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News From Sunday, December 20, 2009
11:38:49 PM Russian Rocket Blasts off
ABC News - United States

Russian Oleg Kotov, NASA's Timothy Creamer and Japan's Soichi Noguchi lifted off from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan as planned, at 0052 Moscow ... [more]

11:09:07 PM New Crew Launches Toward International Space Station
Space.com - USA

The spaceflyers are in for a packed mission that will overlap with two visiting space shuttle flights as well as Soyuz and unmanned spacecraft arrivals. ... [more]

10:41:24 PM Astronauts blast off for Christmas space mission
The Associated Press

A NASA television Webcast showed the crew giving a thumbs up sign as the vessel thundered skyward. The Soyuz will travel for about two days before docking ... [more]

9:01:51 PM The fall of UK science
Glob smacked

I don't have the experience or insight to understand all this, but you can read what astronomer Ian O'Neill, Ian Douglas at the Telegraph, ... [more]

8:36:13 PM Water world
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

In planetary astronomy a water world is a theoretical planet made up mostly of water. On such a world the global ocean would be thousands of miles deep. ... [more]

8:09:07 PM Three station fliers prep for launch to lab complex
CNET News - San Francisco,CA,USA

Using the station's robot arm, a NASA pressurized mating adapter currently attached to the left side of the central Unity module will be relocated Jan. ... [more]

7:10:08 PM NASA's Terra Satellite sees Laurence weaken
7thSpace Interactive (press release) - New York,NY,USA

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA's Terra satellite captured an image of Cyclone Laurence over Northern West ... [more]

5:26:40 PM A Star Dies
Deseret News

25 by an astronomer named Koichi Itagaki of Yamagata, Japan. [Patrick Wiggins' view of the nova, arrowed, with two reference stars circled. ... [more]

3:33:45 PM Will NASA Sail the Seas of Titan?
Hard OCP

Looks like NASA wants to play sailor. No, they're not encroaching on the Navy's turf; rather, they may be looking to float a boat on a liquid methane sea on ... [more]

3:32:47 PM Expedition 22: Space Sushi
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA

“The Soyuz is a very reliable and time-tested space shuttle,” said Noguchi to the RIA-Novisti news agency. “I really like its design and I am sure that our ... [more]

2:40:24 PM Astronauts geared for yuletide space adventure
The Associated Press

American Timothy J. Creamer of NASA, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov and Soichi Noguchi of Japan are to blast off Monday at 3:52 am local time (4:52 pm EST ... [more]

9:38:18 AM SOUTH AFRICA: Five new astronomy chairs
University World News - Durban,KwaZulu-Natal,South Africa

South Africa's Department of Science and Technology has awarded five universities chairs in astronomy to bolster the country's bid to host the world's most ... [more]

9:37:22 AM Avatar moons may be a science fact
Independent

Astronomers have already spotted hundreds of Jupiter-sized gas giants orbiting stars, but none have conditions suitable for Earth-type life. ... [more]

8:30:36 AM Closing in on other Earths
Lompoc Record - Lompoc,CA,USA

Astronomers are one step closer to discovering another Earth, a planet that is roughly the same size and at enough distance from its star that it is in .... [more]

7:30:36 AM Students raise funds to see space launch
Galveston County Daily News - Galveston,TX,USA

By Bronwyn Turner GALVESTON — When Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off in March, it will carry onboard the cloth emblem of a Galveston charter school and the ... [more]

7:05:47 AM Fog discovered on Saturn's moon Titan
India Business Blog (blog)

Planetary astronomer Mike Brown of the California Institute of Technology, details evidence that Titan's south pole is spotted “more or less everywhere” ... [more]

7:02:04 AM Stars Over Alabama astronomy column Dec. 20-26: Jupiter-Neptune pairing
The Birmingham News - al.com - Birmingham,AL,USA

Press-Register - al.com (blog) By Mark R. Kent PLANETS TO WATCH: Jupiter continues to be paired tightly with telescopic Neptune tonight through Thursday. Steady binoculars or a low-power ... [more]

6:41:44 AM NASA in need of a major overhaul
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA

By CHRIS BRONK and TORY GATTIS With the space shuttle Atlantis' safe return to Earth last month, there are only five missions left before the end of the ... [more]

6:04:11 AM Scientists say they may have captured mysterious "dark matter"
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

In 2008 the Hubble space telescope obtained an image that provides hints of celestial dark matter. The photograph shows what appears to be a halo around a ... [more]

3:30:11 AM Treat Mother Earth Well or Find Another Planet to Live on!
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA

GJ 1214b´s constituents of gases are hydrogen, helium, nitrogen, magnesium, oxygen, to carbon dioxide, (David Charbonneau, Astronomer - Harvard University). ... [more]

1:25:39 AM NASA flyby of Saturn moon Titan produces first image of liquid on another
Wikinews - USA

Wikinews NASA have revealed that a flyby of its probe Cassini past Titan, a moon of Saturn, has produced a historic image: the first photograph showing liquid on a ... [more]

1:07:54 AM Flying telescope in milestone test flight
United Press International

The modified 747 jet, named the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, flew for more than an hour at Edwards Air Force base, NASA announced ... [more]



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