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NEW MEMBER GALLERY FEATURE!

One of the best things about Slooh is its members! They are part of the amazing international membership from over 70 countries. Slooh are constantly thrilled by what they accomplish with Slooh.com.

To celebrate their achievements and help the community grow, Slooh is proud to announce a new feature for Commander level members - mySlooh.com. Here members can create their own website to showcase their astronomical accomplishments and get to know other members. If you're already part of the Slooh community, sign up today at mySlooh.com! Follow the directions in the help area and in tune in on Tuesday for a special program about how to get the most out of the new, personal Slooh website. Check out the animations some members have created!

It's also a big week on Slooh. Comets, planets, a special guest, and a super-earth!

COMET LOVEJOY THIS WEEKEND
See this news-making comet live in space and snap your own pictures before it goes away!
*All times US Eastern Daylight Time. Universal time is 4 hours later.

Friday: 9:02PM, 11:12PM, 11:22PM, & 12:32AM
Saturday: 9:32PM, 12:22AM
Sunday: 8:07PM, 8:32PM, 10:47PM, 11:47PM

SUNDAY DOUBLE FEATURE
After Star Watch with Phil Harrington - 9PM ET/1AM UT, stay tuned for Comet Hunter Don Machholz! Join us for a special interview with Don Machholz as Comet Machholz 96P returns to the night sky. See his discovery LIVE starting at 12:10AM on the Member Channel!

Click here for the complete SkyGuide Schedule this week.

SEE THE STAR WITH A "SUPER EARTH"
Astronomers just announced the discovery of a "super earth" exoplanet that orbits Gliese 581, a red dwarf star. It's the most earth-like planet discovered beyond our solar system and may have life. You can see the star it orbits on Slooh!

Friday: 9:12PM
Saturday: 9:22PM
Sunday: 9:02PM
Monday: 9:07PM

MARS & URANUS
This weekend, Mars and Uranus will be less than one degree apart in the night sky. We will be able to see and photograph both planets in the same view, a rare event.
Saturday: 1:25AM
Sunday: 1:20AM

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Astronomy pioneer at Discovery Museum (Connecticut Post)

BRIDGEPORT — The man who revolutionized amateur astronomy with a cheap, easy-to-build telescope is at the Discovery Museum this week, spreading his infectious love for heavenly objects.

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Astronomy open houses scheduled in fall (The Times of Northwest Indiana)

VALPARAISO | Several fall semester open houses at the Valparaiso University Observatory will offer the public opportunities to learn about and get a closer look at planets, star clusters, nebulae and other celestial objects through VU’s computer-controlled telescope.

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Public invited to view Jupiter from EIU observatory (Journal Gazette & Times-Courier)

CHARLESTON — The public is invited to view Jupiter, plus hear about local plans for the 2009 International year of Astronomy, at Eastern Illinois University’s observatory open house at 8:30 p.m. Friday.

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Youth Briefs (The Adobe Press)

The Cuesta College Astronomy Research Seminar will be held from 5 to 6 p.m. Tuesday in Room 607 at the Arroyo Grande High School campus.

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Drilling Down to Alien Oceans (SPACE.com via Yahoo! News)

Some of the most interesting places in our solar system are also the most difficult to reach. Areas hidden under thick layers of ice such as the polar caps of Mars, Saturn's moon Enceladus and Jupiter's moon Europa are prime examples. Drilling through ice on Earth is complicated enough, but on another world the task becomes almost impossible.

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ASTRONOMY | Particle accelerator promises great discoveries (The Columbus Dispatch)

In mid-September, the world's most powerful particle accelerator is scheduled to start up. Dubbed the Large Hadron Collider, it will create the highest-energy collisions ever produced by man.

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Stuck Pin Delays Shuttle's Trek to Launch Pad (SPACE.com via Yahoo! News)

NASA engineers successfully freed a stuck metal pin on the space shuttle Atlantis late Tuesday, but the work delayed plans to roll the spacecraft out to its Florida launch pad this week.

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