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News From Wednesday, December 23, 2009
11:39:54 PM How Some Stars Stay Young
Science Now - Washington,DC,USA

First, in the observation of Messier 30, astronomer Francesco Ferraro of the University of Bologna in Italy and colleagues confirmed that, in spite of their ... [more]

11:06:31 PM Top Ten Space Pictures: Best of 2009
National Geographic

Using a telescope with a special solar filter, photographer Thierry Legault captured the tiny silhouette of the space shuttle Atlantis crossing in front of ... [more]

10:49:17 PM New telescope to benefit university, community
Big Island Weekly - hilo,HI,USA

said UH-Hilo astronomy professor Dr. William Heacox. The public will have the opportunity to "come in and see what the telescope sees," he said. ... [more]

10:21:43 PM Keck Telescopes Take Deeper Look at Planetary Nurseries
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA

Credit: David A. Hardy (PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using the WM Keck Observatory have peered far into a young planetary system, giving an unprecedented ... [more]

9:53:49 PM Discovery of Pre-Human Fossil Cited as Breakthrough of the Year
Voice of America

They include developments in anthropology, astronomy, and biology. The breakthrough of the year was 15 years in coming. That's how long it took for an ... [more]

9:48:40 PM First African-American In Space Earns Hall of Fame Honors
Bossip - New York City,New York,USA

Bluford joins Ken Bowersox, Frank Culbertson and Kathy Thornton as the ninth class of space shuttle astronauts to be added to the Hall's Mercury, .... [more]

9:36:19 PM Cassini Holiday Movies Showcase Dance of Saturn's Moons
Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Pasadena,CA,USA

Image credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Like sugar plum fairies in "The Nutcracker," the moons of Saturn performed a celestial ballet before the eyes ... [more]

9:09:14 PM Decrepit stars locate the fountain of youth
Standard-Speaker - Hazleton,PA,USA

For nearly 50 years, astronomers have known of these blue stragglers. The leading theory to explain them is vampirism. It works like this: Two stars orbit ... [more]

8:23:12 PM Dark matter holds the key to the universe
Guardian - UK

The astronomer Fritz Zwicky noticed that within the clusters, galaxies mill around so fast that the clusters ought to fly apart. So what keeps them intact? ... [more]

7:54:48 PM Vampires and Collisions Rejuvenate Stars
Science Daily (press release) - USA

23, 2009) — Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have uncovered two distinct kinds of "rejuvenated" stars in the globular cluster Messier ... [more]

7:14:33 PM SMC Student Films
Santa Monica Mirror - Santa Monica,CA,USA

... such as the idea that Governor Schwarzenegger is “asteroid-driven. ... “ideal” girlfriend; and the evening's biggest hit, Michael Hall's “Xombie Corps. ... [more]

7:03:44 PM Youthful Appearance of Stars Known as Blue Stragglers Explained
Science Daily (press release) - USA

More recently, astronomers are seeing ways for stars to collide, once thought to be impossible. The odds of ordinary stars colliding are almost nil, ... [more]

6:50:51 PM Whitby Junior Wolves above average at break
Newsdurhamregion.com - Durham,Ontario,Canada

First-period goals by Karli MacKendrick and Jessica McVetty proved to be enough Saturday, but Sarah Hubble's third-period tally allowed the Wolves to ... [more]

6:22:53 PM Stellar mosh pit, complete with crashing stars, resolves a mystery
EurekAlert - Washington,DC,USA

MADISON — For almost 50 years, astronomers have puzzled over the youthful appearance of stars known as blue stragglers. Blue stragglers are the timeworn ... [more]

5:45:06 PM Auditors: Research at space station faces challenges
Federal Times

.... the change in research priorities or other constraints, such as the pause in shuttle flights after the loss of Space Shuttle Columbia," the report said. ... [more]

5:21:29 PM Soyuz Crew Arrives Safely At Space Station
Information Week Weblog - Manhasset,NY,USA

The crew, consisting of NASA astronaut TJ Creamer, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov, and Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi, .... [more]

4:28:55 PM Learning to care for our planet
Tillsonburg News - ON,Canada

The first hint of the vastness of space came when an astronomer saw a supernova exploding in a pinwheel of light and realized it was a galaxy like our own ... [more]

4:09:15 PM ACC chosen for NASA program
Austin Business Journal - Austin,TX,USA

Austin Community College was one of about 20 schools nationally and the only non-university chosen to participate in a NASA simulated, zero-gravity program. ... [more]

4:08:01 PM [Letters] Citizens of the universe
Joongang Ilbo - Seoul,South Korea

A couple days ago, the day before the winter solstice, to be exact, I attended the closing ceremony of the “International Year of Astronomy 2009. ... [more]

2:38:02 PM NASA and space station alliance on shaky ground
NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USA

