tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86637862011-07-07T19:04:18.582-07:00News articles and posts about astronomy and astronomy educationJeff Adkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00245972285008072742noreply@blogger.comBlogger5601100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8663786.post-91824798682639979652008-02-09T07:02:00.000-08:002008-02-09T07:02:22.583-08:00

Star eats star and builds planets from the crumbs - space - 08 February 2008 - New Scientist Space: "An unusual star may have swallowed its stellar companion and burped out a planet-forming cloud as a result, a new study reports"

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GLAST Name FormWelcome to the GLAST naming page! It is YOUR turn to suggest a name for NASA's newest astronomical observatory.Before the latest chapter in the search begins for supermassive black holes, new laws of physics and the mysterious dark matter, you’ll have the historic chance to help name the satellite that makes it all possible. This unique opportunity is open to the public across the

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Book a space now on out of this world tourist flight| News | This is London: "The Virgin Galactic spacecraft, which was being unveiled in New York today, is already under construction. Test flights are expected to begin in June, with commercial flights starting 12 months later.More than 200 potential astronauts are believed to have already paid deposits for the 100,000 pound (British unit of

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NASA - 10,000 Earths' Worth of Fresh Dust Found Near Star Explosion: "Astronomers have at last found definitive evidence that the universe's first dust - the celestial stuff that seeded future generations of stars and planets - was forged in the explosions of massive stars. The findings, made with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, are the most significant clue yet in the longstanding mystery of

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TWAN project official website - About TWAN: "The World At Night (TWAN) is a new program to create and exhibit a collection of stunning photographs of the world’s most beautiful and historic sites against a nighttime backdrop of stars, planets and celestial events. The eternally peaceful sky looks the same above all the landmarks and symbols of different nations and regions, attesting to the truly

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InterPlanetaryVentures.org

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Chandra :: Photo Album :: 3C321 :: 17 December 07: "This composite image shows the jet from a black hole at the center of a galaxy striking the edge of another galaxy, the first time such an interaction has been found."

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UC Davis News & Information :: Earliest Stage of Planet Formation Dated: "UC Davis researchers have dated the earliest step in the formation of the solar system -- when microscopic interstellar dust coalesced into mountain-sized chunks of rock -- to 4,568 million years ago, within a range of about 2,080,000 years.UC Davis postdoctoral researcher Frederic Moynier, Qing-zhu Yin, assistant professor

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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Great beasts peppered from space: "Startling evidence has been found which shows mammoth and other great beasts from the last ice age were blasted with material that came from space. Eight tusks dating to some 35,000 years ago all show signs of having being peppered with meteorite fragments."

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Gimpy rover has turned up a surprise on Mars / Jammed front wheel plowing surface has uncovered signs of habitability in silica: "On the opening day of the American Geophysical Union's annual meeting in San Francisco on Monday, Steven Squyres of Cornell, the Mars mission's principal investigator for science, disclosed that the rover's dragging wheel has serendipitously been working as a plow and

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%u2018Flying saucers%u2019 around Saturn explained - Space.com- msnbc.com: "The formation of strange flying-saucer-shaped moons embedded in Saturn's rings have baffled scientists. New findings suggest they're born largely from clumps of icy particles in the rings themselves, an insight that could shed light on how Earth and other planets coalesced from the disk of matter that once surrounded our

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Texas official resigns, cites creationism conflict - USATODAY.com: "AUSTIN (AP) %u2014 The state's director of science curriculum said she resigned this month under pressure from officials who felt she gave the appearance of criticizing the instruction of intelligent design. "

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The Cool News: "The Great Wall of China is NOT particularly visible from space While at a low orbit, the Great Wall of China can certainly be seen from space but it is not unique in that regard. From a low orbit of the earth, many artificial objects are visible on the earth, not just the Great Wall of China. Highways, ships in the sea, dams, railroads, cities, fields of crops, and even some

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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Nasa outlines manned Mars vision: "The US space agency envisages despatching a 'minimal' crew on a 30-month round trip to the Red Planet "

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Universe Today : Neutron Star Seen Hurtling Out of the Milky Way: "Like a baseball struck by a bat, there's a neutron star out there that's going, going, gone. Discovered using the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the neutron star appears to be the result of a lopsided supernova explosion. It's now hurtling away from the Milky Way faster than 4.8 million km/h (3 million mph). And it's never coming back

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Mankind 'shortening the universe's life' - Telegraph : "The startling claim is made by a pair of American cosmologists investigating the consequences for the cosmos of quantum theory, the most successful theory we have. Over the past few years, cosmologists have taken this powerful theory of what happens at the level of subatomic particles and tried to extend it to understand the universe

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Tides trigger tremors deep inside the Earth: "A new mystery faces scientists who study stresses that trigger earthquakes both large or small: Even the rise and fall of the ocean's tides are strong enough to trigger pulses of underground tremors that periodically send seismic faults slowly slipping beneath the northwest coast, quake researchers have found."

