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Amateur astronomers to boost hazardous asteroids hunt

Washington: ESA's Space Situational Awareness (SSA) programme is keeping an eye on space hazards, including disruptive space weather, debris objects in Earth orbit and asteroids that pass close enough to cause concern. The asteroid [...]

Posted On : May, 16 2012 | Comments : 0

Amateur astronomers boost ESA’s asteroid hunt

A partnership with the UK’s Faulkes Telescope Project promises to boost the Agency’s space hazards research while helping students to discover potentially dangerous space rocks. ESA’s Space Situational Awareness (SSA) pr [...]

Posted On : May, 15 2012 | Comments : 0

Astronomers Catch Supermassive Black Hole Devouring Distant ...

Astronomers have for the very first time captured a supermassive black hole devouring a wandering star that strayed too close to a phenomena that nothing can escape, not even light. Although the star most likely met its demise in an un [...]

Posted On : May, 03 2012 | Comments : 0

Astronomers, advertisers ink billboards deal

PHOENIX — Central and Western Arizona will be wide open for illuminated billboards with changing messages under the terms of a deal hammered out Tuesday between sign owners and the astronomy community. A proposal awaiting the fin [...]

Posted On : Apr, 18 2012 | Comments : 0

Astronomers Capture Images of Auroras on Uranus

The images, taken by the NASA/ESO Hubble Space Telescope, reveal auroras on Uranus consisted of short-lived, faint, glowing dots. Unlike auroras on Earth, which can turn the sky greens and purples for hours, the newly detected auroras on [...]

Posted On : Apr, 17 2012 | Comments : 0

Astronomers Use ALMA To Dissect Nearby Planetary System

Astronomers have made a breakthrough discovery in understanding a nearby planetary system, giving clues about how these systems form and evolve. Scientists used the Atacama Large Millimeter submillimeter Array to find that planets orbitin [...]

Posted On : Apr, 13 2012 | Comments : 0

Astronomers celebrate veto of Ariz. billboard bill

PHOENIX (AP) - Representatives of the Arizona's astronomy industry are celebrating Gov. Jan Brewer's veto of a bill that would have lifted a state ban on electronic billboards. Professional astronomers say the action shows the sta [...]

Posted On : Mar, 31 2012 | Comments : 0

Astronomers put forward new theory on size of black holes

Astronomers have put forward a new theory about why black holes become so hugely massive – claiming some of them have no 'table manners', and tip their 'food' directly into their mouths, eating more than one course s [...]

Posted On : Mar, 26 2012 | Comments : 0

SDSU astronomer Arthur Young dies at 72

Arthur Young, a retired San Diego State University astronomer who helped establish the Mt. Laguna Observatory (MLO) as an important research center, died on Feb. 12 in Poway at the of age 72. He passed away from complications of diabetes, [...]

Posted On : Mar, 09 2012 | Comments : 0

Texas A&M astronomers help find distant galaxy cluster to sh...

Last June that investment paid off when an international collaboration featuring Texas A&M astronomers Dr. Kim-Vy Tran and Dr. Casey Papovich gathered at Mitchell’s Cook’s Branch Conservancy (a picturesque 6,000-acre preserve [...]

Posted On : Mar, 08 2012 | Comments : 0

Light Echoes Allow Astronomers To Watch ‘Great Eruption’ Rep...

Astronomers recently got a rare opportunity to view a cosmic event that took place from 1837 to 1858 known as the “Great Eruption.”The outburst temporarily made Eta Carinae the second brightest star in the sky during that peri [...]

Posted On : Feb, 16 2012 | Comments : 0

New comet discovered by amateur astronomer

Here’s how he did it: Using custom-written software to operate a 14″ Meade LX200GPS telescope in his self-built observatory in Warrensburg, Missouri, Fred set his system up to capture images of the sky on that cold evening, no [...]

Posted On : Feb, 15 2012 | Comments : 0

Amateur astronomers love sharing passion for heavens with ot...

Joe Gonzalez can look at stars 10,000 light years away from the observatory he built in his backyard near Clarksburg, W.Va. That's about 58 quadrillion miles, said Gonzalez, who thinks there's a good chance that some life form out [...]

Posted On : Feb, 13 2012 | Comments : 0

Astronomers discover fourth planet that could potentially su...

WASHINGTON — International astronomers said on Thursday they have found the fourth potentially habitable planet outside our solar system with temperatures that could support water and life about 22 light-years from Earth. The t [...]