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• Discovery Center astronomers will eye Jupiter tonight – Ridgefield Press

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 161
  Discovery Center astronomers will eye Jupiter tonightRidgefield PressThe Discovery Center at Ridgefield will co-host an astronomy program at the New Pond Farm Observatory, 101 Marchant Road, West Redding. …read the full article
  22 hours ago

• Dark galaxy may be crashing into Milky Way

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, November 23 (ANI): New calculations by a team of astronomers have indicated that a dark galaxy may be crashing into our own Milky Way. In 2008, a cloud of hydrogen with a mass then estimated at about 1 million suns was found to be colliding with our galaxy. Now, according to a report in [...]
  6 days ago

• My visit to Montreal

  
  Professor Astronomy's Astronomy Blog — Authority: 115
  The latter half of last week found me in Montréal, Canada.  I was invited by colleagues in the astrophysics group at the Université de Montréal to give a talk on my research. Wednesday I boarded a plane for Montreal, arriving in the early evening.  Ive never been to Montréal before, and the only other time ...
  6 days ago

• 11 Hardest Jobs to Get

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 166
  From Astronauts and Astronomers... to Private Cooks and the President... Here is a look at the 11 rarest careers in America to land.
  1 week ago

• Leonid Meteor showers in November 2009

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New York, Nov 17 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The annual Leonid Meteor shower is at its peak early today morning. The night sky would dazzle with the Leonid meteor shower.According NASA experts, and other astronomers USA is going to have a shower of 20-30 meteors per hour while the Asian region will get around 200-300 meteors ...
  1 week ago

• Skywatchers prepare for best meteor shower of the year

  
  Press Release Distribution - NewsWire- Caymanmama.com — Authority: 534
  San Antonio, Texas (CaymanMama.com) — Astronomers and skywatchers are gearing up for one of the best yearly meteor showers on Tuesday. The Leonid meteor shower sky show will debut in the pre-dawn hours on November 16th and some are saying it could be quite a show. Although the best show will be over Asia, North ...
  1 week ago

• 2012: the End of the World

  
  IENACE — Authority: 143
  Many people seem to believe that the year 2012 end of the world disaster is truly going to happen. Will it? And what will it bring? There are many theories that occur about this. Some people believe that the earth is going to be torn apart by some sort of spatial object. This could be a so-called black hole coming ...
  1 week ago

• Sky gazers can expect celestial fireworks Tuesday

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) Sky gazers can look forward to an exhibition of celestial fireworks over the next two days as the night sky will be lit up by the Leonid meteor showers expected to peak Tuesday.The Leonid showers, known for their outbursts over the period 1998-2002, are the most famous meteors observable ...
  1 week ago

• Leonid meteor shower’s best viewing before dawn on November 17

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, November 14 (ANI): Reports indicate that this year, the Leonid meteor shower best viewing will be in the hours before dawn on November 17.But, there is uncertainty on the intensity of this year’s shower. Viewers will definitely see a dozen or more meteors per hour. Some astronomers predict, however, that ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lithium clue for planet-hunters

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 168
  Astronomers may have found a way to identify those Sun-like stars most likely to harbour orbiting planets.
  2 weeks ago

• Exoplanets Clue To Suns Curious Chemistry

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 156
  A ground-breaking census of 500 stars, 70 of which are known to host planets, has successfully linked the long-standing "lithium mystery" observed in the Sun to the presence of planetary systems. Using ESOs successful HARPS spectrograph, a team of astronomers has found that sun-like stars that host planets have ...
  2 weeks ago

• Congratulations Steve!

  
  Professor Astronomy's Astronomy Blog — Authority: 115
  Image Credit: Steven DeGennaro Today, we astronomers are honored to welcome yet another newly-minted PhD into our midst: Steven DeGennaro.  Steve is a graduate student here at the University of Texas at Austin , and this afternoon he successfully defended his doctoral dissertation.   Steve is in the ...
  3 weeks ago

• New type of supernova found

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 168
  Astronomers examining data from a supernova first observed in 2002 have determined that it represents a new class of rapidly exploding star.
  3 weeks ago

• International Year of Astronomy: Pope: faith and reason complementary – Foster’s Daily Democrat

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 161
  The PilotInternational Year of Astronomy: Pope: faith and reason complementaryFoster’s Daily DemocratThe pope met with astronomers from around the world as part of events marking the UN-designated International Year of Astronomy and celebrating the 400th …Awe for creation, pursuit of truth benefits science, pope ...
  3 weeks ago

• A bitter retirement

  
  Professor Astronomy's Astronomy Blog — Authority: 115
  Image Credit: James Liebert Those of you who regularly read my blog know that I often write about colleagues who are moving on to the next step in their careers, be it postdoctoral researchers who get jobs as professors, or graduate students who finish their PhDs (one of those is coming up later this week, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Shedding Light On The Cosmic Skeleton

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 156
  Astronomers have tracked down a gigantic, previously unknown assembly of galaxies located almost seven billion light-years away from us. The discovery, made possible by combining two of the most powerful ground-based telescopes in the world, is the first observation of such a prominent galaxy structure in the distant ...
  3 weeks ago

• Cosmic rays likely powered by exploding stars and stellar “winds”

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, November 3 (ANI): In a new research, astronomers have solved a 100-year old mystery of the origin of cosmic rays, by finding evidence which indicates that cosmic rays are likely powered by exploding stars and stellar “winds”.Astronomers came across the evidence using the VERITAS telescope array.VERITAS ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Daily Habit: Science

  
  The 115- Fear and Loathing in America: Random Babble from the Red-Eyed Counterculture — Authority: 142
  Science Sees Blast from the Past http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091029/sc_nm/us_star  
  4 weeks ago

• Stellar blast is record-breaker

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 168
  Astronomers have confirmed that an exploding star spotted by Nasas Swift satellite is the most distant cosmic object to be detected by telescopes.
  4 weeks ago

• A prized lecture

  
  Professor Astronomy's Astronomy Blog — Authority: 115
  Image Credit: McDonald Observatory Today we were treated to a lecture in memory of Antoinette de Vaucouleurs , who was an astronomer here at the University of Texas at Austin for 25 years.  She is well-known for extensive work on the photometry and radial velocities of galaxies, often collaborating with her ...
  4 weeks ago

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