Galaxy Evolution Explorer Identifies Planet-Hunting Targets
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…
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NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft Approaches Asteroid Vesta
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…
Read the articleAAVSO Alert Notice 435: V5588 SGR = Nova Sagittarii 2011 No. 2
AAVSO Alert Notice 435 V5588 SGR = Nova Sagittarii 2011 No. 2 April 3, 2011 Event: V5588 SGR = NOVA SAGITTARII 2011 No. 2 = PNV…
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Record the Light Pollution Levels Where You Live!
Light pollution is the bane of amateur astronomers everywhere. The Globe at Night program is an international citizen-science campaign to raise public awareness of the impact…
Read the articleAAVSO Alert Notice 434: Outburst of NSV 1436
AAVSO Alert Notice 434 Outburst of NSV 1436 March 30, 2011 The cataclysmic variable NSV 1436 has been discovered in outburst. This is the first bright…
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On March 29, 1807, German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers spotted Vesta as a pinprick of light in the sky. Two hundred and four years later, as…
Read the articleNASA TV Program Available on Hulu
An award-winning NASA-produced television program, “NASA 360,” is available at the online video service hulu.com at: http://www.hulu.com/nasa-360 The site features four 30-minute episodes that show how…
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AAVSO Alert Notice 433: Request for Observations of GW Lib in Support of HST Observations
AAVSO Alert Notice 433 Request for observations of GW Lib in support of HST observations March 20, 2011 Dr. Paula Szkody, University of Washington, has requested…
Read the articleCassini Probe Spots Seasonal Rains Transforming Titan’s Surface
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft chronicles the change of seasons as it captures clouds concentrated near the equator of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Image credit: NASA/JPL/SSI As spring…
Read the articleThe ESA Remembers the Night of the Comet
Comet Halley’s nucleus as seen by Giotto Twenty-five years ago, ESA made its mark in deep space. A small spacecraft swept to within 600 km of…
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