Astro/Planetary News

This page showcases links to online articles, websites and discussions relating to astronomy and astrophysics and the pulse and condition of Planet Earth:

Sunday, March 18, 2012

AstroNews

The sky for the week of March 19 – 25:

http://www.universetoday.com/94221/weekly-skywatchers-forecast-march-19-25-2012/

Spectacular CME blast from far side of the sun in the early hours of March 18th, probably from sunspot 1429:

http://www.spaceweather.com/images2012/18mar12/cme.gif?PHPSESSID=hvlr31ado0s4l86ve3h1vr4vp3

http://www.spaceweather.com/

What it would look and sound (and feel!) like if you hitched a ride on one of the Shuttle’s boosters:

http://ssep.ncesse.org/2012/03/americas-space-program-get-in-the-spirit/

ICARUS proves neutrinos do not travel faster than the speed of light:

http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2011/PR19.11E.html

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-57398740-264/not-so-fast-neutrinos-cern-says-lights-speedier-still/

Our rainbow coloured yellow star in different wavelengths:

http://www.livescience.com/18837-amazing-sun-nasa-images.html

Hubble discovers quasars acting as gravitational lenses:

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2012/14/

Amazing NASA/LRO CG video on the evolution of our moon:

http://www.onorbit.com/node/4470

Chandra’s Abell 383 – 2.3 billion light years distant and an unfolding dark matter enigma:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/multimedia/abell383.html

Cassini spies a wave-rattling jet Jovian jet stream:

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-070&cid=release_2012-070&msource=12070&tr=y&auid=10439675

Beautiful ethereal aurora images from Lapland:

http://vimeo.com/38404130

PlanetaryNews:

A section of Dover’s famed White Cliffs collapses:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/15/white-cliffs-of-dover-collapse_n_1348933.html

Our bats are in trouble – White-nose Syndrome spreads:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/16/bats-white-nose-syndrome_n_1350306.html

Mysterious fossils found in China may be new paleo-human species:

http://www.livescience.com/19039-human-species-china-cave.html

Rare horizontal fault line discovered in the Kohat Plateau Region southwest of the Himalayas in Pakistan:

http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/2269-rare-caterpillar-horizontal-earthquake-discovered.html

NASA scientist asks “Will we leave our children a climate system spiraling out of control?”:

http://blog.nwf.org/2012/03/nasa-scientist-will-we-leave-our-children-a-climate-system-spiraling-out-of-control/

In the wake of the first anniversary of the Japan earthquake of 3.11.11 – Where/when will the next big one strike?:

http://www.livescience.com/18978-big-earthquake-prediction.html?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=LS_03122012

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

!AstroNewsFLASH!

This week marks the amazing planetary conjunction of Venus and Jupiter in the western nightsky, together with Mars riding high in the east:

http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/pictorial-guide-to-venus-jupiter-conjunction-in-february-march-2012

http://news.discovery.com/space/venus-jupiter-conjunction-120312.html#mkcpgn=emnws1

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/ataglance

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/03/120313-conjunction-venus-jupiter-sky-space-science/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/interactive/2012/mar/13/venus-jupiter-conjunction-interactive

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/nightsky/9139873/Jupiter-and-Venus-conjunction-dazzles-amateur-astronomers.html

Wednesday, March 1, 2012

AstroNews:

The sky this month:

http://www.oneminuteastronomer.com/sky-this-month/

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/whatsup2012March.html

Analyzing a comet dust grain from Comet 81P-Wild 2 to determine the date of Jupiter’s formation:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-uh-scientists-tiny-comet-grain.html

Mars Odyssey and THEMIS – 10 amazing years on:

http://www.marsdaily.com/reports/Camera_on_NASA_Mars_Odyssey_Tops_Decade_of_Discovery_999.html

Orion’s stellar nursery:

http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMXRL4Y1ZG_index_0.html

Rare Earth element tellurium detected for the first time in 12 billion year old stars in the Milky Way’s halo:

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/02/rare-earth-element-detected-for-the-first-time-in-12-billion-year-old-stars-in-the-milky-ways-halo.html