Those challenges include the pending retirement of the space shuttle but also the way NASA and the ISS are managed. A report issued this week by the .... [more]

2:11:38 PM Keck Telescopes Gaze into Young Star's “Life Zone”
Space Fellowship - UK

Yet, for the first time, astronomers using the WM Keck Observatory in Hawaii have measured the properties of a young solar system at distances closer to the ... [more]

1:04:05 PM Meteor: Stargazers in a spin over fireball sighting
Peterborough Evening Telegraph - Peterborough,England,UK

A meteor which has passed through Earth's atmosphere is known as a meteorite, and experts say pieces of the space rock could now be scattered across a ... [more]

12:52:07 PM Pictures of the year 2009: space
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK

This image provided by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows brilliant blue stars wreathed by warm, glowing clouds. The festive portrait is the most detailed ... [more]

12:36:35 PM NASA astronaut Barry Wilmore comes home to Mt. Juliet
The Tennessean - Nashville,TN,USA

.... mater to a hero's welcome Wilmore, a captain in the US Navy, piloted the space shuttle Atlantis last month on a trip to the International Space Station. ... [more]

10:28:10 AM Home resales surge in month
Las Vegas Review - Journal - Las Vegas,NV,USA

By HUBBLE SMITH Spurred by low prices and extension of the federal tax credit, existing-home sales in Las Vegas increased 50.8 percent to 3952 in November, ... [more]

9:55:26 AM $75 tablet touted
Boing Boing (blog)

Hey teapot, did you mean to link a picture of the Space Shuttle? Also, google doesn't seem to know what your project is, but I am curious. ... [more]

7:32:21 AM Economy may be shaking things up
NewsOK.com - Oklahoma City,OK,USA

State revenues are plummeting through the state Capitol floor like a meteorite burrowing down into the bedrock of central Oklahoma. ... [more]

7:08:48 AM Shuttle vital to science at station
Florida Today - Melbourne,FL,USA

BY BART JANSEN • FLORIDA TODAY • December 23, 2009 WASHINGTON — NASA will have a tough time pursuing research projects at the International Space Station ... [more]

4:45:23 AM Soyuz craft docks, boosts space station crew
CNET News - San Francisco,CA,USA

by William Harwood A veteran Russian cosmonaut, a Japanese shuttle flier, and a NASA astronaut making his first space flight docked with the International ... [more]

4:25:23 AM Fog in forecast for Saturn's moon
Pasadena Star-News - Pasadena,CA,USA

By Emma Gallegos Staff Writer PASADENA - Astronomers at Caltech have updated the weather forecast on Saturn's moon Titan - cloudy with a chance of fog. ... [more]

3:26:28 AM Extra-solar 'Super Earth' is first thought to have an atmosphere
Louisville Courier Journal - Louisville,KY,USA

“It probably has an extraordinarily deep ocean,” astronomer Geoff Marcy of the University of California-Berkeley said in a commentary accompanying the ... [more]

3:05:22 AM 2009: the year in Canberra
Crikey - Templestowe,Australia

.... him luck in ensuring the door doesn't hit him on the arse on the way out. ... produces modelling showing a vast asteroid will collide with the earth, ... [more]

2:55:33 AM Oh What a Cosmic Web We Weave
Discovery News

In fact, it's really just in the last decade that our technology for exploring the cosmos has improved to the point where astronomers could see that vast ... [more]

1:59:56 AM FROM THE ARCHIVES: Shuttle disaster hit hard; Area astronomy club has
Asbury Park Press - Asbury Park,NJ,USA

Asbury Park Press Members of S*T*A*R, an astronomy club that meets monthly in Middletown, took the disaster personally, said Gregory Cantrell, a Freehold Township resident ... [more]

12:49:46 AM Star burst
Cosmos - Sydney,Australia

by Ron Cowen A deeper understanding of a particular type of supernova could help astronomers to understand the true nature of mysterious dark energy. .... [more]

12:40:10 AM Astronomy Magazine Seeks Managing Editor
Space Ref - USA

Astronomy magazine, the world's leading publication for astronomy enthusiasts, is seeking a managing editor. The successful candidate will partner with the ... [more]

12:38:07 AM Can We Find A Living Planet by 2020?
Discovery News

Last week I received a call from a physician who was enthralled by the discovery of a suspected water planet and wondered if Hubble Space Telescope was ... [more]

12:20:00 AM Soyuz TMA-17 arrives as ISS and SSP evaluate Dual-Docked Ops scenarios
NASASpaceflight.com - York,Yorkshire,UK

International Space Station Program (ISSP) and Space Shuttle Program (SSP) engineers have updated NASA on the safety issues pertaining to Dual-Docked .... [more]

12:17:47 AM New Crew Reaches International Space Station
ABC News - United States

A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying cosmonaut Oleg Kotov, Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi and NASA rookie flier Timothy Creamer coasted into its berthing ... [more]



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