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News in this category : Space
Published at
5/7/2010 de Catalin Mosoia, Bucharest, Romania
in categoriile: Science communication,Astronomy,Science and education,Personalia,Space The first Europlanet Prize for Excellence in Public Engagement with Planetary Science has been awarded to Dr Jean Lilensten of the Laboratoire de Planétologie de Grenoble, France. He will be presented with his award of 4000 Euros at the European Planetary Science Congress 2010, which will take place at the Angelicum Centre – Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Rome, Italy, from 19 – 24 September 2010.
Published at
3/17/2010 de Catalin Mosoia, Bucharest, Romania
in categoriile: Astronomy,Personalia,Space New thermal images of the Jupiter’s Great Red Spot obtained with ESO’s Very Large Telescope and other powerful ground-based telescopes enable scientists to make the first detailed interior weather map of the giant storm system. The data allowed linking its temperature, winds, pressure and composition with its colour.
Published at
3/1/2010 de Catalin Mosoia, Bucharest, Romania
in categoriile: Astronomy,Physics,Science and music,Personalia,Space University of Michigan researchers have "sonified" the solar wind data that's usually represented visually, as numbers or graphs. They have created a musical representation of the data gathered by NASA's Advanced Composition Explorer satellite.
Published at
2/26/2010 de Catalin Mosoia, Bucharest, Romania
in categoriile: Science communication,Science journalism,Astronomy,Science and education,Personalia,Space,Science and art The International Year of Astronomy 2009/Mani Bhaumik Prize for Excellence in Astronomy Education and Public Outreach has been awarded to From Earth to the Universe (FETTU). This award recognises FETTU’s important contribution in improving public awareness of astronomical achievements, and in stimulating the use of astronomy for the promotion of scientific education and culture in 2009.
Published at
2/22/2010 de Catalin Mosoia, Bucharest, Romania
in categoriile: Astronomy,Personalia,Space Dark energy, habitable planets around other stars, and the mysterious nature of our own Sun. These are the three scientific missions that have been chosen by ESA as candidates for two medium-class missions to be launched no earlier than 2017. The final decision about which missions to implement is foreseen to be made in mid-2011.
Published at
2/10/2010 de Catalin Mosoia, Bucharest, Romania
in categoriile: Science communication,Astronomy,Science and education,Personalia,Space,Technology This weekend, as part of outreach activities, the Bareket Observatory in Israel is organising a special web cast dedicated to the extra solar planet "XO-3b".
Published at
1/26/2010 de Catalin Mosoia, Bucharest, Romania
in categoriile: Astronomy,Personalia,Space French and American astronomers concluded in an article published in Nature that the Earth can produce a significant impact for the re-surfacing processes of an asteroid if passes a distance of at least 16 Earth radii from the planet. The article is signed by well-known astronomers and among them is the Romanian Dr. Mirel Birlan from the Institut de Mecanique Celeste et de Calcul des Ephemerides (IMCCE), Observatoire de Paris, France.
Published at
1/21/2010 de Catalin Mosoia, Bucharest, Romania
in categoriile: Astronomy,Personalia,Space Scientists are taking suggestions from the public on where to image the red planet. Pictures will be taken by the most powerful camera aboard a NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars.
Published at
1/13/2010 de Catalin Mosoia, Bucharest, Romania
in categoriile: Astronomy,Space NASA has selected three proposals as candidates for the agency’s next space venture to another celestial body in our solar system. The final project selected in mid-2011 may provide a better understanding of Earth’s formation or perhaps the origin of life on our planet. The proposed missions would probe the atmosphere and crust of Venus; return a piece of a near-Earth asteroid for analysis; or drop a robotic lander into a basin at the Moon’s south pole to return lunar rocks back to Earth for study.
Published at
12/25/2009 de Catalin Mosoia, Bucharest, Romania
in categoriile: Science communication,Science journalism,Astronomy,Space Astronomy magazine is seeking a managing editor. The successful candidate will partner with the editor to manage a professional, dedicated, seven-member editorial staff and report to the editor of the magazine.
Published at
12/18/2009 de Catalin Mosoia, Bucharest, Romania
in categoriile: Science communication,Astronomy,Personalia,Space The official close of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009) will take place on 9 and 10 of January, 2010 in Padova, Italy. The IYA2009 Closing Ceremony concludes one of the world’s grandest science popularization ventures, but also hails the beginning of a new era: Beyond IYA2009.
Published at
8/17/2009 de Catalin Mosoia, Bucharest, Romania
in categoriile: Science communication,Astronomy,Science and education,Personalia,Space The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has launched a decadal global strategy with the aim of fostering education and capacity building throughout the world. It is just one of the five resolutions approved by vote at the closing ceremony of the IAU XXVIIth General Assembly that took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Published at
8/17/2009 de Catalin Mosoia, Bucharest, Romania
in categoriile: Science communication,Science and politics,Astronomy,Physics,Science and education,Mathematics,Environment,Space UN-declared World Space Week, Oct. 4-10 annually, is the largest public space event on Earth and the best time each year for teachers to use space to excite students about learning.
Published at
7/22/2009 de Catalin Mosoia, Bucharest, Romania
in categoriile: Science communication,Science journalism,Astronomy,Space The conference “Communicating Astronomy with the Public 2010 — communicating in IYA2009 legacy era” will take place in Cape Town, South Africa, from 15 to 19 March, 2010.
Published at
4/3/2009 de Catalin Mosoia, Bucharest, Romania
in categoriile: Astronomy,Mathematics,Personalia,Space,Technology On the morning of March 7, NASA will launch the Kepler probe to enter an orbit around the Sun. The mission aims to detect planets the size of the Earth that orbit other stars. The spacecraft is equipped with a telescope that will measure the brightness of 170 000 stars simultaneously and continuously for at least three and a half years. It is expected that the information collected during the mission will lead to a better understanding of the evolution of stars. Huge amountsof data will be analyzed by an international scientific consortium called the Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium (KASC). The researchers consists of over 200 researchers from 50 institutions around the world, including the Astronomical Institute of the Romanian Academy.
Published at
2/3/2009 de Catalin Mosoia, Bucharest, Romania
in categoriile: Science and politics,Astronomy,Personalia,Space The true nature of dark matter and dark energy, the search for extra-terrestrial life among the extrasolar planets that are set to be discovered; and finding the first stars that formed after the Big Bang. These are just few of the biggest challenges that are facing astronomers over the next couple of decades. At least this is what a group of six astronomers from the UK, the US, Europe and Asia write in the current edition of Physics World.
Published at
1/5/2009 de Sotira Trifourki, Manchester, UK
in categoriile: Science communication,Science journalism,Astronomy,Science and education,Personalia,Space The latest project dedicated to the International Year of Astronomy is portaltotheuniverse.org website. It was released on April 23 during the European Week of Science and Astronomy which was held at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK. The portal was developed using the latest technology information and aims to become the main source of information for astronomy and space science.
Published at
1/5/2009 de Catalin Mosoia
in categoriile: Science communication,Astronomy,Science and education,Space Following the unprecedented success of IYA2009's 100 Hours of Astronomy, which featured hugely popular projects such as a Global Star Party, the live 24-hour webcast “Around the World in 80 Telescopes”, a Science Centre webcast, and Sun Day, another weekend of astronomy events has been highlighted for 23-24 October 2009. This new IYA2009 Cornerstone Project is called Galilean Nights and will see amateur and professional astronomers around the globe taking to the streets, pointing their telescopes to the wonders that Galileo observed 400 years ago.