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News From Sunday, December 27, 2009
11:55:19 PM Nasa gadget for closer look at sun
Calcutta Telegraph - Calcutta,India

.... know the sun and Jupiter better from mid-2010, thanks to a radio receiver to be installed at MP Birla Planetarium as part of a joint project with Nasa. ... [more]

8:44:53 PM NASA study: Lakes warming quickly
United Press International

Researchers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., came to conclusions after noticing that Lake Tahoe, Clear Lake and four other big ... [more]

8:30:50 PM Search for extraterrestrial life is growing
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA

As she and others often point out, astronomers think the universe contains something on the order of 1000000000000000000000000 stars and, ... [more]

6:51:07 PM Congratulations to 3 West Seattleites: Honors from Grammy, NASA
West Seattle Blog - Seattle,WA,USA

OUT OF THIS WORLD: West Seattle astro-expert Alice Enevoldsen announced it on Twitter late last night – she just got word she's been chosen as a NASA Solar ... [more]

6:19:28 PM Professor sets up pet planetarium in Belgaum
Times of India - India

BELGAUM: Stars and astronomy are a passion with Professor CG Hukkeri, non-resident external (NRE). And to give it life, he has set up a planetarium at his ... [more]

5:50:39 PM Voyager 2 on a 'magic mission' beyond Milky Way
USA Today - McLean,VA,United States

Holiday tidings come from NASA's Voyager 2 this week, offering a view of deep space beyond our sun's solar system. Now speeding through space at more than ... [more]

4:37:45 PM NASA taps Wind River for it's next-gen launch vehicles
EE Times India

Wind River's depth of experience and industry success in aerospace and defence were key factors in NASA's decision to use VxWorks 653. ... [more]

2:32:00 PM NASA Space Missions to Study Effects of Global Warming
ChattahBox - Boston,MA,USA

(ChattahBox)—As the future direction of NASA is debated by lawmakers in Congress and the space agency's aging fleet of shuttles are about to be retired, ... [more]

1:07:40 PM Reality matches Dreaming story
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia

He is part of a team, led by a CSIRO astronomer, Ray Norris, that is exploring the possibility that Aborigines were the world's first astronomers. ... [more]

12:34:42 PM How Santa gets round the world in just one night
Daily News & Analysis - Mumbai,India

Professor John Brown, tenth Astronomer Royal for Scotland, believes only quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity, which distorts space time boundary, ... [more]

9:35:43 AM Minute organs in the ear can alter brain blood flow
BBC News - E,UK

But the Harvard Medical School team, working with Nasa, found the balance organs also affect brain blood flow in their study involving 24 people. ... [more]

9:17:12 AM Hubble discovers two 'rejuvenated' stars in Messier 30
Brahmand Defence and Aerospace News

PARIS (BNS): Astronomers with the help of Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered two distinct kinds of 'rejuvenated' stars in the globular cluster Messier 30 ... [more]

8:43:25 AM Katrina evacuees, space shuttle disaster among Dallas-Fort Worth's top
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA

Dallas Morning News The space shuttle Columbia, 40 miles high and racing toward Florida at almost 20 times the speed of sound, broke apart on re-entry, killing the seven ... [more]

7:42:36 AM Five Dallas Middle School students participate in NASA Endeavour Program
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader - Wilkes Barre,PA,USA

Dallas Middle School students in the gifted science program are currently participating in the NASA Endeavour Program. Dallas Middle School students in the ... [more]

7:28:35 AM Farmington children's museum carries on scientific legacy
Farmington Daily Times - Farmington,NM,USA

The museum played host to a variety of interactive and educational programs to celebrate the International year of Astronomy 2009 and the 400th anniversary ... [more]

6:50:15 AM Collisions and “vampirism” may make stars look newly young
World Science - New York,NY,USA

This image of Messier 30 (M 30) was taken by Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys. Messier 30 formed 13 billion years ago and was discovered in 1764 by ... [more]

6:26:39 AM 'Backyard Astronomy': MUW hosts free astronomy sessions in Jan.
The Commercial Dispatch - Columbus,MS,USA

The Science Enrichment Program at Mississippi University for Women is hosting two work shops at the beginning of the year titled “Backyard Astronomy,” where ... [more]

3:56:36 AM Scientists have found two brown dwarf-sized masses around an ordinary star
7thSpace Interactive (press release) - New York,NY,USA

The researchers from the ToruÅ„ Center for Astronomy, Poland and the Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds, Penn State report their findings in the ... [more]



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