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)

News from Mars

Some interesting news, especially given how long these rovers have
outlasted their initial mission.
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/dec/HQ_11-403_Mars_Rover_Gypsum.html