Blue moon on Friday: How to watch online - Fox News

"This Blue Moon that Slooh will explore Friday night is somewhat rare, but not as rare as the courage and talent of the late Neil Armstrong, the first human to set foot on our nearest celestial neighbor," Berman said in a statement. "To honor him, Slooh will explore the Sea of Tranquility with its Canary Island 20-inch telescope, live, and have guests who will reveal some of the lesser-known secrets of that historic 1969 event. I think many of our visitors will be in for quite a surprise."Night sky observers around the world will have the chance to see a special full moon \u2014 one that has been dubbed a \"blue moon\" \u2014 this Friday, Aug. 31.",
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Blue moon on Friday: How to watch online

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NASA's Mars rover heads east, driving 'beautifully' - Space Daily

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will.i.am, NASA team up for first song from Mars (+video) - Christian Science Monitor

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According to NASA, members of the team that successfully landed the rover on Mars earlier this month will explain to students the mission and the technology behind the song's interplanetary transmission. will.i.am will then premiere &quot;Reach for the Stars,&quot; a new composition about the singer's passion for science, technology, and space exploration.
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will.i.am's i.am.angel Foundation, in partnership with Discovery Education of Silver Spring, Md., a provider of digital resources to kindergarten through grade 12 classrooms, will announce a new science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics initiative featuring NASA assets such as the Mars Curiosity Rover.
&nbsp;The event will be streamed on the agency's website and broadcast on NASA TV.This is an extraordinary achievement. Landing a rover on Mars is not easy â€" others have tried â€" only America has fully succeeded. The investment we are making…the knowledge we hope to gain from our observation and analysis of Gale Crater, will tell us much about the possibility of life on Mars as well as the past and future possibilities for our own planet. Curiosity will bring benefits to Earth and inspire a new generation of scientists and explorers, as it prepares the way for a human mission in the not-too-distant future. <br />http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0828/will.i.am-NASA-team-up-for-first-song-from-Mars-video

Curiosity rover's intriguing geological find - BBC News

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Appleton native plays role in NASA Mars rover - Green Bay Press Gazette

Bernardin said there are two parts of the instrument ). An engineering team at a laboratory in Toulouse, France, created the device's laser, telescope and camera. The camera snaps high-resolution pictures of what the laser will shoot and, once a target is chosen, a laser beam fires through the telescope, vaporizing the rock. The telescope collects the light waves emitted from the atoms of the vaporized material.ChemCam was handed over to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., in 2009 — one of three big moments for the project, Bernardin said. The others were the launch, which he witnessed at Cape Canaveral, and the night of Aug. 5. When that night approached, the 44-year-old engineer said he was met with a "surreal feeling."<br />http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20120825/GPG0101/308250225/Appleton-native-plays-role-NASA-Mars-rover

This Is What Landing on Mars Looks Like - VICE

Even as something of a Mars fever naysayer, I can say that the sight of dust billowing as the Curiosity lander touches down delivers an eerie, awed chill. The video, coming courtesy of NASA&rsquo;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was just released today, and provides the first high-res shots of the Mars landing. The video begins as the craft sheds its heat shield and concludes two-and-a-half minutes later at touchdown.
Just imagine you&rsquo;re one of the Martians that&rsquo;s been in hiding since the Soviet Union delivered Mars 2 and 3 to the planet&rsquo;s surface in 1971 (the first human stuff to reach the surface) watching this janky robot touch down, parachute in tow. How tragicomic.<br />http://www.vice.com/read/this-is-what-landing-on-mars-looks-like

Galaxy Cluster Stuns Scientists—Supermassive and Spewing Out Stars - National Geographic

(Related: "Glowing, Green Space Blob Forming New Stars, Hubble Shows.") "The discovery of this cluster was a bit of a roller coaster, since, with every new observation, we found something even more exciting," said MIT astrophysicist Michael McDonald, lead author of the new study detailing the Phoenix findings, released by the journal Nature Wednesday.What's puzzling astronomers most is that the galaxy at the center of the Phoenix Cluster appears to be in an active "starburst" periodâ€"birthing more than 740 stars a year, based on data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the National Science Foundation's South Pole Telescope, and eight other telescopes on Earth and in orbit.<br />http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/08/120815-galaxy-massive-nature-stars-groups-clusters-space-science-phoenix/

University Structure

The current island-structure of universities is a way of wasting invaluable potentials. The existence of various disciplines in university is a golden opportunity, but people usually ignore it.

