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Wednesday, 7 March 2012

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News10 new results for astronomy
 
Karoo ideal for stargazing - astronomer
News24
Now R651.95 Laingsburg - The Karoo provides the ideal opportunity to observe the night sky for both professionals and amateurs, an astronomer has said. It's very dark; many places in the Karoo are dark and that's very good and that's rare," astronomer ...
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The Smallest Known Black Hole Has 20 Million Mile Per Hour Winds
Forbes
That's the conclusion of Dr. Ashley King, who led group of astronomers working with NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory and National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Expanded Very Large Array to observe the black hole, which I shall refer to as "Lenny" for ...
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Forbes
Hubble Reveals a New Class of Extrasolar Planet
Space Daily
An international team of astronomers led by Zachory Berta of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) made the observations of the planet GJ 1214b. "GJ 1214b is like no planet we know of," Berta said. "A huge fraction of its mass is made ...
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NASA's Chandra finds fastest wind from Stellar-Mass Black Hole
indiablooms
Washington, Feb 22 (IBNS) Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have clocked the fastest wind yet discovered blowing off a disk around a stellar-mass black hole. This result has important implications for understanding how this type of ...
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Calumet Astronomy Center named Facility of the Year
Post-Tribune
Photo provided The Indiana Park and Recreation Association recently recognized the joint effort of the Lake County Parks and Recreation Department, Purdue University Calumet, and the volunteers of the Calumet Astronomical Society for their development ...
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South Africa: Hanekom to strengthen radio astronomy partnership with China
7thSpace Interactive (press release)
Pretoria - Science and Technology Deputy Minister Derek Hanekom is leading a high-powered South African delegation to China to strengthen partnerships between China and South Africa in the field of radio astronomy. His programme includes meeting with ...
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WKU seniors awarded by astronomical group
Bowling Green Daily News
Two Western Kentucky University students received awards for their poster presentations at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in January. Aaron Bell of Scottsville and Andrew Gott of Elizabethtown, both seniors, traveled to Austin, Texas, ...
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Astronomer sets sail for star-gazing Hebrides
Stornoway Gazette
Martin, from the University of Glasgow's School of Physics and Astronomy will be undertaking a tour of the islands as part of National Science and Engineering Week (March 9th to 18th) and will also visit a number of secondary schools during his travels ...
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Cosmic Hurricane: Black Hole Has 20 Million MPH Winds
Space.com
The winds, clocked by astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, are racing through space at 20 million mph (32 million kph), or about 3 percent the speed of light. That's nearly 10 times faster than had ever been seen from a stellar-mass ...
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Book Review: Celestial Delights: The Best Astronomical Events Through 2020
Universe Today
Here's Dave's review of the book, "Celestial Delights: The Best Astronomical Events Through 2020 by Francis Reddy." In 2001 or 2002, I can't remember which, I saw on the TV news that there was going to be a meteor shower that night (the Leonids).
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Blogs4 new results for astronomy
 
Super-Earth exoplanet likely to be a waterworld | Bad Astronomy ...
By Phil Plait
Astronomy | exoplanets | As we find more and more planets orbiting other stars, we keep finding ones that are weirder and weirder. Enter GJ 1214b: while much more massive than the Earth.
Bad Astronomy
Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Job position for Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy with Beloit College.
APS Job Center Search Results
Sir Paul Nurse: 'Schoolchildren don't know the difference between ...
By Eeyore
Modern children do not know the difference between astronomy and astrology because schools fail to give them a grounding in "rational thought", the president of the Royal Society has warned. Sir Paul Nurse: 'Schoolchildren don't know the ...
Vlad Tepes
SA seeks to strengthen radio astronomy partnerships with China
By Idéle Esterhuizen
Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Derek Hanekom will lead a high-powered delegation to China with the aim to strengthen radio astronomy partnerships between South Africa and the world's second largest economy.
Engineering News | Home

Web1 new result for astronomy
 
Astronomy | Of Particular Significance
Relativity, Space, Astronomy and Cosmology · Reflections on Beauty in Motion · The First Principle of Relativity · Some Speculative Theoretical Ideas for the LHC ...
profmattstrassler.com/category/astronomy/


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