SPACE, Astronomy News, Feb 18, 2012

NASA's Hubble Spots a Relic from a Shredded Galaxy Newswise (press release) Newswise — Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope may have found evidence for a cluster of young, blue stars encircling one of the first intermediate-mass black holes ever discovered. Astronomers believe the black hole may once have been at ... See all stories on this topic »

NASA Hubble Space Telescope captures remains of galaxy around 'intermediate ... Daily Mail By Rob Waugh Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found hot young stars clustered around the first 'intermediate-mass' black hole ever discovered. The young, blue stars suggest that there might have once been a dwarf galaxy there, ... See all stories on this topic » Daily Mail

Black hole came from a shredded galaxy Astronomy Magazine Credit: NASA/ESA/S. Farrell (Sydney Institute for Astronomy, Univ. of Sydney)Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found a cluster of young blue stars encircling the first intermediate-mass black hole ever discovered. See all stories on this topic »

Is NASA giving up on Mars? (+video) Christian Science Monitor NASA's 2013 budget includes deep cuts to its planetary science mission, particularly its efforts to send spacecraft to Mars. Instead, the space agency will focus on human spaceflight and infrared astronomy. Is NASA now heading down the wrong path? See all stories on this topic » Christian Science Monitor

Astronomers receive NASA grant, develop telescope to orbit Earth Arizona Daily Wildcat A UA astronomy research team was awarded a $600000 grant from NASA to develop a telescope to study how planets are formed. Glenn Schneider, a Steward Observatoryastronomer and principal investigator of the project, led a team of six scientists to ... See all stories on this topic »

NASA Request Defers Large-scale Mars, Astronomy Missions Space News The request represents only the fourth time since 1999 that a president has proposed reducing NASA's budget. In each of the previous three instances, Congress wound up appropriating slight increases for the space agency. Under the $17.7 billion NASA ... See all stories on this topic » Space News

This black hole came from a shredded galaxy TG Daily NASA astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have found a cluster of young, blue stars encircling the first intermediate-mass black hole ever discovered. According to Mathieu Servillat of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, ... See all stories on this topic » TG Daily

Hubble Finds Relic of a Shredded Galaxy Hubble Space Telescope at ESA Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have found a cluster of young blue stars surrounding a mid-sized black hole called HLX-1. The discovery suggests that the black hole formed in the core of a now-disintegrated dwarf galaxy. See all stories on this topic » Hubble Space Telescope at ESA

Obama's NASA budget favors a space telescope over Mars exploration Christian Science Monitor The proposed 2013 federal budget shifts funding away from missions to Mars and emphasizes manned spaceflight and astronomy. By Mike Wall,SPACE.com / February 13, 2012 This artist's rendering shows a 'sky crane' lowering NASA's Mars Science Laboratory ... See all stories on this topic » Christian Science Monitor

Supermassive black holes are cannibals, new research suggests Christian Science Monitor By Pete Spotts, Staff writer / February 16, 2012 A photo of Black Hole ESO 243-49 HLX-1 taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. S. Farrell/ Sydney Institute For Astronomy, University of Sydney / NASA, ESA In a galaxy 290 million light-years away, ... See all stories on this topic » Christian Science Monitor

How will the White House's brutal budget cuts affect NASA? io9 The White House has called for draconian cuts to NASA's budget, forcing the Agency to shelve undertakings that run the gamut from ambitious planetary missions to educational outreach. Astronomer Phil Plait — master of ceremonies over at Bad Astronomy ... See all stories on this topic »

Searching for Planets in Clouds of Dust Space Daily by Celeste Barajas, NASA Space Grant intern A UA astronomy research team was awarded a $600000 grant for technology development under NASA's Explorer mission program. The mission would send a space telescope high above Earth's surface to watch how ... See all stories on this topic »

NASA Space Shuttle-Carrying Jumbo Jet Retires After One Last Flight Space.com by Robert Z. Pearlman, collectSPACE.com Editor One of only two planes ever to carryNASA's space shuttles on piggy-back rides across the country has taken its last flight after more than 20 years of service. NASA 911, one of the two Boeing 747 ... See all stories on this topic »

NASA retires first of two space shuttle carriers Los Angeles Times It was used for 386 flights, including 66 flights carrying a space shuttle. In Palmdale, north of Los Angeles, the jumbo jet will be used for spare parts forNASA's new Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), which features a ... See all stories on this topic » Los Angeles Times

Eta Carinae in 1996 (credit: Nathan Smith (UC Berkeley), NASA) The Cutting Edge Astronomers are watching the astronomical equivalent of an instant replay of a spectacular outburst from the unstable, behemoth double-star system Eta Carinae, which was initially seen on Earth nearly 170 years ago. Astrophysicists affiliated with UC ... See all stories on this topic » The Cutting Edge

