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Astroblog
On February 18, 1930 Clive Tombaugh noticed a faint dot jumping backwards and forwards in his blink comparator plates, we know know that dot as Pluto. The Astronomical Society of the Pacific has the story of Pluto's discovery in Cly...
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Gizmodo Australia
Current NASA Administrator and former astronaut Charles Bolden, speaking a few weeks ago at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society, explained how our nation’s space program is at a crossroads and pledged to continue manned s...
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Gizmodo
Current NASA Administrator and former astronaut Charles Bolden, speaking a few weeks ago at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society, explained how our nation's space program is at a crossroads and pledged to continue manned m...
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Huffington Post
By Gerry Harp I gave a poster the first week of January at the 2010 conference of the American Astronomical Society in Wash. D.C. Rob,...
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The e-Astronomer
At periodic intervals Keef appears before the assembled might of the Royal Astronomical Society for grilling – in April at the National Astronomy Meeting, and every so often at the Astronomy Forum, an RAS organised gathering of Astr...
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60-Second Science
Most people think of astronomy as the science of big things--"vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big," as Douglas Adams put it. But judging from last week's American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington, D.C., the most interesti...
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Space Politics
In his speech at the American Astronomical Society’s meeting in Washington last week, NASA administrator Charles Bolden noted that the agency is at a recent high in terms of the number of operating astronomy missions: 15 as of the b...
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Cosmic Variance
You might have heard the news out of last week’s American Astronomical Society meeting, that the Hubble Space Telescope had found evidence for the most distant galaxies yet discovered. Using the newly-installed Wide Field Camera 3,...
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Professor Astronomy
Yesterday, the American Astronomical Society sent an email announcing the 2010 winners of the society's prizes and awards.  Among the winners is Anna Frebel, a former office mate of mine and an absolutely outstanding astronomer.  A...
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60-Second Science
WASHINGTON, D.C.--The American Astronomical Society meeting, held here this week, was officially the largest congregation of astronomers (3,400 of them) in history--the most extraordinary collection of cosmic knowledge that has eve...
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Bad Astronomy
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I attended the first few days of the American Astronomical Society meeting this week. I went as a member of the press, as I have for the past few years. The press room is a fun place; lots of old f...
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Professor Astronomy
Yesterday was the third day of the 215th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, and the final day that I was there.  Today I am at the airport hoping to get home, though my original flight was canceled and my new flight is de...
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The Dragon's Tales
The most earthlike planet yet found around another star may be the rocky remains of a Saturn-sized gas giant, according to research presented today at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington."The first planets detect...
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Planetary Society Weblog
Congratulations are due to the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) team on their lovely "First Light" image, unveiled at the 215th American Astronomical Society meeting today. Here it is:Click to enlarge >First light for WIS...
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Nobel Intent
The American Astronomical Society is holding its latest meeting (the 215th!) this week, and the team behind NASA's Kepler probe has used the opportunity to announce the first discoveries for the new probe. The first and easie...
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Professor Astronomy
Yesterday, day 2 of the 215th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) was yet another exciting day, with new results from both Earth's backyard and the most distant known reaches of the Universe. Today promises to be ano...
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Space Politics
NASA administrator Charles Bolden didn’t make any major policy pronouncements in his speech Tuesday at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington, DC, although one wouldn’t expect him to in this “quiet period” before th...
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Bad Astronomy
I’m at the annual winter American Astronomical Society meeting, and just left an interesting address by the new NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden. He’s a former astronaut (he was on the initial Hubble Shuttle mission back in 1990) a...
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Professor Astronomy
Today begins day 2 of the 215th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington, DC.  As I said yesterday, follow me on Twitter, or search Twitter for #aas and #aas215 hashtags for up-to-the-minute tweets with news and s...
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Ars Technica
The American Astronomical Society is holding its annual meeting (the 215th!) this week, and the team behind NASA's Kepler probe has used the opportunity to announce the first discoveries for the new probe. The first and easie...
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