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11:36:43 PM Astronaut angered by Obama's about-face on space exploration
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

American astronaut Tom Jones has flown into space aboard the space shuttle four times. He has reviewed President Obama's plan for the future of NASA, .... [more]

11:23:47 PM Give NASA Back
The University of Alabama Crimson White - Tuscaloosa,AL,USA

Unfortunately, that comparison is all too appropriate this week, at least when it comes to attitudes toward NASA. Only Nixon, since the creation of the ... [more]

10:48:46 PM Tales Out of School
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

In the physical sciences, universities have contributed to the Hubble telescope, lasers, LEDs, bar codes, radar, transistors, MRI technology and numerous ... [more]

10:39:00 PM Philip Treacy is a hatmaker to the stars
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA

And I did the meteorite headpiece Lady Gaga wore to the Grammy Awards last week. Q: So that's what Ms. Gaga was wearing! What advice can you give a woman ... [more]

8:44:58 PM Pasachoff joins team of skeptics
Berkshire Eagle - Pittsfield,MA,USA

By Scott Stafford, Berkshire Eagle Staff WILLIAMSTOWN -- Williams College astronomy professor Jay M. Pasachoff is skeptical about many things, ... [more]

8:44:01 PM "Super Earth" May Really Be New Planet Type: Super-Io
National Geographic

Based on previous observations, astronomers know that CoRoT-7b's surface is between 1832 and 2732 degrees Fahrenheit (1000 and 1500 degrees Celsius). .... [more]

8:20:52 PM Nexus One cracked screen: How did our Google phone break?
Crave

It could even be that a tiny meteorite broke through the earth's magnetic shield and penetrated the Nexus One's defences. Or it could have happened entirely ... [more]

7:33:08 PM NASA Pluto mission only just beginning
NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USA

By Michael Cooney, Network World NASA's Hubble telescope this week got some great pictures of our most distant planet Pluto, showing what space agency .... [more]

7:07:39 PM NASA: Twitterers can question shuttle crew
ComputerWorld - USA

By Sharon Gaudin Computerworld - NASA this week said that the crew of the space shuttle Endeavour plans to take questions in space from the Twitterverse. ... [more]

6:01:39 PM Scientists to exhume remains of astronomer
Standard-Speaker - Hazleton,PA,USA

PRAGUE - Prague City Hall says it has approved a request by Danish scientists to exhume the remains of famed Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe. .... [more]

5:39:14 PM Hubble, WISE Capture Asteroid Data
Aviation Week - New York,NY,USA

By Staff The Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of debris and dust in the asteroid belt that astronomers believe may be the result of a .... [more]

5:26:39 PM NASA: Back-to-back shuttle, satellite launches build space buzz
NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USA

By Michael Cooney, Network World Blasting two significant spaceships into orbit will keep NASA engineers hopping in the next few days. ... [more]

3:55:04 PM Solar Dynamics Observatory Set For Feb 9 Launch
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA

For some years now, an unorthodox idea has been gaining favor among astronomers. It contradicts old teachings and unsettles thoughtful observers, ... [more]

3:22:38 PM NASA Connects Twitter Users To Space Shuttle Crew
WebProNews - Lexington,KY,USA

By Mike Sachoff NASA is inviting the public to send questions for its astronauts via Twitter during the space shuttle Endeavour's upcoming mission to the ... [more]

1:56:44 PM New Hubble photos show Pluto getting redder
Motors ...

A new examination of photographs of Pluto from the Hubble Space Telescope show the dwarf planet changing colors and at one point getting redder in what may ... [more]

1:43:01 PM Irish meteorite could sell for $41000
Irish Central - NY,NY,UK

The meteorite that landed somewhere over the northern part of Ireland could be worth in excess of $41000. The last time a meteorite hit Ireland was in 1989, ... [more]

1:02:08 PM Paul Flemming: A super Sunday in store for Sayfie
Tallahassee Democrat - Tallahassee,FL,USA

Space Shuttle Endeavour is set to launch into orbit at 4:39 am Sunday at Cape Canaveral. Sayfie will watch, along with his wife and three children, .... [more]

