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September 15, 2009 Space News

September 15, 2009
According to the American Indian calendar,
September is the time of the 'harvest moon,' or the 'Moon of the Black
Cherries.' In fact, this month also has many floral associations with
the blackberry. There's a holistic flower essence remedy that
... More

https://www.care2.com/greenliving/astrology/greenscopes/virgo/2009-09-15

Interactive 360-Degree Panorama of Entire Night Sky Now Available


Milky Way Panorama. ESO/S. Brunier
A stunning new 800-million-pixel panorama of the entire sky has been released online for everyone to enjoy. GigaGalaxy Zoom is a project for the International Year of Astronomy, and it allows users to dive right into the Milky Way Galaxy, and learn more about our celestial neighborhood. The project allows stargazers to explore and experience the Universe as it is seen with the unaided eye from ESO’s observing sites in Chile,
one of the darkest and best viewing locations in the world.
Click to continue…

MORNING SHOW: Set your alarm for dawn. On Wednesday morning, Sept. 16th, Venus
will rise in the east right beside an exquisite 7% crescent Moon.
It's a beautiful way to begin the day: sky
map
.

AUTUMN LIGHTS: For reasons not
fully understood
by researchers, the weeks around equinoxes
are the best times to see Northern Lights. The northern autumnal
equinox of 2009 is only a week away and--voilà!--the show has begun:

 
"I had 8
people
with me for an Aurora Photography Tour in Yellowknife
on Sept. 12th," writes Yuichi Takasaka from the Northwest Territories
of Canada. "Northern Lights started to appear from 10pm local
time and stayed well after 4am!"

At this time of year, the interplanetary
magnetic field
near Earth tends to point south, an orientation
that weakens Earth's magnetic defenses against the solar wind. Under
such conditions, the slightest gust of solar wind can fuel a lovely
display. Polar sky watchers should be alert for Northern Lights
in the weeks ahead.

space weather.com
CLOUDS
NASA rocket to create clouds Tuesday   MSNBC - September 14, 2009  
Experiment plans to simulate noctilucent clouds, which are sky¹s highest.

ASTRONOMY
Current Moon Phase



Current Solar Data From NOAA
 


Astronomy Picture of the Day
NASA  


Thunderbolts Picture of the Day
 
Thunderbolts Archives

Black Hole Pumps Iron   PhysOrg - September 14, 2009  
Astrophysics: High Energy Galactic Particle Accelerator Located   Science Daily - September 14, 2009  
Astronomers unveil an amazing, interactive, 360-degree panoramic view of the entire night sky   PhysOrg - September 14, 2009  
Brilliant 360-Degree Panorama of the Milky Way   Wired - September 14, 2009  
Space robot 2.0: Smarter than the average rover   New Scientist - September 14, 2009  
Jupiter had temporary moon for 12 years   AP - September 14, 2009  
Crunch time for Russia Mars probe   BBC - September 14, 2009

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