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11:57:53 PM NASA selects 15 finalists for end-of-shuttle commemorative patch contest
Collectspace.com - USA

January 4, 2010 — NASA revealed Monday the 15 patch designs that will compete to become the agency's official commemorative emblem for the end of its space ... [more]

11:30:01 PM Eclipses Yield First Images of Elusive Iron Line in the Solar Corona
Science Daily (press release) - USA

.... Center in Greenbelt, Md., with an international team of scientists led by Shadia Habbal from the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy (IfA). ... [more]

11:11:34 PM Plenty of black holes do-si-do
Science News - USA

By Lisa Grossman Black hole ball Hubble Space Telescope images of a galaxy forming from the collision of two smaller galaxies showed two bright nuclei near ... [more]

11:10:43 PM Moon rock will head to ISS
Florida Today - Melbourne,FL,USA

A moon rock collected during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission will be carried to the International Space Station by space shuttle Endeavour next month. ... [more]

10:46:15 PM NASA Astronaut Departs for Hubble Science Center
Space News

By Amy Klamper NASA officials unveiled four new images from the refurbished Hubble Space Telescope during a Sept. 9 joint news conference. ... [more]

10:31:53 PM There's a guy in a bar staring at his drink when ....
Colorado Springs Gazette - Colorado Springs,CO,USA

Have you heard the one where the meteorite comes through the ceiling and nearly hits a guy sitting at the bar? Neither had the patrons of the Red Rock ... [more]

9:54:51 PM See space station next 5 nights
ScienceDude - Santa Ana,CA,USA

LOOKING GOOD: NASA says, "The crew of the Space Shuttle Endeavour took this spectacular image of the International Space Station during the STS118 mission, ... [more]

9:51:47 PM A Guide to the Cosmos, in Words and Images Dazzling and True
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

If you don't have your own Hubble Space Telescope, this book is the next best thing. Mr. Benson has scoured images from the world's observatories, .... [more]

9:26:21 PM Strange Phenomena in a Meteorite Crater
Epoch Times - New York,NY,USA

It is found that they are due to a meteorite strike in the area. According to Chinese Science Bulletin, when Gulong villagers get water from wells, .... [more]

9:26:17 PM NASA's Kepler probe finds five strange new planets
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA

"I'm going to sleep better tonight knowing we're in a good, safe place," said Caty Pilachowski, an astronomer at Indiana University who reviewed Kepler's ... [more]

9:25:10 PM Texas Astronomers Aid Kepler Mission's Discovery of New Planets
News from the University of Texas at Austin - Austin,TX,USA

Washington, DC — Kepler mission astronomers, including co-investigator Bill Cochran of The University of Texas at Austin, announced today the spaceborne ... [more]

9:06:58 PM Kevin McClintock: Avoiding a dinosaur-style demise
Norwich Bulletin - Norwich,CT,USA

Last month, asteroid “2009 VA” barely missed Earth when it flew just 14000 kilometers above the planet's surface — the third closest on record (In ... [more]

8:31:12 PM Isaac Newton: Who He Was, Why Google Apples Are Falling
National Geographic

To this day, reflecting telescopes, including the Hubble Space Telescope, are mainstays of astronomy (picture of an Isaac Newton-designed reflecting .... [more]

8:31:00 PM Explosive Nearby Star Could Threaten Earth
Space.com - USA

The production of nitrous oxides in Earth's atmosphere by the gamma rays could completely destroy the ozone layer, astronomers said. Demise, if it comes, ... [more]

8:24:52 PM Giant intergalactic gas stream longer than thought
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA

A giant stream of gas flowing from neighbor galaxies around our own Milky Way is much longer and older than previously thought, astronomers have discovered. ... [more]

8:00:46 PM NASA's next frontier: Venus, the moon or an asteroid?
ComputerWorld - USA

By Sharon Gaudin Computerworld - NASA is in the process of deciding on the focus of its next major space venture, which would cost about $650 million and ... [more]

7:36:24 PM Florida wrestles with the symbols of the space shuttle's end
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando,FL,USA