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Big bright puffball Holmes is a comet like no otherComet Holmes finally makes the mainstream news.

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Astronomy - See the Moon turn red -

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Pete Conrad Spirit of Innovation Award - Wirefly X PRIZE CUP

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Meteor Shower Peaks This Weekend: "Summer's annual meteor shower promises to put on a dazzling show when it peaks this weekend %u2014 provided you're far from city lights. With no moon in sight to interfere with the Perseid meteor shower, skygazers can expect to spot streaking fireballs late Sunday into dawn Monday regardless of time zone. Astronomers estimate as many as 60 meteors per hour could

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SPACE.com -- Astronomers Witness Whopper Galaxy Collision : "A major cosmic pileup involving four large galaxies could give rise to one of the largest galaxies the universe has ever known, scientists say.Each of the four galaxies is at least the size of the Milky Way, and each is home to billions of stars. The galaxies will eventually merge into a single, colossal galaxy up to 10 times as

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NSTA :: News StoryNSTA member Barbara R. Morgan believes students learn best by “doing and being actively engaged.” Now Morgan, a former Idaho elementary science teacher, is preparing to be actively engaged in space exploration as one of five NASA mission specialists aboard space shuttle Endeavour, now scheduled to launch on August 8. Endeavour’s 11-day mission, designated STS-118, will continue

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This is the registration page to participate in the latest teacher from space activity, involving testing space exposed seeds and seeds kept on earth as a control. This is very similar in concept to the Space Exposed Experiment Designed for Students (SEEDS) that NASA ran in the 1980s. NASA - Join the Challenge

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BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Queen star hands in science PhD: "Queen guitarist Brian May has handed in his astronomy PhD thesis - 36 years after abandoning it to join the band.May recently carried out observational work in Tenerife, where he studied the formation of 'zodiacal dust clouds'.The subject forms the basis of a 48,000-word thesis for Imperial College, London, where 60-year-old May studied

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Advice for Students: How to Write Research Papers that Rock! - lifehack.org The article's OK--but you should read the comments. The comments are in many ways better than the article.

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Home | Galaxy Zoo: "Welcome to GalaxyZoo , the project which harnesses the power of the internet - and your brain - to classify a million galaxies. By taking part, you'll not only be contributing to scientific research, but you'll view parts of the Universe that literally no-one has ever seen before and get a sense of

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A new issue of the Universe in the Classroom is now available:http://www.astrosociety.org/education/publications/tnl/71/howfast.htmlHow Fast Are You Moving When You Are Sitting Still?by Andrew Fraknoi, Foothill College & the Astronomical Society of the PacificHave you ever considered how fast you are really moving when it seems you are not moving at all? How fast does the Earth move in its daily

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"Living in the Microbial World"an intensive hands-on workshop for middle and high school teachersMarine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA,August 6 - 13, 2007Microbes are the most numerous organisms on the planet, are found in almostevery environment and play central roles in biogeochemical cycles. Thediversity of bacteria, fungi, and protists and the roles of thesemicro-organisms in shaping

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NASA - Venus Flyby\June 5, 2007: Picture this: A spaceship swoops in from the void, plunging toward a cloudy planet about the size of Earth. A laser beam lances out from the ship; it probes the planet's clouds, striving to reach the hidden surface below. Meanwhile, back on the craft's home world, scientists perch on the edge of their seats waiting to see what happens.Sounds like science fiction?

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http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070528_exoplanet_report.htmlThe rate of discovery is increasing...

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FOXNews.com - Astronomers Astonished by 'Monstrous' Star Explosion - Science News | Current ArticlesThe SN 2006gy explosion occurred in a galaxy 240 million light years away, called NGC 1260, and was 100 times more energetic than typical supernovae.

