SPACE, Astronomy News, Sep 21, 2011

Finding Snoopy: Astronomers and students scour space for lost Apollo 10 module
Tecca
Apollo 10's landing module, Snoopy, was jettisoned like all other landing modules, and has been floating around in space since then. NASA last had contact with Snoopy back in 1969, and no orbital data for the Snoopy exists after that year. ...
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Canada in path of space junk
Montreal Gazette
Peter Brown, an astronomy professor at the University of Western Ontario, said the chance that it will strike somewhere in Canada is relatively low, given that its orbit ranges anywhere in the world between latitude of 57 degrees north and 57 degrees ...
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Armchair Astronomy Takes Off On The Web
QUEST (blog)
Garan takes photos in space and shares them over Google+. From hosting tweetups with spaceenthusiasts, to sharing space amazing videos on YouTube, NASA has embraced social media as a way to spread its message and further popularize astronomy. ...
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Researchers Develop Method for Detecting Black Hole, Star Collision International Business Times Video simulations were created by NASA's Tim Sandstrom using the Pleiades supercomputer at the agency's Ames Research Center in California. Marc Kamionkowski, a professor of physics and astronomy at Johns Hopkins University, said the research will help ... See all stories on this topic »

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The Secret Lives of Solar Flares Space Daily Since then, astronomers have recorded thousands of strong flares using instruments ranging from the simplest telescopes in backyard observatories to the most complex spectrometers on advanced spacecraft. Possibly no other phenomenon in astronomyhas ... See all stories on this topic »

Space Daily

Get starry-eyed at the Swaner
Park Record
Larson will give a lecture at 7:30 pm Immediately following the talk, attendees will have the opportunity to participate in astronomy-based activities that include stargazing from the center's deck. "The Swaner has held star parties for a long time, ...
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How to See the Brightest Supernova in a Generation Universe Today If you don't have a good-sized “amateur” telescope, you might consider contacting a local astronomy club to see if they are having a “star party” or observing night in your area. To find an astronomy club, check out NASA's Night Sky Network. ... See all stories on this topic »

Universe Today

How the Milky Way Got Its Spiral Space Daily Supercomputer simulations by Christopher W. Purcell, postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in Pitt's School of Arts and Sciences, and colleagues report their findings in a paper titled "The Sagittarius Impact as an ... See all stories on this topic »

Space Daily

A Plethora of Planets: Number of Known Exoplanets Soaring
Scientific American (blog)
One is technological innovation—instruments such as the NASA Kepler spacecraft and the HARPS spectrograph on a European Southern Observatory telescope in Chile have brought dramatic improvements to astronomers' extrasolar vision. ...
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Bill Nye the science guy at UVU UVU Review During Ned's time as a POW, he became fascinated with astronomy, specifically with sundials. Ned stuck a shovel in the ground and watched it's shadow shorten and grow as the days wore on, keeping track of things like meals for his fellow POW's. ... See all stories on this topic »

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How Netflix Lost its Glamor and its Way
The Mac Observer
During his five years at Apple, he worked as a Senior Marketing Manager for science and technology, Federal Account Executive, and High Performance Computing Manager. His interests include alpine skiing, SciFi, astronomy, and Perl. ...
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NASA's WISE raises doubt about asteroid family believed responsible for ...
Astronomy Magazine
With the new infrared observations from WISE, astronomers say Baptistina may finally be ruled out. "As a result of the WISE science team's investigation, the demise of the dinosaurs remains in the cold case files," said Lindley Johnson from NASA ...
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NASA Completes Giant Mirrors for Hubble Successor ... - Yahoo! News News. NASA's next huge space telescope passed a major mirror milestone this week ... Nature described the James Webb as "the telescope that ate astronomy". ... news.yahoo.com/nasa-completes-giant-mirrors-hubble-success...

