After Hubble: Will Budget Woes Kill NASA's Next Great Telescope? TIME And with every one of those leaps, astronomers discovered something unexpected and astonishing — massive black holes spewing blasts of energy into space, tiny neutron stars spinning a thousand times a second, dark matter pushing galaxies around like ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Happy birthday, planet Neptune Examiner.com Astronomy being a weather-allowing pursuit, be sure to keep an eye on the Cleveland weather forecast and, for hour-by-hour cloud predictions, the Cleveland Clear Sky Clock. The good news is that tonight and tomorrow are looking very good for astronomy, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| W.Va. research helped Russian space project Charleston Gazette The RadioAstron project is now the top science priority of the Roscosmos, the Russian spaceagency. The physicists and astronomers were, among other things, working on the interferometry technique of radio astronomy, which involves linking telescopes ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Grand Opening of the Pacific Planetarium PR Newswire (press release) The Pacific Planetarium is an astronomy education and educational research facility operated by Digitalis Education Solutions, Inc. Its mission is to increase astronomy and science literacy, research and evaluate related education methods, and showcase ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Astronomers probe matter in early universe Science News Other experiments will soon start hunting for lensing in polarized light coming from the Big Bang afterglow. When combined with data from the European Space Agency's Planck satellite, cosmologists will have even more discoveries to chew over, says Das. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Colleges reach out to teach youngsters through summer camps Daytona Beach News-Journal Openings remain for the following three weeks dealing with physics/astronomy, math and spaceadventure. "We live in a world of technology. It is not going to go away," said Behi, professor of electrical, computer, software & systems engineering. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Stratford youth had inside look at last shuttle launch Ct Post Severn was just 10 years old when his parents took him to the observatory at Boothe Park in the summer of 2001 to see noted astronomer John Dobson host one of his famous "sidewalkastronomy" lectures. And after Dobson's talk, Severn lined up, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Solar Wind Changes Atmospheric Pressure over South Korea MIT Technology Review (blog) Today, Il-Hyun Cho and buddies at the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute in Daejeon, say they have the first evidence that the solar wind can influence the sea-level atmospheric pressure at mid latitudes. These guys searched through space ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| ESA builds billion-pixel digital camera to map the Milky Way ZDNet (blog) So why the disclaimer of “for a space mission” tacked onto “the largest digital camera ever built” phrase? Possibly because the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy already has a bigger digital camera working in its Panoramic Survey Telescope ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| News in Brief: Atom & Cosmos Science News Astronomers used Europe's Very Large Telescope to image the supergiant and reported the results online June 23 in Astronomy & Astrophysics. Betelgeuse is the second-brightest star in the constellation Orion and has a radius equal to the distance ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Video: Concentrating photovoltaics inspired by telescope design SPIE Newsroom ... space sunshade to cool the Earth. He has designed telescopes to image and search for primitive life on Earth-like planets orbiting nearby stars and first used optical fibers in astronomy to obtain astronomical spectra, now a widely used technique. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Book Review: Ben Mezrich's 'Sex on the Moon' Boston magazine's Boston Daily (blog) After all, I was an astronomy buff as a kid and have always been enraptured by the Apollo lunar missions. (Memo to all moon nerds like me: Read Andrew Chaikin's definitive Apollo history, A Man on the Moon, and buy–not rent–the beautiful documentary ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Celebrate Science with SETI this Summer QUEST (blog) by Laura Khalil • July 12th, 2011 Photo by Tama Leaver via FlickrI had the pleasure of attending SETIcon last year, a weekend in mid-August focused both on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, astronomy and modern day science fiction. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Neptune Completes Its First Orbit The Epoch Times "Cloudy with a chance of methane" is the general weather forecast, says planetary scientist Heidi Hammel of the Association of the Universities of Research in Astronomy (Aura), according to the BBC. And winds that go up to 1930 kilometers (1200 miles) ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| ET, Phone the Bay Area Huffington Post (blog) Today, this idea has been refined with better technology and a suppler knowledge of astronomy. In the 1970s, a small group of scientists and engineers at NASA Ames Research Center in the South Bay, considered the feasibility of building radio equipment ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Scientists model physics of a key dark-energy probe EurekAlert (press release) "It brought together professionals in the fields of physics, astronomy and computational science to produce impressive results that might not otherwise have come together for many years. OSC is proud to have contributed to these achievements. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Engineering student makes it to international astronomy camp Pune Newsline “The camp will basically focus on the varied aspects of astronomy and astrophysics like deep space astronomy. We will also work in their own research lab and even use the high sensitive sensor cameras to photograph the night sky,” says Vora, adding, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Dealing with space hazards : Space and Astronomy news daily ... By Jonathan Nally But in 2009, European Space Agency member states asked the Agency to embark on a new programme, known as Space Situational Awareness, or SSA. Now in its initial phase, SSA aims to develop Europe's own scanning, detection and warning ... Space and Astronomy news daily... |
| Astronomers react to plans to cancel James Webb Space Telescope ... By Space.com Astronomers are up in arms over proposed congressional budget cuts that would cancel an ambitious but over-budget space observatory that has been pegged as the successor to NASA's Hubble SpaceTelescope. ... "This is a perfect example of NASA revealing the unknown and reaching for new heights," Lori Garver told reporters at a July 7 news briefing from the Kennedy Space Center inFlorida. "It was a scratch program; we developed technologies. We will be prepared to lay out ... Earth Matters News |
| Space Shuttle's Greatest Feat: Redefining the 'Right Stuff' - Topix Astronomy. News · Forums & Polls. Space Shuttle's Great. ... NASA's planned Friday launch of the space shuttle Atlantis will be the 135th and final liftoff ... www.topix.com/forum/science/.../TO9JABHA6LGI43KKQ |
| Space And Astronomy Mattters - Jul 1 2011 - Stunning Noctilucent ... Europe's Proba-2 satellite had a ring-side seat to the partial solar eclipse of July 1. on July 1 FromSPACE.com in Space And Astronomy News ... space-and-astronomy.mattters.com/.../stunning-noctilucent-clo... |
| Astronomy Directory (Stars, Objects, Universe, Galaxies ... Offers information on astronomy and space science including news, events, blogs, images, videos and links to other sites. It is written and compiled by ... www.launchbase.net/science/astronomy/directory.htm |