Unmasking a black hole in the Andromeda Galaxy:

http://www.clemson.edu/media-relations/4100/astrophysicists-from-clemson-and-europe-unmask-a-black-hole/

Amazing image from NASA – preview of a supernova known as Eta Carinae:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2183.html

A day on Venus just got a whole lot longer:

http://www.physicstoday.org/daily_edition/physics_update/a_day_on_venus_just_got_longer

Chandra finds fastest wind from stellar mass black hole:

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2012/feb/HQ_12-056_Chandra_Fastest_Black_Hole_Wind.html

MRO finds evidence of “recent” Marsquakes”:

http://www.space.com/14633-mars-quakes-volcanoes-liquid-water.html?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=SP_02212012

Hubble finds Waterworld!:

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2012/13/

PlanetaryNews:

Earth’s clouds are getting lower:

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/NASA_Satellite_Finds_Earths_Clouds_are_Getting_Lower_999.html

Scientists say marine mammals need rights too:

http://www.livescience.com/18611-marine-mammals-dolphins-human-rights.html?utm_source=Marleybonez-via-twitter

Scientists revive 30,000 year old frozen Ice Age flower from a seed:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/story/2012-02-20/russia-ice-age-flower/53179022/1?csp=Tech

Monday, January 30, 2012

AstroNews:

Kepler’s exoplanet count is now at 61:

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2012/jan/HQ_12-032_Kepler_23-33.html

Asteroid buzzes Earth:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16756450

Eros makes closest approach to Earth on January 31st since 1975:

http://www.universetoday.com/93101/asteroid-to-make-closest-approach-since-1975/

The Eros Parallax Project:

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/home/The-Eros-Parallax-Project-138301789.html

PlanetaryNews:

Spate of dead marine mammals wash up on Louisiana shoreline:

http://www.examiner.com/oil-spill-wildlife-in-national/more-dead-dolphins-two-whales-wash-up-on-louisiana-shores

Conflict is at the root of diversity in rainforests:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-competition-root-diversity-rainforests.html

Friday, December 9, 2011

AstroNews:

Total lunar eclipse over North America tonight, Friday, December 9th – moonset eclipse visible from GTA and York Region just before 6:30 am EST:

http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/when-is-the-next-total-lunar-eclipse-for-north-america

http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fearthsky.org%2Fspace%2Fhow-do-i-watch-the-total-lunar-eclipse&h=pAQH6LFWfAQGX7_CP8Oo16YfIRo56-aWyBh5sS46YcVKZdA

http://www.astronomia.org/2011/eclipseluna12.en.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTIeUYKll2o&feature=youtu.be

Watch live on NASA online:

http://www.nasa.gov/connect/chat/lunar_eclipse.html

And our own Ian Shelton made this fabulous real-time animation video:

http://youtu.be/X9lHTUd5eso

Is Vesta the smallest terrestial planet:

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/09dec_vestaplanet/

Vesta’s colour palette:

http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/

Has the elusive Higgs boson particle finally been discovered?:

http://www.livescience.com/17387-physicists-major-god-particle-announcement-week.html

Mars rover Opportunity discovers bright gypsum veins which indicate a wet Martian past:

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-377&cid=release_2011-377&msource=11377&tr=y&auid=9976954

Mystery of Martian gullies solved:

http://www.livescience.com/17364-martian-polar-gullies-mystery-carbon-dioxide.html?utm_content=LiveScience&utm_campaign=seo%2Bblitz&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social%2Bmedia

Five real cosmic doomsday events of 2011:

http://news.discovery.com/space/top-5-real-cosmic-doomsdays-2011-111206.html#mkcpgn=emnws1

Kepler finds first Earth-like planet in the Goldilocks Zone orbiting a sun-like star:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/news/kepscicon-briefing.html

SETI resumes search for intelligent extraterrestrial life with the aid of Kepler discoveries:

http://www.space.com/13832-seti-ata-search-kepler-planet-candidates.html?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=SP_12062011

