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Scientists measure the elusive extragalactic background light
The Space Reporter
Astronomers from the University of California at Riverside have measured the elusive extragalactic background light (EBL). The EBL is the integrated flux from all extragalactic sources, including those which are individually detected. According to .. [more]
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2 hours ago.
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Ring Nebula 2013: Scientists Recorded the Most Detailed Image
Design & Trend
Design & Trend The Hubble Telescope has produced the most detailed observations ever of the Ring Nebula (Messier 57). This image is more complex than previously thought. Scientists have constructed a model of the nebula in 3D - showing the true shape [more]
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2 hours ago.
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The Ring Nebula Is More Jelly Doughnut Than Bagel
Latinos Post
While previous observations of the nebula indicated gaseous material in the center, it wasn't until various images from the Hubble Space Telescope allowed scientists to recreate the nebula in 3-D that the nebula's structure was confirmed. "The nebula [more]
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3 hours ago.
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Gorgeous Pic of the Ring Nebula Reveals Details of a Star's Death
Slate
The Ring Nebula is one of every amateur astronomer's favorite objects. From the northern hemisphere it gets up high in the sky in the summer, is ridiculously easy to find, and when you look at it through a small telescope it looks like a ghostly, pal [more]
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How 3D Printers Could Reinvent NASA Space Food
Space.com - USA
A NASA-funded project that aims to transform a 3D printer into a space kitchen could one day reinvent how astronauts eat in the final frontier. NASA officials confirmed this week that the space agency awarded $125,000 to the Austin, Texas-based compa [more]
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4 hours ago.
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NASA: One shuttle tank fixed
Malaysia Sun
NASA has modified the first huge external space shuttle tank, a fix meant to avoid repeating a 2003 tragedy that killed seven astronauts and has grounded the shuttles since, the agency said Tuesday.An inquiry board recommended the repair to prevent . [more]
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4 hours ago.
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Toyota Tundra That Towed Space Shuttle Endeavour at California Science
Autochannel - USA
Autochannel (press release) WHAT: The California Science Center, in partnership with Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc., is unveiling the Toyota Tundra full-size pickup truck that towed space shuttle Endeavour over the 405 Freeway Manchester Boulevard [more]
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4 hours ago.
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Giffords, husband to give Bard commencement speech
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA
Kelly is a former space shuttle commander. The couple will address more than 600 graduating students Saturday afternoon during the commencement ceremony 90 miles north of New York City. Giffords will receive an honorary doctorate of humane letters .. [more]
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5 hours ago.
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Towards an African telescope network
South Africa.info - Houghton,South Africa
Very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) is an astronomical technique that uses widely separated radio telescopes in unison to simulate a single telescope hundreds or thousands of kilometres in diameter, producing the clearest, highest resolution ... [more]
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ScienceCasts: Big Weather on Hot Jupiters
AssociatedPress -
Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for breaking science news. Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope are making weather maps of an exotic class of exoplanets called "hot Jupiters." What they're finding is wilder than anything we experience here [more]
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Hubble Telescope reveals true shape of Ring Nebula
Mother Nature Network - Atlanta,GA,USA
This close-up, visible-light view by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals new details of the Ring Nebula. The object is tilted toward Earth so that astronomers see the ring face-on. The blue gas in the nebula's center is actually a football-shaped . [more]
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7 hours ago.
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Explore 30000 galaxies in 3 minutes [Video]
Mother Nature Network - Atlanta,GA,USA
The Hubble Space Telescope has been blowing our minds for 23 years now, and it's still going strong. Just this week, the 12-ton instrument gave us an unprecedented view of the picturesque Ring Nebula, revealing that it's more like a jelly doughnut th [more]
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For Kids: An icy body in space
The Gazette (Montreal) - Quebec,Canada
Astronomer Percival Lowell began searching for a ninth planet in the early 1900s, after noting that something was pulling on the orbits of Uranus (“pronounce YUR-an-us,” Weitekamp tells us, no doubt hoping to stave off the usual jokes) and Neptune .. [more]
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7 hours ago.
