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SPACE, Astronomy News, Apr 02, 2012

Astronomers Capture Images of Massive Solar Tornado
Astronomers Capture Images of Massive Solar Tornado
RedOrbit
A NASA satellite has captured images of a solar tornado that is said to be five times as wide as Earth and one of the largest such structures ever discovered on our sun, astronomersrevealed during the National Astronomy Meeting in Manchester, England, ...
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Debate over whether water flows on Mars rages on
msnbc.com
[Photos: The Search for Water on Mars] Space.com spoke to several scientists involved in the research, who gave us a glimpse into what may be happening on Mars. Ongoing drainage system Conditions are such on present-day Mars that, at certain locations ...
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msnbc.com
NASA: Look west at sunset for a rare space show
WTVR
PHOTO: Venus approaching the Pleiades on March 31st, photographed by astronomy professor Jimmy Westlake of Stagecoach, Colorado. RICHMOND, Va. (WTVR) – Clear skies tonight should make for ideal viewing of one of April's first great sky-shows: the ...
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WTVR
Bright new comet to light up the night — in about a year
msnbc.com
Astronomers measure the brightness of objects in space on a reverse scale; the higher an object's magnitude, the dimmer it appears to observers. The comet was so far away that at first there was difficulty in pinning down the exact date of when it ...
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msnbc.com
Cats in space: Video pokes fun at cosmic photo controversy
Mother Nature Network
"The problem is that they are obscuring the astronomicalphenomena that our scientists and the public would be more interested in seeing," he explains in the video. The video was posted on YouTube by Andy Freeberg, who told SPACE.com that it was ...
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Mother Nature Network
New Map of Distant Galaxies May Reveal Dark Energy History
Space.com
by Clara Moskowitz, SPACE.com Assistant Managing Editor Dark energy, the weird force blamed for propelling the universe to expand at an accelerated speed, probably turned on between 5 and 7 billion years ago, scientists think. Now astronomers have ...
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Doomed Comets Die Faster in Sun by Diving Deep Into Star
Space.com
by Charles Q. Choi, SPACE.com Contributor Comets skimming past the sun may seem like ill-fated cosmic snowballs, and a team of scientists is trying to figure out what makes some fizzle and others explode as they make their solar death dives.
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NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) Captures Image ...
Clarksville Online
Pasadena, CA – Researchers using NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) have captured an infrared image of the last exhalations of a dying sun-like star. The object observed by SOFIA, planetary nebula Minkowski 2-9, ...
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IBM to Help Develop Super Computers to Study Universe's Origins
Bloomberg
(IBM) has partnered with a team building the world's largest radio telescope to develop super computer systems to make sense of light years of spacedata and the history of the universe. The Netherlands Institute for RadioAstronomy, known as ASTRON, ...
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IBM To Power Telescope Producing Twice As Much Data As The Internet Every Day
TPM
By its own admission IBM isn't exactly a name brand when it comes toastronomy. But the company aims to change that by developing software and other computing technology to run what's projected to be the world's largest space telescope, ...
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IBM and ASTRON's DOME project takes on the vast data of space
The Verge
By Jamie Keene on April 2, 2012 04:56 am 4Comments IBM and the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, better known as ASTRON, have announced that they are collaborating on energy efficient, exascale computer systems that will be able to process the ...
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Astronomy conference begins
Himalayan Times
KATHMANDU: The Tenth School on Application of Space Science kicked off here on Monday aiming to share latest knowledge and information on spacescience and astronomy. Inaugurating the conference organised by the BP Koirala Memorial Planetarium and ...
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The MIRI Has Two Faces: Go 'Behind the Webb' (Telescope) in a New Vide
Space Daily
by Rob Gutro for Goddard Space Flight Center A short new video takes viewers behind the scenes with the MIRI or the Mid-Infrared Instrument that will fly on-board NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. MIRI is a state-of-the-art infrared instrument that ...
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Ushering in the final frontier
The Space Review
New opportunities are now open to all: even African nations now have recognizable participation in small satellites andastronomy. Exactly twenty years after this flight, on April 12, 1981, the American Space Shuttle program had its first flight.
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The Space Review
S.Africa, Australia in celestial spat for new telescope
Reuters
... boast world-class astronomy. South Africa hosts the Southern African Large Telescope, the largest of its sort in the southern hemisphere. Australia is home to the Deep Space Network tracking station near Canberra used by the US space agency NASA.