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NASA welcomes striking new views from the red planet after Mars rover nails ... - Washington Post

Extraordinary efforts were needed for the landing because the rover weighs one ton, and the thin Martian atmosphere offers little friction to slow a spacecraft down. Curiosity had to go from 13,000 mph to zero in seven minutes, unfurling a parachute, then firing rockets to brake. In a Hollywood-style finish, cables delicately lowered it to the ground at 2 mph.As thumbnails of the video flashed on a big screen on Monday, scientists and engineers at the NASA Jet Propulsion let out &ldquo;oohs&rdquo; and &ldquo;aahs.&rdquo; The recording began with the protective heat shield falling away and ended with dust being kicked up as the rover was lowered by cables inside an ancient crater.<br />http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/nasa-welcomes-striking-new-views-from-the-red-planet-after-mars-rover-nails-the-landing/2012/08/31/f3094552-e025-11e1-8d48-2b1243f34c85_story.html

NASA braces for "7 minutes of terror" Mars plunge - The Associated Press

FILE - This Aug. 2, 2012 file photo shows Nick Lam, data controller, monitoring the Mars rover Curiosity from the Deep Space Network&#39;s control room at NASA&#39;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. NASA&#39;s Curiosity rover is zooming toward Mars. With about a day to go until a landing attempt, the space agency says the nuclear-powered rover appears on course. Tension will be high late Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012, when it plummets during the &quot;seven minutes of terror.&quot; Skimming the top of the Martian atmosphere at 13,000 mph, the rover needs to brake to a stop _ in seven minutes _ and set its six wheels down on the surface. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)Despite Mars' reputation as a spacecraft graveyard, humans continue their love affair with the planet, lobbing spacecraft in search of clues about its early history. Out of more than three dozen attempts â€" flybys, orbiters and landings â€" by the U.S., Soviet Union, Europe and Japan since the 1960s, m!
ore than half have ended disastrously.<br />http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iN2PrwEe5n3I7vPT5NAeSRf1wQlA?docId%3D47754e033cdf44c5be9700b8dffed313

Mars rover Curiosity landing: Where to watch and what you'll see - Washington Post (blog)

NASA&rsquo;s coverage of the event is scheduled to begin at 11:30 p.m. Sunday night and go until 4 a.m. Monday morning. The landing itself is scheduled for 1:31 a.m. Monday. Unlike the hour-by-hour video coverage of SpaceX&rsquo;s historic docking with the international space station, don&rsquo;t expect gorgeous panorama shots of the planet surface immediately after landing. Curiosity will not feed back video as it goes through its &ldquo;seven minutes of terror&rdquo; landing sequence. Instead, NASA&rsquo;s live coverage will center around non-video telemetry. The first images to reach Earth will be low-resolution black and white images after the rover has landed. The high-resolution, color images are expected to be beamed back 48 hours later, after the main mast deploys.Patience may be the name of the game when it comes to photos and video, but it&rsquo;s not for social media, on which NASA is very active. The agency&rsquo;s Twitter account has over 2.5 million followers. !
And the Curiosity landing has its own twitter account, @MarsCuriosity, hashtag, #MSL and Facebook page. NASA also has a number of live-streaming channels on U Stream. For those looking for breaking news, NASA plans to broadcast news of the landing across platforms, with watch parties happening at a number of NASA locations. If you can&rsquo;t make it to any of those and you live in New York, however, NASA&rsquo;s live coverage will be broadcast on the Toshiba screen on the main Jumbotron in Times Square. <br />http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/post/mars-rover-curiosity-landing-where-to-watch-and-what-youll-see/2012/08/03/c79c20ac-dd77-11e1-af1d-753c613ff6d8_blog.html

Curiosity Rover Seeks Signs of Life - ABC News

Curiosity weighed 5,293 pounds on Earth. It's the size of a small car and much, much bigger than the twin rovers Spirit and Opportunity, which landed on Mars in 2004, cradled in airbags. Curiosity is simply too big for that, so it will be lowered to the surface by a heat shield, then a parachute, then retro-rockets, and finally a rocket-powered sky crane. That's something engineers have never tried before -- and that's what makes this so scary for them.

But what if it hits pay dirt? What if it really does find something? The results would probably not be conclusive, but they would be incentive for further exploration -- a tender subject at NASA because, hampered by budget cuts, it currently has no future Mars missions approved.
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Social and Cultural Activities in University

It should be taken into account that the main goal of attending universities is to experience academic life and culture; thus, students should not only look for their degree and graduation. Instead, they should enjoy their academic life, and degree is a consequence of their studies. To this aim, it is necessary to have solid cultural programs, providing a delightful environment for students. The design of social activities should not be independent programs for students’ free times; instead they should be designed as a part of the university united program. In other words, social activities are not extra services to students, but part of their academic programs.
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'Superbird' stuns researchers - Eureka! Science News

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'Star Trek' Actors Star in New Mars Rover Landing Videos - Space.com

Shatner, who played the legendary Captain Kirk in the original &quot;Star Trek&quot; TV series, provides the voice-over for one video, while Wheaton, who memorably portrayed the boy genius Crusher on &quot;Star Trek: The Next Generation,&quot; narrates the other. Since their turns on the hit series, Shatner and Wheaton have become pop culture icons thanks to legions of fans around the world who affectionately nickname themselves &quot;Trekkies.&quot;
&quot;Shatner and Wheaton are mavericks in inspiring film, TV and social media audiences about space,&quot; Bert Ulrich, NASA&#39;s multimedia liaison for film and TV collaborations, said in a statement. &quot;NASA is thrilled to have them explain a difficult landing sequence in accessible terms that can be understood by many. Thanks to their generous support, Mars exploration will reach Tweeters, Trekkies and beyond!&quot;<br />http://www.space.com/16826-mars-rover-landing-star-trek-video.html

WWII German U-boat found off Massachusetts coast - TG Daily

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Stanford University researchers create first virtual organism - TG Daily

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Institutional Mission and University

University administration should generate a pool of creative ideas for faculty members. When designing an academic research project, professors know the general preferences of a university, but not necessarily specific policy of their own university.

