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News From Tuesday, January 05, 2010
11:58:51 PM Japan team tracks down four meteorites
The Japan Times

SHOWA BASE, Antarctica (Kyodo) The Japanese polar expedition team discovered four meteorites in the Sor Rondane Mountains of Antarctica on Tuesday in a race ... [more]

11:37:30 PM Yearlong Star Eclipse May Help Solve Space Mystery
National Geographic

Based on studies of Epsilon Aurigae's previous eclipses, astronomers expect the star won't fully regain its bright shine until early 2011. ... [more]

11:34:06 PM ASU instrument key element in proposed NASA asteroid mission
Arizona State University

An instrument designed at Arizona State University to identify and map the minerals on the surface of an asteroid is a key element in a new NASA ... [more]

11:17:16 PM Hubble telescope "atlas" of infant solar systems released
USA Today

In the Atlas, Hubble astronomers detail the young "protoplanetary" discs forming around 42 infant stars. Astronomers hope to observe how early stars form ... [more]

10:37:18 PM NASA: Kepler telescope spots five planets outside solar system
ComputerWorld - USA

By Sharon Gaudin Computerworld - A NASA space telescope searching the heavens for Earth-like planets has discovered five orbs outside of our solar system. ... [more]

10:27:37 PM Hubble Takes Earliest Snapshot of Infant Universe
FOX News - USA

A new image from NASA's Hubble Telescope has provided astronomers with the earliest snapshot ever taken of galaxies in the universe's infancy, ... [more]

10:26:17 PM Hubble Space Telescope Finds Previously Undiscovered Ga...
MyStateline.com - Rockford,IL,USA

Data from the telescope's new infrared camera, installed during a Space Shuttle mission in May of last year, has been analyzed by five international teams ... [more]

9:43:26 PM In All The Galaxy, Just 15 Percent Of Solar Systems Are Like Ours
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA

(PhysOrg.com) -- In their quest to find solar systems analogous to ours, astronomers have determined how common our solar system is. ... [more]

9:43:08 PM UA scientists help NASA revive the dead Mars lander
KOLD-TV - Tucson,AZ,USA

By Jonathan Saupe - email TUCSON, AZ (KOLD) - NASA is hoping to bring the Phoenix Mars Lander back to life. The lander was last heard from in November of ... [more]

9:33:01 PM Astronomers get new tools for gravitational-wave detection
Eureka! Science News - Quebec,QC,Canada

Teamwork between gamma-ray and radio astronomers has produced a breakthrough in finding natural cosmic tools needed to make the first direct detections of ... [more]

9:29:42 PM Hubble snaps earliest images of universe
Motors ...

"We're seeing very small galaxies that are seeds of the great galaxies today," lead astronomer Garth Illingworth of the University of California-Santa Cruz ... [more]

9:17:47 PM Space Shuttle Launch and Recovery officer Kemper Anderson speaks at
Rome News Tribune - rome,ga,USA

Rome News Tribune Imagine the space shuttle orbiter as a truck. That's how Space Shuttle Launch and Recovery officer Kemper Anderson described the spaceships that are being ... [more]

9:12:56 PM Hubble telescope glimpses universe's earliest galaxies
Christian Science Monitor - USA

New Hubble telescope images provide a look at the cosmos when it was just 600 to 800 million years old. Galaxies from this period might have helped .... [more]

8:31:34 PM NASA Captures Comet Being Consumed By The Sun
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA

German astronomer Heinrich Kreutz theorized that they are fragments of one large comet that broke up several centuries ago. They are named after Kreutz, ... [more]

8:19:16 PM DRAGON BALL Z DRAGON BOX VOL. 1
Active Anime (press release) - USA

These kids could be dangerous, but some good will and a close call with an asteroid field makes friends out of everyone. The first Dragon Box ends with the ... [more]

8:12:26 PM Image reveals unprecedented view of Universe
Arizona State University

Rutkowski is most excited about the panchromatic nature, particularly the UV capabilities since UV astronomy can't be done from the ground. ... [more]

7:47:44 PM Hubble Telescope Captures Earliest Photo Yet Of Universe
NPR - Washington,D.C.,USA

This just released Hubble photo shows the universe at the earliest age scientists have seen yet, just 600 million to 800 million years after the Big Bang. ... [more]

6:54:50 PM Comet 'Eaten' By The Sun, Nasa Captures Tape (VIDEO)
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

NASA captured this awesome video of a comet being "eaten" by the Sun after its orbit brings it too close to the star to escape. According to the Daily Mail, ... [more]

6:54:29 PM Gobs and gobs of galaxies
Virginia Adds 49K New Voters in August

At the presser, an astronomer noted that the Small Magellanic Cloud, a miniature galaxy that orbits the Milky Way, is a rough analog of those early galaxies ... [more]

6:42:40 PM Black Hole Bonanza
Sky & Telescope - Cambridge,CA,USA

At the American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting now under way in Washington, DC, several teams of astronomers have announced new advances in .... [more]

