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News From Thursday, January 07, 2010
11:29:11 PM Some Miracles are Easy to Believe
TheRealityCheck.Org - Shelton,CT,USA

But today, thanks in part to the Hubble Space Telescope and from Radical Amazement (Judy Cannato), we know there are billions of galaxies, ... [more]

11:16:34 PM Escape Pods: Rescue and Survival in Space
Discovery News

Looking like some sort of mini-space shuttle, this sleek little automated return vehicle was designed to house seven crew members inside a pressurized ... [more]

11:11:16 PM Mirror Testing at NASA Breaks Superstitious Myths
PR Newswire (press release) - USA

NASA is using mirrors to do just the opposite -- look into the past. Fast forward a couple of centuries from ancient time and myths to find NASA is .... [more]

11:03:00 PM Excited astronomers say they could find Earth-like planets in just a few
The Associated Press

The Canadian Press WASHINGTON — Astronomers say they are on the verge of finding planets like Earth orbiting other stars, a key step in determining if we are alone in the ... [more]

10:48:21 PM Astronomy magazine to sponsor Northeast Astronomy Forum
Astronomy Magazine - USA

The 19th annual Northeast Astronomy Forum and Telescope Show (NEAF), the nation's largest telescope event and meeting of amateur astronomers, ... [more]

10:12:33 PM Mysterious distant planet 'disappearing before our eyes'
Christian Science Monitor - USA

By Peter N. Spotts Staff writer / January 7, 2010 Astronomers appear to have caught an exoplanet – a planet orbiting another star – in the middle of a ... [more]

9:51:55 PM A visual comparison of the size of Earth and CoRoT-7b. (Source: geology.com)
DailyTech - Chicago,IL,USA

Though the find and subsequent analysis of CoRoT-7b has been a great achievement for astronomers, planetary scientists and planet finders, it is still not ... [more]

9:33:07 PM Granger Assumes Presidency of ASIS International
TFM - Tinton Falls,NJ,USA

Granger is the director of security for United Space Alliance, which is NASA's space shuttle prime contractor, with primary locations at the Kennedy Space ... [more]

9:31:35 PM NASA issues new RFP under multibillion-dollar IT program
Washington Technology

By Ben Bain NASA has released its final requirements for an information technology services contract to consolidate the agency's enterprise applications and ... [more]

8:58:43 PM What's a geographic wonder in Kansas?
Kansas.com - KS,USA

Brenham meteorites, near Haviland. Scientists estimate a meteor fell over Kiowa County some 20000 years ago, forming the largest strewn meteorite field in ... [more]

8:28:32 PM Starry, starry 'first light' from NASA's WISE mission
CNET News - San Francisco,CA,USA

Just about everybody gets excited about the first picture from their new camera, and NASA is no exception to the rule. In this case, the "first light" image ... [more]

7:40:04 PM NASA marks sixth anniversary of Mars rovers
BusinessGhana

Sunday marks the sixth year of two rovers exploring terrain on Mars, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) said on Saturday. Designed at JPL, Spirit landed ... [more]

7:38:35 PM How Earth avoided falling into the sun
Standard-Speaker - Hazleton,PA,USA

Here," said astronomer Moredecai-Mark Mac Low of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Mac Low and his colleagues investigated this apparent ... [more]

6:47:00 PM Astronomical assets
Paragould Daily Press - Paragould,AR,USA

Two exciting discoveries in astronomy were unveiled this week by NASA researchers involved with space telescope projects. The Hubble Telescope captured ... [more]

6:30:44 PM Endeavor STS-130 - Details of the Final Five Space Shuttle Missions
Associated Content - Denver,CO,USA

As the era of the NASA space shuttle program draws to a close, the space shuttle Endeavor's mission STS-130 is the first of the final five shuttle missions. ... [more]

5:54:56 PM 215th AAS meeting update: Firsthand view of the cradle that held Hubble
Astronomy Magazine

