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News From Tuesday, January 19, 2010
11:01:49 PM UAA Astronomer published in New York Times reviewed book
Northern Light - Anchorage,AK,USA

It includes contributions from many other astronomers from several different locations, including the Hubble space telescope. The Cat's Claw Nebula, ... [more]

10:49:53 PM Weak Lensing Gains Strength
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA

Visible-light images from the Hubble Space Telescope populate this tiny section of the full two-square-degree Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS), ... [more]

10:18:28 PM NASA Reveals New Batch of Space Program Artifacts
PR Newswire (press release) - USA

On Oct. 1, 2009, the GSA launched a Web initiative for screening and requesting NASA's space shuttle artifacts. The first round ended Nov. ... [more]

10:10:15 PM Tourists held in Sudan for collecting asteroid
Radio Nederland Wereldomroep

The asteroid, the size of a car, crashed to earth in October 2008. Scientists say the occurrence was extremely rare as asteroids usually disintegrate high ... [more]

10:07:07 PM Outsourcing Desktop Initiative for NASA (ODIN) Contract Extended
PR Newswire (press release) - USA

19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA has awarded Lockheed Martin of Bethesda, Md., a contract extension to continue the Outsourcing Desktop Initiative for ... [more]

9:05:26 PM Richmonders report seeing meteors
Richmond Times Dispatch

There was no significant meteor shower going on last night, said Geoff Chester, an astronomer and public relations officer with the US Naval Observatory in ... [more]

8:42:33 PM NASA to Reattempt Mars Lander Communication
Gearlog

Today, NASA has begun attempts to re-establish contact with the frozen-solid Phoenix Mars Lander after more than a year, reports Space.com. .... [more]

8:23:52 PM NASA's Hubble Is Ready for Its 3D Closeup (With Video!)
Popular Mechanics - USA

When astronauts fixed the Hubble space telescope in May 2009, they also moonlighted as 3D cinematographers. Catch some of their footage (in 2D) on this new ... [more]

8:11:29 PM For sale: NASA slashes price on used space shuttles
ComputerWorld - USA

The space agency announced late last week it has dropped the sale price of a used space shuttle from $42 million to the bargain-basement price of $28.8 ... [more]

8:06:04 PM The origins of our galaxy
Euronews.net - Lyon,France

Francesco Ferraro is an astronomer at the University of Bologna in Italy. Along with his colleagues at the university, he has studied Terzan 5 in depth. ... [more]

7:43:28 PM At a time of record low magnetic activity, Haleakala scientists haven't
Maui News - Wailuku,HI,USA

Maui News At the Mees Solar Observatory at the Institute for Astronomy atop Haleakala, solar astronomers are wondering what's up - or down, in this case. ... [more]

7:14:21 PM NSF study gauges Americans' interest in tech news at 12-year low
BetaNews - USA

A sharp increase in tech-related stories was noted for the middle part of the last decade, due perhaps in large part to the repair of the Hubble Space ... [more]

5:59:24 PM Technical Advances Excite Astronomers
Aviation Week - New York,NY,USA

15 that astronomers are on the cusp of technical advances that will cast their view back — literally — to the dawn of time. “From our perspective the actual ... [more]

5:54:00 PM NASA Giving Away Space Shuttle Engines For Free - To Anyone Who Can Pick
io9 - San Francisco,CA,USA

io9 You could own this amazing main engine from the Space Shuttle for free, as long as you're willing to remove it from NASA premises. ... [more]

5:50:32 PM X-Rite Intros Linux & Mac Version SDKs for Hubble Colorimeter
TMCnet

Hubble is a solution that helps the users in having a consistent and precisely calibrated view on all types of displays including LCD, LCD/RPTV, .... [more]

4:50:01 PM Benefits of a roundabout
Physical Review Focus - Washington,DC,USA

Gavin W. MorleyLondon Centre for Nanotechnology and Department of and Astronomy, University College London, 17-19 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AH, ... [more]

4:15:24 PM Space Shuttles get major price cut
Geek.com - USA

Because NASA is going to be retiring the Space Shuttle Program later this year, they are having a garage sale of sorts and some of the spacecraft fleet used ... [more]

3:37:47 PM Space Shuttle Astronauts Train for February Launch
Space.com - USA

By Tariq Malik The six astronauts preparing to fly into orbit aboard NASA's shuttle Endeavour next month arrived at their Florida launch site Monday for ... [more]

2:58:53 PM Eight Free Things To Do In and Around Phoenix - January 2010
About - Cities & Towns

The East Valley Astronomy Club will bring telescopes to allow visitors to explore Arizona's amazing night sky. Visitors may see the waxing crescent moon, ... [more]

2:54:33 PM Arizona Gold Adventures Giving Away Free Gold Prospecting Vacation Through
SBWire (press release) - Green Bay,WI,USA