6:25:05 PM Lunar Rock Headed On Another Trip To Space
Central Florida News 13| - Orlando,FL,USA

On the next trip, it will be part of the cargo carried by space shuttle Endeavour next month when it heads to the Internation Space Station, Florida Today ... [more]

5:57:08 PM Hubble Photo Shows Galaxies From Toddler Universe
ABC News - United States

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer AP The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a snapshot of when the universe was just a toddler, 600 million years after ... [more]

5:44:43 PM Washington University-based project among 3 finalists for NASA space mission
fox4kc.com - Kansas City,USA

LOUIS (AP) — NASA's next big space mission could be to Venus, to an asteroid or back to the moon. If it goes to the moon, St. Louis researchers will play a ... [more]

5:07:40 PM Astronomers detect earliest galaxies
EurekAlert - Washington,DC,USA

Pasadena, CA—Astronomers, using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, have broken the distance limit for galaxies by uncovering a primordial population of compact ... [more]

5:00:27 PM A Change in Perspective
PhysicsCentral.com (blog)

I'm motivated, however, by how hard every astronomer in the world appears to have been working over the past month. I'm cruising news sites and blogs and am ... [more]

4:56:46 PM Unexplained falling object crashes through roof of Colorado Springs bar
Fox 31 KDVR.com - Denver,CO,USA

The owner of the Red Rock Lounge told The Gazette newspaper that she thought it was a meteorite. But five days after the incident, the owner and .... [more]

4:48:09 PM ALMA passes key milestone to producing high-quality images of Universe
Daily News & Analysis - Mumbai,India

A team of ALMA astronomers and engineers successfully linked three of the observatory's advanced antennas at the 16500-foot-elevation observing site in ... [more]

4:14:00 PM Galaxy Exposes Its Dusty Inner Workings in New Spitzer Image
Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Pasadena,CA,USA

The infrared portrait of the Small Magellanic Cloud, taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, reveals the stars and dust in this galaxy as never seen before ... [more]

4:09:48 PM Hubble Reaches 'Undiscovered Country' of Most Distant Primeval Galaxies
Science Daily (press release) - USA

5, 2010) — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has broken the distance limit for galaxies and uncovered a primordial population of compact and ultra-blue galaxies ... [more]

3:55:38 PM World's astronomers gather in Washington
Mother Nature Network - Atlanta,GA,USA

215th meeting of American Astronomical Society billed as the largest confab of astronomers in the history of the universe. By Katherine Butler Ever wonder ... [more]

3:05:43 PM Live chat: Planetary scientist on NASA's Kepler space telescope
USA Today

NASA scientists unveiled Monday the first five planets discovered using the 2009 Kepler space telescope. These jumbo planets, four of them wider than .... [more]

3:00:24 PM Kennedy Space Center crews prep space shuttle Endeavour for move
The Birmingham News - al.com - Birmingham,AL,USA

Kennedy Space Center crews, in Florida, are working to move space shuttle Endeavour to Launch Pad 39-A early Wednesday morning. The shuttle is set to take ... [more]

2:37:12 PM Celestron® Celebrates Fifty Years of Optical Innovation
Earthtimes.org - USA

Major observatories, planetariums, colleges and universities worldwide use Celestron telescopes in their astronomy programs. ... [more]

2:24:56 PM Centuries-Old Star Mystery Coming to a Close
Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Pasadena,CA,USA

Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space telescope have found a likely solution to a centuries-old riddle of the night sky. For almost two centuries, ... [more]

1:57:51 PM Just 5 Missions Left for NASA's Space Shuttles
Space.com - USA

By Clara Moskowitz The end is beginning for NASA's three aging space shuttles, with just five more missions on tap this year before the orbiter fleet ... [more]

1:42:32 PM NASA telescope detects 5 sizzling exoplanets
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA

"One of the planets is amazingly light - like Styrofoam," said William J. Borucki, the astronomer from NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View who ... [more]

1:34:52 PM University of Alabama astronomer finds black hole ripping star apart
The Birmingham News - al.com - Birmingham,AL,USA

By Jeff Hansen -- The Birmingham News A slide from astronomer Jimmy Irwin's presentation shows the globular cluster that he theorizes contains an ... [more]

1:10:22 PM Click Commerce to Automate NASA's Institutional Review Board Processes
Earthtimes.org - USA

The software will enable NASA to accelerate and improve the creation, submission, review, approval, monitoring and reporting of research projects at the ... [more]

12:13:33 PM Preparing for impact
Toledo Blade - Toledo,OH,USA

The asteroid, Apophis by name, originally was expected to have a 1 in 37 chance of hitting the Earth in 2029. Now it's expected to zoom by our little blue ... [more]

11:47:29 AM Gov. Crist to visit Kennedy Space Center on Thursday
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA

By Robert Block, ORLANDO SENTINEL SPACE EDITOR CAPE CANAVERAL — With NASA set to mothball the space shuttle sometime this year, Florida officials are ... [more]

11:23:09 AM Elusive Supermassive-Black-Hole Mergers Finally Found
Wired News - USA

