Soccer Team, DC United, and providing clinical and on-site care to the US National Rowing team. “My experience working with elite athletes has exposed me to a multitude of ... See all stories on this topic »

It's not what you do, it's the way that you do it EurekAlert (press release) In the study, which will be presented at the Society for Experimental Biology Annual Conference in Glasgow on Friday the 1st of July, 27 semi-professional male soccer players were tested in the lab on their abilities in athletic tasks including ... See all stories on this topic »

SouthCoast Sports Calendar SouthCoastToday.com UMD COACHING OPENING: The UMass Dartmouth Athletic Department is searching for a new varsity baseball coach following the resignation of Robert Curran, Jr. Curran led the Corsairs to a 20-19 overall record in 2010 and was named the Little East ... See all stories on this topic »

What a Year! Three State Titles, Lots of Close Calls Patch.com The Middletown Islander athletic program came just a few wins away from taking home five state titles this last year. Five. In the varsity football and basketball championship seasons, two of the most high profile sports in high school athletics, ... See all stories on this topic »

Sport could curb crime, dad says Rockhampton Morning Bulletin Gavin Zielke, manager at Kawana Kitchens, said his daughters, both 11 years old and attending Frenchville State School, were heavily involved in playing sport, including soccer, athletics, touch football and netball. Macey played for two Central ... See all stories on this topic »

Coast Guard Academy athletic director retires after decades of service TheDay.com Cieplik first served as the head coach of the men's soccer team in 1970 before accepting the position of athletic director in 1999. “When I first arrived here, I can honestly state that I really didn't fully know what I was in for, other than having a ... See all stories on this topic »

Park Board OK's concept to put dome at Community Park Savage Pacer The vote came after a lot of scrutiny regarding a proposal from the Burnsville Athletic Club (BAC), Prior Lake Athletics for Youth (PLAY) and the Prior Lake Soccer Club to build a 108000-square-foot seasonal facility in Savage. The youth sports ... See all stories on this topic »

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Army Athletics News - Army Black Knights Official Athletic Site The Army Official Athletic Site, partner of CBS College Sports Networks, Inc. The most ... Football games, 30-minute specials, men's and women's basketball ... www.goarmysports.com/genrel/062811aab.html

Football - NEWS - GoPrincetonTigers.com ... - Princeton Athletics TIGER ATHLETICS. Administration · Affiliations · All Sports Schedule · All Sports ... Tags: Football. June 30, 2011 - Thanks, Billie Jean Tags: Soccer ... www.goprincetontigers.com/SportArchives.dbml?...

Lindsey Wilson Alumnus Visits the White House - Lindsey Wilson ... Former LWC men's soccer player Tyrone Marshall (above Obama) visited the White ... Marshall was inducted into the Lindsey Wilson College Athletic Hall of ... www.lindseyathletics.com/article/3050.php

Army Athletics News - Army Black Knights Official Athletic Site The Army Official Athletic Site, partner of CBS College Sports Networks, ... soccer, sprint football, volleyball, baseball, softball and lacrosse. ... goarmysports.cstv.com/genrel/063011aaa.html

PC athletes capture national academic recognition | Piney Woods Sports Complete results & schedules · Piney Woods Sports Forum ... National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) released Wednesday of the 2010-2011 NJCAA ... pineywoodssports.com/.../002878-pc-athletes-capture-national...

UCF Athletics Association guilty in player's death ... - Fox Sports A jury has found that the University of Central Florida's Athletic Association was negligent in a football player's 2008 death and awarded his parents $10 ... msn.foxsports.com/.../UCF-Athletics-Association-guilty-in-Ere...

UK football to get new uniforms - Kentucky Blog - University of ... The Kentucky football team will unveil new uniforms for the upcoming season Thursday. ... CBS College Sports. Visit other CBS Interactive Sites ... www.ukathletics.com/.../uk-football-to-get-new-uniforms.html

OhioStateBuckeyes.com - The Official Athletic site of The Ohio ... Sport Related Links; General Athletics News · Athletic Training .... for the following sports when played in Columbus: football, soccer, volleyball, ... www.ohiostatebuckeyes.com/multimedia/live-stats.html

Junior athletes dominate the China National Grand Prix in Fuzhou ... Sports News » Athletics News » Junior athletes dominate the China National Grand Prix in ... View All Top Athletics News. CATEGORIES. Football (soccer ... blogs.bettor.com/Junior-athletes-dominate-the-China-National-...

Soccer - News - LSUsports.net - The Official Web Site of LSU ... The Official Website of LSU Athletics. ... All Sports; Baseball 2173; Basketball (Men's) 2166; Basketball (Women's) 2167; Cross Country 2516; Football 2164; Golf (Men's) 2175; Golf (Women's) 2176 ... Soccer. 2168. LSU Alumni ... www.lsusports.net/SportArchives.dbml?...DB...