Black Hole Found At The Center Of A Shredded Galaxy RedOrbit Astronomers say they have found a black hole that was once at the core of a now-disintegrated dwarf galaxy. The researchers used NASA's HubbleSpace Telescope to find a cluster of young, blue stars encircling the first intermediate-mass black hole ever ... See all stories on this topic » RedOrbit

Hubble finds cluster of blue stars around 'massive' black hole in cannibal galaxy Daily News & Analysis Astronomers have found possible evidence for a cluster of young, blue stars encircling one of the first intermediate-mass black holes ever discovered, thanks to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The discovery of the black hole and the possible star ... See all stories on this topic » Daily News & Analysis

2 Southampton Teachers Will Fly With NASA Patch.com By Brendan J. O'Reilly NASA has selected just 26 educators from across the country to participate in research flights aboard the Stratospheric Observatory for InfraredAstronomy, and two Southampton science teachers are among them. See all stories on this topic »

NASA Space Shuttle-Carrying Jumbo Jet Set To Retire Huffington Post In its retirement, NASA 911 will be used as a source of spare parts to keep NASA'sStratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) flying. Also based around a Boeing 747, SOFIA uses the jetliner as a platform for a 100-inch (2.5-meter) ... See all stories on this topic »

YPSILANTI: Astronomer Phil Plait talks asteroids, movies, end of the world at ... Heritage Newspapers Plait is the author and creator of the blog Bad Astronomy, which won best blog of the year in 2009 from Time.com. He earned his doctorate inastronomy at the University of Virginia and worked as a NASA contractor at the Goddard Space Flight Center in ... See all stories on this topic » Heritage Newspapers

Planck All-Sky Images Show Cold Gas and Strange Haze Jet Propulsion Laboratory Planck is a European Space Agency mission with significant NASAparticipation. "The images reveal two exciting aspects of the galaxy in which we live," said Planck scientist Krzysztof M. Gorski from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., ... See all stories on this topic » Jet Propulsion Laboratory

How a black hole survived the destruction of its galaxy Christian Science Monitor NASA, ESA, and S. Farrell Sydney Institute for Astronomy, University of Sydney Like a fossil hinting at a long-gone animal, a black hole is offering clues about a now-destroyed galaxy that may once have existed around it. The Hubble Space Telescope ... See all stories on this topic » Christian Science Monitor

Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Shreds Galaxy as it Forms International Business Times The rare transition captured with NASA's Hubble space telescope gaveastronomers a glimpse at a black hole encircled and fed by a cluster of young blue stars from a now-disintegrated galaxy 290 million light years away. Black holes are super-dense ... See all stories on this topic » International Business Times

Space research here faces a horizon of closures, cuts Arizona Daily Star "It's not realistic to think the NASA budget would be growing at this point, and that's too bad. When you build spacecraft, it's not that you've launched all our bills into space. You've created jobs for engineers, scientists and in education," said ... See all stories on this topic »

170 years late, light from star blast reaches Earth Futurity: Research News (Credit: Jon Morse (University of Colorado), and NASA) UC SANTA BARBARA (US) —Astronomers are watching the astronomical equivalent of an instant replay of a spectacular outburst from Eta Carinae, a massive double-star system. See all stories on this topic »

Light Echoes Allow Astronomers To Watch 'Great Eruption' Replay RedOrbit Astronomers recently got a rare opportunity to view a cosmic event that took place from 1837 to 1858 known as the “Great Eruption.” The outburst temporarily made Eta Carinae the second brightest star in the sky during that period. See all stories on this topic » RedOrbit

First intermediate-Mass Black Hole discovered by researchers News Pakistan Through the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers have been able to discover a black hole that is surrounded by a cluster of young blue stars. Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers found a cluster of young stars that are encircling the first ... See all stories on this topic » News Pakistan

Space probe confirms weird microwave haze in our galaxy msnbc.com This all-sky image shows the distribution of carbon monoxide, a molecule used by astronomers to trace molecular clouds across the sky, as seen by Planck. The image was released on Monday. A European spacecraft has snapped new images of our Milky Way ... See all stories on this topic » msnbc.com

Shrinking NASA Budget Forces Tough Trade-offs Space News Roughly $630 million for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which Congress threatened to terminate last year due to huge cost overruns. The $109 million increase was needed to keep the now $8.8 billion astronomyflagship mission on track for 2018. See all stories on this topic » Space News

