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SPACE, Astronomy News, Mar 17, 2012


NASA Looks to Lift Space Astronomy Out of the Fog
Space Ref (press release)
After the Sun, this so-called zodiacal cloud is the solar system's most luminous feature, and its light has interfered with infrared, optical and ultraviolet observations made by every astronomical space mission to date. "To put it simply, ...
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Astronomers discover quasars acting as gravitational lenses
R & D Magazine
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found several examples of galaxies containing quasars, which act as gravitational lenses, amplifying and distorting images of galaxies aligned behind them. Quasars are among the brightest objects in ...
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Clues to 'Weird' Saturn Moon Found in Earth's Ice
Space.com
by Denise Chow, SPACE.com Staff Writer Astronomers hoping to shed light on how Saturn's "weird" moon Iapetus developed over time are taking cues from climate research of icy surfaces right here on Earth. Iapetus' bizarre two-toned appearance — with ...
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Bright Galaxies with Black Hole Hearts Caught Bending Light Into Cosmic Lens
Space.com
by Clara Moskowitz, SPACE.com Assistant Managing Editor The intense gravity from extra-bright galaxies with huge black holes at their cores is bending light to create cosmic magnifying glasses, astronomers say. Using the HubbleSpace Telescope, ...
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Snapshots from Space
Discover Magazine (blog)
My pal Emily Lakdawalla from The Planetary Society has started making a series of short videos about astronomy and space science. She's made one about NASA images, seasons on Mars, and now this one on asteroid impacts: These are pretty good: short, ...
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NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is finding Mysterious Objects at the ...
Clarksville Online
Washington, DC – The human eye is crucial to astronomy. Without the ability to see, the luminous universe of stars, planets and galaxies would be closed to us, unknown forever. Nevertheless, astronomers cannot shake their fascination with the invisible ...
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Arizona Telescope Sets New Standard For Optical Astronomy
Tri States Public Radio
Having to peer through the atmosphere is a major disadvantage of ground-based telescopes compared with orbiting telescopes like the Hubble SpaceTelescope. But Earth observatories have one major advantage: they can use much larger mirrors to gather ...
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Korean Connection Makes 8000-km Telescope
Space Ref (press release)
"This is another step in Australia's ongoing collaboration with Asia in the field of radio astronomy," said CSIRO's Astronomy and Space Science Chief, Dr. Philip Diamond. Australia has been making similar linkups with Japan and China for many years, ...
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Glittering jewels of Messier 9
Astronomy Magazine
By Hubble ESA, Garching, Germany — Published: March 16, 2012 The HubbleSpace Telescope has produced the most detailed image so far of Messier 9, a globular star cluster located close to the center of the galaxy. This ball of stars is too faint to see ...
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Sharma selected as a Solar System Ambassador
Morehead News
As president of his school's astronautics club, Frontier De Astronautica, he gave presentations on space missions, the basics of terrestrial, space flights and space vehicles. He also is the student liaison for the national astronomicalsociety, ...
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Hubble Discovers Quasars Acting as Gravitational Lenses
Sci-News.com
An international team of astronomers using NASA's HubbleSpace Telescope has discovered several galaxies containing quasars, which act as gravitational lenses, amplifying and distorting images of galaxies aligned behind them.
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Sci-News.com
Southern Lights, Daybreak Seen In Photo Snapped By Space Station Astronauts
Huffington Post
AuroraMAX is a collaboration between NASA, the University of Calgary, the city of Yellowknife in Canada, Astronomy North and the Canadian Space Agency. Follow SPACE.com for the latest in space science and exploration news on Twitter @Spacedotcom and on ...
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Hubble Returns Detailed Image of Messier 9
Sci-News.com
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken the most detailed image so far of Messier 9, a globular star cluster located close to the centre of the galaxy. This ball of stars is too faint to see with the naked eye, yet Hubble can see over 250 000 ...