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SPACE, Astronomy News, Jul 01, 2011

Missile exhaust blows giant bubble in the sky New Scientist (blog) What looks like a giant bubble rising and expanding in space in this video taken on 22 June from Hawaii is actually just exhaust from a missile launch. Astronomer Phil Plait brought the video – and the missile explanation – to public notice yesterday ... See all stories on this topic »

Last flight: Shuttles soar into history OCRegister The launch, and later repair in orbit, of the Hubble Space Telescope. Satellite launches and spacewalks. More than 2000 experiments, including precision mapping of Earth as well as biological and materials science and astronomy. ... See all stories on this topic »

Master of the universe Sydney Morning Herald His scientific reputation is based on his pioneering use of fibre optics in astronomy and the development of high-tech instruments to explore space. Between 2001 and 2009 he was part of the team that surveyed more than 130,00 galaxies to produce a map ... See all stories on this topic » Sydney Morning Herald

HartRAO forms heart of SA's astronomy Albuquerque Express It is the presence of this radio telescope - a relic of the early space age and the local community of radio astronomers - that led to astronomy development in the country,'; he said.The HartRAO also helped the development of the Karoo Array Telescope ... See all stories on this topic »

Africa seeks to become astronomy hub The Southern Times 'This is turning our dream of establishing space programmes into reality. It is putting us on the global map of astronomy, thus providing career opportunities for the youth in high quality science and technology,' said Adelaide Asante, ... See all stories on this topic »

Across the Universe: Intergalactic Travel School Library Journal Overviews of the history of astronomy, the Big Bang, black holes, and more will enrich any reader's understanding of what the pictures reveal. Gr 4-6–In addition to discussing “Space Tourism,” this spectacularly illustrated tour sweeps viewers along ... See all stories on this topic »

Earthlings to Meet Aliens by 2031 AllMediaNY Not only will humanity make contact with life from outer space by 2031, but our interplanetary neighbors have bodies that resemble our own, Russian Academy of Sciences' Applied Astronomy Institute director Andrei Finkelstein said Monday. ... See all stories on this topic » AllMediaNY

North Adams Children Learn Rocket Science iBerkshires.com The North Adams school system's Summer Science Camp had a guest teacher Tuesday and Wednesday in NASA's own Rick Varner from the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. Varner taught the children about astronomy and helped them construct their own ... See all stories on this topic » iBerkshires.com

Neutron Star Gobbles Hot Gas, Burps X-rays Sky & Telescope As he and his team report in a forthcoming article in Astronomy & Astrophysics, the dramatic outburst likely resulted from a blob of matter some 10 million miles (16 million km) across and having 10 16 tons of mass. Few objects in the universe are as ... See all stories on this topic »

Kenny & the Kids | Neptune celebration will be star-studded event Louisville Courier-Journal An open house and “Star Party” celebrating the birthdays of Neptune and our country will begin at 8:30 pm Sunday at the James G. Baker Center for Astronomy in Crawford County, Ind., about 40 miles west of downtown Louisville. ... See all stories on this topic »

'Hubble' was a cinematic treat John O'Groat Journal There is no direct connection to skywatching in this observation, unless you count the influence of astronomy on past and present calendars, but this month has five Fridays, five Saturdays and five Sundays - a sequence of weekends which is repeated ... See all stories on this topic »

Green Space Management - A park life strategy for planning services Horticulture Week Astronomy, because clear skies and opportunities for uninterrupted observation are readily found in the middle of reasonably-sized parks. - Night walks and talks for insomniacs and shift workers. - Theatre group performances that treat nature as the ... See all stories on this topic »

High Quality Bellevue High Schools And The Danger Of Space Junk KUOW NPR Don Brownlee is professor of astronomy at the University of Washington. He worked on NASA's Stardust mission to collect a comet sample, and has an asteroid, 3259 Brownlee, named after him. KUOW does not endorse or control the content viewed on these ... See all stories on this topic »

Epic White Halo in Hawaii's Night Sky Fuels Speculation Hawaii Reporter According to several sources including online astronomy forums, it is likely that the space bubble was caused by a third-stage release of exhaust and fuel away from a Minuteman III Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), which had been fired a few ... See all stories on this topic » Hawaii Reporter

Colourful spectacle lights up sky Herald Sun The phenomenon was most likely caused by space junk or a meteor entering our atmosphere, according to Australasian Science Magazine astronomy expert David Reneke. "My favourite (possibility) is always the fireball - that is, a meteor that's on fire," ... See all stories on this topic »

Appalachian and Discovery Place partner to enhance science and math education Appalachian State University Visitors to Discovery Place can see a bee's eye magnified as much as 30000 times actual size with the aid of Appalachian State University Department of Physics and Astronomy's portable scanning electron microscope. The scope is on loan to the science ... See all stories on this topic » Appalachian State University

