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NASA has postponed a teleconference about a world communications event. The media teleconference was planned for Thursday, October 18th, in advance of the World Radiocommunication Conference 2007 has been postponed because of a schedule conflict.
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Supernova 2007le
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A magnitude 15.2 type Ia Supernova, 2007le, was discovered on the 13th September by Berto Monard in the magnitude 11.8 spiral galaxy NGC 7721 in the constellation Aquarius. The supernova is located 4" west and 17" south of the nucleus of the galaxy. Position(2000): R.A. = 23h38m48s.41,...
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Aberdeen international youth festival
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The international youth festival in Aberdeen has teamed up with Robert Gordon University to display work by some of the city's most famous former art students from Gray's School of Art, in an exhibition which opened yesterday. The exhibition is organised by the Library's University Collections t...
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Science Tunnel
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On October 4, 2007, the Max Planck Society's Science Tunnel will be ceremonially opened in Seoul, South Korea. At the centrally located Seoul Museum of History, visitors to the multimedia exhibition are taken on a fascinating journey through the world of modern research. The exhibit, which also p...
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50 years: Russia’s Sputnik-1 to Apollo and the Space Shuttle
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Reginald Turnill, former BBC Space Correspondent and winner of the Arthur C Clarke Lifetime Achievement Award 2006, is to give an open lecture at the University of Kent on Wednesday 23 May. Titled 50 years: Russias Sputnik-1 to Apollo and the Space Shuttle, his lecture will take place at 6pm in the Br...
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SALT and the VO
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The University of KwaZulu-Natal will be hosting the South African Astronomy Workshop entitled "SALT and the VO" this year in Durban. The two day event, running from the 26th-27th October, will focus on SALT science, SALT proposal submission procedures, SALT data reduction and the VO....
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Vatican scientific conference
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For the second time in seven years the Vatican is hosting a scientific conference for astronomers. More than 200 scientists from 26 countries including the United States, Britain, Italy, Germany, Russia, and Japan have gathered in Rome for a five-day meeting on disc galaxies. At the Papal Univers...
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September evenings provide our best views of the Milky Way as it flows overhead from the south-west to the north-east. Of course, its faint ribbon of light is swamped by moonlight and the blight of light pollution from street-lighting and the like, so a timely escape to darker skies is recommended. I...
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Nova in M33
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Huzio of Saga prefecture and Koichi Nishiyama of Fukuoka prefecture, Kurume city, have discovered a Nova in M33. The magnitude 17.1 He/N-class Nova was discovered from an image taken by a 40 centimetre reflecting telescope. Position (2000): R.A. = 01h33m58s.64, Dec. = +30°57'34".6 Both di...
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Hyderabad space summit
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Fifty years after the launch of Sputnik, the world's first man-made satellite, the world's space industry is to gather at Hyderabad, in India, from 24 to 28 September, to find new ways to benefit humanity, and make money from space. The 2,000-odd delegates will discuss new manned and unmanned miss...
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SkInfrared
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View the world through heat-sensitive infrared eyes at SkInfrared, a free art exhibit presented by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope science centre at the One Colorado Courtyard in Old Pasadena, California -- from October 10 to 31, 2007. This exhibit is held in conjunction with Pasadena's Skin/Art...
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20th Annual Planetary Congress
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About 100 astronauts and cosmonauts are touching down in Scotland today. The 20th annual Planetary Congress takes place in Edinburgh this week, and features dozens of experts from across the world. The week-long gathering, which is organised by the Association of Space Explorers, brings togeth...
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International SpaceWire conference
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Michel Courtois is a man with a mission. One of the continent's leading experts on space exploration, he is the individual charged with the awesome responsibility of co-ordinating Europe's campaign to put itself back on the galactic map. The scale of the challenge facing him doesn't stop there. Th...
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Taking a Hit
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NASA Senior Scientist Will Discuss Taking a Hit: Asteroid Impacts & Evolution October 03, 2007 7 to 8:30 p.m. As part of the ninth annual Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture Series, Astronomer David Morrison, of NASAs Ames Research Centre, will present Taking a Hit: Asteroid Impacts & Evolu...
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Astronomy and Islam
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Two prominent scientists are set to visit Glasgow next week (20th September 2007) to give an insight into the importance of astronomy in Islam. Dr Robert Massey of the Royal Astronomical Society and Dr Usama Hasan are coming to the city to chart the story of Islamic astronomy in a talk timed to comme...
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