Hubble 3D has two main intents: to document a NASA mission to fix the Hubble telescope and to provide a thorough introduction to astronomy. NASA's Hubble space telescope orbits around the earth and takes pictures of galaxies millions of light years ...
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Stars Come Alive at Astronomy Club's Day of Events
Patch.com
... of Brick (right) chat about star gazing during the Ocean County College Astronomy Day event. The Robert J. Novins Planetarium, along with the Astronomical Society of the Toms River Area, hosted a day of space education and activities on April 30. ...
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Comet Hale-Bopp 'Frozen to Death'
Discovery News
In research to be published in Astronomy & Astrophysics the team, headed by Gyula Szabó of Konkoly Observatory in Hungary, used the European Southern Observatory's 2.2 meter telescope at La Silla Paranal Observatory in Chile to check up on Hale-Bopp. ...
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Interested in astronomy? Here's how to start
Statesman Journal
Registration is required, and space is limited. Contact: (503) 874-0201. For the Silver Falls website, which includes driving directions and a downloadable parks map, go to www.oregonstateparks.org/park_211.php.
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The Early May Sky
AccuWeather.com (blog)
After midnight, the part of Earth you're standing on has turned so that you face head on into the incoming stream of space debris. Please support a favorite astronomy site of mine, EarthSky.org. This site was the inspiration for this blog and has ...
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All Signs Point to Hidden Ocean on Saturn Moon Titan
Baland and her team will report their results in an upcoming issue of the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. Some astrobiologists speculate that some exotic type of methane-based life could be swimming about in Titan's hydrocarbon lakes. ...
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Public Can Go Stargazing This Week at West Planetarium
Patch.com
Students who take the semester-long elective astronomy science class at West with teacher Todd DeZeeuw learn about stars, constellations, the movement of the planets in our solar system, asteroids, satellites, the space station and much more. ...
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Flovel's 'Ultra Sensitive' Cameras Set Up at Damaged Nuke Plant
Government Video
The EM-120 has been used to capture video of Japan's space shuttle, deep-sea marine observation, astronomy observation, and nocturnal nature observation, among other applications, Flovel says in a written statement. Recently, Japanese broadcasters ...
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Largest-ever 3-D map of distant universe revealed
Penn State Live
"The novel approach employed by this investigation has great promise for future studies of the conditions present in the early universe," said Donald Schneider, distinguished professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State and a coauthor of the ...
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Spaced Out!
ABC Online (blog)
Astronomy expert Dave Reneke explains that searching the nearby universe for radio signals from extra-terrestrials does take a few dollars, and the SETI program has been suspended while it hunts for cash. Also this week some specky meteors courtesy of ...
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Unveiling the dark
Cosmos
Almost 20 years ago, scientists from around the world had a vision of a telescope so large and so powerful that it could address some of the most fundamental questions in astronomy and physics. Picture a telescope with a collecting area of one million ...
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Cross-disciplinary collaborative art project in which musicians and scientists from UVA were paired up to work on music and/or multimedia pieces with themes like astronomy, nutrition, and aquatic life. On April 21, 2011, the Haven in Downtown ...
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The Tiger's Roar: Harold Camping: Is the world really coming to an end?
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As far as astronomy goes, the celestial beings are still suspended in space, while the Earth willingly rotates on its axis. If the end of the world were to occur then, the prophecies in Isaiah 13: 10; 34: 4, Matthew 24: 29, Mark 13: 24-25, ...
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Spacecraft Earth to Perform Asteroid 'Flyby' This Fall
Space Fellowship
The space rock has been in astronomers' crosshairs before. In April 2010, Mike Nolan and colleagues at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico generated some ghostly images of 2005 YU55 when the asteroid was about 2.3 million kilometers (1.5 million ...
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of astronomers today revealed details of a "super-exotic" exoplanet that would make the planet Pandora in the movie ...
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Yorktown pairs lessons in astronomy, art | Astronomical Telescope
You Are Here: Home » Astronomy News » Yorktown pairs lessons in astronomy, art ... several teachers at Yorktown Community Schools found it in outer space. ...