To-Do List: June 29-July 10 Green Bay Press Gazette ASTRONOMY, 7 pm "Manned vs. Unmanned Missions to Space" discussion; refreshments, public welcome. Sponsored by Door Peninsula Astronomical Society. Crossroads at Big Creek, Utah Street and Cove Road, Sturgeon Bay. (920) 743-5895. ... See all stories on this topic »

Future of MeerKAT radio telescope array project assured Creamer Media's Engineering News Hanekom was speaking on Friday at the 50th anniversary celebrations of the 26 m diameter dish at the Hartesbeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (HartRAO), west of Pretoria. Originally built by the Americans to track National Aeronautical and Space ... See all stories on this topic »

Incredible lunar eclipse floats near the Lagoon Discover Magazine (blog) That would make the Moon is 40 million times farther away than the tree… but the Lagoon Nebula, at 4000 light years distant, is 100 billion times farther away than that. I love astronomy for the incredible artistic appeal it provides, but man, ... See all stories on this topic »

New Exhibition Makes US Debut at McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center NewHampshire.com The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center features 21st century interactive exhibits on aviation, astronomy, Earth and space sciences, a state-of-the-art planetarium and a variety of science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs. ... See all stories on this topic »

Only penguins can see solar eclipse The Hindu Partial solar eclipses taking place over the polar region, such as this one over the Antarctica, are peculiar in the sense that the centre of the shadow of the moon just misses the earth, Arvind Paranjpye of Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and ... See all stories on this topic » The Hindu

Families: Have a blast at Uncle Sam Jam Lincoln Journal Star Planetarium astronomy shows -- "Touching the Universe," 2 pm Tuesdays through Sundays; "Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure," 3 pm Tuesdays through Sundays, 7 pm Thursdays. Admission: $8 adults, $5.50 ages 5-18, $2.50 ages 4 and under (includes ... See all stories on this topic »

Clocking Neptune's spin Astronomy Magazine In the 1950s, when astronomers built the first radio telescopes, they discovered that Jupiter sends out pulsating radio beams, like a lighthouse in space. Those signals originate from a magnetic field generated by the rotation of the planet's inner ... See all stories on this topic »

NASA sets launch date for final space shuttle mission - Astronomy ... Astronomy.com is for anyone who wants to learn more about astronomy events, cosmology, planets, galaxies, asteroids, astrophotography, the Big Bang, ... www.astronomy.com/.../NASA%20sets%20launch%20date%2...

Will We Really Find Alien Life Within 20 Years? Space.com SETI can narrow down its search by directing its attention to stars that astronomers discover to have planets in their habitable zones. So far, 1235 exoplanets have been found by NASA's Kepler spacecraft, a probe that surveys regions of space, ... See all stories on this topic » Space.com

A curtain call for Venus, moon early Thursday msnbc.com ... and would like to share it with Space.com for a future story or gallery, contact managing editor Tariq Malik at tmalik@space.com. Joe Rao serves as an instructor and guest lecturer at New York's Hayden Planetarium. He writes about astronomy for The ... See all stories on this topic » msnbc.com

'Odd couple' binary makes dual gamma-ray flares R & D Magazine ... which gives us the most complete gamma-ray observations of this system," said Julie McEnery, the Fermi project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Astronomers are continuing to analyze their bounty of data and working ... See all stories on this topic »

Astronomy Content to Project Share Online Teachers Community The FINANCIAL StarDate( http://stardate.org/), the public education and outreach arm of the University of Texas McDonald Observatory, will contribute high quality video, podcasts, scripts and photos of astronomy and space exploration from its vast content library, ... See all stories on this topic »

Found: A Quasar From the Dawn of Time TIME For one thing, writes Chris Willott, of the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre in a Nature commentary, "The quasar is a monster." Indeed it is, weighing in at 2 billion times the mass of the Sun. What makes such a big body even more improbable is that it ... See all stories on this topic »

UMass telescope, 20 years in the planning, plumbs deep space GazetteNET The spectrum is superimposed on an image of the galaxy obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope. NORTHAMPTON - It's been a long journey to the top of the astronomy world for Peter Schloerb - or in this case, a very tall volcano in Mexico. ... See all stories on this topic » GazetteNET

Lunar Eclipse Creates Interest In Astronomy Bernama Hosted by the mosque, this public sighting event was organised by the National Planetarium under the National Space Agency (Angkasa). According to Angkasa's Space Science Education Unit Director, Azreena Ahmad, a total lunar eclipse occurs when the ... See all stories on this topic »

Scientists discover brightest, earliest quasar The Associated Press In an editorial accompanying the research, Chris Willott of the Canadian Astronomy Data Center called the quasar a "monster" that could upend current theories about the growth of black holes. "The existence of this quasar will be giving some theorists ... See all stories on this topic »

