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* * * SKY & TELESCOPE's WEEKLY NEWS BULLETIN - April 29, 2005 * * *

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Welcome to S&T's Weekly News Bulletin. Images, the full text of stories
abridged here, and other enhancements are available on our Web site,
SkyandTelescope.com, at the URLs provided below. (If the links don't
work, just manually type the URLs into your Web browser.) Clear skies!

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CATCHING DUST DEVILS IN THE ACT

The terrain around the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit isn't just
teaching astronomers about Mars's ancient past -- it's telling a story
about present-day wind conditions on the red planet....

http://SkyandTelescope.com/news/article_1506_1.asp


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HAPPY 15TH BIRTHDAY HUBBLE

The week marks the 15th birthday for the Hubble Space Telescope. On
April 25, 1990, Space Shuttle DISCOVERY astronauts released the
school-bus-size telescope into Earth orbit. Despite controversy about
its future and aging parts, the instrument continues to add to its
archive of more than 700,000 images.

To celebrate its birthday, the team at the Space Telescope Science
Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, Hubble's operational home,
unveiled two magnificent new images of classic astronomy scenes: the
Whirlpool Galaxy (Messier 51) in Canes Venatici and a column of gas in
the Eagle Nebula (Messier 16) in Serpens, home to Hubble's earlier,
epic image, the "Pillars of Creation...."

http://SkyandTelescope.com/news/article_1505_1.asp


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PHILIP MORRISON, 1915-2005

One of the 20th century's most innovative physicists and science
communicators died last Friday, April 22nd, at age 89. Philip Morrison
will long be remembered as a designer of the first atomic bomb, a
lifelong advocate for nuclear disarmament thereafter, a pioneering
figure in high-energy astrophysics and cosmology, an originator of the
search for extraterrestrial intelligence, and a public explainer of
science through his numerous books and articles, his film "Powers of
Ten," and his PBS television series "The Ring of Truth...."

http://SkyandTelescope.com/news/article_1503_1.asp


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HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS WEEK'S SKY

* The Moon is last-quarter on Sunday, May 1st.
* The first-discovered asteroid, 1 Ceres, shines at 7th magnitude this
week. Spot it just a degree or two from Beta Librae using binoculars or
a low-power telescope and the finder chart in the May SKY & TELESCOPE,
page 56.
* The Eta Aquarid meteor shower should be at its maximum activity
before dawn Thursday and Friday mornings. This is usually the best
shower of the year for Southern Hemisphere observers, but little or
none of it can be seen from north temperate latitudes.

http://SkyandTelescope.com/observing/ataglance


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http://SkyandTelescope.com
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Cambridge, MA 02138

 




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