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9:08:14 AM Festival looks to the stars in Keys
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA

The nighttime heavenly show will be featured at the 28th Annual Winter Star Party, an event that attracts as many as 600 amateur and professional astronomers from around the world to the Lower Florida Keys from Feb. 20-26. [more]

8:52:15 AM NASA hopes for partnership with European Space Agency
The Morning Journal

By RICHARD PAYERCHIN PERKINS TOWNSHIP — A partnership between NASA and the European Space Agency could bring new investment to NASA Plum Brook Station, area officials said. The possible pairing of the American space agency and its European counterpar [more]

8:52:15 AM NASA's Juno Spacecraft Refines its Path to Jupiter
Clarksville Online - Clarksville,TN,USA

Pasadena, CA – NASA's solar-powered Juno spacecraft successfully refined its flight path Wednesday with the mission's first trajectory correction maneuver. The maneuver took place on February 1st, 2012. It is the first of a dozen planned rocket firin [more]

8:52:15 AM NASA workers in Ohio win $250000 in Mega Millions drawing
The Republic

AP CLEVELAND — A group of 16 NASA employees in Ohio are the winners of a quarter-million dollars in Tuesday's Mega Millions drawing. The Ohio Lottery said Friday the group from the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland will split $172500 after ... [more]

6:49:11 AM NASA Ames awards San Jose State $73 million to improve air space travel
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA

By Lisa Fernandez and Mike Rosenberg Mercury News San Jose State has scored a coup on an intergalactic scale: A $73.3 million research prize from NASA, rocketing students into projects designed to shoot astronauts further into orbit than ever before  [more]

6:49:11 AM NASA IBEX Finds Mismatch Between Solar System, Galactic Space
Voice of America - USA

February 03, 2012 NASA IBEX Finds Mismatch Between Solar System, Galactic Space VOA News The US space agency, NASA, says its Interstellar Boundary Explorer [IBEX] mission is showing scientists that the galactic environment is much different than the  [more]

6:49:05 AM World's largest virtual mirror created by linking 4 telescopes
Newstrack India - Delhi,India

London, Feb 4 (ANI): Astronomers have created the world's largest virtual optical telescope by linking four telescopes in Chile so that they operate as a single device. The telescopes of the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal observatory form  [more]

5:50:25 AM Latest Hubble photo may solve mysteries of the Milky Way
The State Column (blog)

The image reportedly closely resembles our own Milky Way galaxy, providing astronomers with a comparable galaxy to study. The galaxy is located 55 million light-years away in the constellation of Cetus. Astronomers say the image could yield new ... [more]

5:41:47 AM Giant stars shine through city lights
parties

By Alan M. MacRobert A generation ago nobody but astronomers heard the term “light pollution.'' Now it's known widely. Light pollution is the artificial glow that you see filling the night sky. It's caused mostly by waste light spilling sideways and  [more]

4:09:39 AM Roger Boisjoly, 73, Dies; Warned of Shuttle Danger
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

Six months before the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded over Florida on Jan. 28, 1986, Roger Boisjoly wrote a portentous memo. He warned that if the weather was too cold, seals connecting sections of the shuttle's huge rocket boosters could fail. [more]

3:01:32 AM Asteroid Eros draws skywatchers in Earth flyby
Standard-Speaker - Hazleton,PA,USA

By Nola Taylor Redd In 1931, the close approach of the asteroid Eros allowed professional astronomers to calculate its distance and make that era's most accurate measurement of the solar system. As the asteroid passes near Earth this week, ... [more]

1:10:55 AM NASA gives SJ State $73M for air traffic research
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA

NASA has awarded $73 million to San Jose State University to participate in research on how people interact with new technology that will be introduced during an overhaul of the nation's air traffic control system. The five-year grant announced this  [more]

1:10:55 AM "Blue Marble' view of Earth's other side
CBS News - USA

NASA's newest Earth-watching satellite is beaming back spectacular views of our home planet - huge mosaics of many images stitched together at the highest-resolution yet obtained. But there's a bit of science mojo at work to create the stunning photo [more]

1:10:55 AM Jupiter-Bound NASA Probe Adjusts Course Toward Giant Planet
Space.com - USA

A NASA probe on a five-year mission to Jupiter fired up its rocket thrusters this week to better aim itself at the largest planet in our solar system. The Juno spacecraft performed the course adjustment on Wednesday (Feb. 1), marking the first of up  [more]

1:10:55 AM First ever video of dark side of the Moon released by Nasa
AssociatedPress -

Nasa has released the first ever moving images of the dark side of the Moon, filmed by the spacecraft GRAIL. . Report by Mark Morris. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn. [more]

1:03:24 AM Astronomy Group
BBC Sport - UK

For all astronomers,or anyone keen to find out about astronomy and how to get started, there is a local group holding sessions on the first Monday of each month. Telescopes will be available but feel free to bring your own. The reedbeds and open wate [more]

12:29:41 AM USA's Exit Sends NASA in Search of New Steward for Shuttle Equipment
Space News

By Dan Leone A space shuttle "towback" vehicle pulls Endevaour into Orbiter Processing Facility No.1 at NASA Kennedy Space Center, Fla. Credit: NASA photo Enlarge Image WASHINGTON — Amid signs space shuttle operator United Space Alliance (USA) may no [more]



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