[Update: October 13: Asteroid 2010 TD54 flew within the orbit of the moon on Oct. 11 while astronomers watched to see if the encounter caused any quakes on the space rock. It was flying over Southeast Asia, near Singapore, at the time. Astronomers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston used a remote link with a NASA Infrared … Read the rest of this article
Asteroid 2010 TD54 Flyby
October 11, 2010
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NASA Announces “the Year of the Solar System” (YSS)
October 10, 2010
To mark an unprecedented flurry of exploration which is about to begin, NASA announced today that the coming year will be “The Year of the Solar System” (YSS).
“During YSS, we’ll see triple the [usual] number of launches, flybys and orbital insertions,” says Jim Green, Director of Planetary Science at NASA headquarters. “There hasn’t been anything quite like it in … Read the rest of this article
Hubble Astronomers Uncover an Overheated Early Universe
October 10, 2010
During a period of universal warming 11 billion years ago, quasars — the brilliant core of active galaxies — produced fierce radiation blasts that stunted the growth of some dwarf galaxies for approximately 500 million years.
This important conclusion comes from a team of astronomers that used the new capabilities of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to probe the invisible, remote … Read the rest of this article
Taking 290 million years to reach Earth, last month that light from a supernova explosion was spotted by an Irish amateur astronomer in his backyard observatory.
David Grennan’s backyard observatory
David Grennan was just about to go to bed on September 17 when he spotted the exploding star through his 36 cm (14-inch) Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope at his home observatory … Read the rest of this article
AAVSO Alert Notice 426 Rescheduled Request for Observations of V455 and in Support of HST Observations
October 6, 2010
AAVSO Alert Notice 426
Rescheduled request for observations of V455 AND in support of HST observations
October 5, 2010
Rescheduled request for observations of V455 AND in support of HST observations
October 5, 2010
Rescheduled request for observations of V455 AND in support of HST observations
October 5, 2010
As originally announced in AAVSO Alert Notice 423, Dr. Paula Szkody (U. Washington) has requested the help of AAVSO observers in monitoring the WZ Sge-type cataclysmic … Read the rest of this article
NASA’s Kepler mission Science Operations Center software system was named winner of the 2010 NASA Software of the Year Award by the NASA Software Advisory Panel.
Designed, developed and operated by the Kepler Science Operations Center (SOC) at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., the SOC software system is used to find Earth-size planets using photometric data acquired … Read the rest of this article
World Space Week 2010
October 2, 2010
World Space Week is an annual event that’s held from October 4 to October 10. It was established by the United Nations General Assembly to be an international celebration of science and technology and their contribution to the betterment of the human condition. World Space Week is coordinated by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs with the support … Read the rest of this article
AAVSO Alert Notice 425:
Monitoring of HBC722 and VSXJ205126.1+440523 Requested
October 1, 2010
Monitoring of HBC722 and VSXJ205126.1+440523 Requested
October 1, 2010
Dr. Colin Aspin (U. Hawai’i) has requested the help of AAVSO observers in performing long-term photometric monitoring of the two new young stellar objects (YSOs) in Cygnus, HBC 722 and VSX J205126.1+440523 (see AAVSO Special Notice #216).
Dr. Aspin requests calibrated, transformed BVRI photometry to precisely monitor … Read the rest of this article
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It’s Something of a Surprise: Solar Storms Can Change Direction!
September 22, 2010
Solar storms don’t always travel in a straight line. But once they start heading in our direction, they can accelerate rapidly, gathering steam for a harder hit on Earth’s magnetic field.
So say researchers who have been using data from NASA’s twin STEREO spacecraft to unravel the 3D structure of solar storms. Their findings are presented in today’s issue of … Read the rest of this article
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