NASA - NASA's WISE Mission Captures Black Hole's Wildly Flaring Jet Astronomers using NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have captured rare data of a... NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration ... www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/WISE/.../wise20110920.html

Space Mattters (@space_mattters) on Twitter Sign up for Twitter to follow Space Mattters (@space_mattters). Stories from the Space andAstronomy channels on Mattters. ... The #Space #Science Channel: NASA Sets Sights on Mars After Unmanned Moon Shot ... The #Space #And # Astronomy #News Channel: Crime lab stays on the 9/11 case bit.ly/r9m64u 7:33 PM ... twitter.com/Space_mattters

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DISCOVERIES News, Sep 21, 2011

Five Scientific Discoveries that Changed the World
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Not only studying the biology, but the physics, chemistry and other fields of science in a particular environment. The cumulative efforts of many scientists resulted in the discovery that the Earth's surface is broken into several interconnected plates ...
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Struwe, a professor in the Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, is no stranger to unusual species descriptions. She's previously described a species in the gentian family from the Andes named after Harry Potter and another named after the Inca ...
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According to Dr. LaCourse, Interim Dean, creator of the Discovery Center and one of the key people behind CASTLE, the idea behind it is to allow students the opportunity to make discoveries and take ownership of their learning. ...
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How do you build a dinosaur? BBC News He and a colleague only recently found a new species tucked away in storage, and he says there are a huge number of specimens which could become new discoveries. "We're in a golden age of dinosaur discovery, there's about 50 new species of dinosaurs ... See all stories on this topic »

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Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Ph.D., President of The Rockefeller University, Joins ...
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"Agios has identified and published a number of outstanding scientific findings in the short time since it was founded and has already made considerable progress in translating these discoveries into novel cancer metabolism therapeutics," said Dr. ...
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"Our scientific discoveries continue to show that Bionovo has a robust pipeline of drugs for the treatment of women's health that are safer than currently available therapies and in large demand by physicians and patients alike. ...
See all stories on this topic »Nanoscale Building Dedicated on University of Arkansas Campus
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“The field of nanoscience is producing new discoveries and developments virtually every day,” said Chancellor G. David Gearhart. “Thanks to outstanding faculty and student research, we are proud to be the hub of much of that activity. ...
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"The fact that she involved the community in the evolution of the discovery I think is a great example of how science and community partners can walk in lockstep together, and actually makediscoveries that are important and might change the face of ...
See all stories on this topic »First recurrent gene fusion identified in ovarian cancer
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The study, which appears in the September 20 issue of the online, open access journal PLoSBiology, was funded by the National Cancer Institute, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Canary Foundation - a non-profit dedicated to developing ...
See all stories on this topic »Faded fellows feeling undermines the elite
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But it is the leaders such as Cook and Harrison, and their individual discoveries, that are remarkable, not the fact they were operating at these mysterious boundaries. That said, there is always a case for integrating knowledge and facilitating the ...
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ANKARA Bomb Explosion, Sep 20, 2011

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Ankara bomb blast: explosion rocks Turkey's capital (Video) Washington Post (blog) By Melissa Bell A bomb blast outside a high school in the Turkish capital of Ankarainjured 15 people Tuesday afternoon and killed three people. A Turkish police bomb disposal expert walks at the site of a blast in central Ankara. ... See all stories on this topic »

Obama talks with Erdogan, condemns bombing in Turkey Reuters Turkish police bomb disposal experts walk at the site of a blast in centralAnkara September 20, 2011. NEW YORK (Reuters) - US President Barack Obama condemned a deadly bombing in Ankara on Tuesday, as he met Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on ... See all stories on this topic » Reuters

Blast Shakes Turkish Capital Wall Street Journal By MARC CHAMPION And JOE PARKINSON Turkish firemen and police officers searched the area after a blast in Ankara, Turkey on Tuesday. ISTANBUL—A suspected car bomb that killed three people and injured 34 in the center of Turkey's capital, Ankara, ... See all stories on this topic » Wall Street Journal

Turkey's deputy prime minister says bomb suspected in blast that wounds 15 in ... Washington Post By AP, ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey's deputy prime minister says bomb suspected inblast that wounds 15 in the capital. Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. ... See all stories on this topic »

Turkey: 'At least two killed' in Ankara bomb blast Adnkronos International English Ankara, 20 Sept. (AKI) - At least two people were killed Tuesday in the centre of Ankara when a bomb exploded in the centre of the Turkishcapital, according to news reports. Police suspect the explosion in front of the Cankaya local administrator's ... See all stories on this topic » Adnkronos International English

Turkish capital rocked by terror attack, 3 dead: video — RT By RT A terrorist attack in the Turkish capital, Ankara, has killed at least three people and left 34 others injured on Tuesday. ... A bomb blast has rocked the Indian capital, New Delhi, killing nine and injuring at least 65 outside the city's High Court. ... News RSS : Today

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BBC News - Turkish capital Ankara rocked by suspected bomb blast An explosion thought to have been caused by a bomb rocks the centre of the Turkish capital, Ankara, leaving three people dead. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14985496

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