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Sci-News.com
WANT: Part XII
Discover Magazine (blog)
Phil Plait, the creator of Bad Astronomy, is an astronomer, lecturer, and author. After ten years working on Hubble Space Telescope and six more working on astronomy education, he struck out on his own as a writer. He's written two books, ...
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NASA's new all-sky atlas reveals over half-billion stars and galaxies
Daily News & Analysis
... professor of physics and astronomy and the mission's principal investigator, who began working on the mission in 1998. A 10-foot unmanned satellite weighing 1400 pounds, WISE was launched into space on Dec. 14, 2009, and mapped the sky in 2010.
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Adam Riess: One Cosmic Puzzle Solved, Many To Go
NPR
He's also a scientist and professor of astronomy at Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. Welcome to SCIENCE FRIDAY. FLATOW: Get over that ceremony yet, or are you still playing it out.
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The Week in Geek: The Flying Jenny edition
msnbc.com (blog)
By Summer Ash A Space Shuttle launch like you've NEVER seen it before: through the eyes of a solid rocket booster. Eight minutes of your life you'll thank me for. In case you haven't noticed, Jupiter and Venus have been showing off in the western skies ...
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Star Walk and Solar Walk Astronomy Apps Updated for the New iPad
SBWire (press release)
The popular stargazing guide and 3D Solar system model have been rebuilt with new superior graphics and content to deliver the ultimate cutting-edge experience to present day astronomers, students and romanticists. Star Walk allows users to easily ...
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Stranded Satellite Could Be Salvaged
Aviation Week
Members of that group include RSCC, which already has ordered a replacement for the stranded spacecraft; the TsNIIMash rocket design bureau, and the Russian space agency Roscosmos. Readdy said during the Satellite 2012 conference here this week that ...
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Aviation Week
Historic Kirkwood Observatory renews weekly stargazing open houses
Indiana University
14, when star viewing will begin at 6:30 pm The observatory is closed each year during the winter because of the inclement weather and the unheatedspace of the dome, and closing may occur during the viewing season on cloudy viewing nights.
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Learn about the night sky from Homewood
Johns Hopkins News-Letter
... Hall in the Maryland Space Grant Observatory. On Friday nights, visitors to the observatory have a chance to see through the instrument of professionalastronomers, gazing into a night sky enhanced by the telescope's 20-inch parabolic mirror.
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So Long, SWAN…
Universe Today
Video credit: NASA/SOHO (and thanks to Phil Plait for the assembly.) Jason is a graphic artist from Rhode Island now living and working in Dallas, Texas. He writes about astronomy andspace exploration on his blog Lights In The Dark, here on Universe...
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Universe Today
Breaking News: The Earth Is Still Warming. A Lot
ThinkProgress
An imbalance in the heat flows to and from Space. Nothing else fits the evidence. Not theory, not ideology, not political views, not internal variability, not questions over surface temperature records, not fudged or not fudged data, not hockey sticks ...
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ThinkProgress
UD's George Luther has been named a 2012 American Geophysical Union Fellow for ...
University of Delaware
... and Astronomy has honored two graduate teaching assistants for outstanding work. The honor is given to individual AGU members who have made exceptional scientific contributions and attained eminence in the fields of earth and space sciences.
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University of Delaware
Parish Pump - March 16 2012
Sussex Express
To book your place email info@eastsussexdance.com or call 07901962163 THANKS to all who helped with the Astronomy in the Pub night, particularlyAstronomy 4 Everyone, HantsAstro and East Sussex Astronomical Society. The event was a great success with ...
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Your views on the news: Drugs, Game industry and assisted suicide
The Guardian (blog)
It almost seems crowded out here in space. From nocod: The first time I saw the Milky Way proper was down in Cornwall. I fell over. I'm ecstatic that astronomy is entering the mainstream. Seeing rare conjunctions, meteors, satellites, aurorae, ...