And so it begins, a new year and the final countdown to the end of the space shuttle program. With NASA due to mothball the orbiters in at least 10 months, ... [more]

7:08:36 PM Wired Science's Top Space Stories for 2009
Wired News

This is a fact, well established by our Christmas-morning-level anticipation every time Hubble or Cassini or Spitzer release a new image, and your happy, ... [more]

6:59:17 PM Astronomers discover waltzing black holes
Space Fellowship - UK

Astronomers are announcing today that they have discovered 33 pairs of waltzing black holes in distant galaxies. This result is being presented by Dr. Julia ... [more]

6:43:53 PM Latest Astronomy Conference Update
Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Pasadena,CA,USA

Thousands of astronomers have amassed at the 215th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington. From Jan. 4 to 6, this page will be updated ... [more]

6:41:32 PM Real life 'Avatar' moon waiting to be found, scientists say
CNN International - Atlanta,GA,USA

Colin Stuart, an astronomer at the world famous Greenwich Observatory in London told CNN: "With cutting edge technology now, we can start to look at the ... [more]

6:41:09 PM No AAA: What to do when car's stuck in Mars sand
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA

Trease, a 1995 graduate of Mason High School, works at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. He started working at the facility in January, ... [more]

6:35:50 PM Scientists eye moon colonies - in the holes on the lunar surface
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA

.... refer to a 213-foot wide hole that is between 260- and 290-feet deep and could protect moon residents from drastic temperatures and meteorite strikes. ... [more]

6:28:15 PM Hubble Repairman To Aid Direct Observations
Aviation Week - New York,NY,USA

An astronaut since 1992, Grunsfeld has flown on five space shuttle missions. On three of them — STS-103 in December 1999, STS-109 in March 2002 and STS-125 ... [more]

5:45:49 PM Isaac Newton Birthday: Inventions and Discoveries
Only Kent - Kent,England,UK

He was not tied to just one science he studied alchemy, astronomy, mathematics, philosophy, physics and theology. It was through is constant studying as ... [more]

5:39:07 PM Science Channel Goes In Search Of Alien Objects On Earth
Pop Culture Zoo - Portland,OR,USA

Now, Science Channel is bringing viewers on a thrilling search for these hard to find, ancient alien visitors in the all-new series METEORITE MEN, .... [more]

5:27:57 PM Kepler telescope has turned up five 'exoplanets,' NASA scientist announces
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

By Joel Achenbach Monday morning at an astronomy meeting here in Washington, the lead scientist for a new NASA space telescope announced the discovery of ... [more]

4:43:03 PM Black holes pair up for double whammy
Standard-Speaker - Hazleton,PA,USA

A team of astronomers recently discovered 33 sets of double black holes in distant galaxies. Though these black hole pairs had been predicted theoretically, ... [more]

4:28:40 PM NASA Astronaut John Grunsfeld, Instrumental to Hubble Telescope Repair,
PR Newswire (press release) - USA

PR Newswire (press release) 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA astronaut John Grunsfeld, who participated in three spaceflights to service the Hubble Space Telescope, is leaving the ... [more]

4:11:41 PM ALMA test sharpens vision of new observatory
ScienceBlog.com - USA

We look forward to imaging stars and planets as well as galaxies in their formation processes," said Fred Lo, director of the National Radio Astronomy ... [more]

3:37:23 PM Using a 69-year-old telescope, Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland Plain Dealer - Cleveland,OH,USA

Plain Dealer Astronomers believe it represent the processes by which the universe is building itself up, forming clusters of galaxies and even bigger clusters of ... [more]

3:31:52 PM NASA's Kepler mission finds 5 new planets
USA Today

Opening a new chapter in planet hunting, NASA scientists reported Monday the discovery of five worlds orbiting nearby stars, using the space agency's Kepler ... [more]

3:01:30 PM Spectacular Mars Images Reveal Evidence of Ancient Lakes
Science Daily (press release) - USA

