AAVSO Alert Notice 437
Campaign To Monitor T Pyx Throughout 2011 Eruption
April 15, 2011
Further to AAVSO Alert Notice 436 (http://www.aavso.org/aavso-alert-notice-436), a fast photometry observing campaign has been initiated by Dr. Bradley Schaefer (Louisiana State University) to monitor the recurrent nova T Pyxidis throughout its current eruption.
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Newly-discovered asteroid 2011 GP59 is flying past Earth today, April 15th, not far beyond the orbit of the Moon (1.4 LD). There’s no danger of a collision, but the 50-meter space rock is remarkable: It is elongated and spinning once every 7.5 minutes. This causes the asteroid to flash like …
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This week marks 50 years since Yuri Gagarin climbed into his space ship and was launched into space. It took him just 108 minutes to orbit Earth and he returned as the World’s very first space man.
To mark this historic flight, Yuri’s Night and YuriGagarin50 teamed up with the …
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AAVSO Alert Notice 436
AAVSO Alert Notice 436: Outburst Of The Recurrent Nova T Pyxidis
April 14, 2011
The recurrent nova T Pyxidis has been discovered in outburst. It was detected by M. Linnolt (Hawaii, United States) at a visual magnitude of 13.0 on 2011 April 14.2931 (JD 2455665.7931), and …
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Yuri’s night connected people throughout the world |
Space is an inspirational subject and human spaceflight in particular has motivated many young people to follow careers in science and engineering. Space now affects our everyday lives and makes an important contribution to the economies of the world.
This is the legacy …
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50 years ago, for the first time in history, a human travelled into space. Who was Yuri Gagarin? How did this flight change his life and the future of humankind?
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Astronomers have come up with a new way of identifying close, faint stars with NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer satellite. The technique should help in the hunt for planets that lie beyond our solar system, because nearby, hard-to-see stars could very well be home to the easiest-to-see alien planets.
After three and a half years of thrusting silently through the void, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is on the threshold of a new world. It’s deep in the asteroid belt, less than 4 months from giant asteroid Vesta.
“We’re closing in,” says Marc Rayman, Dawn’s chief engineer and mission manager. “And …
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AAVSO Alert Notice 435
V5588 SGR = Nova Sagittarii 2011 No. 2
April 3, 2011
Event: V5588 SGR = NOVA SAGITTARII 2011 No. 2 = PNV J18102135-2305306
Discovered by: Koichi Nishiyama, Kurume, Japan, and Fujio Kabashima, Miyaki, Japan
Discovery Date: ~ 2011 March 27.832 UT
Discovery Magnitude: unfiltered CCD magnitude …
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