12:43:14 PM Asteroid hues intrigue UH
Honolulu Star-Bulletin

By Helen Altonn University of Hawaii astronomers and colleagues are trying to understand the changing colors of asteroids, knowledge they say might help ... [more]

12:04:46 PM Hubble Telescope Images Show Pluto Changed Color
All Headline News - USA

The appearance is different from 1994 photos taken by Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys. Meanwhile, NASA's space probe New Horizons will take new photos ... [more]

12:01:16 PM WDBO Local News NASA gets ready for its last shuttle lauch at night
WDBO Radio - Orlando,Florida,USA

NASA's Jeff Spaulding says there are no snags. Weather Officer Kathy Winters is expecting good weather. "the weather is looking promising for launch. ... [more]

10:00:58 AM Object no longer thought to be a comet
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA

The object was first sighted in early January by astronomers at the Air Force LINEAR project telescope in New Mexico, who reported it as a comet that must ... [more]

8:48:08 AM Magnetic calorimeter arrays for x-ray astronomy
SPIE Newsroom - Bellingham,WA,USA

A new class of detectors has great potential as x-ray cameras for future astrophysical observatories, with unprecedented energy resolution and array sizes ... [more]

7:44:23 AM Meteorite lights up Irish sky
United Press International

4 (UPI) -- Astronomy buffs and people hoping to make some money were out Thursday looking for the remains of a meteorite seen streaking across the Irish sky ... [more]

7:19:10 AM Clueless in New Jersey
The Gloucester County Times - Woodbury,NJ,USA

Or maybe the Hubble telescope. Or maybe just go ahead and put on a blindfold and hope for the best. The City of Camden has been rotting on the vine for ... [more]

6:57:49 AM Solar activity intensifies after long period of calm
BBC Sport - UK

Science has yet to fully explain these fluctuations on the sun, but the astronomer and author Heather Couper says they can have powerful repercussions on ... [more]

6:01:51 AM Instruments to Study Space Weather Set for NASA Launch
Science Daily (press release) - USA

9 by NASA should help scientists better understand the violent effects of the sun on near-Earth space weather that can affect satellites, power grids, ... [more]

5:55:24 AM Spiral galaxies were 'ugly ducklings' 6 bn yrs ago: Astronomers
Brahmand Defence and Aerospace News

A Hubble Photo WASHINGTON (PTI): The beautiful spiral galaxies of modern Universe were ugly ducklings six billion years ago, European astronomers have ... [more]

4:43:54 AM Bright Shanghai lights block view of astronomers
China View, Beijing, China

The observatory equipment needs to be moved elsewhere to continue the astronomy research, he said. Unlike air and water pollution, light pollution has long ... [more]

4:39:07 AM James Cameron's NASA Love: 'Avatar' Director Praises Obama's NASA Budget ...
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

James Cameron has penned a glowing endorsement of President Obama's NASA budget and the space agency's future plans. In a Washington Post guest column, ... [more]

4:14:48 AM Space rock stirs legal fight
San Angelo Standard Times - san angelo,tx,USA

BRETT ZONGKER AP In this 2010 photo released by the Smithsonian Institutionís National Museum of Natural History, a meteorite the a size of a tennis ball is ... [more]

3:30:31 AM Utah native named new president at ATK
Salt Lake Tribune - Salt Lake City,UT,USA

The end of government contracts for space shuttle and Minuteman III rocket motors prompted the company to lay off 550 employees in October -- including 400 ... [more]

2:02:40 AM New Pluto Pictures Unveiled; Hubble's Sharpest Yet
National Geographic

Image courtesy NASA; ESA; H. Weaver (JHU/APL); A. Stern (SwRI); and the HST Pluto Companion Search Team Pluto and its three moons as seen in a 2006 Hubble ... [more]

12:18:39 AM Under the Knife: Starlight, starbright Astronomy Club
Lamron - Geneseo,NY,USA

The recently established Astronomy Club prides itself on making the beauty and intrigue of the sky available to every student at Geneseo. ... [more]

12:15:21 AM Space Shuttle Challenger: Disaster Seen on Newly-Found Amateur Tape
ABC News - United States

By NED POTTER Twenty-four years after the space shuttle Challenger exploded, a new videotape has turned up -- shot, we are told, by an optometrist from his ... [more]



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