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SPACE, Astronomy News, Mar 19, 2012


Astronomers discover quasars acting as gravitational lenses
Astronomy Magazine
Credit: NASA/ESA/F. Courbin (EPFL, Switzerland) Astronomers usingNASA'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 ...
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Astronomers pass on passion for space
The Brown Daily Herald
Astronomers from the Department of Physics taught a crowd of more than 100 children and parents about outer space at “Stargazers,” a collaborative event held at the Providence Children's Museum last Friday. Attendees romped between models of the Earth ...
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Johns Hopkins U. in Md. launches new space science and engineering minor for ...
The Republic
AP BALTIMORE — Johns Hopkins University has launched a new minor inspace science and engineering to help students pursue careers in the spaceindustry. Physics and astronomy professor Charles Bennett, the minor's co-director, says the themes can ...
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Suborbital gets serious
The Space Review
In the last few years, though, the role those vehicles can play in research, from astronomy to materials science to biomedical studies, has earned an increasingly prominent role. The best gauge of this trend is the Next-Generation Suborbital ...
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The Space Review
When we walked on the Moon
OUPblog (blog)
We're celebrating this astronomical event with Ian Ridpath and newly releasedNASA photos of the Moon. By Ian Ridpath When the last two astronauts left the Moon at the end of 1972, they probably thought that someone would be back in a decade or so to ...
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Astronomers get rare peek at early stage of star formation
Astronomy Magazine
... Agency's Herschel Space Observatory and the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope (GBT) to make detailed observations of a clump, containing nearly 100 times the mass of the Sun, within that cloud. Stars are formed, astronomers think, ...
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Ushering in the Final Frontier -- Manned Spaceflight
Huffington Post
New opportunities are now open to all; even African nations now have recognizable participation in small satellites, astronomy and, after sixty years of the IAC, held its first congress in Africa last year. We are indeed in a golden era of active space ...
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Are We Running Out Of Space For All Of Our Data?
PSFK
From science, we have sources such as astronomy, particle physics and genonomics. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey, for example, began amassing data in 2000 and collected more in its first few weeks than all the data collected before that in the history of ...
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CSIRO partners with Korea for 8000km 'virtual' telescope
Computerworld Australia
The combined telescopes have 100 times the resolving power of the HubbleSpace Telescope. The CSIRO used two telescopes near Coonabarabran and Narrabri in NSW and one at the University of Tasmania, while the KoreanAstronomy and Space Science Institute ...
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Plutonic love
The Economist (blog)
At a bustling backroom at the Greenwood Space Travel Supply Store in Seattle, planet fanciers of all ages created placards in support of the demoted ninth planet. The farcical protest remonstrated against the International Astronomical Union relegating ...
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The Economist (blog)
Hopkins Offers Space Science Minor To Undergrads
WBAL Baltimore
The new minor requires students to choose a space-related theme and build a sequence of five courses and internship around it. Physics and astronomyprofessor Charles Bennett, the minor's co-director, said the themes can range from the search for life ...
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A brief bit about asteroid 2012 DA14
Discover Magazine (blog)
With folks like The Planetary Society (and, say, the B612 Foundation as well asNASA's NEO program) out there doing the research and also helping others, we're headed in the right direction. by Phil Plait in Astronomy, NASA | 0 comments | RSS feed ...
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Hopkins offers space science minor to undergrads
Herald Times Reporter
The new minor requires students to choose a space-related theme and build a sequence of five courses and internship around it. Physics and astronomyprofessor Charles Bennett, the minor's co-director, says the themes can range from the search for life ...
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Facebook 'fact' defies gravity and logic
News & Observer
By Dan Caton Note: Dr. Daniel B. Caton is a physics and astronomy professor and director of observatories at Appalachian State. His column will appear in this space monthly. It appeared on Facebook a couple weeks ago: claims that brooms would remain ...
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Star Lab Needs Payloads!
Universe Today
Under NASA's Florida Space Grant, commercial ventures taking place in Florida are subject to a rebate program. Once a payload is launched, Space Lab customers can receive a refund from SpaceFlorida of 1/3 of their cost. Starting at $4000 (after the ...
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Universe Today
Star Walk and Solar Walk Astronomy Apps Updated for the New iPad
prMac (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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Cosmic occurrences won't really alter our well-being
Nanaimo Daily News
Professor of Astronomy and Physics at Vancouver Island University and the child of Hungarian immigrants, it was Arkos' brother Julius, 14 years his senior, who first sparked his interest in all things space-related. Growing up in Hungary, ...
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WJTV
The new minor requires students to choose a space-related theme and build a sequence of five courses and internship around it. Physics and astronomyprofessor Charles Bennett, the minor's co-director, says the themes can range from the search for life ...
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Facebook 'fact' defies gravity and all reason
Charlotte Observer
Note: Dr. Daniel B. Caton is a physics and astronomy professor and director of observatories at Appalachian State. His column will appear in this spacemonthly. It appeared on Facebook a couple weeks ago: claims that brooms would remain standing if you ...
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WA still in the race for giant radio telescope
Stock and Land
With international negotiations intensifying, CSIRO's chief of astronomy andspace science, Philip Diamond, said the timing of the link-up with Korea on March 8 was fortuitous as it reinforced Australia's expertise with long-distance collaborations.
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Ask 411 Games Special Edition 03.19.12: The Rise, Rise, Fall, Fall, and Rise ...
411mania.com
Syzygy is an astronomy term for three celestial bodies in a line. Bushnell and Dabney were both engineers and thus loved the term. But no-one knew how to spell or pronounce it, and worse, the name was already used in California.
