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News From Wednesday, January 06, 2010
11:23:37 PM Private Space On Pace to Run NASA's Space Supply
Popular Mechanics - USA

After all, once the Space Shuttle retires in 2011, the United States will have no other way into orbit. The question becomes, would the government rather ... [more]

11:15:12 PM ASTRONOMER published
TheHeart.Org - New York,NY,USA

The study, known as the Aortic Stenosis Progression Observation: Measuring Effects of Rosuvastatin (ASTRONOMER) trial, is published online January 4, .... [more]

10:45:10 PM Doorstep Astronomy: Where the Moon Hides
Space.com - USA

By Geoff Gaherty The moon will be at third quarter, sometimes called last quarter, Thursday morning, but most people won't see it. ... [more]

10:29:29 PM Astronomer Stephen Meeks gives preview of what 2010 will bring
Today's THV - Little Rock,AR,USA

Astronomer Stephen Meeks gave us a preview of what to look for in 2010, in the way of heavenly events. "Over Arkansas" is one of the more popular blogs on ... [more]

10:01:31 PM Universe's baby pic: NASA's Hubble telescope captures image of
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA

New York Daily News BY Robert Dominguez This photo taken by the Hubble Space Telescope shows a snapshot of the universe 600 million years after the Big Bang, the earliest image ... [more]

10:01:10 PM NASA Hauls Shuttle to Launch Pad, Despite Cold
ABC News - United States

Temperatures were an unseasonably -- for Florida -- cool 29 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 2 Celsius) at the launch pad as NASA prepared to roll out Endeavour ... [more]

9:51:06 PM Astronomy Meeting Highlights New Planets, Hubble Images
NewsHour - USA

"These are the seeds of later large galaxies like our own," astronomer Garth Illingworth of the University of California, Santa Cruz, ... [more]

8:48:07 PM Human settlement in moon's deep hole?
Hindu - Chennai,India

A thin sheet of lava protects the hole from the moon's harsh temperatures and meteorite strikes and makes the tube suitable for further exploration or ... [more]

8:45:53 PM Space shuttle takes cold trip to launch pad
Standard-Speaker - Hazleton,PA,USA

John Raoux / AP By Tariq Malik NASA braved below-freezing temperatures in Florida on Wednesday to move the space shuttle Endeavour to its seaside launch pad ... [more]

8:39:48 PM 'Super-Earth' started out as gas giant
USA Today

The team looked at Corot-7b, a super-earth rocky world about 5 times more massive than Earth that was reported last year by European astronomers. ... [more]

8:39:34 PM Scientists chart dark matter halo that binds Milky Way
Christian Science Monitor - USA

That shape resembles a squashed beach ball, says David Law, an astronomer at the University of California at Los Angeles who led the team. ... [more]

8:39:00 PM Lew Allen Jr., former Air Force chief of staff and former head of NASA
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

Los Angeles Times (AP) — Lew Allen Jr., a former Air Force chief of staff who headed NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory from 1982 to 1990, has died. He was 84. ... [more]

8:09:52 PM NASA: Hubble peers 13 billion years back in cosmic history
ComputerWorld - USA

During its time in orbit, Hubble's discoveries have been so important that they have forced academics to revise astronomy text books. ... [more]

7:39:06 PM Fermi's "Treasure Map" of Millisecond Pulsars
Sky & Telescope - Cambridge,CA,USA

Until recently, astronomers knew of 60 of these whirling dervishes. But thanks to a fruitful collaboration between radio astronomers and the science team of ... [more]

7:25:56 PM Hubble Bubble Myths Up in Smoke
Khaleej Times - Dubai,United Arab Emirates

Shisha with its variations — hubble bubble, hookah, water pipe and many more — is an apparatus that burns tobacco enveloped in flavours like apple and ... [more]

7:22:14 PM Time magazine arrives in mail - 22 years late
WBBH - Ft. Myers,FL,USA

.... to get stuck in machines or in mail bags. The cover article is about America's re-entry into the space following the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. [more]

7:19:58 PM NASA Sets Jan. 11 Briefing to Preview Upcoming Spacewalk, Soyuz Relocation
PR Newswire (press release) - USA

PR Newswire (press release) 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA officials will discuss an upcoming spacewalk by two Russian cosmonauts, the relocation of a Soyuz spacecraft to a new ... [more]

6:38:03 PM Black hole's mysterious eating disorder solved
Standard-Speaker - Hazleton,PA,USA

