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US space pioneer Walter Schirra, one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts who flew Nasa's earliest flights, has died aged 84. He was the only man to fly on Nasa's Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programmes. In 1962 he became the third American to orbit the Earth. Three years later he led the first meeti...
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Brown and almost barren, Anak Krakatau rises out of the Sunda Strait, the narrow band of the Indian Ocean that separates the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Java.
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Bezymianny Volcano
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The Bezymianny volcano has erupted on the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia's Far East.
The eruption started at 08.25 a.m. GMT on Tuesday.
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James Doohan
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James Doohan, the actor who played Scotty the chief engineer in the original “Star Trek'' TV series died on Wednesday 1230 GMT at his Redmond, Washington, home with his wife of 28 years, Wende.
He was 85.
He had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2004.
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Alborz Space Centre
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Iran offers glimpse of space facility to journalists International journalists have been allowed to look inside Iran's key space facility for the first time. The move comes after claims by the UN that Tehran is keeping a tight lid on its technological capabilities. [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/n...
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International Space Innovation Centre
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The International Space Innovation Centre (ISIC) has recently signed membership agreements with three new organisations - the Met Office, BMT Argoss, and the University of Leicester. All new members will provide services and resources that strengthen ISIC's ability to help drive innovation a...
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Blue Hill Weather Observatory
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Efforts to build a sparkling new science centre on the grounds of the nearly 125-year-old Blue Hill Weather Observatory are ready to take flight, provided the state gives the project the go-ahead. The Blue Hill Weather Observatory and Science Centre, the non-profit organisation that operates th...
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Space Geodesy Project
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NASA Pinning Down Where 'Here' is Better Than Ever Before our Global Positioning System (GPS) navigation devices can tell us where we are, the satellites that make up the GPS need to know exactly where they are. For that, they rely on a network of sites that serve as "you are here" signs plan...
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UA-China Collaboration
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UA-China Collaboration Advances Astronomy Research The project represents a major step forward for international astronomy partnerships. A collaboration between astronomers at the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory and at the National Astronomical Observatory of China has led t...
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Astronomy Publication
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Title: Publication Trends in Astronomy: The Lone Author Authors: Edwin A. Henneken In this short communication I highlight how the number of collaborators on papers in the main astronomy journals has evolved over time. We see a trend of moving away from single-author papers. This communication i...
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Australian Astronomy
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Title: Citations to Australian Astronomy: 5 and 10 Year Benchmarks Authors: Katherine H. Kenyon, Arjun Paramasivam, Jiachin Tu, Albert Zhang, Alister W. Graham Expanding upon Pimbblet's informative 2011 analysis of career h-indices for members of the Astronomical Society of Australia, we pr...
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Naming the sky
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Various services have arisen that claim to put your name on a star for a fee. Unfortunately, as nice as it sounds, these names don't count: You pay your money and get a certificate, but it isn't recognised by the only organisation that actually matters, the International Astronomical Union. [url=ht...
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Mountains of the Moon
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Fabled equatorial icecaps will disappear within two decades, because of global warming, a study British and Ugandan scientists has found. In a paper to be published 17 May in Geophysical Research Letters, they report results from the first survey in a decade of glaciers in the Rwenzori Mountains o...
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Manson Impact Structure
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Seventy-four million years ago, near the end of the Cretaceous Period, central Iowa lay near the shoreline of an inland seaway that separated eastern North America from rapidly rising mountains to the west. The low-lying Iowa landscape was home to a rich and varied population of plants and animal...
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Early Warning Line
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The Distant Early Warning Line, also known as the DEW Line or Early Warning Line, was a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic region of Canada, with additional stations along the North Coast and Aleutian Islands of Alaska, in addition to the Faeroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland. Impr...
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