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And within two seconds, it vanished -- from the telescope's view, that is, not from the night sky, said Karen Broten, a member of the Fox Valley Astronomical Society.2.7

NASA's Swift Gamma Ray Burst Explorer, controlled by Penn State scientists, encountered what John ... Fox was able to use the Palomar 60-inch telescope, a robotic telescope in San Diego County, Calif.

Image: NASA/JPL/SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE Fourteen months after entering orbit around Saturn, Cassini has spotted evidence of dusty spokes in the planet's rings.2.7

Comet Tempel-1 may have been born in the region of the solar system occupied by Uranus and Neptune today, according to one possibility from an analysis of the comet's debris blasted into space by NASA's Deep ...2.7

Gemini Observatory Illustration by Jon Lomberg A new discovery at the University of Texas could force scientists to reevaluate the number of planets in the universe.2.1

By Tariq Malik, Space.com For stars, it seems, fortune favors the cannibal. An international team of researchers has caught a star-turned-pulsar in the process of devouring its stellar neighbor, an act that ...2.7

Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! Let's begin the week early in the morning by watching Saturn dancing near the "Beehive", move into the night with the ISS and a great a variable star - Eta Aquilae.3.2

The price tag for new rockets to return astronauts to the moon is $104 billion, a cost the nation can afford over the next decade despite the expense of Hurricane Katrina, Described as "Apollo on steroids," the ...2.9

In an interview with the online Astrobiology Magazine , Brother Guy Consolmagno, the Vatican's Astronomer, discusses Intelligent Design .2.7

The cultures of science and art, some insist, are irreconcilable opposites -- but there are moments that belie the myth that the two hold vastly different lenses up to describe the world around them.3.2

A skywatcher in southern Arizona wrote, "I've recently used Cassiopeia as a pointer to find another very prominent galaxy, the Andromeda Galaxy .2

A brand new observatory was dedicated by the Astronomical Society of Harrisburg.2

Melissa Morrison Arizona Highways Sept. 18, 2005 12:00 AM My first glimpse of the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory was of a tall white box poised serenely on the top of Mount Hopkins.2.9

Eric Feigelson is a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State University.2.1

Astrophysicist and black hole expert Sir Hermann Bondi dies A scientist who helped formulate a controversial view of the universe has died in Cambridge aged 85.2.9

Tonight: Robert Sirko will discuss, "Navigating in Space: Applications of Physics," at 7 p.m., in Room 101, Science and Math Building, Saddleback College.2.7

The idea of a large sea on Saturn's moon Titan was all but ruled out after the Cassini mission found no evidence early in its mission.2.7

Summary In a close flyby in July, NASA's Cassini spacecraft found that Enceladus, a small, icy moon of Saturn, has an unexpected hot spot near the south pole.

ISAW IN ANOTHER newspaper recently that the planet Mars was soon going to appear in our evening sky "as big as the full moon." That tale also circulated around on many Internet sites.2.9

The Guardian Why should women have children before the age of 35? Those who delay having children are "defying nature and risking heartbreak", according to an editorial in yesterday's British Medical Journal by ...2.7

When a group of Spanish astronomers reported in July that they had discovered a spectacular addition to the solar system, a bright ball of ice almost as big as Pluto sailing the depths of space out beyond ...2.9

We're an overachieving bunch here at Georgetown. Create a collective resume that includes all ... The Georgetown University Astronomical Society was founded in 1991 with the aim of caring for Georgetown's Heyden Memorial Observatory.

In the scenario proposed by the astrophysicists, the gas from the companion star is channeled along the magnetic field lines until it slams into the pulsar magnetic poles.2.7

Scientists said the magnetic flare-ups from Sunspot 798 may last through the weekend.2.7

I remembered Arizona from my last visit, thirty years ago: desert, cactus, more desert... I didn't remember the skies, or that there could be so many stars.2.9

Only housewives believe in three-dimensional space. None of the serious scientists would dare support such a stupid idea.2.7

The Full Moon of Saturday, Sept. 17 also carries the title of the Harvest Moon for those living in the Northern Hemisphere.2.7

The spring equinox - when the sun returns from the northern hemisphere to the southern hemisphere - is at 10.23am next Friday.2.7

Geoff Marcy Astronomer Geoffrey Marcy's tenacious pursuit of planets outside our solar system has paid off with the discovery by him and his team of more than 110 extrasolar planets.1.3

TOKYO - Bringing Japan's most complex space mission near its climax, a probe is within 12 miles of an asteroid almost 180 million miles from Earth in an unprecedented rendezvous designed to retrieve rocks from ...2.9

A new state-of-the-art science facility opens today, two months ahead of schedule, thanks to GBP5million funding through the Government's innovative Science Research Investment Fund .2.7

Fernando Ferrer teetered on the edge of victory over three other Democrats squaring off in their party's primary for the chance to wage an underdog campaign against Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a Republican who ...2.7

A supermassive black hole appears to be homeless in the cosmos without a galaxy to nestle in, Hubble Space Telescope scientists reported on Wednesday.4.8

Sep 14, 2005) Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have used primitive meteorites called chondrites to develop a model of the Earth's early atmosphere.4.2

The State of Hawai'i Department of Hawaiian Home Lands is proposing the development of a new homestead community in Wai'ohuli. The project calls for the development of 337 single-family residential lots on ...2.7