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Wednesday, 29 February 2012

ASTRONOMY


News9 new results for astronomy
 
Udupi: Mercury-Moon Rendezvous Evokes 'Astronomical' Excitement
Daijiworld.com
Udupi, Feb 24: With the nightfall on Thursday February 23 came an exhilarating experience for those interested in astronomy, with the innermost planet Mercury lying close to the moon. At the facility provided by Poorna Prajna Amateur Astronomers Club ...
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SA, China collaborate on astronomy
ITWeb
SA foresees increasing collaboration between Chinese and local astronomers and scientists in the face of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope. SA is bidding against Australia to host the mega telescope. A decision on the host site will be ...
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Public invited to astronomy night hosted by Tiverton Land Trust
Fall River Herald News
This is an opportunity for young and old to gaze deep into space with the guidance of expertastronomers. Should Saturday's sky be clouded over, the event will be held on March 4. Visitors are encouraged to park at the preserve's Main Road entrance.
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Fastest wind from stellar mass black hole discovered
Space Daily
This is nearly 10 times faster than astronomers had previously observed from a stellar-mass black hole. Ashley King, a doctoral student in the Department of Astronomy and lead author of the study published in the Feb. 20 issue of The Astrophysical ...
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American Astronomical Society Issues Statement on President's FY 2013 Budget
Space Ref (press release)
The American Astronomical Society (AAS) today issued a statement thanking President Obama for his strong support of science as embodied in his proposed budget for fiscal year (FY) 2013 but asking him and the Congress to strive harder to maintain a ...
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Twenty-five years after supernova 1987A
Astronomy Now Online
Twenty-five years later supernova (SN) 1987A, as it has become known, is givingastronomers an unprecedented look at what happens to a massive star before and after it explodes. A careful perusal of star charts prior to the supernova allowed the exact ...
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Astronomy Now Online
Space Astronomy for the mid-21st Century: Robotically Maintained Space Telescopes
Space Ref (press release)
The historical development of ground based astronomical telescopes leads us to expect that space-based astronomical telescopes will need to be operational for many decades. The exchange of scientific instruments in space will be a prerequisite for the...
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Space Ref (press release)
Mount Si students take astronomy course for UW credit
SnoValley Star
Last week marked the start of spring semester along with the first week of Kevin Knowels' “Astronomy 101” course, taught through the University of Washington in the High School program. Mount Si is one of seven high schools in the state involved in the ...
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Harvard Researchers Discover "Water World"
Harvard Crimson
The new planet, named GJ1214b, was discovered in 2009 by Zachory K. Berta, a graduate student in Astrophysics, and his thesis adviser David Charbonneau, an astronomy professor. But Berta and his colleagues only recently confirmed the planet's ...
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Blogs3 new results for astronomy
 
What's On Astronomy.FM ~ Thursday thru Friday | Astronomy.FM
By Tavi Greiner
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23 - FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24 Today's Radio Schedule at a GLANCE: SET #1: 60-Second Earth ~ Discovery Now ~ Astronomy.FM*Special Event:
Astronomy.FM
Happy 25th annniversary, Supernova 1987A! | Bad Astronomy ...
By Phil Plait
Astronomy | Hubble | [Note: This is a repost of what I wrote on February 23, 2007, the 20th anniversary of the day light reached us from Supernova 1987A, the brightest supernova tha.
Bad Astronomy
The Future of Science | Tom's Astronomy Blog
By Tom
American students are among the regional winners in the YouTube Space Lab Student Science Competition, co-sponsored by ESA. The ultimate winners will have their experiment performed on the International Space Station, live-streamed ...
Tom's Astronomy Blog

Web2 new results for astronomy
 
Astronomy - NSTACOMMUNITIES.ORG ( Ns Ta Communities )
The potential of space travel became more real, and many of us dreamed of becoming astronauts,astronomers, or engineers. (John Glenn made his second ...
nstacommunities.org/blog/2012/02/22/astronomy-3/
[1202.4051] Citations to Australian Astronomy: 5 and 10 Year ...
Abstract: Expanding upon Pimbblet's informative 2011 analysis of career h- indices for members of the Astronomical Society of Australia, we provide additional ...
arxiv.org/abs/1202.4051

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