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Scott Gration
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President-elect Barack Obama has asked retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Scott Gration, one of his top foreign policy and military advisers during the campaign, to take the helm of NASA, according to a source informed of the selection. An announcement is expected as soon as Wednesday. If that happens, h...
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Shasta College meteor camera
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Shasta College has received a new all-sky meteor camera system for the benefit the region's students. Sandia National Laboratories has contracted with New Mexico University to build 40 systems, and Shasta College is one of the lucky schools across several states that is receiving this technolog...
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Luminous Transient in NGC 300
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A magnitude 16.5 optical transient was discovered in the spiral galaxy NGC 300, on April 24th, 2008, by Berto Monard of South Africa. The object is currently at magnitude 14. Spectroscopic observations by H.E. Bond (STScI), F.M. Walter (Stony Brook U.), and J. Velasquez (CTIO) suggest that...
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Gwacheon radio telescope
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South Korea has some of the best telecommunication technology in the world. If only eavesdropping on alien chatter was as easy as flipping open a cell phone. The Gwacheon National Science Museum said its brand new 7.2-meter telescope, to be activated this month, will be used to search for signs of ex...
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SERVS
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UK astronomers are set to expand our knowledge of the history of our Universe with a new project to map the inception and formation of galaxies. Making use of an Infrared Array Camera on NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, the Spitzer Extragalactic Representative Volume Survey (SERVS) will make a very...
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Space science
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Space science is for common man: ISRO ISRO Chairman G. Madhavan Nair has said the fishermen can now be told exactly in which part of the sea they should go to get boatloads of fish. The ISRO has developed a methodology to locate fish schools by reading sea surface temperature and analysing the ocean c...
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AR NOAA 10798
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Title: Evolution of Anemone AR NOAA 10798 and the Related Geo-Effective Flares and CMEs Authors: Ayumi Asai, Kazunari Shibata, Takako T. Ishii, Mitsuo Oka, Ryuho Kataoka, Ken'ichi Fujiki, Nat Gopalswamy We present a detailed examination of the features of the Active Region (AR) NOAA 10798. This...
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ANITA
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Title: The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna Ultra-high Energy Neutrino Detector Design, Performance, and Sensitivity for 2006-2007 Balloon Flight Authors: ANITA collaboration: P. Gorham (1), P. Allison (1), S. Barwick (2), J. Beatty (3), D. Besson (4), W. Binns (5), C. Chen (6), P. Chen (...
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Stellar seismology
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Scientists have recorded the sound of three stars similar to our Sun using France's Corot space telescope. A team writing in Science journal says the sounds have enabled them to get information about processes deep within stars for the first time. If you listen closely to the sounds of each star you'...
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Supernova 2008hy
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A magnitude 14.3 supernova, 2008hy, was discovered on the 6th December, 2008, by Tim Puckett, and A. Langoussis in the magnitude 12 type I/P galaxy IC 334 in the constellation Camelopardalis. The supernova is located 30" west and 97" north from the center of the galaxy. As yet the type is...
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Supernova 2008eh
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A magnitude 15.1 supernova, 2008eh, was discovered on the 21st July 2008, by B Monard in the unbarred spiral galaxy NGC 2997 in the constellation Antlia. The supernova is located 123E 34N from the centre of the galaxy. [url=http://farm4...
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Deep Space Internet
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NASA Successfully Tests First Deep Space Internet NASA has successfully tested the first deep space communications network modelled on the Internet. Working as part of a NASA-wide team, engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., used software called Disruption-Tol...
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Asian satellite programme
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Asian nations launch joint space satellite programme The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will join forces with engineers from nations across Asia in order to create a small experimental satellite to be launched into space in 2012. The agency hopes that this will lead to the creation of a...
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Gravitational lens
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A Sydney researcher has developed technology to enable astronomers to get sharper pictures of distant galaxies. As a PhD student at Sydney University's School of Physics, Brendon Brewer developed a computer program to help understand gravitational lensing. This is a phenomenon sometimes refe...
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Major Extrasolar Planet Discovery
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Hubble Announces A Major Extrasolar Planet Discovery NASA will hold a Science Update to report on a significant discovery about planets orbiting other stars at 2:30 p.m. EST, Thursday, Nov. 13, in NASA's James E. Webb auditorium. This unique discovery, made by the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanc...
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