New observations from the WM Keck Observatory in Hawaii and the Hubble Space Telescope found 33 merged galaxies in which pairs of supermassive black holes ... [more]

10:20:52 AM Launch Viewing Tickets on Sale Wednesday for February 7 Space Shuttle Launch
Hospitality 1st (press release) - Cape Coral,FL,USA

Kennedy Space Center, FL – January 2010 / Hospitality 1ST / The final night launch of the Space Shuttle Program will light up the early morning sky as space ... [more]

10:20:12 AM Universe's baby pictures, courtesy of Hubble Telescope
Santa Cruz Sentinel - Santa Cruz,CA,USA

By Megha Satyanarayana A Hubble Telescope image of galaxies, including several blue galaxies that likely formed just 700 million years after the Big Bang. ... [more]

9:40:44 AM OC man says he found meteor
Delaware Coast Press - Rehoboth Beach,DE,USA

In the US, there were 149 since 1810, and in Maryland, only two have ever been confirmed: a 16 1/2-pound meteorite that fell near the Potomac River in ... [more]

9:37:30 AM Spacecraft may target asteroid
Fort Frances Times

NASA had put the chances that Apophis could hit Earth in 2036 as 1-in-45000. In October, after researchers recalculated the asteroid's path, .... [more]

8:44:28 AM Former astronaut joins Space Telescope Science Institute
Baltimore Sun - Baltimore,MD,USA

Grunsfeld, who holds a doctorate in physics and specializes in X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy and high-energy cosmic ray studies. In a statement, he called ... [more]

8:03:47 AM In America's next decade, change and challenges
USA Today - McLean,VA,United States

When the space shuttle retires in 2011, human space exploration faces a crossroads. Foreign partners increasingly look attractive to NASA, ... [more]

7:34:57 AM NASA hopes to revive powerless Phoenix Mars Lander
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA

With the long, harsh Martian winter closing in, NASA decided to wait until temperatures warmed up to try to contact the lander again. Over a year later, ... [more]

7:02:44 AM Astronomers predict discovery of Avatar moon
Cosmos - Sydney,Australia

Now astronomers says it could be possible to find an Earth-like world as depicted in the film. SYDNEY: Habitable alien moons such as 'Pandora' a fictional ... [more]

6:56:47 AM Outstanding Teacher Award winner has ties to Lakelands
Greenwood Index Journal - Greenwood,SC,USA

In partnership with National Geographic, students in some of his classes photographed the earth from the space shuttle Endeavour and put student payloads in ... [more]

6:39:08 AM NASA telescopes capture star's disintegration
Brahmand Defence and Aerospace News

WASHINGTON (BNS): Two NASA telescopes have captured a star's disintegration by an intermediate-mass black hole in an elliptical galaxy. ... [more]

6:07:01 AM Endeavour Rolls Out To Launch Pad Wednesday
Central Florida News 13| - Orlando,FL,USA

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER -- NASA workers have a busy week to start out the new year with space shuttle Endeavour being prepped to head to the launch pad .... [more]

4:53:49 AM Supernatural meteorite jewels
Jakarta Post - Indonesia

Under scrutiny: A collector of satam stone view patterns of the black meteorite with the help of a magnifying glass. Apart from being one of the world's ... [more]

4:50:30 AM Earth-Sized World Could Lurk in Outer Solar System
Los Angeles Times via Yahoo! News

Some astronomers say that a planet the size of Mars or Earth could be lurking on the fringes of our solar system. But even the latest space telescopes that ... [more]

4:35:42 AM Parting Eta Carinae's clouds reveals more clouds
Science News - USA

Astronomers took the new images using the Near-Infrared Coronagraphic Imager, or NICI, at the Gemini South telescope in Chile. NICI, which was designed to ... [more]

4:09:49 AM NASA's Kepler finds its first five planets - an odd assortment
Christian Science Monitor - USA

NASA's Kepler space telescope is just beginning its three-year mission to find Earth-like planets in habitable zones around stars. ... [more]

3:12:55 AM Sen. Bill Nelson On Future Of NASA
Central Florida News 13| - Orlando,FL,USA

The panel recommended that if NASA wants to be serious about manned space exploration, it needs an annual budget increase of about $3 billion a year, ... [more]

2:48:36 AM Your Best Investment Strategy for 2010... And Beyond
Investment U

by Alexander Green, Chief Investment Strategist At 11:38 AM on January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger lifted off its launch pad at Cape Canaveral in ... [more]

1:58:33 AM Sky highlights for 2010
MSNBC (press release) - USA

April 24: Astronomy Day, Part 1: Two dates during the year have been recognized as "Astronomy Day," when stargazing clubs around the nation and around the ... [more]

12:56:20 AM Swanky Lava Moon Tube Marius Hills: Future Selenite Colony?
ChattahBox - Boston,MA,USA

The hole could provide protection from the moon's extreme temperatures and constant meteorite strikes. An Earth colony on the Moon has long been the subject ... [more]



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