July 08 News & Notes.
Eris, Xena, or Plutoid? Note tiny Dysnomia to the right. (Credit, APOD & NASA). Attack of the Plutoids? On June 11th, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) handed down yet another definition...
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(Newsflash- NASA announced recently that STS-125, the final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, will be delayed indefinitely due to a failure of the telescopes’ main control unit....
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A gamma ray burst is born. (Credit: Nicole Ranger Fuller/NSF). Mysterious Missing Gamma Rays: Gamma rays have been “hot” (pun intended) in the news as of late. Now, decades after their initial...
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Dude…that’s my Tool bag! (Credit: NASA-TV). It’s been a wild and wacky year in the realm of science and astronomy. Phoenix hailed a return to Mars surface science, the Hubble hobbled along, and CERN...
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Vanth & Orcus. (Artists’ Impression). And the Winner is: It’s official; after much debating and furious blog commenting, the newly discovered moon of the Plutoid Orcus (remember, the anti-Pluto?)...
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