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by Astrosetz on August 22 2010 23:34 in Show Notes
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by Marleen on August 26 2010 00:05 in Planets
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In this image the Earth can be seen, as well as the much smaller Moon to Earth's right. When the MESSENGER Spacecraft took this image, a distance of 183 million kilometers (114 million miles) seperated the spacecraft and Earth. To provide context for this distance, the average separation between the Earth and the Sun is about 150 million Kilometers (93 million miles). Though it is a beautiful, thought-provoking picture, viewing our planet from far away was not the main reason that the mission team planned the collection of this image.
This image was acquired as part of MESSENGER'S campaign to search for vulcanoids, small rocky objects that have been postulated to exist in orbits between Mercury and the Sun.
Click on the post heading for more on this topic.
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by TonyF on March 23 2010 00:00 in Comets
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Comet C/2009 K5 McNaught is starting to show a slight elongation in the coma.
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by RickyF on August 08 2010 22:44 in Jovian Data
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On September 17-18, 2010 Jupiter Rises At 19:26 EDT / 23:26 UTC And Has A Magnitude Of -2.92. Ganymede's Shadow Will Start To Transit Just Before Midnight, And Ganymede It Self Soon Follows. In A Few Hours Later Ganymede's Shadow Ends It's Transit Followed By Ganymede It Self. If You're Up Late You Will Get To See The Great Red Spot Transit From Start To Finish. Mid-Transit Comes At 03:02 EDT / 07:02 UTC September 18, 2010.
Also On September 18, 2010, Jupiter And Uranus Will Be At Their Closest Points To Each Other At .8° of Separation.
On September 18-19, 2010, Jupiter Rises At 19:22 EDT / 23:22 UTC And Has A Magnitude Of -2.92. The Great Red Spot Will Be Transit The Face Of Jupiter From Start To Finish And Early On. So We Will Get To See All Of It, And Mid-Transit Will Be At 22:52 EDT / 02:52 UTC September 18, 2010.
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by 2012hoax on June 22 2010 14:59 in Show Notes
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Coming up next time on "Just Another Day: 2012 Debunked", we interview two giants in the effort to fight the 2012 hoax.
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by Marleen on August 22 2010 19:27 in DeepSky Objects
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 This artist's impression shows the magnetar in the very rich and young star cluster Westerlund 1.
ScienceDaily (Aug. 19, 2010) — Using ESO's
Very Large Telescope, European astronomers have for the first time
demonstrated that a magnetar -- an unusual type of neutron star -- was
formed from a star with at least 40 times as much mass as the Sun. The
result presents great challenges to current theories of how stars
evolve, as a star as massive as this was expected to become a black
hole, not a magnetar. This now raises a fundamental question: just how
massive does a star really have to be to become a black hole?
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by NickE KC2VWR on July 03 2010 23:16 in The Moon this Month
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Mae'r Lleuad ym mis Gorffennaf /The Moon in July.....
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by TonyF on June 16 2010 00:34 in AAPOD
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AAPOD winners for May 2010 1st place get a 200 points account with Global Rent a Scope.
1st place Goldschmidt Rays and a section of the North Lunar Limb Deirdre
Kelleghan Bray Co Wicklow Ireland

2nd place M16 L(Ha)R(Ha)GB Matt
Garwood Hornchurch, Essex, UK

3rd place Leo Trio with tidal tail Fabian
Neyer Antares Observatory, Switzerland
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by Kochava on August 29 2010 17:55 in Sky Safari Slideshow
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Aquila, at the southeast corner of the Summer Triangle, is the home of several beautiful and interesting deep-sky objects.
This month Sky Safari explores the treasures of Aquila. |
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by Michael SkyGuide on August 08 2010 16:10 in AFM*Radio
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Due to a family emergency, today's "GRAS*Spotlight" interview of Dr Christian Sasse and Dr John
Nunn has been postponed. We are sorry for the short notice.... We'll let you know when the program will air.
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by RichieJarvis on April 23 2010 18:19 in Under British Skies
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Under British Skies Episode 3 is now available for download.
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