... is finally online here. Since there was no show on 11/21, this was an "all-news" program. On this program:
- News: United Kingdom withdraws from Gemini Observatory, Thailand begins construction on a new optical observatory, Sloan Digital Sky Survey celebrates 5 years of operation, first HDTV "Earth Rise" taken by Japan's Selene mission, NASA announces success test of parachute system for next generation Moon rocket.
- Solar System: NASA extends SORCE satellite which studies the Sun's effect on the Earth's climate, similar chemical composition of Earth and Moon result of mixing between debris disk which formed the Moon and magma ocean which covered the Earth, Spitzer observations of nearby stars suggests Moon-like objects rare in other Solar Systems, Hubble observes core of Comet 17P/Holmes which is now bigger than the Sun, Mars doubles in brightness due to its polar caps now facing the Earth, evidence for a magma ocean covering surface of Mars for a long time in early Solar System.
- Milky Way: Evidence for rocky planets forming around stars in the Pleiades Star Cluster, discovery of white dwarfs with Carbon atmospheres,
- Extragalactic / Cosmology (1): Most luminous supernova to date SN 2006gy possible result of two stars colliding, merging, and then blowing up or result of a collision between shells of material expelled from surface of the star.
- Calendar
- Extragalactic / Cosmology (2): Detection of acidic molecular clouds in other galaxies, NASA's GALEX satellite finds evidence for spiral galaxies transitioning to elliptical galaxies, a lot of the "missing baryons" (missing normal matter) might not be in the form of hot gas between galaxies after all, supporters of modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) claim that this model can also explain the Bullet Cluster.
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