Cooke and his observing team at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center have already recorded several bright fireballs from the Eta Aquarids and are looking forward to seeing more using the agency's network of all-sky meteor cameras.
Dubbed the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (or TESS), this new space telescope will one-up Kepler with the ability to perform an all-sky survey (an area 400 times larger than previous missions) to search for transiting exoplanets, with an eye towards planets comparable to Earth in size.
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The team went on to use data from a range of other telescopes including the Very Large Telescope, the Two Micron All-Sky Survey and the Spitzer space telescope - each of which sees in a particular set of colours, in turn evidencing stars of varying ages.
"Vlad talks about all the blue-sky stuff, " Severson says, affectionately.
If we are to believe all the sky-is-falling claims of environmental activist groups, it is time for them to put their money where their mouth is and support natural gas production.
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With all this sky-high hype, it would be easy to forget a basic truth: "Satellite TV is, at best, only a niche business, " says Brian Jeffries, editor of the regional Asia Pacific Space Report.
Those include in-game access to the All-22 "eye in the sky" video so you can do your own Madden-style telestration, and a fixed fan-chosen camera, sideline or cable skycam view for those that need to feel like they're playing a video game.
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Now fans can see the game tape coaches use to evaluate their teams with the "eye in the sky" All-22 view that shows all of the players and end zone cameras.
If you're one of the lucky folks who live in or around the yellow area pictured on the map (it's a map of the upper 48 United States), grab the closest gadget with GPS, your EV-DO-sportin' laptop, and the keys to your pickup, 'cause money is literally falling out of the sky all around you 24-hours-a-day.
LaBrot works side by side with his younger sister, Sky, to run the all-volunteer organization.
In a few years, it's likely we'll see an all-out battle between the likes of Virgin, Sky, Microsoft, Sony and even the BBC, Apple or Google to own your home's de facto entertainment hub - providing movies, music, television and games via a web connection in your living room.
The gadget does share a constraint common to all satellite-connected gear: Line of sight to the sky is required for connectivity.
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Its Iridium satellite-based global phone system switches all calls in the sky without using any ground stations, an impossibly difficult task.
All movies will be made available to Sky customers on-demand, on Sky Go, as well as in High Definition (HD) and 3D where available.
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Sky said they have "suspended all co-operation with ACS:Law with immediate effect" and that the suspension would "remain in place until ACS:Law demonstrates adequate measures to protect the security of personal information".
All Disney-branded channels will also continue to be available on Sky Go across a range of internet-connected devices.
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If GDX tops this area and moves to all-time highs, traders could be capitalizing on a blue sky move.
With three minutes left, Carroll rose into the London sky with big-bodied opponent Marouane Fellaini all over him, met Craig Bellamy's free kick and headed it past Everton goalkeeper Tim Howard.
Other information prepared by the government has been put into evidence that shows that for a stated period of time (January 2004-December 2006) that 65% of all trades resulted from Sky customers (35% were other clients).
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So my New Year's wish for America is that we be skeptical of falling-sky stories, and that as a result, we all sleep better.
The name Rapyuta is taken from the Japanese film by Hayao Miyazaki Castle in the Sky - in the film it is the place where all the robots live.
Hoy opens his campaign on Friday in the men's sprint and will ride in all three sprint events - individual sprint, team sprint and Keirin - for Sky Track Cycling.
After all, the thrill-seeking traits that lead executives to take up flying or sky diving may also be what make them daring corporate leaders.
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I'm rested and relaxed after two days at this wellness-lite resort in the desert two hours east of San Diego--an effect of the vast saturated-blue sky, the 650, 000 acres of nature preserve all around, that cushy bed in my guest room, and, best of all, the laid-back approach to the mindfulness mission.
At the story's center are all the clanging fireballs a kid could want to watch whizzing across a computerized sky -- not to mention naval strategy and a fact-based demonstration of real destroyer-ship capabilities.
When Forbes Global spoke in late 1999 with Thomas White, a money manager in Chicago, the Nasdaq stood at 4000 and many analysts were busy inventing new valuation ratios to justify sky-high share prices (" One ratio does not fit all" Dec. 27, 1999).
But in the middle of all this was a change in the sky color itself that gradually clarified as an upward-streaming brown cloud risen from the earth, as if the world was turned upside down.
It all began last year with a father-son excursion to see the rocket-loving film October Sky.
But like all hot tickets, the autumn migration can come with its share of hassles, including sky-high prices and traffic jams as safari vehicles jostle for space near the best sightings.
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