By Andrea Thompson WASHINGTON - New X-ray images of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way have helped astronomers determine why that ... [more]

6:09:13 PM UBC astronomers unveil images of 12-billion-year-old space nursery
EurekAlert - Washington,DC,USA

A University of British Columbia astronomer has produced the most detailed images of deep space from 12 billion years ago, using data from the European ... [more]

5:41:24 PM Hubble Goes Deep and Wide for New View of Galaxies
US News - USA

Astronomers hope to use the image, a mosaic stitched together from images taken by two cameras on the Hubble Space Telescope, as a Rosetta stone for .... [more]

5:39:27 PM Space Shuttle Moved to Launch Pad on Freezing Morn
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

NASA moved the shuttle out of its hangar before dawn Wednesday. The temperature was bitterly cold, getting as low as 29. As a precaution, NASA turned on the ... [more]

5:18:44 PM Astronomers Find "Waltzing" Black Holes
Gearlog

Astronomers have discovered 33 pairs of black holes locked in a dance, with motions that mirror what Isaac Newton might have predicted over 300 years ago, ... [more]

5:02:56 PM Nearby Star Primed to go Supernova, Could Destroy Life on Earth
ShortNews.com - Regensburg,Germany

Astronomers have announced that T Pyxidis, a white dwarf, is growing toward critical mass and is primed to go supernova. They also discovered that the star ... [more]

4:49:27 PM Forget doomsayers; stop smoking, fasten seatbelts, advises astronomer
Catholic News Service - USA

However, the Vatican astronomer, who is a planetary scientist and an expert on meteorites, said scientists do study the possibility of asteroids plummeting ... [more]

4:33:24 PM Pain ahead for Space Coast: No shuttle, no identity
Gainesville Sun - Gainesville,FL,USA

"I suppose you'll want to see the shuttle room," said Martha Wisniewski, general manager of the Best Western Space Shuttle Inn on the edge of Titusville. ... [more]

3:48:30 PM NASA Launches Student Site
T.H.E. Journal

By Scott Aronowitz The National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA) has launched a Web site aimed specifically at teenagers that gives them access to ... [more]

3:35:41 PM Hubble creates panorama of earliest seen universe
iTWire (press release) - Australia

On Tuesday, January 5, 2010, US astronomer Garth D. Illingworth (professor of astronomy and astrophysics, University of California at Santa Cruz) announced ... [more]

3:20:50 PM Shuttle rolls out for February launch
MyFox Tampa Bay - Tampa Bay,FL,USA

CAPE CANAVERAL - Space shuttle Endeavour rolled out to its launch pad under crisp blue skies this morning, marking what could be the beginning of the end ... [more]

1:37:34 PM Astronomers Find Young Galaxies : Look Back 13.2 Billion Years
Digital News Report

Digital News Report – Astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope to create a panoramic view of the universe and the youngest galaxies. ... [more]

1:32:35 PM If SXSW Film Were a Superhero, It Would Be Kick-Ass
Austinist

In their first ever true IMAX offering, SXSW will present the first public screening of Hubble 3D at the Bob Bullock IMAX® Theater. ... [more]

1:15:10 PM Shuttle Endeavour Headed for Launch Pad
FOX News - USA

By Clara Moskowitz The space shuttle Endeavour began rolling out to its seaside Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida this morning to ... [more]

12:53:58 PM NASA's Contest to Design the Last Shuttle Patch
Wired News - USA

By Alexis Madrigal and Betsy Mason The space shuttle program is on its way out, but the core of people who built and maintained it will live on. ... [more]

12:06:42 PM 'Kick-Ass' to open SXSW film festival
Hollywood Reporter - Los Angeles,CA,USA

SXSW's Bob Bullock Imax Theater will host the first public screening of "Hubble 3D," directed by Toni Myers, which journeys through distant galaxies and the ... [more]

11:22:13 AM Space Shuttle Endeavour to roll out Wednesday morning
ABC Action News - Tampa,FL,USA

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL -- NASA technicians are preparing Space Shuttle Endeavour for its Wednesday morning rollout from the Vehicle Assembly Building to ... [more]

10:52:49 AM Indicators slumping as gaming struggles
Las Vegas Review - Journal - Las Vegas,NV,USA

By HUBBLE SMITH Double-digit declines in gross gaming revenue and taxable sales dragged the Southern Nevada Index of Leading Economic Indicators down to ... [more]