Best space photos of the week:

http://www.space.com/13816-space-photos-week-dec-3-2011.html

PlanetaryNews:

New dinosaur species discovered in Alberta:

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/12/07/alberta-dinosaur-fossil-spinops-sternbergorumm_n_1135337.html

Incredible find of dinosaur nest full of fossilized babies in Mongolia:

http://richarddawkins.net/articles/644100-gorgeous-dinosaur-nest-found-full-of-babies

Concerns rising about effects of acid rain on sugar maples:

http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=122510&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1

Rarest bumblebee rediscovered in New Mexico:

http://www.livescience.com/17318-rarest-bumblebee-rediscovered.html

Dead Sea floorbed shows evidence of past climate change:

http://cse.umn.edu/admin/comm/newsreleases/2011_12_5_deadsea-climate-chg.php

Journey to the underbelly of Antarctica:

http://climate.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&NewsID=626

“Merging tsunami” from March, 2011, Japan earthquake doubled the waves’ intensity and shifted the sea floor more than 20m sideways:

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/dec/HQ_11-405_AGU_Tsunami.html

http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2011/05/22/japans-11-march-mega-quake-shifted-the-ocean-floor-sideways-by-more-than-20m/

National Geographic’s Best Pictures of 2011:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/12/pictures/111202-best-news-pictures-national-geographic-top-ten/?source=email_inside

Saturday, December 3, 2011

AstroNews:

December 2011 skywatching hilites and events:

http://www.space.com/13793-december-skywatching-guide-lunar-eclipse.html?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=SP_12022011

This week at NASA:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/TWAN_12_02_11.html

JAXA pulls plug on Japan’s Akari Space Telescope – an orbiting telescope which scanned the cosmos in far infra-red wavelengths:

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/community/skyblog/newsblog/Sayonara-to-Akari-Space-Telescope-134801623.html

Kepler discovers super Earth-size planet around HD 179070:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/news/kepler-21b.html

Stunning images of November’s young moon/Jupiter conjunction:

http://earthsky.org/space/best-images-of-the-moon-and-venus-in-november-2011

Amazing martian crater dust avalanches caught by MRO’s camera:

http://earthsky.org/space/incoming-meteors-causes-airbursts-and-martian-avalanches

New Horizons breaks new space on her way to dwarf planet Pluto and moons:

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/news_center/news/20111202.php

Voyager probes detect and confirm Lyman-alpha radiation being emitted from the Milky Way:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/12/111201-voyager-probes-milky-way-light-hydrogen-sun-nasa-space/

Phobos-Grunt uncontrolled fallback to Earth now seems inevitable:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/story/2011-12-02/russian-mars-probe/51550560/1?csp=Tech

Stunning aurora activity photographed from Sweden:

http://www.space.com/13769-amazing-aurora-sweden-time-lapsed.html?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=SP_11302011

Swift finds GRB with a dual personality:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/swift/bursts/dual-burst.html

A stellar candidate in the Whirlpool Galaxy may offer astronomers a first glimpse of a pre-supernova star:

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/In_the_final_days_astronomers_hunt_for_signal_of_impending_doom_999.html

Our Milky Way Galaxy continues to devour its satellite galaxies:

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/A_beast_with_four_tails_999.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Milky_Way%27s_satellite_galaxies

PlanetaryNews:

Best science photos of the week:

http://www.livescience.com/17297-science-photos-week-dec3-2011.html

The incredible intelligence of ravens:

http://www.livescience.com/17213-ravens-gestures-animal-communication.html

Strong Santa Ana winds wreak havoc in the southwestern US:

http://earthsky.org/earth/strong-winds-cause-damage-in-the-southwestern-united-states

Walnut trees at risk from climate change:

http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Walnut_trees_may_not_be_able_to_withstand_climate_change_999.html

Monday, November 28, 2011

AstroNews:

ESA Cluster Mission reveals Earth’s bow shock is remarkably tenuous:

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Cluster_reveals_Earth_bow_shock_is_remarkably_thin_999.html

