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Transit of Venus: Solar glasses are a hot commodity
L.A. NOWWant to watch a once-in-a-lifetime astronomical delight this week? Buy your solar glasses soon. In Los Angeles, the city-run Griffith Observatory is one of the few known places that is selling equipment for people to view the "Transit of Venus" directly.... -
Johns Hopkins professor shares Nobel Prize in physics
A phone ringing at 5:30 a.m. can rattle anyone, even a professor immersed in the universe's mysterious dark energy. Adam Riess, an astronomy professor at Johns Hopkins University, learned in an early morning call from Stockholm Tuesday that he was one...Tags: Education, University of California, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Stockholm (Sweden), Johns Hopkins University
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Is there life on Mars?
Is there life elsewhere in the universe? It's a question that has long intrigued astronomers and science fiction buffs alike, and now the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has launched its most ambitious attempt yet to find the answer....Tags: Mystery (genre), Fiction, Science Fiction (genre), NASA, Space Programs
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Hopkins-led study observes destruction of star by black hole
It's rare to witness the entirety of a murder. But that's how some local scientists investigated exactly what happened during a fatal attack in 2010.
The victim? A star — a massive red giant — 2.7 million light-years away that had lost its...Tags: Emergency Incidents, Science and Technology, Research, Explosions, University of California, Berkeley
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Congress looks at boosting JPL budget
Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s missions to Mars have gotten a boost from congressional leaders, who this week found up to $100 million more for NASA’s planetary science program. The White House’s initial proposal for the 2013 NASA budget...
Tags: U.S. House Committee on Appropriations, Charles F. Bolden, Jr., Politics, Budgets and Budgeting, U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations
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Fang Lizhi dies at 76; Chinese dissident
Fang Lizhi, one of China'sbest-known dissidents whose speeches inspired student protesters throughout the 1980s, has died in the United States, where he fled after China's 1989 military crackdown on the pro-democracy movement. He was 76. His wife, Li...Tags: Students, Communist Party of China, China, Science and Technology, Political Systems
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Rare Lunar Eclipse Turns Moon Bright Red
KTLA NewsLOS ANGELES, Calif. (KTLA) -- A total lunar eclipse took place early Saturday morning, making the moon appear and bright red. People in the western United States and Canada had a great view of the eclipse if the skies were clear. The earliest stages of...Tags: KTLA, NASA, Science, Space Programs
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NASA cuts threaten employees, Mars exploration
Proposed cuts to next year’s NASA budget would drastically scale back the agency’s efforts to explore Mars, likely costing hundreds of Jet Propulsion Laboratory workers their jobs. In the scope of a more than $17.7-billion proposed 2013...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Charles F. Bolden, Jr., Adam Schiff, Europe, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Our Friendly Skies - April 2012
ANTIETAM BATTLEFIELD PUBLIC STAR PARTY The annual spring Antietam Battlefield Public Star Party will be held April 27 and 28 from dusk to around 10 or 11 p.m. if the sky is clear. A dozen or more scopes will be set up to help you enjoy the spring night...
Tags: Religious Festivals, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Science and Technology, Science
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Chasing Einstein: Morehead high schoolers who discovered pulsars to speak at Clark library
The Winchester SunTwo high school girls from Morehead who have made discoveries in outer space supporting Einstein’s theory of relativity are coming to the Clark County Public Library to talk about their studies. Through a pulsar astronomy class taught by Jennifer...Tags: Students, Philosophy, Education, Science and Technology, Libraries
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Hopkins launches new space science minor for undergraduates
What lies at the center of that giant ball of gas we call Jupiter? When you cut through the incredibly dense atmosphere of Venus, what's happening on the planet surface?
These are the questions that dance in the mind of Johns Hopkins University student...Tags: Students, Cape Canaveral, Education, Adam Riess, Science and Technology
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Natural Perspectives: Preparing for 'coronal mass ejection'
To play on a phrase from "Star Trek": "Space. The final weather frontier." I just learned that space weather is something that exists. I asked Vic if he had ever heard of space weather, and he said no. We knew about solar wind, which is a steady...Tags: Viral Diseases and Infections, Solar Storms (2012), Science and Technology, Weather Reports, Weather
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