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The Guardian (blog)
Neutrinos Obey The Speed Limit, After All
Universe Today
“This is how science works.” Jason is a graphic artist from Rhode Island now living and working in Dallas, Texas. He writes aboutastronomy and space exploration on his blog Lights In The Dark, here on Universe Today and also on Discovery News.
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Universe Today
Unknown objects at the limits : Space and Astronomy news daily ...
By Jonathan Nally
NASA's FERMI GAMMA-RAY TELESCOPE is finding hundreds of new objects at the very edge of the electromagnetic spectrum. Many of them have one thing in common—astronomers have no idea what they are. This short video from NASA ...
Space and Astronomy news daily...
Go On a Grand Tour of the Moon | David Reneke | Space and ...
By Dave
Late News · Feature Story · Tonight's Sky · Pic of Week · Space Images · UFO Reports · Astronomy Nights · Strange Stuff · Free Stuff · Letters · Home · Telescopes · Buying & Using Telescopes · Beginners Level · Intermediate Level · Telescope ...
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What's On Astronomy.FM ~ Friday thru Saturday | Astronomy.FM
By Tavi Greiner
From this week, the March 16 2012 episode of “365 Days of Astronomy” ~ Star Clusters: by Mel Blake. (00:07:20). It's your inside connection to exploringSpace, “Talking Space“ ~ Green Pigs … in … Space: The hosts begin this episode with ...
Astronomy.FM
Space weather: explosions on Venus - Astronomy Magazine
Home » News & Observing » Astronomy News » Space weather: explosions on Venus ... As the solar wind flows around Venus, it creates similar spaceweather ...
www.astronomy.com/~/link.aspx?_id=808cfe27-4369...
NASA's Goddard, Glenn Centers look to lift space astronomy out of ...
ScienceDaily: Your source for the latest research news and science ... "To put it simply, it has never been night for space astronomers," said Matthew ...
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120313163318.htm
Where Do Comets Come From? - Space / Astronomy - About.com
I usually reserve this space on the site from bringing you a blend of the latestspace and astronomy news, a dash or glorious space images and a sprinkling of ...
space.about.com/b/2012/03/.../where-do-comets-come-from.ht...
Unknown objects at the limits : Space and Astronomy news daily ...
NASA's FERMI GAMMA-RAY TELESCOPE is finding hundreds of new objects at the very edge of the electromagnetic spectrum. Many of them have one thing in ...
spaceinfo.com.au/.../unknown-objects-at-the-limits/?...
China's First Female Astronaut | David Reneke | Space and ...
Astro Quiz · Why Is It So? Gift Vouchers. Sponsors. Astro Space NewsDelivered to You. Join my newsletter to stay up to date on all the latest space news. RSS ...
www.davidreneke.com/chinas-first-female-astronaut/
Space Fan News #58: Double Your Astronomy Pleasure ... - Youtube
http://gplus.to/TonyDarnell http://facebook.com/SpaceFan Too much stuff to fit in the title this week because I put more stories in since I missed last week....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_Xqm7t0Hpk
Atmosphere Of Mars Universe Today Space And Astronomy News ...
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www.fitflap.net/.../atmosphere-of-mars-universe-today-space-a...
NASA's Goddard, Glenn Centers look to lift space astronomy out of ...
NASA's Goddard, Glenn Centers look to lift space astronomy out of the fog. fullscreen. News; Videos; Video Details; Video Suggestions; Location; Photos...
article.wn.com/.../NASAs_Goddard_Glenn_Centers_look_to_l...
Space and Earth Sciences News :: Jupiter and Venus still blaze in ...
If you've been outside just after sunset and faced west, ...
www.news-about-space.org/astronomy-news/cluster13981902/
Universe Discovery - Space and Astronomy News - Part 3
This eruption hurled a bright CME into space. First-look data from STEREO-B are not sufficient to determine if the cloud is heading for Earth. Solar storms can ...
universediscovery.com/page/3?ldinau
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