News Sept. 28.11

Opera experiment

    Credit: Opera web page

Sunspot 1302

    Credit: NASA/SDO/HMI

http://www.space.com/13089-solar-storm-coronal-mass-ejection-northern-lights.html

Superlight neutrinos?

This is becoming a major kerfuffle on the web:

Some blogs of interest:

http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/

http://neutrinoscience.blogspot.com/2011/09/arriving-fashionable-late-for-party.html

The NYT article is good for basic reporting:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/24/science/24speed.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print

and, of course, the real article from arXiV:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.4897

Shared by Jean.

Video: New results from OPERA on neutrino properties

http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1384486

Shared by Rick. 

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Galactic Habitable Zone?

I found this article "Living in the Galactic Danger Zone" (http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/articles/living-in-the-galactic-danger-zone/) quite randomly, but thought it was interesting enough to share.  Here's the link to the paper on the arxiv:  http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.1286.

Heather Bloemhard

Graduate Research Assistant

Physics/MRO

New Mexico Tech

575-835-5548

heatherb@nmt.edu

Aurora borealis from an airplane

Shared by Tina:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/aurora-borealis-from-an-airplane-video/2011/04/13/AF0WvrVD_blog.html

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Vesta "flyover" video

NASA has created a video of what it might look like to
fly around Vesta, the second largest asteroid in the
asteroid belt. The video is computer-generated, but
the computer model was made by detailed photos collected
by the spacecraft Dawn, so it's kind of "real-ish."
Neat video but not likely not much science interest
except to those who study asteroids (and solar system
formation, I suppose).
The link is here:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/index.cfm?id=1020
Thanks!
- Paul

Space Station views of the Earth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74mhQyuyELQ&feature=player_embedded
Raul

NASA's WISE Mission Captures Black Hole's Wildly Flaring Jet

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110920161546.htm

Thanks Tina!

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News for Sept. 21.11

NASA satellite  expected to hit Earth this week

UARS artist concept 

Credit: NASA  

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/uars/index.html

New Planet with two moons

Artist's concept of Kepler-16b

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt

http://kepler.nasa.gov/Mission/discoveries/kepler16b/

Southern Lights seen from above in amazing Nasa space video

View of the Southern Lights from the ISS.

Read more:

 http://www.metro.co.uk/news/876035-southern-lights-seen-from-above-in-amazing-nasa-space-video#ixzz1YbdkgFj9

Star Wars Come True? Tatooine-Like Planet Discovered

Along the lines of discussing funny headlines ... Star Wars come true!!! :P

Here is a link to the Nasa TV news ...

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html

The video says that rocky planets orbiting two Sun's are common in our galaxy. Could somebody add a reference to this?

NASA to announce Kepler discovery at media briefing

This sounds really intriging ... we'll see tomorrow what this is all about ...

http://www.sacbee.com/2011/09/13/3907487/nasa-to-announce-kepler-discovery.html

Origin of the Fermi Bubbles ???

http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.2619

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/news/new-structure.html