Here's the SDO movie of the recent CME's in ultraviolet which show
the wavelike ripples on the solar surface which go with each CME

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/News030712-X5-4.html


by Paul

News 04.02.2012

BOSS Galaxy Map

http://www.space.com/15101-dark-energy-distant-galaxy-map.html

Venus Transit

http://www.space.com/15116-venus-transit-2012-skywatching-travel-tips.html

Higgs

http://resonaances.blogspot.com/2012/04/higgs-or-loose-cable.html

fast neutrinos: not so fast?

Four different neutrino experiments are underway here

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17364682

http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.3763v2

Spin Down of Radio Millisecond Pulsars at Genesis

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6068/561.full

by Bob

A waterworld planet?

" .... an alien world like no planet we know of" (or so the headlines say):

http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1204/

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012ApJ...747...35B

Solar Flare

http://space.brevardtimes.com/2012/03/sun-erupts-with-powerful-solar-flare.html

Newest extrasolar planet

A rather peculiar discovery
http://www.space.com/14634-alien-planet-steamy-waterworld-gj1214b.html

Waterworld

http://www.space.com/14634-alien-planet-steamy-waterworld-gj1214b.html

Coronagraph Information

Optical Vortex Coronagraph

http://www.physorg.com/news11286.html

PIAA Coronagraph

http://planetquest1.jpl.nasa.gov/TPFDarwinConf/proceedings/posters/p080.pdf

News 02.20.12


NASA budget

Credit:NASA

http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/13/planetary-exploration-hit-in-nasa-budget/
http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/622986main_FY_13_summary_Budget_Briefing_Master_Files_final_2_14_12.pdf


Recent Lunar Geological Activity
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/lunar-graben.html


EXCEDE Telescope

Credit:Glenn Schneider/Steward Observatory

http://www.astrobio.net/pressrelease/4574/excede-the-search-for-planets

a black hole missing link?

The circled object is an unusually powerful X-ray source;  is it an intermediate mass black hole from a captured galaxy?

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/02/lone-black-hole-survivor/

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21490-astrophile-missing-link-black-hole-is-stress-eater.html?full=true&print=true

News 02.13.12


GALEX to be decommissioned

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech 
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/galex/galex20120207.html


Mission to land on a comet


http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/02feb_rosetta/


View of the far side of the moon (GRAIL mission)

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/grail/news/grail20120201.html

Interesting article... makes you wonder
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120131135743.htm

Tina

2011 top astro news

Hello all,

I found these different sites picking a list of the top news in astronomy for the 2011

http://buquad.com/2011/12/17/astronomy-2011/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45737263/#.TwsJIWNSSVM

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/top-space-weather-and-astronomy-events-of-2011/2012/01/05/gIQAMMzqcP_blog.html

Do we want to vote which one we think is the most important? If so please use the comment tool in the blog. 

We talked about some of these during last semester. Others may be worth talking about next semester.

Could not help but noticing that water on Mars is still in the top of the hit parade! ;o)