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"This is probably the most exotic galaxy with a black hole ever seen," said the study's principal investigator, Ananda Hota of the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA) in Taiwan, in a statement. "It has the potential to teach ...
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Stargazing
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Photo by Julia MooreJulia Moore By John Darling When the recession put an end to the Phoenix Day Spa in Ashland, owner Jessica Vineyard turned to her lifelong passion — astronomy — to make a living. Now she's charted a new course as a wandering star ...
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Space journey takes one small step for Manitoba
MetroNews Canada
Astrophysics professor Samar Safi-Harb, a Canada Research Chair in the department of physics andastronomy, joins a team of Canadians for a Japanese-led space exploration that's bringing the latest from the skies into the classroom. ...
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Recommended: Milky Way galaxy re-created
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For 20 years, astronomers have been trying to come up with a simulated galaxy that comes close to the look of the Milky Way and other spiral galaxies — but fell short of the mark. Guedes and her colleagues were more successful in part because of the ...
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| Keck: Uncovering secrets of the great supernova Hawaii 24/7 (press release) ... images of the Pinwheel Galaxy taken by the Hubble Space Telescope before August 25 and see if there was a star in the same location. “Keck and Hubble are pretty well matched in terms of spatial resolution,” Keck support astronomer Jim Lyke said. ... See all stories on this topic » |  Hawaii 24/7 (press release) |
Cardiff student discovers two new asteroids
WalesOnline
“This project, which we decided to squeeze in to the normally quiet summer months when the telescopes are not being used by schools, has been an amazing success”, says Dr Paul Roche, head of astronomy at Glamorgan and space ambassador for Wales. ...
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Beyond the Horizon
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Holst researcher Kendric Taylor explained on www.gustavholst.info that “The Planets” was based not on astronomy but astrology, which uses Earth as a “reference point.” Holst “dabbled” in celestial predictions with his astrologer friend Clifford Bax. ...
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| Q&A: Beyond the Rim of the Grand Canyon New York Times (blog) Bryce Canyon National Park, filled with amphitheaters cut naturally out of eroding rock, offers multimedia astronomy shows by the park's rangers and volunteer astronomers, whom they call “the Dark Rangers.” The show is at 7 pm on Saturday nights during ... See all stories on this topic » |  New York Times (blog) |
Glendale Man Wins NASA Trip Through Twitter
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"I've loved it since I was 8 years old, I started studying astronomy, my father got me interested." There's probably no better candidate than Buxton, a NASA fanatic. The NASA channel is always on, and check out all of his memorabilia he's collected ...
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Home Fashions Market to feature new, expanded showrooms at 7 W New York
Home Accents Today
During the Sept. market, Kaleen will introduce two new collections, Astronomy and Bimini, as well as several new Khazana Designs. www.kaleen.com Berkshire Blanket (939) Opening in time for the market, this Massachusetts-based company produces blankets, ...
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Look At This Crazy Laptop: GScreen's Spacebook
Geekosystem
by James Plafke | 4:28 pm, August 29th, 2011 For those video editors and graphic designers on the go, GScreen's Spacebook is a laptop that employs the other definition of “space,” in that it provides double the screen real estate than those old, ...
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"Blood in the Corners" by J. Robert Lennon
Salon
They would have a lot to talk about, he thinks -- astronomy, socialism. He considers masturbating, but is too depressed. He misses Halyna and his wardrobe. He misses feeling good about himself. The '80s! he thinks, still gazing at the row of videotapes ...
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Astronomers at NUI Galway achieve pulsars breakthrough
Siliconrepublic.com
The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope opened a new era for pulsar astronomy, according to the NUI Galway astronomers. To give you an idea of the density of pulsars, they are about one and a half times the mass of ...
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| Drawing pictures key to learning science ABC Science Online "So much reasoning in science is visual," he adds, giving the example of astronomy. He says understanding night and day and the seasons requires a visual understanding of the relationship between the Sun and the Earth. Tytler and colleagues own ... See all stories on this topic » |  ABC Science Online |
New discovery sheds light on the ecosystem of young galaxies
EurekAlert (press release)
Rauch and his team, using the Magellan Telescopes at Las Campanas Observatory and archival images from the Hubble Space Telescope, discovered a galaxy with an extended patch of light surrounding it. The objects appearance means that roughly half of the ...
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Notre Dame astrophysicists identify missing fuel for galactic star formation
Astronomy Magazine
Astronomers have hypothesized that the ionized fast-moving gas clouds could be this reservoir of gas, but it was not known if they were interacting with the Milky Way. “Our findings explain why the Milky Way can keep having star formation,” Lehner said ...
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| NASA May Leave ISS Unmanned After Russian Rocket Crash International Business Times ISS, which is expected to remain in operation until at least 2020, and potentially till 2028, is the largest space station ever constructed and serves as a research lab to conduct experiments in biology, physics, astronomy and meteorology. ... See all stories on this topic » |  International Business Times |
| Astronoblog » Space Astronomy Summer Program 2011 at ... - News By ttasnimana Space Astronomy Summer Program 2011 at STScI. ttasnimana | August 29, 2011. A week ago, my internship at STScI ended. Too many amazing things happened that I am grateful for, and here are some (non-project related) highlights of my ... Astronoblog |
| Webb: Who Cares What It Costs - Don't Bother Us - Just Send ... By Keith Cowing ... the problem and the prominence of James Webb for the agency was such that it should be considered an agency-wide solution," William Smith, president of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, told Space News Friday ... NASA Watch |
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