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First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Dwarf Planets - a Tour

Pluto is the best-known dwarf planet, but it's not the only one. Here's a little tour of all five.CeresFirst stop: Ceres, the inner Solar System's only dwarf planet. Discovered in 1801, it was named it for a Roman agricultural goddess. In common with ... [Published BellaOnline - May 22 2013]

Entities: Ecliptic, Dwarf Planet, Solar System, Asteroid Belt

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

The Moon's Effect on the Seasons

The moon's dramatic and changeable appearance has no effect on the seasons.Jupiterimages/Photos.com/From one night to the next the appearance of the moon varies. It's tempting to connect the changes in the moon with changes on Earth. That's one reason ... [Published Opposing Views - May 20 2013]

Entities: Ecliptic, Autumnal equinox, Axis Of Rotation

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Planets gathering in the west

A rare planetary alignment is building in the western sky this spring.Those who scan the evening sky regularly have seen Jupiter, king of the planets, make his way west during the last few months, as fall became winter then turned to spring. Now, Jupiter, ... [Published Porterville Recorder - May 18 2013]

Entities: Jupiter, Mercury, Ecliptic, Stargazer, Elongation

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Canon Inc

Video: May 10 ring of fire annular solar eclipse

Geologist and master astrophotographer Colin Legg of Australia released this video today (May 15, 2013). It captures the May 10 annular solar eclipse from three locations in the Pilbara, western Australia. He told EarthSky: Particularly interesting ... [Published EarthSky - May 15 2013]

Entities: Solar Eclipse, Canon Inc, Ecliptic, Bioluminescence

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Start watching mid-May for great Jupiter-Venus conjunction later in month

Shortly after sunset on May 13, 2013 a picturesque array of worlds will appear in the western sky. The three bodies are the moon, Jupiter and Venus and all are very bright. As darkness falls, look west for the moon with Jupiter below it, and Venus ... [Published EarthSky - May 13 2013]

Entities: Jupiter, Binoculars, Ecliptic

First reported May 12 2013 - Updated May 12 2013 - 1 reports

In 1981 the ‘Arctic region becoming equatorial and the tropics suddenly changed to polar temperature’

IN 1881, the London St James’s Gazette reported on the end of life on Earth. The news was picked up b y Australia’s Bendigo Advertiser :STARTLING THEORY.The London St James’s Gazette writes :—” This planet, it seems, is threatened with serious changes ... [Published Anorak - May 12 2013]

Entities: Ecliptic, Spotter, London

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

NASA

New dish to beam deeper into space

Canberra's Deep Space Communication Complex is on track to become the main signals base for NASA's deep space missions.Today a new $50 million communication antennae, known as Deep Space Station 35, was installed at Tidbinbilla, 35 kilometres south-west ... [Published ABC Online - May 10 2013]

Entities: Tony Ross, NASA, Canberra, Space Communication Ltd, Robotics

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

Star Spy: Giant in view

We followed the beautiful ringed gas-giant planet for several months last winter as it moved with Mars and Spica, a bright star in the constellation Virgo.Since last August, Mars has continued rapidly on its way far from that region of our night sky. ... [Published stuff.co.nz - May 06 2013]

Entities: Spica, Saturn, nanometre, Wavelength

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 1 reports

Eclipses are where you find them!

WITH regards to eclipses, 2013 is, from the vantage point of Nigerians, an interesting – if not altogether enthralling – year. Out of a combined total of five predicted obscurations (lunar and solar), three were projected to be visible, from our loca ... [Published The Guardian Nigeria - May 02 2013]

Entities: Lunar eclipse, NASA, Ayo Olaniyan, Abuja (Nigeria), Lagos (Nigeria)

First reported Apr 26 2013 - Updated Apr 26 2013 - 1 reports

Look Up! Spot a 'Celestial Zoo' in the Night Sky

In the midst of the frantic "doomsday" buzz that swept the United States right before the Mayan calendar reached the end of its 5,000-year cycle in December 2012, I was approached by a person after I had given a presentation at New Yorks Hayden Planetarium. ... [Published Space.com - Apr 26 2013]

Entities: Ecliptic, Joe Rao, Cetus Co Ltd

First reported Mar 24 2013 - Updated Mar 24 2013 - 1 reports

Moon swings close to Leo’s bright star Regulus on March 24

Can you find the star that’s shining close to the big and bright waxing gibbous moon on the night of March 24, 2013? That’s Regulus, the brightest star in the constellation Leo the Lion. Regulus is the only first-magnitude star to sit almost exactly ... [Published EarthSky - Mar 24 2013]

Entities: Regulus, Ecliptic, Spica

First reported Mar 14 2013 - Updated Mar 14 2013 - 1 reports

Moon, Comet Panstarrs in western sky after sunset March 14

This evening, after sunset on March 14, use the waxing crescent moon and binoculars to help you find Comet Panstarrs (C/2011 L4) near the horizon at dusk and/or nightfall on Thursday, March 14. As always, the “horns” of waxing crescent moon point upward ... [Published EarthSky - Mar 14 2013]

Entities: Ecliptic, Alpheratz, Andromeda Galaxy

Quotes

"There's a bit of a wobble in the earth's orbit and what that means is the southernsouthern hemisphere is getting a better look at the ecliptic plane, which is the plane in which all the planets orbit in, which is where all the robotic spacecraft are" he said

New dish to beam deeper into space [Published ABC Online - May 10 2013]

...For example, at large angular scales on the sky the anisotropies are weaker than expected compared to the results on small scales. "On small scales the data fits perfectly, but there may be potential new physics on the largest scales."

