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'Saving Hubble' shows off the stars
As the avuncular host of "NOVA ScienceNOW" on PBS, Neil deGrasse Tyson is one of the few astrophysicists who is recognized outside of scientific circles. It's no accident that he has made so many appearances on "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report."...
Tags: Science and Technology, Movies, Entertainment, The Daily Show (tv program), NASA
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Our Friendly Skies - October 2012
THE OCTOBER SKY As the weather gets colder many of us will lament the passing of the long summer days, but not all is lost. With shorter stretches of daylight comes more opportunity for the observation of dark, starlit skies. A few bright stars...
Tags: Altair Corporation
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Rover? Astronaut? NASA officials probe future of Mars exploration
With budget cuts looming and no clear flagship mission on the horizon, the Mars program has been looking to rechart its course in the coming years. Sending a spacecraft to the Red Planet to return a sample of rock may be the way to go, according to a...
Tags: Barack Obama, Science and Technology, Los Angeles Times, NASA, Science
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35 years later, Voyager 1 is heading for the stars
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Thirty-five years after leaving Earth, Voyager 1 is reaching for the stars. Sooner or later, the workhorse spacecraft will bid adieu to the solar system and enter a new realm of space — the first time a manmade...
Tags: Science and Technology, NASA, Science, Space Programs, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Dreaming and reading about Mars
Clark County Public LibraryThe title of this article is taken verbatim from a story by Thomas Elway in the May, 1930 edition of Popular Science magazine. (Here’s the web address if you’d like to look it up: http://www.popsci.com/archive-viewer?id=OigDAAAAMBAJ&pg=56) In...Tags: Science and Technology, Satellite Technology, Fiction, NASA, Libraries
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Burb's Eye View: On Burbank's sidewalk to the stars
Ernie Seiler made one promise to the bikers, joggers and dog-walkers craning their necks to see his crew on the Chandler Bikeway Monday night. “Give me 30 seconds and I’ll give you the universe,” he tells them. He points them left,...Tags: Tim Elliott, Neil Armstrong, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Bob Dylan, John F. Kennedy
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Multiple births on cosmic scale in distant galaxy
WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have found a cosmic supermom. It's a galaxy that gives births to more stars in a day than ours does in a year. Astronomers used NASA's Chandra X-Ray telescope to spot this distant gigantic galaxy creating about 740...
Tags: Washington, DC, Science and Technology, Medical Procedures and Tests, X-rays, NASA
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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: Johns Hopkins University, Nobel Prize Awards, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, University of California, Space Programs
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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, Kennedy Space Center, NASA, Science
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Andromeda, Milky Way galaxies on collision course
First, the bad news: The Andromeda galaxy, an agglomeration of 1 trillion stars that is visible to the naked eye, is hurtling through space at 250,000 miles per hour — and it's coming right at us. What's more, NASA astronomers in Baltimore said...
Tags: Science and Technology, NASA, Science, Space Programs
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NASA advocates trade baked goods for support
The exchange was simple and sweet: free “planetary” baked goods — asteroid Rice Krispie treats, deep space cupcakes — for a few signatures. As some of the thousands of visitors to Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Saturday open house...
Tags: U.S. House Committee on Appropriations, Satellite Technology, Barack Obama, University of California, Los Angeles, NASA
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Transit of Venus offers rare glimpse of heavens
When Venus passed between Earth and the sun 251 years ago Tuesday, scientists scribbled down observations that helped calculate a rough estimate of the size of our solar system. Using crude telescopes, they watched the yellow planet move across the sun'...Tags: Westminster (Carroll, Maryland), Maryland Science Center, Car Safety Tips and Advice, NASA, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland)
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