Saturn struts its stuff PhysicsCentral.com (blog) The photos from this music video that appeared on NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day were compiled from images taken by the Cassini spacecraft - a space-based detective charged with full-time surveillance of Saturn and its many moons. ... See all stories on this topic »

Green Ring Fit for a Superhero Scientific Computing This glowing emerald nebula seen by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is reminiscent of the glowing ring wielded by the superhero Green Lantern. In the comic books, the diminutive Guardians of the Planet "Oa" forged his power ring, but astronomers believe ... See all stories on this topic » Scientific Computing

Sakura Sojourn: Museums of the Smithsonian in Washington DC Economic Times The model of the spacecraft of the 1975 Apollo Soyuz test project was just massive and those who had a penchant for astronomy gathered around the Hubble telescope. The model of Skylab, the first US space station predictably had a huge crowd inside it! ... See all stories on this topic »

NY Gay Marriage Affects Partner Benefits UC Los Angeles Christopher Russell, UCLA professor of geophysics and space physics and the Dawn mission's principal investigator, is cited. Investor's Business Daily reports today on research led by Mayank Mehta, UCLA associate professor of physics and astronomy, ... See all stories on this topic »

The Art Scene 06.30.11 East Hampton Star Alicia Longwell, the chief curator at the Parrish Art Museum, will resume the Fridays at Noon series of lunchtime talks tomorrow with a discussion of mathematics and astronomy and applications of the golden mean in the work of Dorothea Rockburne, ... See all stories on this topic »

What's On - from June 30 West Sussex County Times THE Southern Area Group Of Astronomical Societies' Summer Event is being hosted by Horsham Astronomy Group at the New Science School at Christ's Hospital School, July 3, starting with registration at 10am. If you are interested in astronomy and would ... See all stories on this topic »

IU physics PhDs offer tutoring assistance in math, physics to area high school ... Indiana University ... the College's associate dean for graduate education and a professor of astronomy. "This year, the students successfully applied for external funding from the Indiana Space Grant Consortium to support the program -- they have just been awarded $3600 ... See all stories on this topic » Indiana University

It's Not Plagiarism If You Link To It Apologizes A Trillion Times Black Heart Gold Pants Look at the big brain on Marcus: One of the reasons he chose Iowa out of DeMatha Catholic High School in Maryland, he said, was the school's department of physics and astronomy. Coker is pursuing a double major in both fields and says his dream is to ... See all stories on this topic »

We Now Know How Long a Day on Neptune Is AccuWeather.com (blog) "Neptune has two features observable with the Hubble Space Telescope that seem to track the interior rotation of the planet. Nothing similar has been seen before on any of the four giant planets." Please join the AccuWeather.com Astronomy fanpage by ... See all stories on this topic »

Backyard Universe: Make plans to see upcoming astronomical events Fayetteville Observer Talk about rare astronomical events - the sight of the planet Venus crawling across the face of the sun has to be one of the rarest predictable events in astronomy. It happens just days after the May 20 annular eclipse and is also observable from the ... See all stories on this topic »

Foreign Policy Conference stimulates Indian NewsLink ... University of Queensland Rhetoric & Science Communication Lecturer Dr Joan Leach, Newmont Waihi Gold External Affairs Manager Sefton Darby, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China) Professor Dr Ailikun, CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science Square Kilometre ... See all stories on this topic »

Community news briefs MyCentralJersey.com Learn how author JK Rowling used astronomy as the inspiration for some of her characters' names. Admission to each show is $6 per person. The program is appropriate for families with school-age children, and “Harry Potter” fans of any age. ... See all stories on this topic »

Daily Briefing: Thurs. Mother Nature Network (blog) "The existence of this quasar will be giving some theorists sleepless nights," said Chris Willott of the Canadian Astronomy Data Center. It was discovered using the Infrared Telescope perched near the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii. ... See all stories on this topic » Mother Nature Network (blog)

Astronomy & Spaceflight News - STS 135 Atlantis - Today's News ... Launch pad technicians at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida are in the process of closing out space shuttle Atlantis' payload bay in preparation for liftoff from Launch Pad 39A on July 8 at 11:26 a.m. EDT. AstroNews - Daily Astronomical...

Space and Astronomy News Headlines - Yahoo! News Space and Astronomy News Headlines. Moon & Venus to Shine Together at Dawn Thursday SPACE.com - Wed, Jun 29, 2011. The planet Venus has been hanging around ... news.yahoo.com/astronomy/

Spaced, an Astronomy News Android App - Android Tapp Aspiring astronomers and astronauts can get regularly updated news stories regarding NASA and other space industry sources right to their Android phone. www.androidtapp.com/spaced/

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