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Chabot College Astronomy

Interesting Astronomy News & More

Spring, 2011

• Saturn & NASA's Cassini Mission Status....
  and latest images including:
• Saturn's rings, Titan, and Enceledus
• Saturn's rings, Saturn and its "family" of moons, Mimas & Titan, The moon Enceladus
• Saturn (black and white) with a distant moon
• Hyperion - a tumbling and battered moon...
  
  
  
• Life in Space?  Latest news about exo-biology
  • Richard Hoover's claim of fossils in a meteorite and...
  • NASA responses to that claim (exerpts from "NASAWatch")
  • Borenstein, S. (2011, 8 March) "NASA disavows its scientist's claim of alien life". Associated Press.  Accessed 3/10/11 from http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110308/ap_on_sc/us_sci_alien_life 
    
    
• Searching for New Planets Orbiting other stars!
  • Kepler's Amazing List of Candidates!
  •  Kepler's success visualized
  • Seeing with what could be the LARGEST telescope in the world!
    
    
    
• Update on our own Star - the Sun
  • Solar Dynamics Observatory views
    
    
    
• News from Mars - the Spirit and Opportunity Rovers Status
  and latest images, including:
  
  • Where is Opportunity today? , Victoria Crater
  • Exploring Endurance Crater, Spirit's view, A look around...
    
    
  
  
  
• Astronomy Picture of the Day... with history, facts, "sky"lights
  
  
• Abrahm's Monthly SkyWatchers Diary ... a great monthly info source for what is up in the sky to see