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News10 new results for astronomy
 
Space invasion: Hilton Head to host astronomy convention
Hilton Head Island Packet
By GRANT MARTIN The Academy Awards may be over, but there's a silver lining for those who haven't yet had their fill of stargazing: Hilton Head Island is about to host its first astronomy convention. From March 14 to 16, the Hilton Head Marriott Resort ...
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World's biggest astronomy project: ALMA telescope
EarthSky
Astronomers call this new telescope ALMA, which is the Spanish word for soul. According to the scientists, one nation alone couldn't build ALMA, whose official name is the Atacoma Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array. Working with the host country ...
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NASA: Center for Astronomy Education Teaching Excellence Workshops
Space Ref (press release)
The Center for Astronomy Education, or CAE, announces a series of educator workshops for astronomy and space science educators. Advanced workshops are available for participants who have taken part in previous CAE workshops.
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One of NASAs top planet hunters talks about the past, present and future of Kepler
Houston Chronicle (blog)
Were you interested in astronomy as a kid? It's kind of an atypical case. Most of my colleagues knew they wanted to do astronomy from a young age. That wasn't my upbringing. Neither of my parents went to college, and I didn't understand what it meant ...
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Houston Chronicle (blog)
Mobile planetarium to make astrophysics fascinating
Deccan Herald
The planetarium will be set up by the Indian Astronomy Group (IAG) in association with Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and Dubai Astronomy Group. Dr Syeda Kareema Ghouse, president of the IAG, said the mobile planetarium, which she claimed ...
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Deccan Herald
Q&A: Bill Nye the Planetary Guy
SmartPlanet.com (blog)
I had Sagan for astronomy. One of the weirdnesses of life. I wasn't his star student who went on to get three doctorates in astronomy. I just took the class. I've been a member [of the Planetary Society] since it started, going on 32 years.
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Mysterious orbs confound NC county for decades
Anderson Independent Mail
AP Photo by AP Astronomy professor Daniel Caton poses this week for a photo with a low-light video camera at the campus observatory at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC Caton is hoping to use the cameras to capture a phenomenon known as the ...
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So what exactly does Arcata do?
VEGAS INC
The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy is a collaboration with the German Aerospace Center for a 100-inch telescope that analyzes infrared light. The observatory has GREAT — German Receiver for Astronomy at Terahertz frequencies ...
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Mysterious orange orbs confound NC observers
The Daily Advertiser
25, 2012, photo, astronomy professor Daniel Caton poses for a photo with a low-light video camera in his office at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC Caton is hoping to use the cameras to capture a phenomenon known as the Brown Mountain lights.
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Anthony Beasley Appointed Director of NRAO
Space Ref (press release)
Anthony J. Beasley has been appointed as the next Director of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), according to Ethan J. Schreier, President of Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI). Beasley will succeed Fred KY Lo, who has been NRAO Director ...
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Blogs3 new results for astronomy
 
What's On Astronomy.FM ~ Sunday thru Monday | Astronomy.FM
By Tavi Greiner
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26 - MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27 Today's Radio Schedule at a GLANCE: SET #1: 60-Second Earth ~ Discovery Now ~ Astronomy.FM*Showcase: Just.
Astronomy.FM
This Week @ NASA | Tom's Astronomy Blog
By Tom
The Kennedy Space Center hosted several events to celebrate 50 years of Americans in orbit. John Glenn, the first to achieve the goal, made his three-orbit flight in Friendship 7 on February 20, 1962. Three months later, fellow Mercury ...
Tom's Astronomy Blog
Special Q&BA tonight at 8:00 p.m. EST! | Bad Astronomy | Discover ...
By Phil Plait
Cool stuff | Dot Con | This weekend I've been participating in Dot Con 2012, an online convention celebrating the geek lifestyle (see my previous post for moreinfo). For my part, toni.
Bad Astronomy

Web4 new results for astronomy
 
Citizen Science: Contributions to Astronomy Research | Astronomy ...
This is the title of an interesting paper by Carol Christian et al., in which they discuss the role of citizen science in modern astronomical research. The authors ...
astrocompute.wordpress.com/.../citizen-science-contributions-t...
Astronomy - YouTube
This is kind of a love song to star gazing - all the images are pictures I've taken on various ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ9et-CaUJI
Photochromic materials for holography and astronomy | SPIE ...
Photochromic materials are a versatile medium for creating rewritable computer- generated holographic optical elements that can be used in a wide range of ...
spie.org/x85450.xml?highlight=x2418&ArticleID=x85450
Discovering New Frontiers in Astronomy with TMT/IRMS | Thirty ...
With the commissioning of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) later this decade, a new era in observational astronomy will begin. Among the first-light instruments ...
www.tmt.org/.../discovering-new-frontiers-astronomy-tmtirms


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