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Beyond Einstein: Education and OutreachThe Beyond Einstein Explorers’ Program (BEEP) is an after-school program for middle-school students. This program introduces participants to basic tools of astronomy (such as using light to gather information about objects) and to the Universe outside the solar system. BEEP was developed in partnership with the Imagine the Universe! program.Participants

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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Power station harnesses Sun's rays

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From: "Anita M. Sohus" Subject: Deadline Extended: Mars Phoenix Student Interns ProgramApplication Deadline has been extended to Wednesday May 9:The Phoenix Student Interns Program (PSIP) is a unique opportunity to become part of the Phoenix Science Team for the 2007-2008 Phoenix Mars Lander Mission. From around the country, selected teachers and their chosen students will work with scientists to

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The View - Science Festival April 21Science Festival April 21 Science Festival 2007 will be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Science and VBT buildings. Parking and admission is free.The College of Science faculty, staff and students are hosting Science Festival 2007, a tradition going back to 1974. We're not only celebrating this tradition, but CSUEB's 50th anniversary, Astronomy Day and the

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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Mars-probe failure 'human error': "The US space agency, Nasa, has said that human error was to blame for the failure of the $154m (�77.5m) Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft.Engineers lost contact with the probe in early November and later admitted it was lost and irrecoverable.Nasa said that faulty changes made to the spacecraft's computer memory caused the battery to

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www.developmentcenter.infoPictures from a new solar spacecraft, including some ultra-high resolution images of the surface of the sun, and the usual scale picture showing the sun with the earth in the image to scale. Nice images though.

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Via Andrew FraknoiFree Public Talk on Climate Catastrophes Among the Planets(Dr. David Grinspoon to Receive Carl Sagan Medal at the Event)==============================================On Wednesday, April 11, 2007, at 7 pm,Astronomer David Grinspoon (of the Denver Museumof Nature and Science) will give anon-technical, illustrated talk on:------------------------------------------------------------

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The Institute for Global Environmental StrategiesFrom Theresa Schwerin, FYI. Please pass this along to anyone you know who would be interested in this opportunity.************************************************************Thacher Scholars Award: Deadline Approaching* Earth Science Contest for Grades 9-12* Cash Awards: $2,000, $1,000 and $500* Entries Postmarked by April 2, 2007The countdown has

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Telling Time by the Stars - Sidereal Time� Interesting mathematical back-of-the-envelope projects, several of which deal with astronomical topics.

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Saturn's Icy Moon May Have Been Hot Enough for Life, Study Finds: "One of the places in the solar system most likely to haveextraterrestrial life may have gotten off to a hot, highly radioactivestart, scientists reported yesterday at a meeting in Houston, Texas.Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, stunned scientists two years ago when NASA's Cassini orbiter discovered geyser-like jets of water vapor

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Wired News: March 13, 1781: Heavenly Body: "Herschel originally christened his discovery Georgium Sidus ('George's Star') in honor of Britain's King George III and, in fact, a host of names were proposed before Uranus finally won out."I believe one of the other names was Herschel. It took a generation of astronomers dying off before all the "modern" names gave way to the planet Uranus. BTW it's

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Hermograph Press: The Astronomy Times & Review : "The Real Zodiac :Odds Are You Aren't The Sign You Think You Are"While the newspapers may list 12 equally sized star groupings for horoscope lovers, the astronomical fact is that the Sun passes through 13 constellations and touches a 14th. This automatically means that the sun can not possibly spend 30 days in each constellation!

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NASA - Stereo Eclipse"What an extraordinary view," says Lika Guhathakurta, STEREO Program Scientist at NASA headquarters. The fantastically-colored star is our own sun as STEREO sees it in four wavelengths of extreme ultraviolet light. The black disk is the Moon. "We caught a lunar transit of the sun," she explains.

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New Mexico Lawmaker Petitions to Restore Pluto's Planet Status - Yahoo! News: "The state of New Mexico could effectively secede from the astronomical community if a resolution to call Pluto a planet is passed."

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Supporting Educational Materials for the TLRBSE Solar Magnetic Fields Research Project

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From a listserv posting sent by Alan Gould:In appreciation of AstronomyThis is a poem by our national poet laureate Tom Kooser, and is submitted by in appreciation of the work of astronomy teachers everywhere.TelescopeThis is the pipe that pierces the damthat holds back the universethat takes off some off the pressure,keeping the weight of the unknownand washing us all down the valleyBecause of

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Memos Tell Officials How to Discuss Climate - New York Times: "Internal memorandums circulated in the Alaskan division of the Federal Fish and Wildlife Service appear to require government biologists or other employees traveling in countries around the Arctic not to discuss climate change, polar bears or sea ice if they are not designated to do so."

