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There's an online S&T article available about this finding Black Hole Binary En Route to Merger?

There is an article in January 16 S&T on Eta Carinae which I found helpful
Eta Carinae’s Throbbing X-ray Pulse

NATURE:British Mars lander find is bittersweet victory http://www.nature.com/polopoly_fs/7.23078.1421427053!/image/mars-beagle-lander-nature.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_400/mars-beagle-lander-nature.jpg image: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center ...Although images are not conclusive, Beagle 2 missio...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Xe_nuRMH30c Destination: Moon European Space Agency, ESA Published on 19 Jan 2015 This 8-minute film gives an overview of the past, present, and future of Moon exploration, from the Lunar cataclysm to ESA’s vision of what Lunar exploration could be. Why is the Moon import...

Some background ( which I'm putting here for my own reference as much as anything :wink: ) http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/F/Fast+Radio+Bursts http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=31684&p=202685 (the Sky and Telescope article mentioned in that post is now at this link ) NATURE, July 2013...

Today's astrobite by David Wilson, a PhD student at the University of Warwick, explores this research Are There Two Missing Planets In The Solar System?

Star of "the week" for the two weeks starting Friday, January 16, 2015. Jim Kaler writes: Back to fortnights for a bit: thanks for your patience. The next skylights will appear January 30, 2015. ... STAR OF THE WEEK : PHI PER (Phi Persei ). An amazing star, Phi Persei is an extreme system...

Emily Lakdawalla, of the Planetary Society, has written an extensive blog post about this, with lots of images and links.

I particularly liked this BBC article to which Emily linked: What does Beagle2 say about how to handle failure?
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ESA Rosetta blog:FINE STRUCTURE IN THE COMET’S JETS In the first OSIRIS image release of 2015, the team provides an unprecedented look at the finer details of 67P/C-G’s dust jets. Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko has shown activity in the form of jets for many months now, but the latest image reveal...

Emily Lakdawalla has written a blog post about her experience at ESOC during the Huygens landing on Titan in her blog at The Planetary Society.

I'm really pleased that someone other than me reads them!
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Thank you, that's a lot easier to read!
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Thanks so much for this, alterego. But, my eyes aren't what they used to be and I'm having difficulty with seeing the details and text in this, embiggen it as I may: http://asterisk.apod.com/download/file.php?id=16328&t=1 Is it possible to have access to a version in higher definition? And, yes,...

I'm also posting an excerpt from Skylights proper this week, as this info was new to me: Astronomy news for the week starting Friday, January 9, 2015. This week centers on the third quarter Moon, which takes place on Tuesday, January 13, shortly before daybreak in North America, allowing a near-perf...

owlice wrote
And whether the participants were all young depends upon one's point of view, of course.

Anyone under 65 is a stripling youth from my POV...

geckzilla wrote:All I want to say here is that I love the word ephemeris.

And even nicer is the plural ephemerides...

That was fun! And busy, and tiring, and wow, did it go fast! I'm envious , owlice - it sounds like such a good meeting! (I loved the idea of the "Science Train" outreach lunch time activity - presumably by young and energetic astronomers... It looked cold in Seattle!) https://pbs.twimg.co...

I have only just discovered that The Hubble Space Telescope YouTube channel has been doing live hangouts several times a day from the conference. (I don't check my subscribed channels often enough!) Here is the first of, I think, nine. http://youtube.com/watch?v=tP7Wu5ID4jI This is the URL of the pl...

Andromeda in HD ESA Hubble Photo Release | 2015 Jan 05 Hubble captures the sharpest ever view of neighbouring spiral Galaxy Hubble's High-Definition Panoramic View of the Andromeda Galaxy NASA | STScI | HubbleSite | 2014 Jan 05 There is an article here in Nature Galaxy seen shuddering from ancient ...

Just to say how much I appreciate the links you put to earlier threads that are relevant, bystander. Not only here, but generally in your posts in the Communications Center. Thank you.
Margarita

PS - and for locating the arXiv files when they are available. It is such a help.

Astrobites are blogging the conference: http://astrobites.org/2015/01/05/astrob ... 225-day-1/

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This book might interest you, Bruce.

David   S.   Stevenson
Extreme Explosions
Supernovae, Hypernovae, Magnetars, and Other Unusual Cosmic Blasts
10.1007/ 978-1-4614-8136-2
Springer Astronomers' Universe series 2014

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Star of the week for the week starting Friday, January 2, 2014 Jim Kaler writes: Yay, we are back to weekly, at least for a time, and best wishes for the coming year. STAR OF THE WEEK: PSI PER (Psi Persei). Famed are the Pleiades and Hyades of northern fall and winter. But who pays attention to ano...

I thought I'd post this here, rather on a new thread, although it's only tangentially related. But it interested me. Nature letters: A higher-than-predicted measurement of iron opacity at solar interior temperatures J. E. Bailey, T. Nagayama et al Nature 517, 56–59 (01 January 2015) doi:10.1038/natu...