Astronomy Magazine (blog) The cradle used to hold Hubble in the shuttle's cargo bay during the last servicing mission now resides in a clean room at Goddard Space Flight Center. ... [more]

4:41:29 PM Astronomers finding 'millisecond pulsars' at astonishing rate
Daily News & Analysis - Mumbai,India

Washington DC: An international team of astronomers is discovering exotic stars known as "millisecond pulsars" at an astonishing rate - much faster than ... [more]

3:49:50 PM When it comes to H1N1, laughter is not the best medicine Lindsay Ferrier
Nashville Scene - TN, USA

So far I've come up with terrorism, the asteroid that might hit the Earth in 2034, and health care reform. Surely that will keep me busy until the next ... [more]

3:34:48 PM Space shuttle wind-down to impact jobs
Marketplace - MN,USA

NASA only has about five more space shuttle flights to go, and that means some 7000 workers at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida face unemployment. .... [more]

3:28:27 PM NASA: Florida cold will not affect Endeavour
The Birmingham News - al.com - Birmingham,AL,USA

By Shelby G. Spires View full sizeNASASpace shuttle Endeavour is moved to the launch pad in this NASA file photo. The cold air bracing Kennedy Space Center, ... [more]

2:45:17 PM Stargaze, build a telescope at the Science Center
The Life of Kings - Baltimore,MD,USA

The Maryland Science Center is offering stargazers the chance to view the Jupiter just as the astronomer Galileo did during its Galileo Nights (Jan. .... [more]

1:50:20 PM Astronomy's Serendipitious Side
Scientific American

In an article in the journal Science, Tufts University astronomer Kenneth Lang catalogs the discoveries about our universe that were made by happy accident. ... [more]

12:36:27 PM Massive white dwarf in our galaxy may go supernova
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA

The astronomers do not know why the there has been a longer than usual interval since the last nova eruption. Astronomers believe the nova explosions are ... [more]

12:10:19 PM NASA infrared survey returns first snap
Register - London,England,UK

The data will serve as "navigation charts for other missions, such as NASA's Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes, pointing them to the most interesting ... [more]

11:41:50 AM Star explosion bodes ill for planet
PRESS TV - Tehran,Iran

Astronomers ratchet up the unease about a star perilously close to the planet, primed to explode in a blast and wipe out the Earth. ... [more]

11:05:17 AM Hubble captures universe's earliest galaxies
The Money Times - Mumbai,Maharashtra,India

The JWST, which will be far superior to Hubble, will help astronomers see much bigger galaxies New York, January 6 -- NASA's Hubble telescope gave .... [more]

10:20:34 AM ROSCOSMOS to Save Earthe from Collision with Asteroid Apophis in 2036
Russia-InfoCenter - Moscow,Russia

Also the astronomer told him that the asteroid is three times bigger than the Tunguska meteorite. “Calculations show that within the time frames we can ... [more]

10:10:49 AM Nasa discovers five new planets
ZDNet UK

The five planets, named Kepler 4b, 5b, 6b, 7b and 8b, are all "very hot, inhospitable worlds", Nasa said in a statement on Monday. ... [more]

9:51:07 AM Today in History - Jan. 7
Town Hall

7, 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei began observing three of Jupiter's moons, which he initially took to be stars; he spotted a fourth moon almost a week ... [more]

8:02:48 AM Air Force Gen. Lew Allen Jr., 84; headed NSA, NASA lab
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Lew Allen Jr., a nuclear physicist who led the National Security Agency and served as the senior uniformed officer in the Air Force before heading NASA's ... [more]

7:50:45 AM Public Star Party and Astronomy Class
San Jose Mercury News

The San Jose Astronomical Association has an in-town public star party scheduled for this Friday, January 8th, at 7 pm. A beginning observing class ... [more]

7:32:26 AM Will Russia prevent the apocalypse in 2036 ???
ecPulse - Gibraltar,UK

Scientists believe that even dinosaurs were killed by an asteroid which hit Earth 65 million years ago! When discovering the asteroid, the Russian space ... [more]