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Paradise above and below
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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President Jimmy Carter Authors New Bible Book, Answers Hard Biblical Questions
Huffington Post
That was a limitation of knowledge of the universe or physics, or astronomy at that time, but that doesn't bother me at all. How do you approach the passages in the Bible that talk about God's creation (Genesis 1:1) while maintaining a positive ...
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The revolution of revolution
Leadership Magazine
But the term, when it first appeared on the stage during the early days of modern astronomy and renaissance astrology, represented something of a revolution in its own right. The German-born mathematician and astronomerNicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) ...
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The Earth is still warming, enough to boil Sydney Harbour dry…
RenewEconomy
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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NASA's Goddard, Glenn Centers look to lift space astronomy out of ...
ScienceDaily: Your source for the latest research news and science ... NASA'sGoddard, Glenn Centers Look to Lift Space Astronomy out of the Fog ...
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120313163318.htm
Astronomers Find Cosmic Lenses with Feeding Black Holes - NASA ...
Observations from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveal several galaxies containing ... Bring the Universe to You, JPL Email News, JPL on Facebook, JPL on ...
www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-075
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble discover ... - e! Science News
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found several examples of galaxies containing quasars, which act as ... Get science newsvia ...
esciencenews.com/.../astronomers.using.nasas.hubble.discover...
NASA Looks to Lift Space Astronomy Out of the Fog - Topix
Local News: Greenbelt, MD ... NASA Looks to Lift Space Astronomy Out of the Fog ... A fogbank is the least useful location for a telescope, yet today'sspace ...
www.topix.com/.../nasa-looks-to-lift-space-astronomy-out-of-t...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Discovers Quasars Acting as ...
Greenbelt, MD – Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found several examples of galaxies containing quasars, which act as gravitational ...
www.clarksvilleonline.com/.../nasas-hubble-space-telescope-di...
NASA Spots Mysterious Object Above Sun | David Reneke | Space ...
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. ... An orbiting Nasa space telescope captured a dark, planet-sized object flying close to ...
www.davidreneke.com/nasa-spots-mysterious-object-above-sun/
Live Video Chat -- Astronomy: Starry, Starry Night | SpaceRef ...
Live Video Chat -- Astronomy: Starry, Starry Night - SpaceRef. ... On March 16, 2012, Dr. Michelle Thaller from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., will answer student questions from ... News from CommercialSpace Watch ...
www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.rss.spacewire.html?pid=40252
Space and Earth Sciences News :: Astronomers using Hubble ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found several ... Your daily source for the latest space and earth sciencesnews ...
www.news-about-space.org/astronomy-news/cluster14068371/
Astronomers Using NASA's Hubble Discover ... - ScienceNewsline
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found several examples of galaxies containing quasars, which act as gravitational lenses, amplifying ...
www.sciencenewsline.com/space/.../2012031522410018.html
NASA Researchers Study Explosions On Venus - Space News ...
The astronomers, reporting their findings from a recent study in the Journal of... a scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
www.redorbit.com/.../nasa-researchers-study-explosions-on-ve...
Quasars found acting as gravitational lenses
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found several quasars acting as gravitational lenses, making it easier to study the galaxies in which ...
www.tgdaily.com/.../62120-quasars-found-acting-as-gravitatio...
Space Fan News #58: Double Your Astronomy Pleasure (Almost - Blip
Space Fan News #58: Double Your Astronomy Pleasure (Almost) ... infrared sky from WISE: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-072 Hubble ...
blip.tv/.../space-fan-news-58-double-your-astronomy-pleasure...
Astronomy News | lara bars
Universe Today (UT) is a non-commercial space and astronomy news site, ...News articles Astronomy Picture of a Day (APOD) is a website supposing byNASA ...
www.larabars.org/astronomy/astronomy-news.htm
NASA Looks to Lift Space Astro… « Space News Daily
LATEST SPACE NEWS ON STEROIDS by ROBERT BRAND ... NASA Looks to Lift Space Astronomy Out of the Fog: NASA Looks to Lift Space AstronomyOut of ...
spacenewsdaily.com/2012/03/nasa-looks-to-lift-space-astro/
HubbleSite - NewsCenter - Astronomers Using NASA's Hubble ...
News Release Archive: ... News Release Number: STScI-2012-14 ... March 15, 2012: Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found several ...
hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2012/14
Space Fan News #58: Double Your Astronomy Pleasure ... - Firstpost
Space Fan News #58: Double Your Astronomy Pleasure (Almost). gplus.to facebook.com Too much stuff to fit in the title this week because I put more stories in ...
www.firstpost.com/.../nasa-space-fan-news-58-double-your-ast...
Space Systems Loral Provides on Time Delivery of NASA ...
15.03.2012 - Palo Alto, CA (SPX) Mar 16, 2012 Space Systems/Loral has completed on time delivery of a new propulsion system to NASA. The propulsion syste... ... Niuzer - Local News ... Space & AstronomyDiscussions. 24 Jan 2012 ...
www.niuzer.com/.../Space-Systems-Loral-Provides-on-Time-D...
Cassini Spies Wave Rattling Jet Stream on Jupiter - NASA Jet ...
Bring the Universe to You, JPL Email News, JPL on Facebook, JPL on Twitter... amateur astronomers led by Amy Simon-Miller at NASA's Goddard SpaceFlight ...
www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-070
How NASA Will Improve its Telescopes' Vision - Space Scientific
Dulverton astronomy group reach for the stars · Jerome Albert, Who Helped Bring Space Age to Coney... Back U-Today · Universe Today News How NASAWill ...
www.spacescientific.com/.../24646-how-nasa-will-improve-its-...
Research News - NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
National Aeronautics and Space Administration ... Go to Site Navigation (press3) ... amateur astronomers led by Amy Simon-Miller at NASA's GoddardSpace ...
www.giss.nasa.gov/research/news/20120313/
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