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Scientists show that asteroids are solar powered| Science| Reuters: "By Will DunhamWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sunlight can cause asteroids to spin more quickly, scientists said on Wednesday, showing anew just how dynamic a place our solar system can be."

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Neatorama Blog Archive 9 Laws of Physics That Don't Apply in Hollywood: "Yeah, the action scenes look great and all, but in reality momentum is conserved, such that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. So, when you see a gal kick someone across the room, technically, the kicker (or holder of a gun) must fly across the room in the opposite direction %u2013 unless she has a back

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MIT OpenCourseWare: PhysicsMIT's open courseware project includes lecture notes and assignments from students attending MIT's classes. An invaluable resource.

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Pluto probe swings by Jupiter - CNN.com: "CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) -- A small spacecraft en route to Pluto flew past Jupiter early on Wednesday, picking up enough speed from the giant planet's gravity field to shave three years off what would have been a 12-year voyage.In exchange, the New Horizons spacecraft is taking a lingering and long-awaited look at Jupiter, which was the focus of

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Landstrom's Eclispe fileMARCH + MOON + MAROON Free telescope viewing to watch a total eclipse of the full moon.

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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Space probe performs Mars fly-by: "The unmanned Rosetta craft passed within some 250 km (150 miles) of Mars.In a precise move, the probe used the planet's gravity to change course on its voyage to the Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet out near Jupiter."Rosetta will be the first mission to land a probe on a comet. It is a European Space Agency mission.

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"Follow the Drinking Gourd": A Cultural HistoryA well-researched and interesting analysis of the popular "Drinking Gourd" song shown by some planetaria during Black History Month. Did escaping slaves actually use this song to escape the slavery of the south, or was the song an inspiration to civil rights leaders after the war? It's a good example of history and music and science all blending

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Cosmic Journey: A History of Scientific CosmologyThis is excellent reading for those interested in the development of astronomy as a science.

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SkyTonight.com - Homepage Observing - A Naked-Eye Nova in ScorpiusI was alerted to this by an email from Katy Garmany. From the article (which includes a finder chart):Nova Scorpii 2007 wasn't a big deal when two Japanese nova hunters, Yuji Nakamura and Yukio Sakurai, independently discovered it at 9th magnitude on February 4th. But that was then and this is now. The nova brightened and

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SPACE.com -- When Did Science Become the Enemy?: "The factthat you%u2019re confronting this column on a web site devoted to space science andastronomy makes you roughly as rare as technetium.� Despite the fact thatastronomy is one of the two most popular science subjects in American schools(the other is biology), it%u2019s really not that popular."

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The Nasa Blog � Take a trip through the Mars Mariner valleyA virtual flythrough the Mariner valley.

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Hayabusa probe to attempt return journey - space - 13 February 2007 - New Scientist SpaceJapan's problem-plagued Hayabusa spacecraft will attempt to return to Earth at the end of March, mission controllers say.If the craft does return as planned in 2010, researchers would finally find out whether it collected the first-ever samples from an asteroid during its two landings on the tiny space rock

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WTKR.COM YOUR NEWSCHANNEL 3 - Astronaut Faces Very Serious Charges: "Last summer, astronaut Lisa Nowak was soaring 220 miles above Earth, floating in the rarefied air of the international space station. The 43-year-old robotics specialist was in quite a different place Monday night: A dingy jail among suspected drug dealers and prostitutes, where she awaited a scheduled court appearance Tuesday.

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BBC NEWS | UK | England | Manchester | Pupils scared by asteroid spoof: "Pupils were left in tears after a teacher told them that an asteroid was about to hit Earth and kill them all.The spoof announcement was designed to teach 14-year-olds the importance ofseizing the day but backfired after they became visibly frightened.Keith Hogan, head teacher at St Matthew's RC High School in Moston,

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Price of Next Big Thing in Physics: $6.7 Billion - New York Times: "At a news conference in Beijing, an international consortium of physicists released the first detailed design of what they believe will be the Next Big Thing in physics: a machine 20 miles long that will slam together electrons and their evil-twin opposites, positrons, to produce fireballs of energy recreating conditions when the

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During our unit on energy, we can help students to learn the conceptsassociated with the words "adiabatic" and "isothermal"..two words thatcause students in AP Chem, for example, to switch to memorization mode.Suppose a block slides across a table, slowing down and coming to a stop. Take the block as the system and the table as part of the surroundings. We have to make a decision about the '

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Apollo 11-17 First man on the Moon - Apollo Moon Landings - QTVR photos from panoramas.dkPanos from around the moon, requires Quicktime VR.