Dawn’s latest images show evidence of a destroyed crater on Vesta:

http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imageoftheday/image.asp?date=20111127

Picture perfect successful launch of Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) and rover Curiosity on Saturday, November 26, 2011:

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/26nov_msllaunch/

http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/

New software will help with NEO detections:

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Student_Developed_Software_Helps_To_Detect_Near_Earth_Asteroids_999.html

Best ways to discover Milky Way exoplanets – we are at 707 and counting:

http://io9.com/5862009/what-is-the-best-way-to-locate-the-galaxys-habitable-planets

Excellent abstract on assessing the habitability of exoplanets, including a home solar system moon or two:

http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089/ast.2010.0592

Stricken Phobos-Grunt sends more data, and who’s going to clean up the soon-to-be descended mess:

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/emerging-tech/2011/11/24/stricken-space-probe-phobos-grunt-sends-more-data-40094504/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/25/phobos_debris_russian_responsibility/

Our very own Dunlap/Bolton Cygnus X-1 gets some well-deserved attention:

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/community/skyblog/newsblog/Cygnus-X-1-Exactly-134241693.html

Another origin for cosmic rays:

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/community/skyblog/newsblog/Another-Origin-for-Cosmic-Rays-134404253.html

ESA – European Space Agency – Europe’s equivalent of NASA:

http://www.esa.int/export/esaCP/index.html

PlanetaryNews:

Scientifically separating natural from man-made “noise” which indicates climate change:

http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Separating_signal_and_noise_in_climate_warming_999.html

Largest solar farm in the northeastern North American continent powers up:

http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/PR_display.asp?prID=1349&template=Today

Ancient environment led to Earth’s current marine diversity:

http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=122345&WT.mc_id=USNSF_51&WT.mc_ev=click

Earth’s core is almost completely deprived of oxygen:

http://www.astrobio.net/pressrelease/4362/earths-core-deprived-of-oxygen

Earth Live:

http://www.esa.int/export/esaEO/SEM563AATME_index_0.html

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Peak of Leonid meteor shower tonight – if Luna lets us:

http://earthsky.org/tonight/radiant-point-for-leonid-meteor-shower

http://www.space.com/13652-leonid-meteor-shower-peaks-tonight.html

http://www.onrichmondhill.com/events.php?id=11660

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonids

Friday, November 4, 2011

AstroNews:

The sky tonight:

http://earthsky.org/category/tonight

The sky this week:

http://tinyurl.com/observingthisweeknov42011

Largest active sunspot in years:

http://spaceweather.com/

On his way to wintering at Cape York in Endeavour Crater, Opportunity spies something amazing:

http://tinyurl.com/opportunitydiscovery

Giant nebula NGC 3603 – a celestial stunner:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2099.html

Stunning moon images:

http://tinyurl.com/stunningmoonimages

Rover Curiosity arrives at Cape Canaveral AFS, Saturn V rocket ready for its payload:

http://tinyurl.com/curiosityarrivesatcape

Giant methane storm brews on Uranus:

http://tinyurl.com/uranusmethanestorm1

http://tinyurl.com/uranusmethanestorm2

http://tinyurl.com/uranusmethanestorm3

NASA’s study of Martian clay minerals suggest watery Martian underground:

http://tinyurl.com/martianclayminerals

Magnificent composite image of M87 from Chandra and VLA:

http://tinyurl.com/m87chandravlaimage

Saturn’s spongy moon Hyperion:

http://tinyurl.com/saturnshyperion

China completes nation’s first space-docking:

http://tinyurl.com/chinashenzhouviii

Head’s up for close fly-by of Asteroid 2005 YU55 on November 8th - but it WILL MISS us:

http://tinyurl.com/2005yu55closeflyby

Long term space habitation adversely affects astronauts eyes and vision:

http://tinyurl.com/longtermastronautvision

How to find nearly 100 Deep Sky Treasures in a small telescope:

http://www.oneminuteastronomer.com/what-to-see-small-telescope-october/

Learn all about NASA’s Kepler Mission:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/main/index.html

