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Chabot College Astronomy

Interesting Astronomy News & More

October, 2006

• Cassini Mission to Saturn Status....
  and latest images including:
• The rings in detail, The rings and moons of Saturn, and Saturn's shadow across its rings, the shadow of the rings themselves
• Saturn and its "family" of moons, Mimas & Titan, The moon Enceladus
• Saturn (black and white) with a distant moon
  
  
  
• 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...
    
    
    
• From the Hubble Space Telescope
  and latest images, including:
  
  • Looking for planets around other stars
  • The Orion Nebula, The "Cat's Eye" Nebula
  • The Ultra Deep Field Survey... and what it means
  • A wonderful zooming tour of images
    
    
    
• Searching for New Planets around OTHER Suns... , A new class of planet, Actually "seeing" a planet
  
  
• Tonight's Targets:
  • M57 - The "Ring Nebula"
  • M31 - The Andromeda Galaxy (How to find it!)
  • M13 - The Hercules Globular Cluster
    
    
• 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