365 Days of Astronomy November 21st: Under a New Sky November 20th: MUSTANG Gallops Towards Clusters Last Stand November 19th: A Ceremony Celebrating Dark Skies November 18th: Astrophilia in the City that Never Sleeps November 17th: Astronomy Without an Astrophysics Degree November 16th: Carolyn Herschel’s White Rose – NGC 7789 November 15th: The Royal Family of Astronomy November 14th: Rabbit on the Moon November 13th: Thrilling Meteors Streak the Sky November 12th: Cassini/Huygens: Rewriting the Textbook on Saturn Astromart News LCROSS Data Confirms Water on the Moon NGC 4755 - Like Opening up a Colorful Cosmic Jewel Box M82 Sheds Light on Longstanding Cosmic Ray Mystery Exoplanet House of Horrors Galaxy Cluster Smashes Distance Record Meteorite Reportedly Hits SUV in Ontario NASA's IBEX Provides First View of Our Place in the Galaxy 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics Goes to the Masters of Light Spitzer Discovers Super-sized Ring Around Saturn Mark Your Calendars - LCROSS Lunar Impactor Plume to be Visible from Earth Astronomy Cast Ep. 160: Eclipses Ep. 159: Planet X Ep. 158: Pulsars Ep. 157: Constellations Ep. 156: Famous Stars Ep. 155: Dwarf Stars Ep. 154: Dragon*Con Live with Seth Shostak Ep. 153: Dark Skies Ep. 152: Binary Stars Ep. 151: Atmospheres Ep. 150: Telescopes, the Next Level Ep. 149: Constellation Program Ep. 148: Astronomy and New Media Ep. 147: How to Be Taken Seriously By Scientists Ep. 146: Astronomy Research from Idea to Publication Ep. 145: Interstellar Travel Questions Show: Imaging Extrasolar Planets, Infinite Universe, Inside a Black Hole Ep. 144: Space Elevators Astronomy Magazine NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory investigates the Sun's cycle of highs and lows NASA provides venerable Hubble hardware to Smithsonian Record-breaking radio astronomy project to measure sky with extreme precision Close-up movie shows hidden details in the birth of super suns Shuttle Atlantis headed for delivery stop at International Space Station Astronomers discover an extrasolar planet with a highly tilted orbit Water in Moon crater, LCROSS impact reveals Rosetta bound for outer solar system after final Earth swing-by Enjoy a free tour of Astronomy.com this weekend! NASA to begin attempts to free sand-trapped Mars rover Astronomy magazine accepting entries for 2009 outreach award Astronomy magazine celebrates its new observatory Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO): NASA's mission to map the lunar surface Astronomy Picture of the Day Meteor between the Clouds Leonid over Mono Lake Water Discovered in Moon Shadow Dawn Before Nova M83's Center from Refurbished Hubble M57: The Ring Nebula DIA Sunrise Young Stars in the Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Art and Science in NGC 918 Great Observatories Explore Galactic Center Saturn After Equinox NGC 2623: Galaxy Merger from Hubble M7: Open Star Cluster in Scorpius Stickney Crater Ring Nebula Deep Field Halloween's Moon Blue Sun Bristling Seven Sisters Versus California Ares 1 X Rocket Lifts Off The Average Color of the Universe Audio Sky Tour S&T's Audio Sky Tour for November 2009 S&T's Audio Sky Tour for October 2009 Bad Astronomy Sirius Stargazing NASA wants your junk Nerds rule: followup Cosmospresso Gorgeous 3D Mandelbrot sets! Fermi may have spotted dark matter Update on the Iraqi magic wand story Chandra X-ray Observatory NASA's Great Observatories