Fantastic – NASA’s Exploration Roadmap:

http://open.nasa.gov/exploration-roadmap/

PlanetaryNews:

A crack forms in the Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf in Antarctica:

http://tinyurl.com/pineislandglaciercrack

http://tinyurl.com/pineislandglaciercrack2

Follow the Churchill, Manitoba, polar bears as they gather and wait for Hudson Bay to freeze over so they can begin their annual migration north:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/31/travel/polar-bears-migration-churchill-manitoba/index.html

http://explore.org/#!/photos/player/polar-bears-3

http://explore.org/#!/walls/player/polar-bears/

http://explore.org/#!/live-cams/player/polar-bear-tundra-buggy-cam

http://explore.org/#!/live-cams/player/polar-bear-lodge-cam

Peatland carbon storage IS stabilized against catastrophic release of carbon:

http://tinyurl.com/peatlandcarbonrelease

Cornell researchers find only recorded flight of the lost Imperial Woodpecker:

http://tinyurl.com/lostimperialwoodpecker

Rare birds flocking to Britain in record numbers:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/oct/30/bird-numbers-soar-in-britain?CMP=twt_gu

Friday, October 28, 2011

AstroNews:

This Week at NASA:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/TWAN_10_28_11.html

Best space photos of the week:

http://www.space.com/13447-top-space-photos-week-october-29-2011.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+spaceheadlines+%28SPACE.com+Headline+Feed%29

Curiosity is safely buttoned up for her impending Martian voyage:

http://www.universetoday.com/89895/curiosity-buttoned-up-for-martian-voyage-in-search-of-life%E2%80%99s-ingredients/

Pacman Nebula grows some teeth:

http://www.space.com/13429-pacman-nebula-stars-teeth-infrared-image.html?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=SP_10282011

Jupiter at closest opposition till 2022:

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/community/skyblog/observingblog/130422068.html

Farewell Fair Comet Elenin:

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/community/skyblog/observingblog/132526728.html

Multi-talented Earth Observing Satellite NPP launched successfully early this morning:

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/oct/HQ_11-361_NPP_Launch.html

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2093.html

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/NPP/main/index.html

http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/598567main_65121-2011-CA000-NPP_CubeSat_Factsheet_FINAL.pdf

Could evidence of ancient ET visits be coded into our DNA?:

http://tinyurl.com/etdnasearch

Astronomers pin down galaxy collision rate from new analysis of Hubble surveys:

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2011/30/

Spitzer and Penn State astronomers find a brown dwarf as cool as Earth:

http://science.psu.edu/news-and-events/2011-news/Luhman10-2011

Amazing Visual Wall from NSF’s Science Nation:

http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.cfm?med_id=71402

Astronomers discover complex organic matter of unexpected complexity throughout the Universe:

http://tinyurl.com/complexorganicmatter

Eris is Pluto’s twin:

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=35052

Full-size mock up of the James Webb Space Telescope debuts at the Maryland Science Centre in Baltimore, MD:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2090.html

Final prep underway for a very close asteroid flyby encounter coming on November 8th:

http://tinyurl.com/asteroidflybyNov

Just in time for Hallowe’en – Top 10 Exoplanet Horrors:

http://tinyurl.com/toptenhorrors

Amazing new images of Vesta from DAWN:

http://planetary.org/blog/article/00003233/

ISS gets magnificent view of the geomagnetic storm which hit Earth on Monday, October 24th:

http://tinyurl.com/ISSgeostorm

And taken from outside Madison, WI, stunning auroral activity time lapse:

http://dakotalapse.com/?p=581

Evidence points to a giant tsunami hitting NY 2,300 years ago from a large meteorite impact in the Atlantic Ocean:

http://tinyurl.com/NYancienttsunami

Fantastic website from Penn State Science:

http://science.psu.edu/

PlanetaryNews:

Big Cats may face extinction in 20 years – alarming and very troublesome:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/environment/story/2011-10-28/lions-tigers-extinction/50958540/1?csp=Tech

7 billion Earth Inhabitants – two pronged approach to must have sustainability:

http://earthsky.org/human-world/two-pronged-path-to-sustainable-world-with-7-billion-humans