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Big Asteroid's Approach in November Excites Astronomers
Space.com
[5 Reasons to Care About Asteroids] This round space rock has been in astronomers' cross hairs before. In April 2010, astronomers at the National Science Foundation's Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico generated some ghostly radar images of 2005 YU55 ...
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NASA Astronaut Piers Sellers Returns to Goddard
PR Newswire (press release)
His diverse skills in robotics, spacewalking and his vast knowledge of science, astronomy and engineering were instrumental in helping us build the International Space Station." Sellers previously worked at Goddard as a researcher from 1982 to 1996. ...
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Today's Distraction: Spotting Mountains On The Moon
NPR (blog)
If you want more on how a solar eclipse happens in space, Bad Astronomy provides a diagram. First, that's not natural color. National Geographic reports that the image was taken in extreme ultraviolet light so you can see the sun's violent magnetic ...
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Katikati student heading to Space Camp
The Bay of Plenty Times
"She says she has a huge interest in the field of science and believes that the study of astronomy and space are very important to humanity. "Space is the final frontier for humans and one of the only things still a mystery. ...
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Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee Meeting via Teleconference
Space Ref (press release)
Purpose of Meeting: To provide advice and recommendations to the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the US Department of Energy (DOE) on issues within the field of astronomy and astrophysics ...
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PlanetQuest comes to Flag
Arizona Daily Sun
... groups that discovered the first exoplanets and is now on NASA's Kepler Space Telescope team, which has already identified more than 1200 potential planets and is widely expected to discover the first Earth-like exoplanet. "Astronomers have not yet ...
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5/7: Challenger Space Center hosts 'Stargazing for Everyone'
AZ Central.com
2, 2011 02:54 PM Astronomy groups in the Valley give occasional opportunities to the public to view the evening sky, but the Challenger Space Center's family stargazing nights feature both an indoor and outdoor experience. When: 7:30 pm Saturday, ...
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School News
Bangor Daily News
Peter Lord, from the Island Astronomy Institute and the Starlight Festival, presented his “Hands in Space” glove project. Students from the University of Maine College of Engineering gave a demonstration of wireless sensor robotics. ...
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50 Years Later: The Alan Shepard Freedom 7 Flight
Huffington Post (blog)
In astronomer-author Philip Plait's book Bad Astronomy (and at his blog) and at Jay Windley's Clavius.org, the experts have explained away the conspiracies as if talking patiently to a kindergartener. (For example, the astronauts were inside a capsule ...
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NASA Space Images App, Website Broaden Cosmic Horizons
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
In the videos tab, users can see footage compiled by active NASA/JPL spacecraft and watch movies about astronomy and various space missions. Additional images will be added in coming months. The app release is coupled with the launch of a Space Images ...
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Titan may have huge ocean
Open Minds UFO News
The data behind the study was provided by NASA's Cassini space probe. This new study isn't the first to suggest an underground ocean on Titan, but as Space.com points out, “[I]t adds another line of evidence in support of this supposition, ...
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Herbst to Serve as Director of Graduate Studies
Wesleyan Connection (blog)
Bill Herbst, the John Monroe van Vleck Professor of Astronomy, will serve as Director of Graduate Studies, beginning this fall 2011 through spring 2014. Herbst received his BA degree from Princeton University, his M. Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the ...
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Aliens, dark energy and Einstein
Cosmos
By Heather Catchpole It may take 10 years and $2 billion but once up and running, the Square Kilometre Array will answer some of astronomy's big questions. Here's the top ten. Mapping the universe in 3D will give us a clear picture of that weird ...
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The complex workings of “windy stars”
Keremeos Review
By Ken Tapping - Keremeos Review Many astronomy books describe the Sun and other stars as “big balls of hot gas”. A moment's inspection would show this not to be true. If this were the case, stars would be “big fuzzy blobs”. ...
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Meteor shower spawned by Halley's Comet peaks Friday
Mother Nature Network
He writes about astronomy for The New York Times and other publications, and he is also an on-camera meteorologist for News 12 Westchester, New York. This article was reprinted with permission from SPACE.com.
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Meet an Astronaut & Kids Free at the San Diego Air & Space Museum's Eighth ...