Young Star Cluster In Disintegrated Galaxy Reveals First-Ever Intermediate ... Universe Today Credit: NASA, ESA, and S. Farrell (Sydney Institute for Astronomy, University of Sydney) Score another first for NASA's Hubble SpaceTelescope! Along with observations taken with the Swift X-ray telescope, a team of astronomers have identified a young ... See all stories on this topic » Universe Today

NASA picks library to host science program for girls Ridgefield Press The Ridgefield Library and a select group of other libraries will have the opportunity to host events on space science and astronomy during Women's History Month in March, and to engage girls and their families in discovering the Universe for ... See all stories on this topic »

Redfield Participates in NASA's IBEX Mission Press Conference Wesleyan Connection (blog) Redfield, an assistant professor of astronomy, was chosen by NASA to be a non-mission expert to help verify results from the space agency's ongoing IBEX (Interstellar Boundary Explorer) mission, an unmanned probe that analyzes the interstellar boundary ... See all stories on this topic » Wesleyan Connection (blog)

Tough Cuts for Planetary Science In NASA's 2013 Budget Proposal By Nancy Atkinson Using the phrase “very difficult fiscal times” countless times, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden tried to put an upbeat spin on the bad news during a press conference on the budget on February 13. ... nearly $3 billion for the heavy-lift Space Launch System and Orion MPCV, along with $830 million for the commercial crew and cargo — planetary science took a huge hit, especially the Mars science program, considered by many to be the “crown jewel” of NASA's planetary program. Universe Today

Star Cluster Surrounds Wayward Black Hole in Cannibal Galaxy ... By Klaus Schmidt Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope may have found evidence for a cluster of young, blue stars encircling one of the first intermediate-mass black holes ever discovered. Astronom. International Space Fellowship

NASA Request Defers Large scale Mars Astronomy ... - Space News Big-ticket missions to collect martian soil samples and study the expansion of the universe are two early casualties of. spacenews.com/.../120113-nasa-defers-large-scale-missions.ht...

NASA - Planck All-Sky Images Show Cold Gas and Strange Haze NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration ... The new results are being presented this week at an international astronomy conference in Bologna, ... www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/planck/.../planck20120213.html

NASA announces third round of CubeSat space mission candidates NASA has selected 33 small satellites to fly as auxiliary payloads aboard rockets planned to launch in 2013 and 2014. ... Science and technology news .... ( PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found a... www.physorg.com/.../2012-02-nasa-cubesat-space-mission-ca...

Nasa's picture of the future of human spaceflight ... - e! Science News Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - 11:30 in Astronomy & Space. NASA released a new interactive infographic that attempts to give a picture of future of human ... esciencenews.com/.../nasas.picture.future.human.spaceflight

Nasa International Space Station: Astronomy team discovers nearby ... Nasa Space Station ... The Global Water Cycle and NEWS .... With the C28 telescope, the astronomers discovered the companion dwarf galaxy, which has ... nasa-space-info.blogspot.com/.../astronomy-team-discovers-ne...

Space and Earth Sciences News :: NASA's Chandra Finds Milky ... The giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way may be vaporizing and devouring asteroids, which could explain the frequent flares observed, according to ... news-about-space.org/astronomy-news/.../page3.html

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Survives ... - Yahoo! News News: When last we heard about the James Webb Space Telescope, the ... Webb telescope will undoubtedly revolutionize astronomy when it goes up in 2018. news.yahoo.com/nasas-james-webb-space-telescope-survives-f...

Nasa's Super Science/Space Taxis | David Reneke | Space and ... Astro Quiz · Why Is It So? Gift Vouchers. Sponsors. Astro Space News Delivered to You. Join my newsletter to stay up to date on all the latest space news. ... The NASABiocapsules can send medicine around astonauts' bodies without them ... www.davidreneke.com/nasas-super-sciencespace-taxis/

NASA TV to Broadcast Space Station Spacewalk Feb. 16 16. NASA TV will provide live coverage of a five-and-a-half-hour spacewalk Thursday, Feb. 16 >> More >> click here to view the full NASA News article ... www.ukexpert.co.uk/.../110660-NASA-TV-to-Broadcast-Spac...

NASA launches game on environmental satellite February 15, 2012 | Posted in Astronomy News | 1 views. NASA launches game on environmental satellite. Science, technology and space have a universal ... www.nixguy.com/nasa-launches-game-on-environmental-satel...

NASA to scale back Mars budget - Unexplained Mysteries NASA executives are to make significant cuts to its exploration of other planets in our solar ... You are viewing: Home > News > Space & Astronomy > News story ... www.unexplained-mysteries.com/viewnews.php?id=222281

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