Examine the Galactic Center Region Carbon Atmosphere Discovered On Neutron Star Galaxy Cluster Smashes Distance Record Black Holes Go "Mano A Mano" New Vista of Milky Way Center Unveiled Black Hole Pumps Iron Still a 'Star' After All Those Years Trigger-Happy Star Formation Adding a New Dimension to an Old Explosion A Galaxy Collision in Action Lunar Phase Mon Nov 16 19:14:00 2009 GMT New Moon Tue Nov 24 21:38:55 2009 GMT First quarter Wed Dec 2 07:32:13 2009 GMT Full moon Wed Dec 9 00:15:38 2009 GMT Last quarter Wed Dec 16 12:03:28 2009 GMT New Moon Major News About Minor Objects The Tracking News on Friday, 20 November 2009 2009 WY7 - JPL risk posted 2009 WO8 - MPEC 2009-W57 2009 WN8 - MPEC 2009-W56 2009 WM8 - MPEC 2009-W55 2009 WW7 - JPL risk posted 2009 WZ7 - MPEC 2009-W54 2009 WM1 - NEODyS risk updated 2009 WY7 - MPEC 2009-W53 2009 WJ1 - NEODyS risk updated Daily Orbit Update - MPEC 2009-W47 2009 WX7 - MPEC 2009-W52 2009 WW7 - MPEC 2009-W51 2009 WV7 - MPEC 2009-W50 2009 VZ25 - MPEC 2009-W49 1998 HJ3 - MPEC 2009-W48 2009 VA26 - NEODyS risk removed 2009 WR6 - NEODyS risk posted Near Earth Objects Date : Miss Distance : Relative Velocity: Estimated Diameter : Object Name  2009-Nov-21 : 6.6 LD : 27.7 km/s : 7.7 m - 17 m : (2009 WC)  2009-Nov-22 : 16.6 LD : 21.0 km/s : 170 m - 370 m : (1998 VF32)  2009-Nov-22 : 27.6 LD : 20.6 km/s : 200 m - 450 m : (2009 TK12)  2009-Nov-22 : 12.0 LD : 27.2 km/s : 9.5 m - 21 m : (2009 WK1)  2009-Nov-22 : 21.6 LD : 23.8 km/s : 47 m - 110 m : (2009 WY7)  2009-Nov-22 : 11.1 LD : 27.2 km/s : 9.8 m - 22 m : (2009 WO8)  2009-Nov-23 : 34.9 LD : 23.9 km/s : 44 m - 98 m : (2004 XJ)  2009-Nov-24 : 45.5 LD : 24.4 km/s : 34 m - 77 m : (2009 VS25)  2009-Nov-25 : 43.5 LD : 21.9 km/s : 110 m - 250 m : (2001 WW1)  2009-Nov-28 : 12.4 LD : 25.9 km/s : 18 m - 40 m : (2009 WV7)  2009-Nov-28 : 32.7 LD : 23.4 km/s : 56 m - 130 m : (2009 VR25)  2009-Nov-30 : 52.7 LD : 23.7 km/s : 47 m - 110 m : (2006 WH130)  2009-Dec-04 : 39.6 LD : 21.4 km/s : 140 m - 310 m : (2006 VG13)  2009-Dec-04 : 73.0 LD : 21.1 km/s : 160 m - 350 m : (2007 GF)  2009-Dec-06 : 71.2 LD : 18.3 km/s : 590 m - 1.3 km : (2002 WP)  2009-Dec-07 : 37.1 LD : 19.8 km/s : 300 m - 660 m : (2002 XN14)  2009-Dec-11 : 56.6 LD : 25.1 km/s : 25 m - 56 m : (2009 BW2)  2009-Dec-11 : 61.4 LD : 22.2 km/s : 99 m - 220 m : (2009 VJ24)  2009-Dec-12 : 72.5 LD : 20.6 km/s : 200 m - 450 m : (1999 LS7)  2009-Dec-14 : 61.2 LD : 25.4 km/s : 22 m - 49 m : (2006 SU217)  2009-Dec-19 : 75.9 LD : 20.2 km/s : 240 m - 530 m : (2001 BP61)  2009-Dec-20 : 54.9 LD : 25.4 km/s : 23 m - 51 m : (2008 YC3)  2009-Dec-22 : 13.2 LD : 21.5 km/s : 130 m - 300 m : (2003 YL118) Night-Sky Targets Observing podcast: Mira, the Owl Cluster, and the Little Spindle Galaxy Observing podcast: Leonid meteor shower, Silver Coin Galaxy, and IC 1613 Observing podcast: Open cluster Stock 2, the Sailboat Cluster, and spiral galaxy NGC 247 Observing podcast: The Andromeda Galaxy, open cluster NGC 188, and planetary nebula NGC 246 Observing podcast: Circlet of Pisces, the Southern Cigar Galaxy, and elliptical galaxy NGC 7840 Observing podcast: Orionid meteor shower, open cluster NGC 7789, and the Bubble Nebula Observing podcast: Asteroid Juno, open cluster M52, barred spiral galaxy NGC 7477 Observing podcast: Dolphin's Diamonds, Helix Nebula, and Blue Flash Nebula Observing podcast: Constellation Vulpecula, globular cluster M30, and the Iris Nebula Observing podcast: Star 61 Cygni, the Pelican Nebula, and the Fetus Nebula Observing podcast: Asteroid Juno, open cluster NGC 6716, and globular cluster NGC 6717 Observing podcast: Barnard's Star, the Emerald Nebula, and the Ink Spot Podcast: Night-sky targets for August 28-September 4, 2009 Podcast: Night-sky targets for August 21-28, 2009 Podcast: Night-sky targets for August 14-21, 2009 Podcast: Night-sky targets for August 7-14, 2009 Podcast: Night-sky targets for July 31-August 7, 2009 Regulus! Newsletter Regulus! Astronomy Newsletter - September & October 2009 Science @ NASA A Tale of Planetary Woe Hidden Territory on Mercury Revealed A Mars Rover Named "Curiosity" The Sun's Sneaky Variability NASA Mission to Study the Moon's Fragile Atmosphere Science about: Astronomy Astronomers name Scottish park one of world's best stargazing sites In brief | Travel Big bang goes phut as bird drops baguette into Cern machinery The music of the Spheres | Andrew Brown Southern African Large Telescope hit by broadband problems A guide to the moon What else is in the night sky? Meteors and comets The winter sky Other stars to find Beyond the solar system Navigate the night sky A guide to the planets Scientists set record with star 13 billion years old Lights down as heat sensitive lampposts come to the streets of Toulouse Nasa's lunar crash landing fails to raise moon dust Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures Hubble Breakthrough: The First Photos of a Planet Orbiting Another Star The Dark Side of the Universe: Dark Matter and Dark Energy Planetary Protection and Hitchhikers in the Solar System: The Danger of Mingling Microbes The Dawn of Creation: The First Two Billion Years Prospecting for Water on the Moon: The Upcoming LCROSS Mission Saturn's Restless Rings: Latest Results from the Cassini Mission The Black Hole Wars: My Battle with Stephen Hawking The Allen Telescope Array: The Newest Pitchfork for Exploring the Cosmic Haystack New Worlds and Yellowstone: How Common are Habitable Planets? New Horizons at Jupiter (and Some Saturn News) Taking a Hit: Asteroid Impacts and Evolution A Ringside Seat to the Formation of Planets Comparing Worlds: Climate Catastrophes in the Solar System The Mars Exploration Rover Mission: A Year of Exploration and Discovery Estimating the Chances of Life Out There A Scientist in Space/Searching for Earth-like Planets: NASA's Kepler Mission Glimpsing the Edge of the Universe: Results from the Hubble Space Telescope Dark Energy and the Runaway Universe Sky at a Glance This Week's Sky at a Glance SkyWatch & HubbleWatch Show 246: ALMA Show 245: Hubble Restored Show 244: Mercury Flyby Show 243: Mysteries of Saturn's Rings Show 242: LCROSS Show 241: Asteroid Tracking Falls Short Show 240: Space Debris Show 239: Is Titan like Earth? Show 238: Solar Cycle and Weather Show 237: HubbleWatch for September 2009 Show 236: Solar System Shake Up Show 235: Edvard Munch's Painting Show 234: Sunspot Model Show 233: Snow on Mars SkyWatch and HubbleWatch Slacker Astronomy NASA’s Great Observatories Celebrate International Year of Astronomy Axel Mellinger’s All-Sky Milky Way Panorama 2.0 Get Ready … Enceladus Here We Come! 30″ Obsession Dobsonian telescope stolen in San Antonio TX Celebrate the International Year of Astronomy Galilean Nights October 23 & 24 Paw Print on Mercury Podcast: CCDs, Cosmology and Ben nice HST pic of Arp 243 aka NGC 2623. Charting The Solar System Nobel for the