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NASA - 181 Things to Do on the MoonThe moon could also provide some creative commercial opportunities: lunar power from solar cells, protected data archives, mining of lunar metals, and research under conditions of low gravity and high vacuum, to name a few. In fact, mining the moon may eventually yield rocket propellant that could be sold to commercial satellite operators to access and service

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Wanted: Home-builders for the moon - Space News - MSNBC.com Imagine a world where microwave-beaming rovers cook dust into concrete landing pads ... where your living quarters are dropped onto the land from above, then inflated like an inner tube ... where the grit is so abrasive that even the robots have to wear protective coveralls.... includes a slide show with some pretty pictures.

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Flight Patterns: "The Flight Patterns visualizations are the result of experiments leading to the project Celestial Mechanics by Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne. FAA data was parsed and plotted using the Processing programming environment. The frames were composited with Adobe After Effects and/or Maya."I think this a more important video than you might think at first glance. It shows how the

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NASA - Lunar Transient PhenomenaAn airplane passes right in front of the moon as the camera is recording. Startling.

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Photos: Best photos of Saturn--and the winners are | CNET News.com: "NASA announced the winners of its contest to choose the best photograph taken by the Cassini spacecraft as it nears its second anniversary at the planet Saturn. NASA also announced winners of its Mars rovers' photo contest."

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New Theory of the Universe Marries Two of its Biggest Mysteries: "%u201CWe propose that at some point in the very early universe, dark matter interacted with regular matter in a particular way so as to shift the balance between matter and anti-matter ever so slightly towards matter, a process known as baryogenesis,%u201D said Jeff Jones, a University of California-Santa Cruz physicist involved in

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Lewis Center for Educational ResearchThis is a you-pay-for-it opportunity to get access to a giant radio telescope in California. You and your students run the telescope by remote control. The price is around $500.

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Lewis Center for Educational ResearchThis is a you-pay-for-it opportunity to get access to a giant radio telescope in California. You and your students run the telescope by remote control. The price is around $500.

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Gravity Launch

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SPACE.com -- Pluto-Bound Spacecraft to Nab Speed Boost in Jupiter Flyby: "At itsclosest approach, New Horizons will swing within 1.7 million miles (2.3 millionkilometers) of Jupiter to grab a gravity boost that will shave three years offits flight to Pluto, researchers said [image].�%u201CWe%u2019vedesigned this particular flyby to be a stress test on our spacecraft to workout the kinks,%u201D

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Belief and knowledge%u2014a plea about language - Physics Today January 2007: "A few words in elementary physics%u2014 force, work, momentum, and energy%u2014have carefully defined physics meanings. Their much broader everyday usage causes students a great deal of confusion until they learn the precise physics concepts. Rather than belabor such cases, I will focus on some words that are, I think,

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Hands-On Universe Research: "The International Asteroid Search Campaign (IASC) is a program for high school and college students who search real-time astronomical images for original discoveries.� These discoveries include asteroids, near-Earth objects (NEO), Kuiper Belt objects (KBO), supernovae (SNe), and active galactic nuclei (AGN).� Students download the images on a daily basis,

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Online astronomers seek out new worlds - Yahoo! News: "n 1995, neophyte stargazer Thomas Bopp gained fame for co-discovering what would be known as Comet Hale-Bopp. Two years ago, in what was billed as the first such find by an amateur in 65 years, Jay McNeil of Kentucky took a picture of a new nebula %u2014 an illuminated cloud of gas and dust lit by what is believed to be a newborn star.Since

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Comet McNaught is visible in daylight! Spaceweather, for the next few days, gives the details. I've seen it 3 times at sunset myself. SpaceWeather.com -- News and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids

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Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Science: "Justice Stephen G. Breyer encouragedtrial judges to appoint independent experts to help them. He notedthat courts can turn to scientific organizations, like the NationalAcademy of Sciences and the American Association for the Advancementof Science, to identify neutral experts who could preview questionablescientific testimony and advise a judge on whether a

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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Doom for Hubble's iconic pillars