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Commercial ventures planned for moon - Nasa
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
The study by Bigelow Aerospace, commissioned by Nasa, shows “a lot of excitement and interest from various companies” for such ventures, said Robert Bigelow, founder and president of the Las Vegas-based firm. The projects range from pharmaceutical .. [more]
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7 hours ago.
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NASA details plan to capture passing asteroid and drag it into Moon's orbit
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA
While no one has yet figured out how to catch a shooting star, NASA has set its sights on lassoing an asteroid so as to one day save the Earth from destruction. Charles Bolden, the director of the U.S. space agency, visited the Jet Propulsion ... [more]
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8 hours ago.
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Meet the only company that still thinks a manned spacecraft should fly back
Frankenstorm
Quartz With the end of the US space shuttle program in 2011, there has been no way for NASA to bring astronauts to and from the International Space Station. To solve this problem, NASA began an investment program, Commercial Crew Integrated Capabilit [more]
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9 hours ago.
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Pingtang telescope to be centerpiece of astronomy plan
China Daily
Local governments plans to invest 4.9 billion yuan ($799 million) to build new towns around the telescope to develop astronomical tourism, China Daily learned during a forum at the 15th Annual Meeting of the China Association for Science and Technolo [more]
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Ring Nebula's true shape is like a jelly doughnut, astronomers say
PakistanToday.com.pk
O'Dell points out that Hubble's detail allows astronomers to view a wildly different shape of the iconic nebula than what's been viewed for decades. Found in the constellation Lyra, the nebula is approximately 2,000 light-years from Earth and measure [more]
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It Sure Looks Beautiful Inside the Ring Nebula
Gizmodo.com - USA
The Ring Nebula is a common image in astronomy, but new images from Hubble reveal something rather strange inside the cloud of swirling gas. These new images, captured by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3, reveal that the glowing gas shroud is actually a [more]
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12 hours ago.
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NASA Ames' SpaceShop in Mountain View creating DIY fixes for astronauts
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA
San Jose Mercury News Inside a funky machine shop on the agency's Mountain View campus, scientists are laboring on tiny satellites and small machine parts custom made by 3D printers, laser cutters, and "Shop Bots" -- all to prepare NASA for a more se [more]
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12 hours ago.
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NASA plans commercial moon ventures
Bangladesh News 24 hours - Dhaka,Dhaka,Bangladesh
Bigelow Aerospace surveyed about 20 companies as well as foreign space agencies and research organisations for the NASA study, which the company undertook at its own expense. Bigelow has made no secret of its ambition to own, lease and operate ... [more]
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12 hours ago.
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NASA's Kepler planet hunter appears broken
Frontier Post - Peshawar,Pakistan
WASHINGTON: NASA's planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft appears to be hobbled by a faulty wheel and may be near the end of its four-year mission, space agency scientists said Wednesday. Kepler, a $600 million mission, was launched in 2009 on a search ... [more]
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13 hours ago.
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Shuttle might be grounded, but souvenirs are flying out of California
The Republic
The Republic LOS ANGELES — There was always been a special connection between space shuttle Endeavour and California, where it was built. The California Science Center is learning how special. The Los Angeles museum, where the retired shuttle is on p [more]
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13 hours ago.
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You (And Your Fledgling Space Company) Can Now Lease a NASA Launch Pad
Motherboard (blog)
It's not quite the space shuttle factory that NASA put up for sale awhile back, but if you've ever had a rocket lying around with no place to launch it, now's your chance to pounce. NASA just announced that it's looking for proposals to lease and ... [more]
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14 hours ago.
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Peacham Observatory Gives Students Hands-On Astronomy Lessons
Vermont Public Radio
And in the Northeast Kingdom, there's an unusual hands-on approach to learning about astronomy. A setting sun cast a warm glow through scattered clouds on Northern Skies Observatory recently, as a couple of young astronomers walked through the door . [more]
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Astronomers determine the classic Ring Nebula's true shape
Vanderbilt University News
The Ring Nebula's distinctive shape – a circular band of glowing red-orange gas – has made it one of the most familiar astronomical images. Now, a team of researchers, headed by Vanderbilt astronomer C. Robert O'Dell, has combined images from NASA's [more]
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Astronomers measure the Big Bang's strange and elusive extragalactic ...