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Sky Shorts: Einstein's light theory may be wrong
Canton Repository
At its peak, large flares may shoot out from the sun, sending charged particles traveling more than 4 million miles per hour out into space, and if timed right, right toward Earth. Most often, these particles cause the beautiful ribbons and streams of ...
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From space camp to quasars: student pursues origins of universe
CMU The Tartan Online
“I've always had hobbies in astronomy through middle and high school,” Disbrow said. “I wanted to pursue that as a major.... I thought that would be a great thing to do for my job in the future.” She recalled her time as an eighth grader running ...
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Crunching the Big Bang With the Greatest Supercomputer Ever Built
Popular Science
SKA Africa/Nadeem Oozeer A little more than a decade from now, one of the world's great arid plains will become a bustling intersection of high-resolution astronomy and high-powered computing. Scrub land in either South Africa or Australia will host...
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Popular Science
IBM: 'We must build an Exascale computer before 2024' (video)
Engadget
It's hoped to be around 50 times as powerful as the dishes we currently point heavenward and will be used to examine the deepest reaches of space to learn more about the formation of the universe. When it goes live in 2024, it'll produce an Exabyte of ...
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Systems to handle big data might be this generation's moon landing
GigaOM
The DOME project, named for a mountain in Switzerland and the covering of a telescope, is the joint effort between IBM and the Dutch space agency ASTRON to build such a network and computer. There are three problems with building a telescope capable of ...
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GigaOM
NASA puts ocean currents to music:
Democratic Underground
Twas' as if I was flying through space, and I was, but it was much more than that. I'd taken college astronomy many years before as an elective, which the professor informed us the class only existed to fund the physics department, haha.
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Multi-Object Spectroscopy on Subaru Telescope Moves Forward
Space Daily
It consists of Academia Sinica Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA, Taiwan), California Institute for Technology (Caltech, California), Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA (JPL, California), Johns Hopkins University (JHU, Maryland), ...
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Giant Telescope project partners pass on federal funds
PhysOrg.com (press release)
The GMT partner institutions are the Australian National University, Astronomy Australia Limited, the Carnegie Institution for Science, Harvard University, the Korea Astronomy andSpace Science Institute, The Smithsonian Institution, ...
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PhysOrg.com (press release)
The Phantom Of The Laboratory
Science 2.0
Read more about the strange modern world of a day laborer in astronomy, plus extra space science-y goodness.... We are fortune here at Science20 to have come across an early work by Gaston Leroux. This manuscript was dated to 1899, suggesting it was an ...
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The search for cool hydrogen
ABC Online
Anant Tanna describes the challenges in balancing the cool hydrogen that's been found and that which is expected to be there in the vast expanse ofspace. Anant Tanna is also investigating the possibility that a mathematical constant used in astronomy ...
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IBM hunts for the origins of the universe
SmartPlanet.com (blog)
... efficient and low-power exascale computing in order to run the world's largest radio telescope — and further research in space, matter and our origins. Partnering with ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for RadioAstronomy, IBM and the institute ...
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South Pole Telescope Homes in On Dark Energy, Neutrinos
Science Daily (press release)
This force could be the manifestation of Einstein's cosmological constant, which effectively assigns energy to empty space, even when it is free of matter and radiation. Einstein introduced the cosmological constant into his theory of general ...
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How interstellar beacons could help future astronauts find their way across ...
Space Daily
Team member Prof. Werner Becker presented their work at the NationalAstronomy Meeting in Manchester on Friday 30 March. Have you ever asked yourself how the starship Enterprise in the TV series Star Trek found its way through the depths of space?
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We are in a grand solar maximum is one of 24 during the last 9300 years
Democratic Underground
Graduate student Luke Barnard of the University of Reading will present new results on 'solar climate change' in his paper at the National AstronomyMeeting in Manchester. The level of radiation in the space environment is of great interest to ...
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What's On - week beginning Monday April 2
West Sussex County Times
More information from 01798 875851 or www.rspb.org.uk/pulboroughbrooks THE next Horsham Astronomy Group Meeting, featuring a talk on “SovietSpace Rockets” by Mike Hearn, followed by “Sky Notes” by Anthony Clarke, takes place at 8pm, April 4, ...
