is finally online (sorry for the delay) and available here. As promised last week, this was an all-news and events show. Don't worry, I got plenty of interviews for you, and they will return starting tomorrow. On this show, I discussed:
- Recent Events: Google Sky now has multi-wavelength data from AEGIS survey of distant universe, NASA has announced plans to put its lunar archives online as well, site for Giant Magellanic Telescope has been chosen, telescope transporter for ALMA has been built, Allen Telescope Array now online, SOFIA - a mid-infrared telescope attached to a Boeing 747 - beginning test flights, NASA will carry two Russian made science instruments on next two missions to Mars. Dawn mission's engines works well. Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity extended one more year.
- Competitions and Conferences: ESO announced "Catch a Star" competition for students (more info below in a previous post), Jet Propulsion Lab announces two conferences for science teachers (more information at http://education.jpl.nasa.gov).
- Solar System: New short-period asteroid has been identified, Asteroid renamed in honor of Sputnik, peculiar isotope of CO2 identified in atmosphere of Venus, Pluto-bound New Horizons mission makes precise measurements of Jupiter's magnetosphere, Cassini mission to Saturn celebrates 10 year from launch, patches on Saturn moon Iapetus due to boiling and condensation of water ice, outflows from Saturn moon Enceladus connected to fractures resulting from tidal heating, Saturn moon Titan has lakes on its South Pole and has methane rain showers.
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- Galactic Results: Dust disks observed around three nearby stars forming Pluto-sized object, Earth-like planet possibly will form around a nearby star, observations of young star cluster reveal most massive stars actually binaries, new distance measured to Orion Nebula, new "most luminous" supernova explosion identified (SN 2005ap), evidence of cosmic ray production in supernova remnants.
- Extragalactic and Cosmology Results: Evidence for dust production in winds of material powered by supermassive black holes in centers of galaxies, identification of a very low mass galaxy at very early times, Dark Matter has long lifetime, properties of Dark Energy could be inferred from distribution of neutral hydrogen at very high redshifts.
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