Astronomy News

Astronomy night at OLCS
Green Bay Press Gazette
Alan J. Peche, the director of the Barlow Planetarium at the University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley, entertained Oconto Literacy Charter School students with some awesome science demonstrations during a recent "Astronomy Night." He talked about space and ...

Astronomy Now Online
Steamy water-world gets
Astronomy Now Online
"The outer part of the planet – the atmosphere – probably has a lot of steam in it," Berta tells Astronomy Now. "But as you go deeper into the planet, it's not like oceans we know of, it's water in very strange forms. It's still made out of molecules ...
Hubble Reveals a New Class of Extrasolar PlanetSpace Daily
More Details from Hubble Reveal Strange Exoplanet is a Steamy WaterworldUniverse Today

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msnbc.com
Black Hole Winds Hit 20 Million MPH, Reports NASA'S Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Huffington Post
The winds, clocked by astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, are racing through space at 20 million mph (32 million kph), or about 3 percent the speed of light. That's nearly 10 times faster than had ever been seen from a stellar-mass ...
The Smallest Known Black Hole Has 20 Million Mile Per Hour WindsForbes
NASA's Chandra Finds Fastest Wind from Stellar-mass Black HoleBradenton Herald
Fastest wind from stellar-mass black hole recordedDaily News & Analysis

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Sci-News.com
Hubble Finds Extrasolar Waterworld Planet
Sci-News.com
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have identified a new class of planet, a waterworld enshrouded by a thick, steamy atmosphere. “GJ1214b is like no planet we know of,” said Dr. Zachory Berta of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for ...
Hubble Reveals a New Class of Extrasolar PlanetSpace Daily
More Details from Hubble Reveal Strange Exoplanet is a Steamy WaterworldUniverse Today

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Hanekom to Strengthen Radio Astronomy Partnership With China
AllAfrica.com
Pretoria — Science and Technology Deputy Minister Derek Hanekom is leading a high-powered South African delegation to China to strengthen partnerships between China and South Africa in the field of radio astronomy. His programme includes meeting with ...
South Africa wants selection of SKA site to follow agreed processShanghai Daily (subscription)

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This Is Fake DIY
Nada Surf - The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy
This Is Fake DIY
What you get out of the 'The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy' is directly proportional to what expectations you bring to it. If you're expecting anything equivalent to a brutally deadpan 'Popular', the hit that catapulted the band to MTV fame back ...
Nada Surf: Music To Live ByNPR

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Karoo ideal for stargazing - astronomer
News24
The Karoo provides the ideal opportunity to observe the night sky for both professionals and amateurs, an astronomer has said. The Karoo is ideal for stargazing, astronomer Kechil Kirkham has said. (Duncan Alfreds, News24) This volume of "The New ...

South Africa wants selection of SKA site to follow agreed process
Shanghai Daily (subscription)
Hanekom pointed out that the South African site is protected by the world's most powerful legislation, which prevents any transmissions or activities that could create interference with astronomy on the site. "We believe that we have the best site for ...
South Africa: Hanekom to strengthen radio astronomy partnership with China7thSpace Interactive (press release)

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Universe Today
Book Review: Celestial Delights: The Best Astronomical Events Through 2020
Universe Today
Here's Dave's review of the book, “Celestial Delights: The Best Astronomical Events Through 2020 by Francis Reddy.” In 2001 or 2002, I can't remember which, I saw on the TV news that there was going to be a meteor shower that night (the Leonids).

Forbes
The Smallest Known Black Hole Has 20 Million Mile Per Hour Winds
Forbes
That's the conclusion of Dr. Ashley King, who led group of astronomers working with NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory and National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Expanded Very Large Array to observe the black hole, which I shall refer to as “Lenny” for ...
Black Hole Winds Hit 20 Million MPH, Reports NASA'S Chandra X-Ray ObservatoryHuffington Post
NASA's Chandra Finds Fastest Wind from Stellar-mass Black HoleSacramento Bee
20 million mph winds seen blowing from black holeTG Daily

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Calumet Astronomy Center named Facility of the Year
Post-Tribune
Photo provided The Indiana Park and Recreation Association recently recognized the joint effort of the Lake County Parks and Recreation Department, Purdue University Calumet, and the volunteers of the Calumet Astronomical Society for their development ...

There really could be a giant planet hidden far beyond Pluto
io9
In recent years, astronomers have discovered a bunch of planets located at least 100 astronomical units, or the distance from the Sun to the Earth, away from their host stars. These planets are gas giants - they would have to be for us to see them at ...
Some Planets Are Alien InvadersScience AAAS

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BBC News
Hubble Reveals a New Class of Extrasolar Planet
Space Daily
An international team of astronomers led by Zachory Berta of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) made the observations of the planet GJ 1214b. "GJ 1214b is like no planet we know of," Berta said. "A huge fraction of its mass is made ...
New Hubble measurements reveal waterworld planet GJ 1214bExaminer.com
More Details from Hubble Reveal Strange Exoplanet is a Steamy WaterworldUniverse Today

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Star Cluster Surrounds Wayward Black Hole in Cannibal Galaxy
Space Daily
by Staff Writers Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope may have found evidence for a cluster of young, blue stars encircling one of the first intermediate-mass black holes ever discovered. Astronomers believe the black hole may once have been ...

NASA
Cosmic Hurricane: Black Hole Has 20 Million MPH Winds
Space.com
The winds, clocked by astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, are racing through space at 20 million mph (32 million kph), or about 3 percent the speed of light. That's nearly 10 times faster than had ever been seen from a stellar-mass ...
NASA's Chandra Finds Fastest Wind from Stellar-mass Black HoleMarketWatch (press release)

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Countdown to celestial show begins today
Times of India
February 27 will be the best time for astronomy lovers to watch all of them on one night. Director of Nehru planetarium Arvind Paranjpye said, "Starting February 23, over the next 20 days or so it would be possible for one to see all the five planets ...
Planets line up at dusk (PHOTOS)Examiner.com

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Philadelphia Inquirer
American planetary exploration is in grave danger, say scientists
Astronomy Magazine
"If the NASA budget is passed in its current form, American leadership in planetary sciences will be endangered," said Dan Britt, chair of Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society (AAS). "We strongly believe that the robotic ...
Shrinking NASA Budget Forces Tough Trade-offsSpace.com

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WKU seniors awarded by astronomical group
Bowling Green Daily News
Two Western Kentucky University students received awards for their poster presentations at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in January. Aaron Bell of Scottsville and Andrew Gott of Elizabethtown, both seniors, traveled to Austin, Texas, ...

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NASA's Chandra Finds Fastest Wind from Stellar-mass Black Hole
MarketWatch (press release)
21, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have clocked the fastest wind yet discovered blowing off a disk around a stellar-mass black hole. This result has important implications for understanding how this ...

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WKU seniors awarded by astronomical group
Bowling Green Daily News
Two Western Kentucky University students received awards for their poster presentations at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in January. Aaron Bell of Scottsville and Andrew Gott of Elizabethtown, both seniors, traveled to Austin, Texas, ...