SBWire (press release) Follow Arizona's premier gold prospecting and meteorite hunting vacation provider on Twitter and win a Five-day / Five-night Gold Prospecting Vacation in ... [more]

2:45:42 PM Shuttle crew trains at KSC; managers review flight
Florida Today - Melbourne,FL,USA

6, flags caught the breeze off the Atlantic Ocean as space shuttle Endeavour arrived at the pad. Endeavour's STS-130 launch is targeted for 4:39 am EST Feb. ... [more]

2:31:52 PM NASA Awards InterSense an Extended SBIR Contract to Test Head-Worn
Market Wire (press release) - USA

Market Wire (press release) Research from NASA's Aviation Safety Program reveals that HWD technology helps enable safe advanced applications for the Next Generation Air Transportation ... [more]

1:05:37 PM X-Rite offers Linux and Mac SDK for Hubble
Trading Markets - Los Angeles,CA,USA

Complementing the existing Windows version, the new Hubble SDK allows third party Linux and Mac developers and OEMs to design their own integrated display ... [more]

11:10:40 AM Following the light to find ET
Toronto Star - Toronto,Ontario,Canada

PARIS–Astronomers say they have made the first direct capture of a spectrum of light from a planet outside our solar system. It is considered a landmark in ... [more]

10:30:56 AM Scientists train for suborbital jaunts into space
Baltimore Sun - Baltimore,MD,USA

It was organized by Alan Stern, a planetary scientist and former NASA assistant administrator. He long advocated that NASA support human suborbital missions ... [more]

10:16:59 AM NASA offers heavy discount on space shuttles
The Money Times - Mumbai,Maharashtra,India

by Ishita Sood - January 19, 2010 - 0 comments NASA has achieved extraordinary achievements from the shuttles since their inception; launching the Hubble ... [more]

10:14:49 AM Astronomy Without A Telescope – Getting Orientated
Universe Today - USA

You've met someone nice – but for some inexplicable reason, they don't get astronomy. So how do you start gently introducing them to your life's passion ... [more]

6:33:07 AM The writing in the wind
Inquirer.net

It won't be from an asteroid hitting the earth or a solar flare burning the planet to a crisp. It will be from human folly. It will be from Earth's most ... [more]

5:58:53 AM NASA Urged Not To Outsource
Wall Street Journal - USA

By ANDY PASZTOR A key federal aerospace panel warned that NASA could run into serious safety challenges if it relies on private companies to ferry .... [more]

5:22:00 AM Boeing to bid on NASA's ISS Cargo Mission Contract
Brahmand Defence and Aerospace News

.... integrating payloads with the space shuttle, launch support, and space shuttle post-landing payload activities, as reported in the release. ... [more]

3:22:44 AM NASA Satellite image of Port-Au-Prince before and after the Haiti Earthquake
Typeboard

NASA has published an image of Port-Au-Prince before and after the Haiti earthquake. “NASA’s Earth Observing-1 satellite with the Advanced Land Imager ... [more]

3:15:53 AM Has the USA hit its final frontier in human space exploration?
USA Today - McLean,VA,United States

"I do not see this president being the president who presides over the end of human spaceflight," said NASA chief Charles Bolden, a former space shuttle ... [more]

2:28:21 AM UNK's new planetarium opens
Omaha World Herald - Omaha,NE,USA

The planetarium will be used to teach physical sciences, earth sciences, physics and astronomy classes. About 120 UNK science students receive training in ... [more]

2:07:17 AM NASA Solicitation: NASA Follow-up Request for Information on Space
Space Ref - USA

Space Ref (press release) This RFI is a follow-up to RFI Reference # NNH09OI001L; Space Shuttle Orbiter and Space Shuttle Main Engine Placement, dated December 17, 2008. .... [more]

1:33:45 AM Noisy Carnival
Glob smacked

Go read it. by Phil Plait in Astronomy, Space | 0 comments | RSS feed | Trackback > If you went to BadAstronomy.com and found yourself here, never fear: the ... [more]

12:59:11 AM Becky Romatowski: Hubble gives us a whole new view of universe
San Antonio Express - San Antonio,TX,USA

Late last year, scientists released a Hubble Space Telescope photo of what is thought to be the most extensive view of our universe. ... [more]

12:27:32 AM Radio Telescopes Help Astronomers Find Double-Star System
AZoOptics.com (press release) - Sydney,NSW,Australia

Astronomers have found a giant magnetic loop stretched outward from one of the stars making up the famous double-star system Algol. ... [more]

12:00:38 AM Amateur astronomers: Log your sessions with Observation 1.1 for iPhone
tuaw.com (blog)

by Steven Sande (RSS feed) on Jan 18th 2010 at 6:00PM Being proper geeks, a lot of us here at TUAW are amateur astronomers (we won't count Mel Martin, .... [more]



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