Science Recorder
A team of astronomers are beginning to unravel the mysteries of the universe by studying some of the oldest known light: extragalactic background light (EBL). A newly published report by Alberto Domínguez, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department [more]
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15 hours ago.
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Ring Nebula's true shape is like a 'jelly doughnut,' astronomers say
The Space Reporter
The Ring Nebula's unique shape makes it extremely popular with astronomers, but NASA's Hubble Space Telescope recently revealed the nebula's true shape. According to C. Robert O'Dell of Vanderbilt University, the Ring Nebula's true shape is more like [more]
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Rare birth of mega-galaxy captured by space telescope
Daily News & Analysis - Mumbai,India
Eventually, the two hyperactive galaxies will calm down and form a giant elliptical galaxy, according to astronomers. "This monster system of interacting galaxies is the most efficient star-forming factory ever found in the universe at a time when it [more]
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Lick Observatory celebrates 125 years of innovation
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA
But this scientific hotbed was built more for reasons of ego than astronomy: James Lick, the richest man in California, was out to spend his fortune on a large memorial, according to historians. He considered a greater-than-Giza-sized pyramid for ... [more]
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Friday, May 24
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Snuggies
Astronomers have long theorized that the gas emitting from this dying star gives it a rounded, hollow shape like a bagel or a ring, but new images captured by the Hubble Telescope reveal that the Ring Nebula is actually denser in the middle than ... [more]
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Friday, May 24
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International Business Times - New York,NY,USA
A team of researchers, headed by C. Robert O'Dell of Vanderbilt University used the Hubble and many ground-based telescopes to get a better view of the Ring Nebula to reveal that the iconic nebula has a more complex structure than was previously know [more]
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Friday, May 24
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Sci-News.Com: Breaking Science News e-Magazine
Although the center of this doughnut may look empty, it is actually full of lower density material that stretches both towards and away from us, creating a shape similar to a rugby ball slotted into the doughnut's central gap,” said in the statement [more]
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Friday, May 24
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ABC Online - Australia
That's far closer than previous measurements of 520 light-years made by the Hubble Space Telescope, according to the study's lead author Dr James Miller-Jones of Curtin University and the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research. "This binar [more]
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Friday, May 24
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News in photos
Astronomer Elinor Gates manually moves the 36" Refractor telescope at Lick Observatory east of San Jose, Calif. on Wednesday, May 8, 2013. The observatory will be celebrating its 125th anniversary. The telescope is so delicate that there are only abo [more]
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Friday, May 24
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USA Today - McLean,VA,United States
Now, Google and NASA have followed suit: Among the many realistic and imaginative ideas the company has for its new technology, Google wants to improve search, especially for images, but also hopes to make leaps and bounds in improving machine ... [more]
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Friday, May 24
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NPR - Washington,D.C.,USA
The Ring Nebula, whose iconic shape and large size make it a favorite of amateur astronomers, can now be seen in new detail, after NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a sharp image of the nebula. Researchers say the new clarity reveals details tha [more]
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Friday, May 24
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GlobalNews.ca
There have been calls by scientists to track potentially hazardous asteroids, or PHAs. In fact NASA has a Near Earth Object (NEO) program designed to identify potentially deadly asteroids that could hit Earth. On Feb. 15, Russian residents living in [more]
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Friday, May 24
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89.3 KPCC - CA,USA
89.3 KPCC A group of children watch a display about the shuttle during the grand opening of the Space Shuttle Endeavour Exhibition at the California Science Center in Los Angeles, Calif., October 30, 2012. Children and adults got the chance to meet a [more]
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Friday, May 24
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Game Critics Announce Best of E3 Winners
During a trip to Seattle last week, I spent a Sunday afternoon checking out the inside of a space shuttle cockpit. This was one of the coolest things I've done in a while. I took the tour at Seattle's Museum of Flight, a Boeing-backed museum that's . [more]
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