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Links This Week's Sky at a Glance - Sky & Telescope This page shows the configuration of bright objects (Moon, planets, stars) in the sky this week. An Introduction to Pulsars A basic tutorial on pulsars, distributed by Australian radio astronomers who study them; additional links can be found there if you want more information. Web Pages for some of NASA's current Solar System and Exoplanet Missions: MESSENGER - NASA For the status of and information about NASA's MESSENGER Mission to Mercury, which has obtained the first images of some portions of Mercury's surface that we had never seen before. Cassini - NASA The Cassini spacecraft is continuing to study Saturn and its rings and satellites. Fly-bys of Enceladus (which may have a liquid water ocean under its surface ice) and Titan are coming up on Oct. 31 and Nov. 3. respectively. Also see http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm. New Horizons - NASA The home page of the New Horizons Mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt offers a report on what the spacecraft saw when it flew past Jupiter in 2007, and information on its intended future activities. Kepler - NASA Home page of the Kepler mission, to be launched next March, which will search for transiting planets as small as the Earth, around other stars. PlanetQuest - NASA An umbrella web page for exoplanet-related projects and research coordinated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Try some of the links, for example http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/science/finding_planets.cfm, which reviews the main planet-finding methods. Up-to-Date Information on Exoplanets - California & Carnegie Planet Search Team Home Page Maintained by one of the most active exoplanet search groups, this web site includes a complete Catalog of Nearby Exoplanets, as well as feature stories on some recent exoplanet discoveries. |
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