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News From Wednesday, January 27, 2010
9:53:23 PM Scientists extend black-hole frontier
Standard-Speaker - Hazleton,PA,USA

A newfound black hole that's left over from the explosion of a star is the most distant yet to be discovered by astronomers. The newly discovered black hole ... [more]

9:50:51 PM NASA Sets Feb. Launch Date for Shuttle Endeavour
ABC News - United States

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer AP Senior managers met Wednesday and decided unanimously to proceed toward a Feb. 7 launch date for Endeavour. ... [more]

9:44:10 PM Five Zinger Discount
Tiger Weekly

The chances of getting hit by a meteorite are fittingly astronomical but still probable, as a doctor in Virginia discovered recently when a half-pound ... [more]

9:41:50 PM shuttle gets a 'go' for liftoff after fixes
Standard-Speaker - Hazleton,PA,USA

7 launch date for the space shuttle Endeavour to deliver a brand-new room and observation portal to the International Space Station. ... [more]

9:15:08 PM Area Residents Work Toward Dark Sky Community Status
AzJournal.com - Holbrook,AZ,USA

Because of the dark skies in the area and through researching astronomy, Taylor Town Manager Eric Duthie suggested astronomy be one focus of the tourism ... [more]

8:39:39 PM Astronomers Find Rare Beast by New Means
Science Daily (press release) - USA

27, 2010) — For the first time, astronomers have found a supernova explosion with properties similiar to a gamma-ray burst, but without seeing any gamma ... [more]

6:54:49 PM NASA Sends Airborne Radar to Map Haiti Faults in 3-D
Wired News - USA

By Betsy Mason NASA is sending a radar-equipped jet to Haiti to make 3-D maps of the deformation caused by the magnitude 7 earthquake on Jan. ... [more]

5:50:57 PM File:160658main2 OZONE large 350.png
Wikinews - USA

Materials based on Hubble Space Telescope data may be copyrighted if they are not explicitly produced by the STScI.[1] The SOHO (ESA & NASA) joint project ... [more]

5:24:20 PM Will Obama Ax Space Shuttle Replacement?
Central Florida News 13| - Orlando,FL,USA

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER -- The Constellation program may go the way of the space shuttle if President Barack Obama's budget proposal is approved, according to ... [more]

5:00:44 PM Obama to End NASA Constellation Program?
Obama Accuses McCain of Same Old Republican Campaign Tactics

When Obama releases his budget on Monday, there may be a big hole where funding for NASA's Constellation program used to be. A bow shock forms around the ... [more]

4:27:52 PM Picture of the Day - Quadruple Saturn moon transit
Space Fellowship - UK

On 24 February 2009, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured a photo sequence of four moons of Saturn passing in front of their parent planet. .... [more]

1:47:11 PM MARION CENTER: Grant to fund astronomy event
Indiana Gazette - Indiana,PA,USA

By RANDY WELLS, rwells@indianagazete.net MARION CENTER - People who gaze in wonder at the sky on a clear night will have the chance this fall to participate ... [more]

1:05:52 PM Star-Mass Black Hole Is Farthest Known Yet
Space.com - USA

By SPACE.com Staff A newfound black hole leftover from the explosion of a star is the most distant yet to be discovered by astronomers. ... [more]

12:56:09 PM US scientists consider nuking asteroids
NRC International - Rotterdam,Netherlands

One about a meteorite heading straight for earth, causing millions to flee in panic. Meteorites strike the earth regularly. The Shapiro report cites two ... [more]

12:23:18 PM Space shuttle crew remembered as anniversary of tragedy nears
Business Gazette - Gaithersburg,MD,USA

by Andre L. Taylor | Staff Writer Eusi Holt was a fourth grader when the space shuttle Challenger exploded just after liftoff Jan. 28, 1986. ... [more]

11:16:18 AM Aliens can't hear us, says astronomer
Guardian - UK

At a special meeting on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (Seti), the US astronomer Frank Drake – who has been seeking radio signals from alien ... [more]

10:34:28 AM Astronomers may have to stop shining lasers at stars
ChronicleHerald.ca - Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada

