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Field of astronomy taps our solar hotspot - The Australian

Field of astronomy taps our solar hotspot
The Australian
"Australia has put a lot of money in, especially into astronomy, it's a really good place to come and work [because of] projects, including the SKA. "And it has such great sites, like at Murchison in Western Australia, where the density of people is ...

Notre Dame Law Student Finds Rare Wolf-Rayet Star - ABC News (blog)

ABC News (blog)

Notre Dame Law Student Finds Rare Wolf-Rayet Star
ABC News (blog)
The galactic nebula NGC 3603, seen by the Hubble telescope, with a cluster of variable Wolf-Rayet stars at its center. NASA/STScI Colin Littlefield says he has never taken a college physics course. He likes astronomy but plans to make a career as a ...

Galaxy-hunting telescope to live on with private funding - Spaceflight Now

Spaceflight Now

Galaxy-hunting telescope to live on with private funding
Spaceflight Now
NASA ended its financial support for GALEX after a review of operating missions by senior astronomers ranked GALEX lower than other projects seeking a limited supply of funding. NASA is lending the observatory to Caltech of Pasadena, Calif., ...
NASA Lends Galaxy Evolution Explorer to CaltechJet Propulsion Laboratory

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Americans: A 'Bunch Of Amateurs,' And Proud Of It - WBUR

Americans: A 'Bunch Of Amateurs,' And Proud Of It
WBUR
EDWARDS: I had no idea a while back about how serious amateurs, amateur astronomers, who were, you know, just working with their own hobby equipment that they would be capable of detecting communication signals from intelligent life and other star ...

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Astronomers receive $5M for research - OSU - The Lantern

Astronomers receive $5M for research
OSU - The Lantern
So it's able to take a long-term view and it's not just trying to poach different projects.” The astronomers worked with KASI in 2008 to find out what they were going to accomplish. Chengho Han, a Ph.D. graduate from OSU in 1997 and Korean scientist of ...