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The Cowboy Astronomer Old Colony Memorial and Plymouth Bulletin - Plymouth,MA,USA
Combined with constellation identification, star-hopping, and astronomy tidbits, the show will present the unique viewpoint of a cowboy astronomer who has ... [more]
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Scientists Will Soon Have Hubble's Constant The number is ... Forbes
A crucial component for assessing this age as accurately as possible is missing – the Hubble constant. Years and years of research have brought astronomers ... [more]
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Astronomy all year long Santa Fe New Mexican.com - santa fe,new mexico,United States
Happy New Year, and thanks for checking out the first edition of Night Skies for 2009, the International Year of Astronomy. On this day in 1610, .... [more]
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Slow recovery projected locally Florida Today - Melbourne,FL,USA
Local economic development officials for a few years now have talked about the need to brace for the impact of the space shuttle program ending and look for ... [more]
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NASA embarks on 3-D movie mission Variety - USA
By TATIANA SIEGEL "Quantum Quest," the independently financed 3-D animated film being made in conjunction with NASA, has assembled its voice cast, ... [more]
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Celebrate astronomy in 2009 Knoxville News Sentinel - Knoxville,TN,USA
The purpose of the International Year of Astronomy is to help individuals of all ages and backgrounds rediscover their place in the cosmos and develop a ... [more]
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Early detection key to treating Alzheimer’s Lethbridge Herald - Lethbridge,AB,Canada
Hildebrand was part of the team that found chunks of a meteorite which landed near Lloydminster Nov. 20. “The image starts in the east-southeast and goes ... [more]
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PITTSFIELD Astronaut tells students about mission Central Maine Morning Sentinel - Augusta,ME,USA
Bowen was part of a seven-member NASA team which launched aboard the space shuttle Endeavour Nov. 14 at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., ... [more]
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News From Home New York Times - New York,NY,USA
This is one of the wonderful things about astronomy. Our understanding of the galaxy around us undergoes a significant shift, and the only real change is ... [more]
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Ex-astronaut may be Obama's pick to lead NASA Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA
By MARK CARREAU Reports of his name surfacing as a contender for NASA administrator have surprised Charles Bolden Jr., a retired Marine Corps general who ... [more]
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GOLD RING METEORITE ROCK & 3 CITRINES Auction Central News - New York,NY,USA
DUMOUCHELLES DOES NOT SHIP MERCHANDISE: DuMouchelles can provide a list of shippers and movers that have been used in the past by our customers. ... [more]
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Mars trip proposed for retired space shuttles Standard-Speaker - Hazleton,PA,USA
NASA's current plan for future human spaceflight includes retiring its three aging space shuttles — Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour — in 2010, ... [more]
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Which came first, black holes or galaxies? Standard-Speaker - Hazleton,PA,USA
The evidence is piling up," said Chris Carilli of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in New Mexico. Carilli presented his team's findings here today ... [more]
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Boosters of Incumbent NASA Head May Be Doing Him No Favors CQPolitics.com - Washington,DC,USA
But the campaign later reversed course, and Obama supported pumping an extra $2 billion into NASA to close the gap between the space shuttle’s retirement ... [more]
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NASA Launch Dates Pitchforkmedia.com - Chicago,IL,USA
The list of names assembled for the forthcoming NASA album The Spirit of Apollo, out February 17 on Anti-, makes our heads hurt. Somehow, the production duo ... [more]
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Black Holes Lead Galaxy Growth Science Daily (press release) - USA
The evidence is piling up," said Chris Carilli, of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO). Carilli outlined the conclusions from recent research ... [more]
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Our Galaxy's Core Is Seething with Stars io9 - San Francisco,CA,USA
The key to obtaining such a sharp image was combining the Hubble Space Telescope's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) with some ... [more]
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Astronomers get burst of details from early universe Science News - USA
Over the past several years, astronomers have detected gamma-ray bursts even more remote than this one, bursts that reveal the existence of massive stars as ... [more]
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Space Shuttle Extension Options Carry High Costs Space.com - USA
By Becky Iannotta WASHINGTON – NASA could extend space shuttle operations to 2012 by adding three flights – at a cost of roughly $5 billion – without ... [more]
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2009: Movies to watch for, part 4 Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
Aliens" (March 27): Meteorite hits girl, turns her into monster, monsters must save Earth from aliens, etc. Oh - it's animated, by the way. ... [more]
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Astronomy : 2009 to be celebrated as International Year of Astronomy Entertainment and Showbiz! - Baroda,India
The International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009) has been launched by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) and the United Nations Educational, .... [more]
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What is your superpower? Prescott Daily Courier - Prescott,AZ,USA
Super Astronomer Phil Plait's superpower is that cats love him. They tend to love me, too, but not on the level of a superpower. What is your superpower? ... [more]
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Ex-astronaut emerges as NASA prospect Standard-Speaker - Hazleton,PA,USA
Charles F. Bolden Jr., who has been mentioned as a prospect to fill the top post at NASA, flew on four space shuttle missions and commanded the first .... [more]
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Bright Flash in Heavens Has No Earthly Explanation Wired Blogs - USA
21, 2006, the Hubble Space Telescope first imaged the source of light, which continued to brighten over the next 100 days, peaked, and then finally faded to ... [more]
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Five Ways the World Can End FOX News - USA
It would take an asteroid the size of a small planet to really snuff out life on Earth. Something very much like that seems to have happened when an object ... [more]
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Galileo Stereotype is Only Part of the Truth, Astronomy Scholar Says University of Arizona News (press release) - Tucson,AZ,USA
Galileo was persecuted by the church, but religious leaders also were excited by the new astronomy. By Lori Stiles, University Communications Nations the ... [more]
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