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The Obamas hosted an event of a different kind on Wednesday night at the White House as they welcomed dozens of local middle school students to Astronomy Night. About 150 students from the Washington metro area attended the event, which was held on the White House South Lawn.

The Coca-Cola Space Science Center at Columbus State University will hold a special Astronomy Night program tonight in collaboration the first “Star Party” at the White House.

Bruce McCurdy, light pollution abatement chair of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canadas Edmonton centre, has presented Strathcona County with a Galileo telescope in appreciation of its support for astronomy.[…]

Tobias Owen Receives Planetary Astronomy Prize

The event coincides with the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s first glimpse of the heavens through a telescope, a milestone being celebrated worldwide throughout 2009, declared by the United Nations as the International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009).

This week marks the beginning of the GalileoMobile Project, a two-month expedition to bring the wonder and excitement of astronomy to young people in Chile, Bolivia and Peru.

KOTA BAHARU, Oct 6 (Bernama) — The astronomy unit at the Malaysian Islamic Development Training Institute (Ilim) will soon be re-named Centre for the Study of Islamic Astronomy.

The Digital Cuttlefish tells me in rhyme that a new ring has been discovered around Saturn , a huge (13 million km radius) but low density cloud of dust that is responsible for splattering Iapetus with dark material. Very cool. The Cuttlefish also informed me that lazy ol’ Phil Plait hasn’t covered it yet because he’s distracted with some TAM in London, so how could I resist scooping him? Read …

ASHEVILLE A city-based technology company visited the White House on Wednesday to setup a visual presentation for students about the importance of astronomy.