Space Weather News for Aug. 12, 2011 http://spaceweather.com METEOR SHOWER: The Perseid meteor shower is underway. International observers are now reporting...

A student at high school level should be taught how the astronomers from antiquity up to the time of Kepler gauged the motion of Mars against the field of...

NASA Rover Nears Rim of Giant Crater on Mars The Opportunity rover is less than 50 meters from the crater rim and is due to pull up to it later this...

http://www.danilopivato.com/solar_system/comets/c2009_p1_garradd/c2009_p1_garradd.htm Best Regards, Danilo Pivato -- MyWebSite:...

I've been out "observing" very little lately, aside from walking out under the stars to visit the constellations on most clear nights. (Old friends...) Last...

Space Weather News for August 9, 2011 http://spaceweather.com X-FLA This morning at 0805 UT, sunspot 1263 produced an X7-class solar flare--so far the...

Juno to launch at 16:25 UTC Aug 5 (about 15 minutes from now) Watch live on NASA TV http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/

I used The Sky 6 to figure out how fast Vesta is moving and found it to be 13 arcmin/minute. That seems very fast. Can someone confirm it?

Cosmic Log - A new 'Cosmos' will be on TV http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/08/05/7268111-a-new-cosmos-will-be-on-tv "Three decades after Carl Sagan's...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14391929

Help coordinate disaster relief with CERN's Citizen Cyberscience Center http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-disaster-relief-cern-citizen-cyberscience.html An...

NASA Science News for August 9, 2011 The Perseid meteor shower peaks this weekend, and the International Space Station is joining the show. Sky watchers in...

The discovery of geomagnetically trapped cosmic ray antiprotons http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.4882 The existence of a significant flux of antiprotons confined...

No privilege for earthly observers http://physics.aps.org/synopsis-for/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.041301 According to most cosmologists, there is nothing...

60-SECOND SPACE: Kuiper Belt Gets New Notches A telescopic sky survey finds 14 previously unknown objects in and around the Kuiper Belt. John Matson...

The effects of the solar events of the past 3 days are have been arriving at Earth and should provide aurora viewing for the next 3 days for the northern...

Is Mars Weeping Salty Tears? http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/08/is-mars-weeping-salty-tears.html "It's exciting," says planetary scientist Joseph...

Space Weather Message Code: ALTK07 Serial Number: 83 Issue Time: 2011 Aug 05 2328 UTC ALERT: Geomagnetic K-index of 7 Threshold Reached: 2011 Aug 05 2328...

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