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Invited Presenters include NASA, San Diego Space Society, JPL, The Mars Society, SETI, San Diego Astronomy Association, UCSD EarthKAM, The Planetary Society, SPAWAR, Virgin Galactic, Aerospace Legacy Foundation, Sally Ride Science, Astronaut Teacher ...
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Three Lowell scientists on program
Arizona Daily Sun
Lowell astronomer Travis Barman is researching the atmospheres of exoplanets to determine their composition. In 2008, Barman was also involved in the team that took the first ever images of a planet outside of our solar system, named the top space ...
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Scientific event calendar launched to popularize science
DeshGujarat
... Dr Vikram Sarabhai, father of Indian space programme, Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao, an Indian statistician. Special events at Science City this month include marking of Astronomy Day on May 6, Thalassemia Day on May 8, National Technology Day on May ...
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6 planets align this month
Tempo
... stars of the constellation Virgo the Virgin, he added. Engr. Dario dela Cruz, officer-in-charge of the PAGASA Space Sciences and Astronomy Section (SSAS), explained that the planets will “appear in nearly the same quadrant forming a conjunction.”
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Antiuniverse here we come
Nature.com (subscription)
No matter what happens with the more speculative search for antimatter, the AMS should produce a definitive map of the cosmic-ray sky, helping to build a kind of astronomy that doesn't depend on light. The AMS consists of a powerful permanent magnet ...
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Woodinville Girls Scouts to Walk Across the Golden Gate Bridge
Patch.com
... Happy Hollow Park and Zoo, American Red Cross Bay Area, Climate Change Education, California Academy of Sciences, Stanford University Center for Probing the Nanoscale, San Jose Earthquakes, Guard a Kid, GSNorCal Astronomy Club, Project Open Hand, ...
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May 4, 2011 Calendar of Events
The Messenger (subscription)
... The Skies Above daily at 1 pm; and Journey To the Edge of Space and Time daily at 2 pm All shows are $2 for children and $4 for adults. Astronomy Day at Golden Pond Planetarium and Observatory at Land Between the Lakes will be observed May 7 from ...
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2 views of a lopsided galaxy
ScienceBlog.com (blog)
Although the Wide Field Imager, on the ground, cannot approach the sharpness of images from Hubble in space, it can cover a much bigger section of sky in a single exposure. The two tools often provide complementary information to astronomers. ...
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North County FYI Datebook
San Diego Union Tribune
Star Parties: The MiraCosta College astronomy department hosts viewing events from 8 to 10 pm on the first Friday and Saturday at MiraCosta College baseball field in Oceanside. Free and open to the public. Information: (760) 757-2121, Ext. 6201. ...
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Space and Earth Sciences News :: Two views of a lopsided galaxy (w ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Meathook Galaxy, or NGC 2442, has a dramatically lopsided shape. One spiral arm is tightly folded in on itself and host to a recent supernova, while the other, dotted with ...
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NASA Spacecraft Closing in On Huge Asteroid Vesta - Yahoo! News
Follow SPACE.com for the latest in space science and exploration news on ... The strange metamorphosis astronomers observed in an asteroid late last year … ...
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Big Asteroid's Approach in November Excites Astronomers - Space ...
This autumn, an asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier will zoom closer to Earth than our own moon, causing scientists to hold their breath.
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Space shuttle launch target pushed back to May 10 (Reuters ...
Posted on 02 May 2011 by Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy. The space shuttle Endeavour sits on launch pad 39A as work continues on the shuttle's auxilliary ...
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Endeavour APU Issue Testing Under Way - World Astronauts
Posted 12 hours ago by PHYSorg.com: Space Exploration News. Cosmic magnetic fields. Posted 14 hours ago by PHYSorg.com: Astronomy News ...
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Hanny's Voorwerp (SDSS J094103.80+344334.2) - Astronomy News
Now, with the help of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have uncovered a pocket of young star clusters (colored yellow-orange in the image) at the ...
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Will Scientists Discover Life in Space
Get the latest outer space and science news, NASA information, watch space flight videos at Space.com. View exclusive solar system Images, latest astronomy ...
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