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Notre Dame astronomer's team finds gas that fuels galaxies
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, a team led by Notre Dame researcher Nicolas Lehner has found massive supplies of fresh gas around modern galaxies. The following news release from Notre Dame was issued Friday afternoon: Galaxies have a voracious...
Tags: University of Notre Dame, Space Programs, Colleges and Universities, Science and Technology, Education
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Alien moons could be as habitable as exoplanets, astronomers say
Star Wars’ forest moon of Endor might be fiction, but astronomers say they’re hot on the trail of real-life alien moons -- which could also potentially be viable candidates for habitable worlds, researchers say. Astronomers have found...
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Many questions about new NASA Mars mission
L.A. NOWA day after the possible discovery of organic material on the Red Planet, NASA officials announced plans for a news Mars exploration mission in 2020. The objectives for the planned rover are not set, but it could potentially collect soil...... -
NASA ready for GRAIL spacecraft to crash into moon
In a series of planned maneuvers, NASA's twin GRAIL spacecraft, nicknamed Ebb and Flow, will crash into a crater rim near the moon's North Pole about 2:28 p.m. Pacific time on Monday. At a news conference on Thursday, scientists involved with the...
Tags: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Space Programs, Science and Technology, Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts), Electrical Appliance
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Penumbral lunar eclipse coming early Wednesday
This post has been corrected. Please see note at bottom for details. Sky watchers, it is time to look up once again, and watch the moon very, very carefully. A penumbral lunar eclipse will occur early Wednesday morning, but it will be subtle. Unlike a...
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PASSINGS: James D. Hodgson, Patrick Moore
James D. Hodgson Former secretary of Labor James D. Hodgson, 96, who as secretary of Labor in the early 1970s helped shepherd the Occupational Safety and Health Act into law, died Nov. 28 at his Malibu home, his family announced. The cause was...
Tags: Japan, Richard Nixon, Obituaries, Health and Safety at Work, Career and Workplace
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Dwarf galaxies around Andromeda pose questions for astronomers
A discovery that many small companion galaxies surrounding Andromeda seem to orbit in concert — and aligned in a vast, thin disk — could change scientists’ understanding of how galaxies form, researchers said Wednesday. A team of...
Tags: Science and Technology, France, Strasbourg (France), Science
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Scientists detect a microquasar in nearby Andromeda galaxy
Astronomers said Wednesday that a burst of X-rays from the galaxy Andromeda appeared to have been created by a microquasar — a black hole gobbling up material from a companion star. The discovery could help scientists study the physics of the...
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Adler Planetarium names Michelle Larson new president
Michelle Larson's faculty page at Utah State University displays a picture of her cozying up to a bust of Albert Einstein. Lego Albert Einstein. That combination, science with a populist face, is a pretty fair summation of what she'll have to bring...
Tags: The Pennsylvania State University, LEGO Group, Education, Field Museum of Natural History, Teachers
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What stargazers can look forward to in 2013
There is no Transit of Venus to be watched in 2013, or any major eclipses visible for long from Maryland, but local sky watchers say there is still plenty to look forward to seeing in the night sky.
There could be a few opportunities to see rare...Tags: Atlantic Ocean, Maryland Science Center, Transit of Venus (2012), Personal Service
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GRAIL mission delivers a hi-fi map of the moon
A pair of NASA orbiters has given scientists their highest-fidelity look at the moon, a leap that could help explain the evolution of the solar system's rocky planets, including Earth. Scientists announced the first results Wednesday from the $496-...
Tags: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Science and Technology, Space Programs, Cape Canaveral, Los Angeles Times
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Bill Nye, the (planetary) science guy, on NASA's future
What should the future of our space program be? The National Research Council had unpleasant medicine for NASA in its just-released report on the vision and direction of the agency. A panel of 12 independent experts concluded, among other things, that...
Tags: Satellite Technology, Space Programs, Science and Technology, George Washington University, U.S. Congress
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