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Sofia Captures Images Of The Planetary Nebula M2-9
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 02, 2012 - Researchers using NASA'sStratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) have captured infrared images of the last exhalations of a dying Sun-like star. The object ... . 24/7 Space News ...
Space News From SpaceDaily.Com
NASA: Look west at sunset for a rare space show | WTVR.com ...
By Carrie Rose
NASA: Look west at sunset for a rare space show. Posted on: 1:31 pm, April 2, 2012, by Carrie Rose. PHOTO: Venus approaching the Pleiades on March 31st, photographed by astronomy professor Jimmy Westlake of Stagecoach, Colorado.
WTVR.com – Richmond News &...
VIDEO: Twister on Mars! : Space and Astronomy news daily ...
By Jonathan Nally
AN AFTERNOON WHIRLWIND on Mars lofts a twisting column of dust more 800 metres into the air in this image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Space and Astronomy news daily...
Giant Solar Tornado Caught in NASA Video
Video stills of the solar tornado, as seen by a NASA satellite. ... for National Geographic News ... has been spied on the sun, according to astronomerswho analyzed recent images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. ...often seen to erupt spectacularly, sending giant clouds of charged particles flying off into space.
news.nationalgeographic.com/.../120329-sun-solar-tornadoes-...
Get a peek at huge space cargo ship orbiting Earth
By Wednesday, the spacecraft will arrive at the International Space Station, and both spacecraft may be visible ... More space news from msnbc.com ...Amateur astronomer Ralf Vandebergh, also of the Netherlands, used a 10-inch reflector telescope ... NASA will webcast the space rendezvous live on its NASA TV channel.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/.../ns/technology_and_science-space/
Space and Earth Sciences News :: NASA Wants You to Find ...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made over one million observations during its more than two decades in orbit. New images are published nearly every ...
www.news-about-space.org/astronomy-news/cluster14270952/
Amateur astronomer photographs mysterious Martian 'clouds ...
Amateur astronomer photographs mysterious Martian 'clouds'. Add a comment · Dennis Bodzash's photo. Dennis Bodzash. Space NewsExaminer ...
www.examiner.com/.../amateur-astronomer-photographs-myst...
Space observations of Mercury transits yield ... - Astronomy Magazine
Home » News & Observing » Astronomy News » Space observations of Mercury ... telescope aboard a NASA satellite, thereby bypassing the blurring caused by ...
www.astronomy.com/~/link.aspx?_id=5ae8dd3e-ec1b...
NASA May Find Ice On Scorching Mercury | David Reneke | Space ...
Astro Quiz · Why Is It So? Gift Vouchers ... Join my newsletter to stay up to date on all the latest space news. ... NASA May Find Ice On Scorching Mercury ...
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ASU astronomer to discuss James Webb Space Telescope | ASU ...
subscribe subscribe news asu[insight]. now · science & tech ... March 22, 2012. A 2009 artist's conception of the James Webb Space Telescope. Photo by: NASA ...
https://asunews.asu.edu/21020322_telescopelecture
Carnival of Space #242 | Dear Astronomer | Answering your ...
Here's some highlights of space and astronomy news from the past week. We've got ... NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) reached 1000 days in orbit.
www.dearastronomer.com/2012/03/26/carnival-of-space-242/
Astronomy students receive NASA-funded fellowships - News and ...
Astronomy students receive NASA-funded fellowships ... researching asteroids and stars through Michigan Space Grant Consortium undergraduate fellowships.
www.calvin.edu/.../astronomy-students-receive-nasa-funded-fe...
Astronomers Put Forward New Theory On Size Of ... - Space Newsfeed
The most comprehensive space news service available ... NASA'sGoddard, Glenn Centers Look To Lift Space Astronomy Out Of The Fog · Prototype Equipment ...
www.spacenewsfeed.co.uk/.../11237-astronomers-put-forward...
Today's NASA Breaking News March 30, 2012 :ScienceLine
NASA, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the State Department and Nike today announced a challenge to identify 10 game- changing ...
www.scienceline.eu/.../todays-nasa-breaking-news-march-30-2...
Orbiter.ch Space News: NASA'S Swift Narrows Down Origin of ...
Because astronomers know the intrinsic brightness of Type Ia supernovae, how ... an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
orbiterchspacenews.blogspot.com/.../nasas-swift-narrows-dow...
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