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May 18, 2011

SPACE, Astronomy News, May 18, 2011 (2)


Astropark for Kazan

The Voice of Russia
The foundation-stone laying ceremony will take place in August this year, as part of an international conference on astronomy, planned to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Yury Gagarin's flight into space and the 100th birthday of Mstislav Keldish, ...
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The Voice of Russia
 George Mitchell commits $25 million to Giant Magellan Telescope
EurekAlert (press release)
Those partners include Astronomy Australia Ltd., the Australian National University, the Carnegie Institution for Science, Harvard University, the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, theSmithsonian Institution, Texas A&M University, ...
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A big leap from Vizag to NASA
Times of India
That's when I started getting curious about space and astronomy. I signed up for a paid mail ID on Nasa's official website so I can be in the loop for any opportunities. I've always wanted to be different from everyone else. It's not enough if I am one ...
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Out-of-this-world Ideas On Offer
RedOrbit
Of the patents that ESA has so far licensed for non-space applications to industry, one of the most successful has been a patent for a terahertz imaging system originated for deep space astronomynow used in systems for security checks. ...
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Chippewa Hills teacher selected to study with NASA
The Morning Sun
He was recently selected, along with five other educators from across the country to participate inNASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy program. “SOFIA is a telescope that is inside a 747. More than 10 years ago the mission was ...
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Endeavour final flight
ITV.com
Endeavour is heading to the International Space Station to to deliver a multi billion dollar astronomyand physics experiment. It is the penultimate flight for the entire 30-year-old space shuttle fleet. Endeavour's isn't the final shuttle mission. ...
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What Really Sank Donald Trump's Presidential Bid?
E! Online (blog)
Then I shall weigh in with whatever astronomy, or deep-space-physics knowledge is required. Many believe that Trump's presidential utterings were just a bunch of hot air from the get go, a bid for ratings or publicity or whatever feeds Trump's ...
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Homegrown: Karin Sandstrom keeps her eyes to the skies
Longview Daily News
Karin Sandstrom, who earned a Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of California at Berkeley, displays a small telescope her grandfather, Ed Sandstrom, built for her when she began studying astrophysics at Harvard University. ...
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"Unknown Stories from Space" lecture and booksigning
MyCentralJersey.com
Mr. Zimmerman has written four inspiring histories about the first forty years of space exploration and over one hundred magazine and newspaper articles about the adventure of science and astronomy. He posts numerous commentaries and updates on his ...
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Titan reveals its secrets
The Voice of Russia
This suggestion is quite substantiated, says a leading fellow at the Institute ofAstronomy, Valery Shematovich. “This may be inline with reality because Titan is a large moon. We are aware from the previous missions to Jupiter, which has four large...
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The Voice of Russia
Bread loaf-sized nanosatellite to hunt down extra terrestrial life
Newstrack India
... in astronomy: to find 'Exoplanets' beyond our solar system, which could support life like Earth. Seamus Tuohy, director of space systems at Draper Laboratory, which has developed the ExoPlanetSat with the MIT, said the mission was ground breaking. ...
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Finding an Ocean of Fire on Jupiter's Moon Io
TIME
(Watch "Galileo and the Year of Astronomy.") It was in 1979 that astronomers first learned how hot and geologically active Io is, when the Voyager I spacecraft returned images of a massive volcanic plume rising 160 miles (257 km) into space. ...
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Award-winning teacher prefers real-world application
Knoxville News Sentinel
Wood explained how the kinetic energy they created could actually propel a space shuttle. "I linked it into astronomy in order to give it a little more pizzazz," Wood said. "So then they would be interested in doing the computations. ...
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Valley third-graders exhibit art at Wildling
Santa Ynez Valley News
The exhibit, “Dark Skies-Bright Art,” was a culminating activity for science units on astronomy. Parents, grandparents, friends, teachers, principals and distinguished guests, county Superintendent of Schools Bill Cirone and Supervisor Doreen Farr ...
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Charles Harker School students in Woolwich Township get a closer look at the ...
Gloucester County Times - NJ.com
"We're just getting them excited for astronomy." The kids climbed through a tunnel to reach the inside of the traveling planetarium a large fan-operated bubble with a night sky projection. They learned what constellations they can find in this area at ...
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Willard Boyle
Telegraph.co.uk
CCD technology gradually entered the arena of commercial photography, but Boyle remained most proud of the CCD sensor's applications in astronomy. The device is used to capture images from the Hubble Space Telescope and Mars rovers. ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Host a "From Earth to the Solar System" Exhibit
Space Ref (press release)
Image contributions include those from backyard astronomers, large telescopes in space, and even point-and-shoot cameras of field researchers. Updates about the project are also available via Twitterand Facebook. Look for the links on the website. ...
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Marietta Graduates Latest Class from Citizens Police Academy
Patch.com
... program for astronomy enthusiasts called "What's New in the Universe? Starry, Starry Night." Retired educator and writer Chris Miller will lead the program and discuss the types of home telescopes and display photos from the Hubble Space Telescope. ...
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Master the cosmos with Universe Sandbox
ComputerActive.co.uk
Unlike a lot of free to use astronomy software, Universe Sandbox really lets you play around with the physics and find out how things work. There is an endless amount of detail to get to grips with and so much stuff to play around with. ...
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Alexander Gemignani, Will Swenson Set for MOVIE KING Reading, 5/19
Broadway World
His multi-media adaptation of George Orwell's 1984 had its world premiere at The Empty SpaceTheater and was directed by Allison Narver. His short play Controlling Interest, has been produced all over the world, and was a finalist in the National ...
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Paleo-Pioneer Camp at Gray Fossil Site now registering for summer
TriCities.com
“This year is exciting because we are offering many new activities about dinosaurs, astronomy, and ecology in addition to our other fossil-themed activities,” says education coordinator Sarah Mullersman. “We are also working with Bays Mountain to offer ...
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Nintendo Store Update: Chrono Trigger fires on Virtual Console
GameSpot
The game sports multiple categories, including astronomy, currency, and rivers. Further, each puzzle is scrambled upon completion, meaning that no puzzle will be repeated. The last new game out now is Hellokids - Vol. 1: Coloring and Painting (200 DSi ...
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Ballard High students' experiment on board Endeavour
KING5.com
Inside one Ballard High School classroom is where astronomy and biotech students came up with and worked on their idea. That's also where they found out about the big honor being one of 16 schools chosen to have an experiment launched into space Monday ...
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Shuttle Endeavour Chasing Space Station in Orbit - Yahoo! News
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European Space Agency's Herschel space telescope detects a unique galactic phenomenon.
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US astronomers launch search for alien life on 86 planets - World ...
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SPACE, Astronomy News, May 18, 2011

