SPACE, Astronomy News, Jan 07, 2012

Amateur Astronomer Spots Failed Russian Mars Probe Newser The Phobos-Grunt's ambitious mission was to recover soil from the Mar's moon Phobos and then return that soil to Earth, a first for any space agency. Astronomer Legault similarly captured images of NASA's UARS satellite last year. ... See all stories on this topic »

Astronomical apocalypse not CBC.ca (blog) By Quirks The year 2012 is upon us and astronomers are not worried about a looming catastrophe from space. For more than a decade, authors, moviemakers and soothsayers have been predicting the end of the world this year, often based on the ancient ... See all stories on this topic »

Exoplanets, Supernovae, High-Energy Sky, New Images Among NASA News Highlights... IEWY News WASHINGTON — NASA researchers will present new findings on a wide range of spacescience topics during the 2012 winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS). Convention Center, 500 E. Cesar Chavez St., Austin, Texas. ... See all stories on this topic »

Image of the Day: 1st Kepler "Search for Extraterestrial Intelligence" (SETI ... The Daily Galaxy (blog) As Arthur C. Clarke, physicist and author of 2001: A Space Odyssey wrote, "The idea that we are the only intelligent creatures in a cosmos of a hundred billion galaxies is so preposterous that there are very few astronomers today who would take it ... See all stories on this topic »

James Webb Space Telescope Town Hall Space Ref (press release) The James Webb Space Telescope will be the most powerful telescope thatastronomers have ever constructed, and is essential to answering the top science questions outlined in the recent Astronomy 2010 - 2020 Decadal Survey. In 2011, the observatory ... See all stories on this topic »

New telescope to pin down polarization of X-rays R & D Magazine The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has just funded Krawczynski and his colleague, assistant research professor Matthias Beilicke, PhD, to chase some of the most exotic astronomicalprey: black holes, those famously elusive quarry ... See all stories on this topic » R & D Magazine

First four Exoplanets of 2012 discovered TruthDive This most recent discovery does not come from NASA's Kepler space telescope team or any other space telescope; it comes from a ground-based telescope system maintained by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The Hungarian-made Automated ... See all stories on this topic »

OVER A COFFEE: The Mayan 2012 in Pakistan —Dr Haider Shah Pakistan Daily Times All these stories are figments of popular science fiction and NASA astronomers laugh them away. But maybe not in Pakistan! The year 2012 here began under the lengthening dark shadows of the Memogate saga. We have time and again been warned of a tsunami... See all stories on this topic »

Earth's orbit just right, like Goldilocks TheChronicleHerald.ca Astronomers have yet to find an exoplanet that meets the Goldilocks litmus test. But they have come tantalizingly close. Before Christmas, NASA scientists announced that the Kepler spacecraft had detected two Earth-sized planets orbiting a star about ... See all stories on this topic »

Radio astronomy: connecting the visually-impaired to the cosmos ... Radio astronomy: connecting the visually-impaired to the cosmos ... NASA'spartnership with the California School for the Blind and the National Federation ... Since the Earth and the Moon travel together through space, encountering streams ... lunarscience.nasa.gov/articles/radio-meteor-counts

2011: Top Stories from the Best Year Ever for NASA Planetary ... NASA successfully delivered astounding results on all fronts – On the Story of How We More... ... And what a year of excitement it was indeed for the planetary science community, amateur astronomers and the general ... Science and Space ... www.bautforum.com/.../126256-2011-Top-Stories-from-the-...

As Seen From Space: Volcanic Eruption Creates ... - Universe Today Nancy Atkinson is Universe Today's Senior Editor. She also is the host of the NASALunar Science Institute podcast and works with the Astronomy Cast and 365 ... www.universetoday.com/.../as-seen-from-space-volcanic-erupt...

First of NASA's GRAIL spacecraft enters moon orbit - News Astronomy Space / Astronomy News and Articles. Blog ... (GRAIL)-A spacecraft successfully completed its planned main engine burn at 2 p.m. PST (5 p.m. EST) today (Dec. ... www.newsastronomy.com/.../13864-first-of-nasa-s-grail-space...

NASA sends GRAIL shaped beacon to the Moon | Bad Astronomy ... Today, NASA successfully put a new mission into lunar orbit: GRAIL, ... My prediction for 2012: both probes will be drilled by space debris, and become Holey ... blogs.discovermagazine.com/.../nasa-sends-grail-shaped-beaco...

Apocalypse Not Now: 2012 Doomsday Predictions Debunked by ... By Charles Q. Choi, SPACE.com Contributor ... 21, 2012 as evidence of the coming apocalypse, but astronomers have been quick to stress that there is nothing to be concerned about. ... lack of evidence," astronomer Don Yeomans, manager of NASA'sNear-Earth .... I predict 2012 will end at midnight one year from today. ... news.yahoo.com/apocalypse-not-now-2012-doomsday-predict...

  

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