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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
email
us with your favorite Astrosites!
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