The researchers say that there may have been increased volcanic activity, meteorite impacts or shifts in Mars' orbit during this period to warm Mars' .... [more]

2:57:49 PM Comet toast
KOLD-TV - Tucson,AZ,USA

Named after a 19th century German astronomer who studied them in detail, Kreutz sungrazers are fragments from the breakup of a giant comet at least 2000 ... [more]

2:39:25 PM Making sense of what's out there
Bangor Daily News

Some astronomers speculated about planets beyond, but there was no way to detect their existence. With no evidence, no one could assume any other worlds ... [more]

2:07:12 PM CSC Wins “Contractor of the Year” Awards From NASA
SYS-CON Media - Montvale,NJ,USA

CSC (NYSE: CSC) announced today that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) presented the company two contractor of the year awards at ... [more]

12:03:38 PM NASA's dangerous new year
The Space Review - Rockville,MD,USA

by Taylor Dinerman If NASA administrator Charles Bolden was a European 13th century aristocrat instead of a 21st century political appointee, ... [more]

11:43:35 AM A lighter shade of black: the (non) mystery of STS-51J
The Space Review - Rockville,MD,USA

by Dwayne Day Now, as the final chapter of the story of the Space Shuttle is being written, it is worthwhile to revisit the program's early years, .... [more]

11:12:04 AM Apple to release tablet PCs
ITWeb - South Africa

NASA's Spirit rover has celebrated its sixth year based on Mars; however, NASA predicts that the rover will not last after May this year, ... [more]

9:16:44 AM NASA Town Hall at AAS
Space Ref - USA

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8:45:40 AM Annular solar eclipse to be visible in parts of China, Jan 15
People's Daily Online - Beijing, China

Astronomers said in a statement that the annular solar eclipse, beginning on January 15, 2010, will be visible in provinces including Yunnan, Sichuan, ... [more]

8:16:55 AM Spatial Sensings — Hubble Has The Sparkle
SatNews Publishers - Sonoma,CA,USA

Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of our neighbouring dwarf galaxies, this young globular-like star cluster is surrounded by a pattern of ... [more]

7:25:54 AM Astronaut John Grunsfeld Appointed Space Telescope Science Institute
Space Ref - USA

Space Ref (press release) Editor's note: I am deliberately posting this press release - in advance of the embargo claimed by STScI - given that NASA HQ PAO has repeatedly told me ... [more]

6:59:39 AM Sir Isaac Newton birthday today
Merinews - India

Greatest physicist, mathematician, astronomer and one of the foremost scientist of all time Sir Isaac Newton is remembering today across the Globe on his ... [more]

6:54:28 AM Manned mission to construct huge GEO and deep space telescopes proposed
NASASpaceflight.com - York,Yorkshire,UK

Buoyed by the success of the Hubble Space Telescope, one of the key proposals on NASA's internal interpretation of the Augustine Commission's “Flexible ... [more]

5:11:10 AM Get Ready for "Largest Meeting in Astronomy History"
Universe Today - USA

With over 2500 registrants, the AAS has billed this as “the largest meeting in astronomy history.” The meeting will undoubtedly produce some amazing new ... [more]

2:47:18 AM Celebrating a Year of Highs and Lows
Wall Street Journal - USA

Astronomers have found 32 new planets outside our solar system, supporting the theory that the universe has many places where life could develop. ... [more]

2:11:57 AM Week in Review: Earth vs. Asteroid
FanHouse

Perminov said a scientist told him the 850-foot asteroid "will surely collide with the Earth." NASA handicappers have put those odds at 1-in-250000. ... [more]

1:37:20 AM New NASA Online Calendar Is Totally Confusing
Space Ref - USA

Reader note: Click on this NASA web site and download the 2010 ISS Calendar. Notice something odd about the dates? Did January 1, 2010 start on a Wednesday? ... [more]

12:11:59 AM New-found galaxies may be farthest back in time and space yet
Science News - USA

By Ron Cowen FARTHEST AWAYThe faintest and reddest objects in this Hubble Space Telescope image, taken in August 2009, may date from only about a half ... [more]



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