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SPACE.com -- NASA Finally Goes Metric: "When NASA returns astronauts to the Moon, the mission will be measured kilometers, not miles.The agency has decided to use metric units for all operations on the lunar surface, according to a statement released today.The change will standardize parts and tools. It means Russian wrenches could be used to fix an air leak in a U.S.-built habitat. It will also

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SPACE.com -- Andromeda Galaxy Five Time Bigger Than Thought: "According to current galactic formation theories, the halo is the first part of a galaxy that forms. Stars in the halo are predicted to be metal poor because they formed during a time when the universe had much less heavy metal content than it does now. Heavy metals are created as stars evolve and then spewed out into interstellar

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Lego Mindstorms NXT SegwayI wonder how segway technology might be adaptable to a space probe...

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Stellar Bang with a New Twist -- Berardelli 2007 (105): 2 -- ScienceNOW: "For years, astronomers have relied on a valuable observational tool to study the expansion of the universe: a variety of supernova called a Type Ia. These titanic explosions were thought to erupt under conditions that produced a consistent brightness. Using that 'standard candle,' astronomers could calculate a supernova's

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SPACE.com -- Skywatcher's Almanac: Celestial Highlights in 2007: "From a potentially spectacular summer meteor shower to a pair of lunar eclipses and compelling appearances of the planets, this year will be an excellent one for skywatching. Hot New Comet! Right now, a newfound comet is brightening rapidly and could put on a fantastic show over the next few days. This astronomical almanac of sorts

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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Diamond star thrills astronomers: "The cosmic diamond is a chunk of crystallised carbon, 4,000 km across, some 50 light-years from the Earth in the constellation Centaurus."

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Yakko's UniverseIt's a big universe...and it's oooours!

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SkyTonight.com - Homepage Observing - January's Surprise Comet: "A major comet, known as Comet McNaught or C/2006 P1, is right now making its way through the inner solar system. It%u2019s already as bright as the brightest stars, but it is also sticking close to the glare of the Sun. For this reason the general public won%u2019t be gathering on street corners to gaze at it, as they did Comet

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Cops baffled by mystery object that crashed into home - CNN.com: "Nobody was injured when the golf ball-sized object, weighing nearly as much as a can of soup, struck the home and embedded itself in a wall Tuesday night. Federal officials sent to the scene said it was not from an aircraft.The rough-surfaced object, with a metallic glint, was displayed Wednesday by police."

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MyFox Colorado | Watch Spectacular Video of A Meteor ShowerAt the time, the newsfolken thought it was a meteor-- "parts of an extinct constellation[sic]" says the weather guy. Later we found out it was a Russian rocket breaking up in the atmosphere.

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Brightest supernova discovery hints at stellar collision - space - 03 January 2007 - New Scientist Space: "Because merger-generated explosions are likely so rare, they should not affect the interpretation of cosmological studies that rely on type Ia supernovae -- including measurements of dark energy, he says."

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ESA Portal - Black hole boldly goes where no black hole has gone before: "XMM-Newton is extremely sensitive to variable X-ray sources and can efficiently search across large patches of the sky. The team also used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, which has superb angular resolution to pinpoint the X-ray source's location. This allowed them to match up the position of the X-ray source with

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Friday the 13th, 2029: "The asteroid is about 320 meters wide. 'That's big enough to punch through Earth's atmosphere,' devastating a region the size of, say, Texas, if it hit land, or causing widespread tsunamis if it hit ocean, says Chodas. So much for holiday cheer."

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Would Stephen Jay Gould Have Signed the "Steves"?: "That summer, and every other summer I worked teaching science to the public, I met a lot of them. Though most objectors would just walk away from the program, some mothers would cover their children's ears to protect them from the "blasphemous park ranger." One man, after I patiently explained how we know the age of rocks, finally just threw up

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Sci-Fi Lists - Top 100 Sci-Fi BooksThis is a good list. I've read most of these.

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NASA - True Fakes: Scientists make simulated lunar soil : "'We don't have enough real moondust to go around,' says Larry Taylor, director of Planetary Geosciences Institute at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. To run all the tests, 'we need to make a well-qualified lunar simulant.' And not just a few bags will do. 'We need tons of it, mainly for working on technologies for diggers and

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Astronomy Picture of the DayThis is what an analemma on Mars would look like.

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HTML Version of AstroWeb DatabaseMASSIVE astronomy link list

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