[Astronomy] FW: S&T's Weekly Bulletin: See the Space Station, Martian Hot Springs? A Supernova Caught in the Act, and More ...

Fri May 23 09:59:10 CDT 2008

We discussed at least one of these items last night at the meeting.  See below.

Mark Urwiller
Seven Hills Observatory Director
President, Platte Valley Astronomical Observers
Physics Instructor, Kearney High School
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Subject: S&T's Weekly Bulletin: See the Space Station, Martian Hot Springs? A Supernova Caught in the Act, and More ...

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May 21, 2008 | For a few days each May, you might see the International Space whenever it passes overhead throughout the night. > read more <http://s.clickability.com/s?19=30300&32=3186&36=120211&22=1756094&37=1355032&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.skyandtelescope.com%2Fobserving%2Fobjects%2Fsatellites%2F19133199.html&18=0.43691888393857803>  

Comet Boattini: Barely Visible Now, Bright in July? <http://s.clickability.com/s?19=30300&32=3186&36=120211&22=1756094&37=1355032&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.skyandtelescope.com%2Fcommunity%2Fskyblog%2Fobservingblog%2F19012569.html&18=0.7916907988758316> 

May 16, 2008 | Comet C/2007 W1 (Boattini) has reached 6th magnitude, brighter than expected. In late May it should be visible from dark sites in the southern US and points south. When it reappears in July, will it be naked-eye? > read more <http://s.clickability.com/s?19=30300&32=3186&36=120211&22=1756094&37=1355032&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.skyandtelescope.com%2Fcommunity%2Fskyblog%2Fobservingblog%2F19012569.html&18=0.304871589810374>  

Mars Meets the Beehive <http://s.clickability.com/s?19=30300&32=3186&36=120211&22=1756094&37=1355032&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.skyandtelescope.com%2Fobserving%2Fhome%2F19008074.html&18=0.10448922924151649> 

May 16, 2008 | The Red Planet travels through one of the biggest and brightest star clusters in the sky from May 21st to the 24th. As a warm-up, stargazers watched Mars pass a hair's-breadth north of 5th-magnitude Eta Cancri on the evening of May 19th in easternmost America and the morning of the 20th in western Europe. > read more <http://s.clickability.com/s?19=30300&32=3186&36=120211&22=1756094&37=1355032&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.skyandtelescope.com%2Fobserving%2Fhome%2F19008074.html&18=0.5928352611266786>  

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May 21, 2008 | By an unbelievable stroke of luck, X-ray astronomers catch the first minutes of a supernova explosion. You wouldn't have wanted to be there. > read more <http://s.clickability.com/s?19=30300&32=3186&36=120211&22=1756094&37=1355032&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.skyandtelescope.com%2Fcommunity%2Fskyblog%2Fnewsblog%2F19103349.html&18=0.14425229123664352>  

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May 22, 2008 | The Mars rover Spirit uncovers evidence for hydrothermal activity on the Red Planet and a possible cache for microbial fossils. > read more <http://s.clickability.com/s?19=30300&32=3186&36=120211&22=1756094&37=1355032&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.skyandtelescope.com%2Fnews%2F19177609.html&18=0.10034632405541988>  

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May 21, 2008 | While a NASA satellite looked on, last month a red dwarf in Lacerta erupted with a titanic - and unexpected - burst of energy. > read more <http://s.clickability.com/s?19=30300&32=3186&36=120211&22=1756094&37=1355032&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.skyandtelescope.com%2Fcommunity%2Fskyblog%2Fnewsblog%2F19135064.html&18=0.7571654684327335>  

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May 23, 2008 | Mars, shining in the west after dark, is moving away from the Pollux-and-Castor pair toward the Saturn-and Regulus pair. And big Jupiter rises by midnight: an eerie UFO of a thing in the southeast. > read more <http://s.clickability.com/s?19=30300&32=3186&36=120211&22=1756094&37=1355032&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.skyandtelescope.com%2Fobserving%2Fataglance%2F19184894.html&18=0.5642641347357281>  

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