Art can be a tool in planetary exploration
USA Today
Artistic depictions of alien worlds have blossomed into their own genre of space art in the last decade, even as planet hunting has emerged as one of astronomy's hottest pursuits. A 2010 National Academies of Science report named planet detection one ...
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USA Today
Explore changes in night sky at free astronomy program
Mableton.11alive.com
Cobb County, GA -- (submitted by Cobb County Communications) Astronomy enthusiasts of all ages will have an opportunity to discuss current discoveries in deep space at the program "What's New in the Universe? Starry, Starry Night. ...
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Kepler data scoured for extraterrestrial signals
San Francisco Chronicle
... than the Hubble Space Telescope gathered during its first 20 years of observations. Werthimer's principal colleague in the new search is Andrew Siemion, an astronomy graduate student who is also involved in another SETI project called SERENDIP, ...
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'Science for development: the case for astronomy', Brussels, Belgium
Cordis News
The conference programme also will include plenary sessions on how astronomy partnerships can make a significant contribution to the implementation of the Joint Africa-EU Strategy's Science,Space and Information Partnership, including details of ...
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The problems with large telescopes
Keremeos Review
Most objects we observe in astronomy are faint, and as we dig further and further out in space, back in time towards the beginning of the universe, objects become incredibly faint. Because there is inevitably a sensitivity threshold for any detector or ...
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An unforgettable event at NASA's Goddard
Weekly Blitz
This Center manages many of NASA's Earth Observation, Astronomy, and SpacePhysics missions. The GSFC Facility also maintains the adjacent Magnetic Test Facility and Propulsion Research site and many other outlying sites including the Antenna ...
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Weekly Blitz
'Rocket Boys' legacy lives on at NASA
MassLive.com
It also conducts Earth-orbit and astronomy missions and is responsible for operating NASA's DeepSpace Network, an international array of antennas and communications facilities that supportinterplanetary space missions.
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Galileo's Conversion
Forbes (blog)
In the latest issue of the Journal for the History of Astronomy, Harvard professor Owen Gingerich, a world famous historian of Copernicus and author of The Book That Nobody Read, and Albert Van Helden, professor of the history of science at the ...
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Cannes '11 Day 7: Planet Terror
Boston Globe (blog)
At some point, Dunst gazes skyward and notices an space oddity. It's later it's explained, by Sutherland's astronomy buff, that a runaway planet intends to pass just by Earth. It's called Melancholia, and in one of the more eerily divine images von ...
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Department of Defense and Full-Year Continuing Appropriation Act restricts ...
Daily Bruin
Matt Siegler, a graduate student in planetary astronomy, looks for ice on the moon and regularly works with dirt from Mars as part of his research at the UCLA Department of Earth and SpaceSciences. He and Paige conduct research for the Diviner Lunar ...
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New SETI survey focuses on Kepler's top Earth-like planets
Space Daily
by Staff Writers Now that NASA's Kepler space telescope has identified 1235 possible planets around stars in our galaxy, astronomers at the University of California, Berkeley, are aiming a radio telescope at the most Earth-like of these worlds to see ...
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Space Daily
CSIRO sourcing hardware for Pawsey SKA supercomputing environment
Computerworld Australia
The second stage of the project was announced in March, with the agency stating that the Pawsey centre would act as a real-time processing facility for data, storage and analysis of data products from the Murchison Radio-Astronomy Observatory (MRO) and ...
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Producer's Notes: Finding Light
QUEST (blog)
In fact, he's gotten so good at it, he was honored as one of the winners of the InternationalAstronomy Photographer of the Year, 2010 awards in the “People and Space” category. Here's his winning photo, taken at Pfeiffer Beach in Big Sur, California. ...
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N.J. Woman's Spectacular Shuttle Launch Photos From ... - News
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Carnival of Space #116 @ Habitation Intention | Astronomy - Top ...
Astronomy - The Carnival is back with a new issue and a new host. Habitation Intention is all about envisioning humans living in space.
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Astronomy & Spaceflight News - Space Shuttle Endeavour to Launch ...
NASA managers have retargeted space shuttle Endeavour's launch to no earlier than Monday, May 16. After a meeting on Friday, they also extended the length ...
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