10:46:18 AM NASA observes comet plunging into the sun
TG Daily - Westlake Village,CA,USA

The comet belongs to the Kreutz family of comets, named for the German astronomer Heinrich Kreutz. They are believed to have broken off from a much larger ... [more]

10:26:39 AM Magellanic Stream Larger and Older than Thought
Forbes

The recent finding, researchers believe, could provide astronomers with fresh insight into the events that determined the formation of the cloud, .... [more]

9:59:03 AM Holey ceiling tiles! Springs bar still wonders what hit it
Denver Post

By The Gazette Meteorite hunter Robert Ward holds a ceiling tile from the Red Rock Lounge. (Mark Reis, The Gazette ) COLORADO SPRINGS — Mystery still ... [more]

9:31:53 AM Chance of another Earth even smaller
Mountaineers

"It's a very rough estimate at this point," said Andrew Gould, an OSU astronomer and the study's lead author. Other detection methods have allowed ... [more]

8:21:27 AM Obama honors island astronomy association
Cape Cod Times - Hyannis,MA,USA

The nonprofit group, founded in 1902 to preserve the legacy of astronomer Maria Mitchell, an island native, was among more than 20 mentors honored by .... [more]

7:56:19 AM Gov. Crist will visit Kennedy Space Center Thursday
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando,FL,USA

RB CAPE CANAVERAL — With NASA set to mothball the space shuttle sometime this year, Florida officials are gearing up for mass layoffs and economic hardship ... [more]

7:23:28 AM Earliest galaxies detected: NASA
Times of India - India

Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers from University of California have broken the distance limit for galaxies by uncovering the primordial ... [more]

5:19:48 AM Beyond IYA2009
Space Daily - Rancho Palos Verdes,CA,USA

by Staff Writers Although the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009) comes to a formal close this weekend with a ceremony in Padua, Italy, ... [more]

4:38:43 AM Getting to Know: David Hubble Jr.
MPNnow.com - Rochester,NY,USA

Since his dad, David Sr., and uncle, Gary Hubble, helped build the original gazebo and later rebuild it, he said, he experienced how a community pulls .... [more]

4:19:15 AM The Mystery Of The Missing Spike In The Galaxy Arp 192
Space Daily - Rancho Palos Verdes,CA,USA

An amateur astronomer who imaged the galaxy in 2008 first noted the modern lack of the 'spike.' The mystery begins in 1966, when astronomer Halton C. Arp ... [more]

2:43:53 AM Russia Takes Aim at Asteroids
Wall Street Journal - USA

Immediately this conjured up images of Bruce Willis and his space cowboys riding the Space Shuttle to blow up a comet in the movie "Armageddon. ... [more]

2:23:37 AM Plenty of Solar Systems Like Ours Expected
Space.com - USA

Gaudi acknowledges that the percentage is based on an incomplete survey, but says it still gives astronomers a useful idea of just how many worlds might be ... [more]

1:43:21 AM Ancient Mars lakes revealed in new images
Standard-Speaker - Hazleton,PA,USA

The photographs, taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, reveal a network of winding channels linking together several depressions in the Martian ... [more]

1:38:02 AM Wakeup Calls
Psychology Today (blog)

.... archived the songs played every morning by mission control to the crew of STS-88, the first Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station. ... [more]

1:03:16 AM Spaced out and feeling alienated
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis,MN,USA

BOOK REVIEW A meteorite and some extraterrestrials enliven the sleepy town of Wormwood, Nev., in this second novel by a Minnesota writer. ... [more]

12:33:29 AM The death star
The Sun - UK

By PAUL SUTHERLAND A STAR primed to explode in a blast that could wipe out the Earth was revealed by astronomers yesterday. It will self-destruct in an ... [more]

12:27:51 AM Hubble snaps galaxies at birth
USA Today - McLean,VA,United States

"These are the seeds of later large galaxies like our own," says astronomer Garth Illingworth of the University of California-Santa Cruz, speaking at the ... [more]

12:16:13 AM 10 Percent of Solar Systems Are Like Ours
Science Daily (press release) - USA

This latest MicroFUN result is the culmination of 10 years' work -- and one sudden epiphany, explained Gaudi and Andrew Gould, professor of astronomy at ... [more]

12:12:50 AM Space: The Last Frontier for Outsourcing
AFL-CIO - Washington,DC,USA

The members of the Electrical Workers (IBEW) have been part of the nation's space program from its earliest days through the space shuttle program, ... [more]



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