CCD Podcast: North Star Special The Trilogy is Complete — GigaGalaxy Zoom Phase 3 WE HAVE SUNSPOTS! Planck First Light Survey results confirm excellent performance Smallest exoplanet is shown to be a solid, rocky world ESO unveils an amazing, interactive, 360-degree panoramic view of the entire night sky Hubble Opens New Eyes on the Universe Hubble 3D to Reveal Unprecedented Views of the Universe in IMAX(R) Theatres Starting March 19, 2010 Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory The Environment of a Massive Black Hole Studying Seven-Billion Year-Old Carbon The Abundance of Oxygen Gravity's Role in Making Stars Our Galactic Neighborhood Standard Candles X-Ray Emission from Young Stars Dark Energy is Now a Little Less Dark Circumstellar Shells of Gas Hot Jupiters and their Atmospheres Ultra-Luminous Infrared Galaxies Colliding Galaxies in the Early Universe Dusty Globules Studying a Young Solar System Hot Water Space Today Russia launches military satellite STS-129 astronauts complete first spacewalk Shuttle docks with ISS China and US plan space cooperation SES invests in O3b Space Weather Alerts 2009 Oct 30 0714 UTC ALERT: Geomagnetic K-index of 4 (ALTK04/1427) 2009 Oct 30 0708 UTC (WARK04/1597) Space Weather Links from deoxy.org News and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids 3-Day solar, aurora, meteor and comet forcast What's Happening Today in Space? Today's Space Weather Latest SOHO Solar Images SOHO Real Time Solar Movies SPACE.com Astronauts Prepare for Second Spacewalk, New Baby Giant Cannibal Galaxy's Last Meal Dark Energy Search Could Aid Planet Hunters MISSION UPDATE: Astronauts Depressurize Airlock for Spacewalk New Hope for Plucky Japanese Asteroid Mission NASA: Birth of Astronaut's Daughter Delayed Astronauts Unfazed by False Alarms in Space Astronaut Stuck in Space for Daughter's Birth Key Parts Returned from Hubble Telescope Now on Display at Smithsonian NASA Recruits 'Planet 51' Actor Dwayne Johnson to Spread Message 40 Years Ago: Apollo 12 - Truth of the Moon Stuck Mars Rover Finally Budges, a Little Maine Engineer Wins $250,000 in NASA Space Glove Contest New NASA Sky Mapper Heads to Launch Pad Teams Compete to Build a Better Astronaut Glove Astronauts Breeze Through Mission's First Spacewalk Spitzer Space Telescope Press Release: NASA's Great Observatories Celebrate International Year of Astronomy What's Happening: Spitzer Space Telescope Mission Status What's Happening: Spitzer Space Telescope Mission Status What's Happening: Astronomers Do It Again: Find Organic Molecules Around Gas Planet What's Happening: 2009 Podcast Awards Nominations Press Release: NASA Space Telescope Discovers Largest Ring Around Saturn Press Release: NASA's Spitzer Spots Clump of Swirling Planetary Material What's Happening: Station Fire Press Release: Space Telescopes Find Trigger-Happy Star Formation Press Release: Planet Smash-Up Sends Vaporized Rock, Hot Lava Flying Press Release: NASA's Spitzer Sees the Cosmos Through 'Warm' Infrared Eyes What's Happening: Warmed Up and Ready to Go Press Release: NASA's Spitzer Images Out-of-this-World Galaxy What's Happening: Spitzer Status Update What's Happening: Frank Low, Pioneer of Infrared Astronomy, 1933-2009 What's Happening: Spitzer Status Update Press Release: Baby Stars Finally Found in Jumbled Galactic Center What's Happening: Spitzer Status Update

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