By IAN FAIRCLOUGH Staff Reporter Astronomers are worried that an increase in reports of people shining lasers at airplanes could lead to the government ... [more]

10:14:28 AM Obama's housing marks slipping
Las Vegas Review - Journal - Las Vegas,NV,USA

By HUBBLE SMITH President Barack Obama's first-year grades have dropped significantly in the subject of the US housing market, a survey by California-based ... [more]

9:07:41 AM NASA gives up effort to free Mars rover
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA

In a teleconference briefing with reporters Tuesday, Douglas McQuistion, NASA's chief of Mars exploration, said Spirit is not dead. ... [more]

9:07:00 AM Service standards (prt II): "You worms, you."
Body Confidential - Manchester,Lancashire,UK

Indeed he seems to think that all this bar work is so far beneath him you'd need the Hubble Telescope to see it. He has that attitude that seems to say one ... [more]

8:46:13 AM The Deep Impacts of Unfunded Science
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

The meteorite that formed Meteor Crater in Arizona is estimated to have been about 40 meters in diameter. The object which flattened 2000 square kilometers ... [more]

8:13:14 AM Galaxies unlock new secrets of dark matter
Standard-Speaker - Hazleton,PA,USA

The findings could help astronomers understand more about dark matter, as well as its even stranger sibling — dark energy. Dark matter is a form of stuff ... [more]

6:59:17 AM The one reason why I would buy an Apple tablet
BetaNews - USA

In this context, an astronomy textbook could incorporate typically static content with much more. Students could subscribe to various feeds, including Mars ... [more]

6:55:45 AM Cherokee County residents remember 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy
The Cherokeean Herald - Rusk,TX,USA

Michael Anderson, payload commander of Space Shuttle Columbia, made to his pastor prior to STS-107 mission On Feb. 1, 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia was ... [more]

6:20:44 AM White House won't fund NASA moon program
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

Instead, NASA would be asked to monitor climate change and develop a new rocket. By Robert Block and Mark K. Matthews Reporting from Washington and Cape ... [more]

6:00:02 AM Meteorite Lands in Doctor´s Office
ShortNews.com - Regensburg,Germany

On Monday at around 5:30PM a small meteorite struck the roof of a Virginia doctor's office, some twenty miles outside Washington. ... [more]

4:40:35 AM Andrew Lange, Caltech physicist who explored remnants of Big Bang, has died
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

Los Angeles Times Lange recently resigned as chairman of the Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, Caltech said. Lange was best known as co-leader of project .... [more]

4:11:28 AM Flat budget, limited goals may be in NASA's future
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA

Among the decisions the president must make is whether to retire the space shuttle within the next year, or to extend its lifetime through 2015; ... [more]

3:42:51 AM Bill Jamieson: Helped out of the slump by a Chieftain o' the puddin-race
Edinburgh Evening News - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK

If you're a government statistician with a Hubble telescope and magnifying glass, we certainly are. The economy is reckoned to have grown by all of 0.1 per ... [more]

2:53:49 AM Mike Simonsen of the AAVSO and Variable Star Observing - On Astronomy.FM
TransWorldNews (press release) - Monroe,GA,USA

TransWorldNews (press release) Astronomy.FM is proud to welcome Mike Simonsen to The Event^Horizon on AFM*Radio at 9:00pm US EST on Friday, January 29 (0200 UT Saturday morning, .... [more]

12:36:36 AM Guest information for Tuesday's Show
WBIR-TV - Knoxville,TN,USA

.... Alvin H. Nielsen Physics and Astronomy Building (Weather Permitting) For more information visit www.phys.utk.edu/trdc All exhibits are available free of ... [more]

12:32:29 AM NASA Will Review Its Human Spaceflight Program
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

“They're going to be putting meat on the bones” of options proposed last fall by a blue-ribbon panel that reviewed NASA's human spaceflight program, ... [more]

12:16:02 AM US Scientists Call for the Creation of an International Asteroid Defense
Popular Science - New York,NY,USA

Popular Science Besides, if an asteroid like on the shown above hit Earth, all life would be extinguished, even if we knew it was coming or not. Depends on what you mean by ... [more]



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