Toronto bans shark fin sales – time for this barbaric practice to STOP worldwide:

http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/27/toronto-bans-shark-fin-sales/?smid=tw-nytimesgreen&seid=auto

http://www.wildaid.org/sharks

Petition to ask Clover Leaf to process ONLY ocean-friendly tuna:

http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/campaigns/Seafood/clover-leaf-canned-tuna/ask-clover-leaf-ocean-friendly-tuna/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tuna+oct+2011+%281%29&utm_content=

California farmers plant bee-friendly fields to help boost an ailing bee population:

http://trap.it/mdcwaN

Hawaiian Honeycreepers – first family tree registered for island endangered bird species:

http://www.terradaily.com/reports/A_family_tree_for_most_endangered_bird_family_in_the_world_999.html

100 million years earlier than previously thought oxygen breathing life thrived on land:

http://www.terradaily.com/reports/New_evidence_for_the_oldest_oxygen_breathing_life_on_land_999.html

Friday, October 21, 2011

AstroNews:

Best space photos of the week:

http://www.space.com/13291-space-photos-week-oct-15-2011.html/utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=SP_10202011

Herschel Space Observatory finds oceans of water in planet forming disk around TW Hydrae:

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/oct/HQ_11-355_Herschel_Disk.html

NASA to air next ISS astronaut swap launch and return to earth from Kazakhstan:

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/oct/M11-215_ISS_Crew_Rotation.html

Spitzer’s North American Nebula makes the continent “disappear” in infrared:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2083.html

NASA releases Fermi’s second GR source catalogue from LAT:

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/18oct_600mysteries/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQHuF3BGZzw

Opportunity looks for winter safe havens in Endeavour Crater:

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=38742

New info from Hubble on galaxy mergers and black hole feeding frenzies:

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Galaxy_mergers_not_the_trigger_for_most_black_hole_feeding_frenzies_999.html

Stunning new images of Enceladus from Cassini:

http://www.ciclops.org/view_event/162/Enceladus_Rev_154_Raw_Preview?js=1

NASA’s All Sky Camera Network records 5 different meteor showers on the night of October 15/16, 2011:

http://wiki.nasa.gov/cm/blog/Watch%20the%20Skies/posts/post_1318960826447.html

DLR (Deutschen Zentrums für Luft und Raumfahrt), the German Aerospace Center, Germany’s equivalent to NASA, ESA and JAXA – fantastic website, home of ROSAT:

http://www.dlr.de/dlr/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-10002/

PlanetaryNews:

Large landslide in Iceland:

http://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2011/10/20/an-interesting-and-large-landslide-in-iceland/

Antarctic ozone hole 5th largest on record:

http://www.livescience.com/16548-antarctic-ozone-hole-5th-largest-record.html/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=LS_10172011

Amazing composite of millions of Earth’s wildfires since 2002 from space by MODIS:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/fires/main/modis-10-overview.html

NASA’s Earth Observatory Image of the Day and Archives:

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/

NASA and Japan release a significantly improved version of the most complete topographical map of Earth:

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/oct/HQ_11-351_ImprovedTopoMap.html

https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/about/news_archive/monday_october_17_2011

Earth’s microscopic animal live as diverse as macroscopic:

http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=121998&WT.mc_id=USNSF_51&WT.mc_ev=click

7 meter wingspan – not bad for Old Bird:

http://www.livescience.com/16542-giant-toothed-pterosaur.html/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=LS_10172011

Sunday, October 16, 2011

AstroNews:

ALMA opens her eyes and sees the Antennae Galaxies:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/video/2011/oct/04/alma-radio-telescope-chile-video

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-complex-ground-based-observatory-alma.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Einstein’s Gravitational Waves:

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Gravitational_waves_that_are_sounds_of_universe_999.html

Extreme space weather:

http://news.discovery.com/space/photos-extreme-space-weather-111002.html

Euclid and Solar Orbiter get ready to take flight:

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/UK_set_to_unlock_the_secrets_of_the_Sun_and_search_for_dark_energy_999.html

ISS interactive:

http://spacestationlive.jsc.nasa.gov/displays/index.html

Cepheus B is the place you want to be if you’re a Star (a real one!):

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2075.html

Scientists release most accurate simulation of the Universe to date:

http://news.ucsc.edu/2011/09/bolshoi-simulation.html

Hubble’s Galactic Centre in infra-red:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2077.html

ESA finds that Venus has an ozone layer:

http://www.esa.int/export/esaSC/SEMU3N9U7TG_index_0.html

Mars Express VMC sends us 25 new images:

http://webservices.esa.int/blog/post/6/1366

DAWN visualizes Vesta’s massive south polar mountain peak:

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-317&cid=release_2011-317

Measuring billions of neutrinos flowing through Earth:

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Measuring_Billions_of_Elusive_Neutrinos_Flowing_Through_the_Earth_999.html

Spitzer’s view of star formation in Orion:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2078.html

Fantastic new interactive from NASA:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/3d_resources/scan.html

Speedy Neptune’s day clocked at only 16 Earth hours:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44847508/

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Moon:

http://www.shallowsky.com/moon/

65 Celestial Stunners:

http://www.space.com/13262-65-great-galaxy-photos-space-images.html

NASA’s DAWN science team presents some early science results:

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-319&cid=release_2011-319&msource=11319&tr=y&auid=9678093

A simple particle could reveal new physics for time reversal:

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Time_Reversal_A_Simple_Particle_Could_Reveal_New_Physics_999.html

Dan Brown was right! Pluto officially our largest Dwarf Planet:

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/10/12/8292791-dwarf-planets-downsizing-confirmed

Stunning image – dark matter bends ancient, distant light:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2080.html

VERITAS discovers high energy source in centre of Crab Nebula:

http://www.udel.edu/udaily/2012/oct/star-gamma-rays-100711.html

Best star trail pic ever:

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap111014.html

ROSAT to de-orbit sometime in the next 2 weeks, re-entry position unknown at this time:

http://www.dlr.de/dlr/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-10432/620_read-830/

Mars Express observes clusters of recent craters in Ares Vallis:

http://www.esa.int/export/esaSC/SEMGJB9U7TG_index_0.html

UC Berkeley survey shows genesis of most Type 1a supernovae is from two white dwarfs merging and annihilating one another:

http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/10/04/survey-gives-clues-to-origin-of-type-ia-supernovae/

PlanetaryNews:

Columbia Glacier extreme ice survey:

http://www.extremeicesurvey.org/index.php/see_our_cameras/comlumbia_glacier__alaska/columbia_glasier__alaska__cliff/

2011 sea ice minimum:

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=53108&src=eoa-iotd

Carbon uptake in plants could be 45% greater than previously though:

http://www.seeddaily.com/reports/Productivity_of_land_plants_may_be_greater_than_previously_thought_999.html

HSO finds clues to the creation of our oceans:

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/oct/HQ_11-338_Herschel_Comet_Water.html

The first National Parks Service in the world celebrates its Centennial – Congratulations Parks Canada! :

http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/progs/celebrations/index.aspx

Amazing video footage from an amazing amateur rocket as she attains superior altitude:

https://plus.google.com/108952536790629690817/posts/XM2n1HysnDK#108952536790629690817/posts/XM2n1HysnDK

Large field of dino tracks discovered in Arkansas:

http://newswire.uark.edu/article.aspx?id=16922

Gulf shrimp scarcity – BP Gulf oil spill probable cause:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/11/us/gulf-shrimp-are-scarce-this-season.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss

Interesting article on Earth’s extreme weather – where does the blame lie? :

http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Laying_The_Blame_For_Extreme_Weather_999.html

Celebrating our magnificent Natural World:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44805900/

National Geographic’s 50 Best Photos:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/50-best/

Amazing ancient Mayan find in El Salvador:

http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/2179daa9db0d87b50586b81315ab9f3c.html

Terrific new website:

http://www.globalanimal.org/

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