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Description:
The PlanetQuest Collaboratory will turn your computer into a virtual astronomical observatory that analyzes star data. You can watch as your computer classifies and registers your stars; use the Collaboratory to do your own research, and maybe even find a new planet!
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The 2009 Leonid Meteor Shower
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The 2009 Leonid meteor shower peaks on Nov. 17th with a sprinkling of meteors over North America and a possible outburst over Asia. FULL STORY at [link]
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Iron on Mercury, mercury on the Moon, and more
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News ============================== ========== Mercury Throws Geologists a Curve ------------------------------ ---------- November 3, 2009 | When NASA's Messenger spacecraft zipped past the innermost planet for a third and final flyby on September 29th, a glitch caused half of the planned observations to be lost. Scientists are thrilled... more »
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Hidden Territory on Mercury Revealed
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The MESSENGER spacecraft's third flyby of the planet Mercury has given scientists, for the first time, an almost complete view of the planet's surface and revealed some dramatic changes in Mercury's comet-like tail. FULL STORY at [link]<[link]>... more »
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Electric Universe/Plasma Cosmology
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Since I don't see this new theories mentioned anywhere at all I was
wondering what do you guys think about that, quote:
"Open Letter
Given that modern Cosmology has taken a wrong turn decades ago and
rejected a well-supported electrical model; and given that it has gone
off into "modern mythology" with the "big bang", "black holes", dark... more »
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EPOXI Mission News -- #8 -- Oct 2009
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EPOXI Mission Outreach E-News #8 Oct 2009 ****************************** ****************************** ********** MISSION • Lunar Hydration Data acquired by the Deep Impact spacecraft of Earth's Moon reveal that hydration and rehydration is a dynamic cycle that completes during daylight,... more »
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Galilean Nights, 35 new exoplanet, and more
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News ============================== ========== Tribute to Stefan Seip ------------------------------ ---------- October 23, 2009 | Stefan Seip, who shot the cover photo for SkyWatch 2010, is one of the world's leading astrophotographers. Read More at: [link]... more »
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1 Ceres Rotation Movie with Surface Features
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This is a 17 frame movie I made of the Minor Planet 1 Ceres (AKA the
biggest asteroid in the asteroid belt) via Hubble telescope data from
December 28, 2003 with the ACS
[link]
This movie represents ~8 hours and 40 minutes of rotation.
It took me quite some time to process this, and I had to learn a lot... more »
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Chandra Digest (Oct 22)
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**JKCS041: Galaxy Cluster Smashes Distance Record! The most distant galaxy cluster yet has been discovered by combining data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and optical and infrared telescopes. The cluster is located about 10.2 billion light years away, and is observed as it was when the Universe was only about a quarter of its present age.... more »
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