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Russian Soyuz rocket launches American, Russian, Japanese to space station - SlashGear

Among the group&#8217;s tasks are performing space station maintenance and a whole bunch of science experiments that can only be achieved in space. During a preflight briefing, Williams said, &#8220;Unfortunately our mission is only four months â€" I wish it would be years and years and years. I&#8217;m really lucky to be flying with Yuri and Aki. I think we&#8217;re going to have a great time.&#8221;From Russia is Yuri Malenchenko and from Japan is Akihiko Hoshide. The launch today coincided with the anniversary of the very first inernational space mission. The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project began on July 15, 1975. On this 37th anniversary, it is of course very refreshing to see an astronaut and a cosmonaut on the very same spacecraft serving the same purpose.<br />http://www.slashgear.com/russian-soyuz-rocket-launches-american-russian-japanese-to-space-station-15238634/

New Pluto Moon Found—"Fringe Benefit" of Search for Risky Rings - National Geographic

Finding the new moon this summer was a "fringe benefit" of a monthlong program to scan Pluto for rocky rings that could endanger NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, said planetary astronomer Mark Showalter, who's leading the Hubble scanning project. The probe is to fly by the dwarf planet in July 2015."The discovery of so many small moons indirectly tells us that there must be lots of small particles lurking unseen in the Pluto system," New Horizons team member Harold Weaver, a Johns Hopkins University planetary scientist, said in a statement.<br />http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/07/120712-pluto-moon-hubble-space-telescope-satellite-science-nasa/

Hubble Unearths New Moon Around Pluto - Wired News

While Hubble provides only a distant glimpse of Pluto and its moons, NASA&#8217;s New Horizons space probe is currently speeding out to Pluto. The spacecraft should arrive in 2015, when it will take the first detailed photos of the icy dwarf planet system. The discovery of the fifth Pluto moon will help scientists prevent a collision that might destroy New Horizons, which will be zooming by at 30,000 mph.The largest moon of Pluto, Charon, was discovered in 1978 by the United States Naval Observatory station in Flagstaff, Arizona, back when Pluto was still called a planet. The next two moons, Nix and Hydra, weren&#8217;t discovered until 2006, using Hubble. The fourth moon, given the less sexy name P4, was discovered with Hubble in 2011.<br />http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/07/new-pluto-moon/

India: Enough about Higgs, let's discuss the boson - The Associated Press

A portrait of Indian scientist Satyendranath Bose, is displayed at the Bangiya Vigyan Parishad or the Bengal Science Society founded by Bose in Kolkata, India, Tuesday, July 10, 2012. While much of the world was celebrating the international cooperation that led to last week&#39;s breakthrough in identifying the existence of the Higgs boson particle, many in India were smarting over what they saw as a slight against one of their greatest scientists. Media covering the story gave lots of credit to British physicist Peter Higgs for theorizing the elusive subatomic &quot;God particle,&quot; but little was said about Satyendranath Bose, the Indian after whom the boson is named. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)The boson is named in honor of the Kolkata-born scientist's work in the 1920s with Albert Einstein in defining one of two basic classes of subatomic particles. The work describes subatomic particles that carry force and can occupy the same space if in the same state â€" such as in a la!
ser beam. All particles that follow such behavior, including the Higgs as well as photons, gravitons and others, are called bosons.<br />http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g45TaVkiWEWQwEIUSrEuD9Rab5bw?docId%3D5d6d64f5fa734ea0bb6b0c29adac18d0

University as a Country

The structure of a university is very similar to a country, and its management system too; a smaller society but utopia, due to its sophisticated community. Factors like national benefits, patriotism, and nostalgia are all (and must be) the case in a smaller scale. Even outsiders (usually in administrative roles) are expected to behave like loyal alumni, learn the school alma mater, and become interested in in the major sport teams, and other traditional functions of the university. This practical allegory is to utilize available models. The athletic success in Olympic is of political important (not just fun) for a country, it is the same for a university fame (for attracting students). The reasons and motivations of students for attending a university are like those of immigration. Thus, university leadership should empower its own country through united national strategies. This is the reason that today’s university essential needs to implement change. The ratio of people living in developed country to those living in developing countries from one to two (in 1995) is approaching one to four (in 2010)
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