Planck reveals big bang's fireball in hi-def [Published Spaceflight Now - Mar 21 2013]

...Planck's results are the sharpest ever obtained, and they march in lock-step with the predictions of the theorists. "If I were an inflationary theorist I would be extremely happy" joked George Efstathiou, a Cambridge university cosmologist and member of the Planck team...

Inflation and creation [Published Babbage - The Economist - Mar 21 2013]

"It just happened that way. It's just the effect of coincidence" said Alan Hildebrand, a professor at the University of Calgary and lead scientist for NEOSSat's asteroid search mission

Canadian asteroid-hunting satellite to launch Monday [Published Spaceflight Now - Feb 24 2013]

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Dwarf Planets - a Tour [Published BellaOnline - May 22 2013]
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The Moon's Effect on the Seasons [Published Opposing Views - May 20 2013]
Planets gathering in the west [Published Porterville Recorder - May 18 2013]
Video: May 10 ring of fire annular solar eclipse [Published EarthSky - May 15 2013]
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Earth-Moon: A Watery “Double-Planet” [Published Air And Space Magazine - May 14 2013]
Beyond GEO, commercially: 15 years? and counting [Published Space Review - May 13 2013]
Start watching mid-May for great Jupiter-Venus ... [Published EarthSky - May 13 2013]
In 1981 the ‘Arctic region becoming equatorial ... [Published Anorak - May 12 2013]
New dish to beam deeper into space [Published ABC Online - May 10 2013]
Messier Monday: The Youngest Star-Forming Regio... [Published ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed - May 07 2013]
How to Catch This Weekâs âRing of Fireâ Annular... [Published Universe Today - May 06 2013]
Star Spy: Giant in view [Published stuff.co.nz - May 06 2013]
Eclipses are where you find them! [Published The Guardian Nigeria - May 02 2013]
This date in science: Pluto gets a name [Published EarthSky - May 01 2013]
Watch for the Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower this We... [Published Universe Today - Apr 30 2013]
Planck reveals an almost perfect universe [Published CERN Courier - Apr 27 2013]
Look Up! Spot a 'Celestial Zoo' in the Night Sky [Published Space.com - Apr 26 2013]
The visual comets of 2013 (5) [Published The Guardian Nigeria - Apr 18 2013]
Moon moving on, but still near Jupiter, April 15 [Published EarthSky - Apr 15 2013]
The Return of Saturn: A Guide to the 2013 Oppos... [Published Universe Today - Apr 08 2013]
Venus and Mars April 6 conjunction lost in glar... [Published EarthSky - Apr 06 2013]
Comet Lemmon: A Preview Guide for April [Published Universe Today - Apr 01 2013]
Moon, Antares late tonight; Mercury before sunr... [Published EarthSky - Mar 30 2013]
Into the Orion Arm [Published Centauri Dreams - Mar 28 2013]
Into the Oort: A Cometary Civilization? [Published Centauri Dreams - Mar 26 2013]
See Mercury at its Greatest Elongation for 2013 [Published Universe Today - Mar 25 2013]
Moon swings close to Leo’s bright star Regulus ... [Published EarthSky - Mar 24 2013]

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Video: May 10 ring of fire annular solar eclipse [Published EarthSky - May 15 2013] Geologist and master astrophotographer Colin Legg of Australia released this video today (May 15, 2013). It captures the May 10 annular solar eclipse from three locations in the Pilbara, western Australia. He told EarthSky: Particularly interesting ...
Start watching mid-May for great Jupiter-Venus ... [Published EarthSky - May 13 2013] Shortly after sunset on May 13, 2013 a picturesque array of worlds will appear in the western sky. The three bodies are the moon, Jupiter and Venus and all are very bright. As darkness falls, look west for the moon with Jupiter below it, and Venus ...
Messier Monday: The Youngest Star-Forming Regio... [Published ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed - May 07 2013] “Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire – in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?” - Lord Byron Welcome back to another Messier Monday ...
This date in science: Pluto gets a name [Published EarthSky - May 01 2013] May 1, 1930 . On this date, 11-year-old Venetia Burney in Oxford, England received £5 for her clever suggestion of the name Pluto for then the solar system’s outermost and newest planet. Clyde W. Tombaugh – an assistant at the Lowell Observatory ...
Moon moving on, but still near Jupiter, April 15 [Published EarthSky - Apr 15 2013] The waxing crescent moon is still fairly close to the dazzling planet Jupiter this Monday evening. After tonight, the waxing moon will continue to move away from Jupiter and the constellation Taurus, not to pass through the Bull again until around May ...