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Explore Tonight's
Sky: Thursday,
July 3...
if the clouds break!
Follow these Wandering Stars from your backyard:
Venus a
bright morning star, look before dawn.
Saturn
with the rings on edge, lower in the west,
following Leo in the evening sky.
Mercury,
lost in the sun, now very dim in the morning
at dawn.
Jupiter
still an early morning star , now rises before midnight. Mars the red planet rises low, just before
sunrise.
From Earth and Sky:
Earth farthest from the sun for the
year
OUR NEXT
ASTRONOMY CLUB MEETING : JULY 16 AT 7 PM !
At
the Unitarian Church building, located at 135 Alves Lane.
To get there, turn left (north) from Hwy
46 onto Alves (where you see a bright blue Jet
Stream billboard), and the driveway leading to the
church is about 850 feet up that road, on your left
side.
WILL WE SEE STARS TONIGHT?
CURRENT NOAA WEATHER
Tabular
FORECAST
on cloud cover June Dark Sky nights:
June 10 - 25
Our Moon...Always
changing...
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current phase
Current
Astronomy News and updates...
2009 - The
International Year of Astronomy:
IYA 2009 Monthly Calendar
of Events
The Portal to the Universe
July 2:
The Amateur Astronomy
Picture of the Day
Happy Fourth of July!
Perchlorates and Water Make for Potential Habitable
Environment on Mars
First Images from LRO
By Gamma-Rays Alone: Fermi Raises the Curtain on 16
New Pulsars
Phoenix Lander Team: It Snows at Night on Mars
Messier 87 Shows Off for Hundreds of Earth-bound
Astronomers
Test-Bed Rover is Now Stuck — Which
is a Good Thing!
STS127 ENDEAVOUR:
Launch set for
July 11 6:39 pm CDT!
Space shuttle Endeavour will deliver the exposed
facility of Japan's Kibo laboratory to the
International Space Station.
Flight will be intricate
dance of spacewalks and robotics
International
Space Station:
The Expedition 20 crew aboard the International
Space Station continue Science and preparing for
Endeavour crew arrival.
Visible pass information for the ISS can
be found at
Heavens-above .com.
Live Space Talk
now
Available 24/7 On NASA Web Site.
The Lunar Reconnaissance
Orbiter (LRO):
Daily Status Updates
LCROSS
Impact, October 9:
UPDATE
MARS ROVER
UPDATE:
Spirit-
Studying Troy
Opportunity-
Moving to Outcrop
Ares Rocket
and the
Constellation
NEWS:
Launch of the Ares I-X
Flight Test scheduled for Late August.
June 2009-NASA Ares Quarterly Progress
Video. Ares Rocket development video:
here’s the link
July 1, 2009
Astronomers Discover Medium-Sized
Class of Black Holes
Your New Guide to the Inner Galaxy
Mars Will NOT Look as Big as the Full Moon, But You
Can Watch it Get Closer
Faster, Cheaper (and Better?) Way to the Moon
Fly Me To The Moon…
No leaks found during
Endeavour fueling test
June 30, 2009
Device Makes Radio Waves Travel
Faster Than Light
NASA, Japan Release Most Complete Topographic Map of
Earth
Endeavour will be fueled
Wednesday to test repairs
June 29, 2009
First Conclusive Signature for Lunar
Uranium
Watch Live Webcast of Ulysses Spacecraft Switch-off
Landforms Indicate "Recent" Warm Weather on Mars
Controllers bid farewell to
long-lived Ulysses probe
June 28, 2009
Spirit Rover Begins Making Night Sky
Observations
June 26, 2009
Manned Solar Plane Will Attempt
Flight Around the World
Happy Birthday, Charles Messier!
Past Climate Change Cannot Be Tied to Earth Passing
Through Galactic Plane
Kid's Astronomy: A Summer's Lure –
Scorpio
New Twitter Page To Alert Followers: Look Up Now to
See the ISS!
June 25, 2009
Spirit Rover Going Nowhere, But Still
Making Discoveries
The Jury Is In: Exploding Stars Really do Pelt us
With Cosmic Rays
Expedition 21 Star Trek Poster
Volcanic Shockwave Captured by ISS Imagery
Kid's Astronomy – Ophiuchus: The
"Fisher King"
June 24, 2009
1908 Tunguska Event Caused by Comet,
New Research Reveals
Does Enceladus Harbor a Liquid Ocean? Reasonable
Minds Disagree
Buzz is the Man With a Plan for NASA
Mysterious "Blobs" Are Windows Into
Galaxy Formation
Window damage on Atlantis
threatens six month delay to STS-129
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