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 National Post | Jackpot: astronomers tag Goldilocks planet Register By Richard Chirgwin • Get more from this author While the Kepler mission turns up its ever-growing crop of exoplanets, a group of astronomers has announced an exciting find closer to home: looking towards Scorpius, there's a super-Earth-sized planet ... Astronomers discover fourth planet that could potentially sustain life Second Earth? Astronomers find planet orbiting its star at just the right ... New planet discovered, touted as best possible candidate for life |
 Discover Magazine (blog) | An astronomer's paradise Discover Magazine (blog) Cerro Paranal, in the high, dry, Atacama desert in Chile, is where some of the best astronomy in the world is done. It's graced with incredibly dark and steady skies, and a view of the southern hemisphere skies that, frankly, makes me jealous. |
 Daily Mail | NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Zooms in on a Magnified Galaxy Clarksville Online (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center); and K. Sharon (Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago) A team of astronomers led by Jane Rigby of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, aimed Hubble at one of the most striking ... Hubble Observes Brightest Magnified Galaxy Get our top stories Hubble Zooms In On Magnified Galaxy |
 Wilkes Barre Times-Leader | History Club and Astronomy Club students from West Side Career and Technology ... Wilkes Barre Times-Leader Students from Miss Kimelewski's History Club and Mr. Bednarek's Astronomy Club from West Side Career and Technology Center recently visited Philadelphia. The students toured the historic Eastern State Penitentiary building, where they viewed the former ... |
 Nature.com (blog) | US astronomers endorse NASA work on European dark energy mission Nature.com (blog) NASA has the blessing of a committee of US astronomers to become a small-percentage partner in Euclid, a European Space Agency (ESA) mission to study dark energy. The National Academies issued a short report today endorsing a deal where $20 million ... Report Endorses NASA's Proposed Contribution to Euclid Mission |
 Catholic News Agency | Vatican astronomer says Big Bang theory in tune with creation history Catholic News Agency The exhibit titled “Stories from another world: The Universe within us and outside us,” will be on display March 10 - July 1 in Pisa, the birthplace of Galileo, the father of modern astronomy. Fr. Funes told CNA at the event that the Big Bang ... |
February Mt Diablo Astronomy Society General Meeting San Francisco Chronicle Please join Mt. Diablo Astronomical Society for the February 28 general meeting. The meeting starts at 7:15 and ends at 9:00. Our monthly meetings begin with a short “What's Up” presented by one of our members followed by a speaker. |
Engineering Roleplaying Science 2.0 Read more about the strange modern world of a day laborer in astronomy, plus extra space science-y goodness.... Hey, you got simulation in my roleplay! Hey, you got roleplay in my simulation! Wait, it's two great tastes that taste great together! |
Asteroid Eros draws skywatchers in Earth flyby msnbc.com It can make it easy to forget how challenging astronomy was long ago. "Hundreds of years ago, scientists were sent out on long expeditions around the world in order to observe a rare astronomical event," Michael Richmond of the Rochester Institute of ... |
 Press-Register - al.com (blog) | Stars Over the Coast astronomy column Feb. 5-11 Moon to pay visit to an array ... Press-Register - al.com (blog) By Mark R. Kent, Press-Register PLANETS TO VIEW: Venus is well up in the southwest after dusk, with Jupiter nearly south and high. Mars will be in the east by 9 pm, and Saturn will be in the east by 1 am Mercury is out of sight for now. |
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