Hubble Gives Deepest Glimpse Into Space, Time- April 30, 2002 "A single mind-bending snapshot from a new $75 million camera installed earlier this year aboard the Hubble Space Telescope shows 6,000 galaxies, a cosmic core sample of sorts that represents humanity's deepest glimpse into the depths of space and time.... Four images from the new camera were released today, all of them spectacular in their own fashion. The most startling, however, is an image of the so-called "Tadpole," two colliding galaxies 420 million light years away. The hit-and-run...http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8407-2002Apr30.html (Untitled)- April 17, 2002 "Spaceweather.com reports that yesterday, April 15th a full-halo coronal mass ejection billowed away from the Sun. The cloud is heading straight for Earth and the probability of this igniting Northern Lights projections on April 17 and 18 is very high for the high and may be the mid-latitudes. Someone want to explain what MID Latitudes are To determine your local latitude go to US Gazetter (Your Census dollars at work) and plug in your Zip Code." Mary Wehmeier's Blog Du Jour "The...http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/categories/astronomy/2002/04/17.html#a1390 (Untitled)- April 5, 2002 Spectacular Planet Show Promised "The five planets visible to the naked eye will line up in the sky at the end of April. Astronomers say the rare grouping of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn may not be seen again for a century.... The five planets will begin to be visible without a telescope from 20 April." BBC News SciTech, via Daypop Top 40http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/categories/astronomy/2002/04/05.html#a1200 |