7:22:45 AM Getting filled in about space
NorthJersey.com

.... a heat tile from a space shuttle, a circuitry board from a Saturn V rocket and a piece of material used to make an Echo Communications satellite. ... [more]

6:52:52 AM Astronomy Meeting Highlights
Science Friday - New York,NY,USA

NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth (UCO/Lick Observatory and University of California, Santa Cruz) and the HUDF09 Team This week, astronomers associated with the ... [more]

6:48:25 AM Geologist to detail Antarctic meteorite hunt
Indianapolis Star - Indianapolis,IN,USA

By William J. Booher S earching for meteorites in Antarctica surely could rank as an experience of a lifetime. Geologist Marta Corbin, 58, Whiteland, .... [more]

6:07:03 AM NASA's WISE telescope sends first images from space
Brahmand Defence and Aerospace News

This infrared snapshot of a region in the constellation Carina near the Milky Way was taken shortly after NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) ... [more]

3:50:39 AM Spacewalker lands back in Wadsworth
Akron Beacon Journal - Akron,OH,USA

No stranger to space, Foreman also was part of the space shuttle Endeavour's mission in March 2008 that included a nighttime launch. ... [more]

3:27:31 AM NASA partnership hosts summer education programs for minority students
The Daily Tell

A new partnership led by NASA will pilot a series of multi-week math and science education programs this summer, the space agency announced on Wednesday. ... [more]

2:49:26 AM Laptop designer Bill Moggridge will head the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Washington Post The unit, first sold in 1982, was used on early space shuttle flights. For the past decade, Moggridge has been producing books and videos, ... [more]

2:33:37 AM Astronomers Say Alien Dust Is Nothing To Sneeze At
Space Daily - Rancho Palos Verdes,CA,USA

by Staff Writers Using the Gemini South telescope in Chile, astronomers at UCLA have found dusty evidence for the formation of young, rocky planets around a ... [more]

2:08:26 AM Aboriginal folklore leads to meteorite crater
Cosmos - Sydney,Australia

by Aaron Cook Researchers are using Aboriginal dreaming stories and Google Maps to find new meteorite impact craters. SYDNEY: An Australian Aboriginal .... [more]

1:43:41 AM Astronomers Finding Millisecond Pulsars Faster Than Ever
Space Daily - Rancho Palos Verdes,CA,USA

by Staff Writers ASTRON astronomers are part of an international team that is discovering the exotic stars known as "millisecond pulsars" at an astonishing ... [more]

1:29:11 AM Year in Review: Team Edwards reflects on 2009
Edwards Air Force Base - Edwards AFB,CA,USA

The space shuttle Atlantis landed at Edwards, marking the 53rd space shuttle landing at Edwards May 24. The orbiter was diverted from Kennedy Space Station, ... [more]

1:15:21 AM Astronomy: Web-Based Interactive Resources
ResourceShelf - USA

Larissa Douglass on the Intute Blog has compiled an impressive set of interactive astronomy links in a post titled, “Keep Looking Up! ... [more]

1:09:33 AM New data on the Milky Way's creation
ABC Online - Australia

An image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope released in 1998 shows the heart of our Milky Way Galaxy. (Reuters: NASA) An international study involving the ... [more]

1:07:51 AM Lew Allen Jr., former spy chief, Air Force general and head of NASA jet ...
The Associated Press

Allen died on Monday in Potomac Falls, Virginia, according to a NASA statement. A cause of death was not given. Allen was the first JPL director hired from ... [more]

12:35:51 AM Burst May Reveal Some of the Oldest Dust in the Universe
US News - USA

By Ron Cowen, Science News WASHINGTON — Astronomers may have detected smoke signals generated by a group of supernovas that blew up when the universe was ... [more]

12:33:08 AM New findings on dark energy back discarded Einstein theory
Christian Science Monitor - USA

He later discarded the in large part because astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe was in fact expanding and not static. ... [more]



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