Astronomy+and+Space



**//In this website, it says that you can do an online exploration, check it out!//**

http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/ -jamie m

**//SPACE. THE FINAL FRONTIER.//**

**//TO WRITE WHAT OTHER PEOPLE HAVE WRITTEN BEFORE....//**
**//Astronomy and Space//**

__ Planets __

//4/23/12: Very cool time-lapse views of Earth from the ISS:// media type="custom" key="15404834"


 * Here is an interesting video I found about fuzzy things in space. Also, about Messier Objects**

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 * -Max**



Found this really cool idea of how the whole mass extinction on ancient Earth happened.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328465.400-did-star-cluster-death-rays-zap-earth.html Matt McC

=New Planet Discovered Orbiting Dangerously Close To Giant Star=

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 * This is an article I found on Science Daily about this extraordinary phenomenon. It even could just predict the future of what will happen when are sun expands closer to the Earth in the next billions of years.**


 * This is also about a New Planet...**

Major Discovery: New Planet Could Harbor Water and Life
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 * In this article that I found is about a new planet that has the same features as Earth does. I know right interesting well read the article to find out more about this planet.**

These few article postings are from your Man..."Drum Roll Please" Max Levine :)

**Found a link that includes both Space investigation and Nature.**
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-Emma

Here's a link about a larger-than-expected "mysterious cloud" that has been spotted on images of mars for the last few days. [] ~joanelle:)

__**Mars**__
Face on Mars?-- Just a nice picture I found while surfing the interweb, enjoy. (Taken on Mars). []

__ Nebulae and Galaxies __ [] I have always wanted to know more about black holes, and this website seems pretty cool. Watch the intro and explore the site :) - Kylie:)
 * [|11/10/11: The Hubble telescope discovers 18 new mini galaxies from about 9 million years ago.]**
 * -Liam**

http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2006/0910-black_holes_light_up.htm
 * Here is a link to a cool video on black holes!!!!**

=The Fading Milky Way=


 * While on the bus I was looking up milky way and I discovered this article that seemed very interesting.**
 * Its about how the milky way is slowly fading away. Click the link to find out more.**



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-Max

I found a article called [|Hatching The Milky Way] and it's about making galaxys on a computer. Check it out

- - I found this picture of a Milky Way over Australia and it's pretty cool Liam O'C

-Henry

Fun fact: The eagle nebula is 11 light years long.
 * The Eagle Nebula**

Two Colliding Galaxies


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Not really news but I was surfing the internet for cool pictures of space (broad search but came up with pretty cool results). Isn't that what everyone does with their spare time? Anyway I found a cool pic and thought you guys might like it! -- Kathryn <3 P.S. Mr. L, what is this? -My best guess is that that is a distant nebula. Nebulae are enormous (really enormous) volumes of gas and dust (mostly Hydrogen and a smattering of others) that exist all over the place in the universe. Their name comes from the Latin for "mist". To be a nebula, it has to be actively 'building' new stuff (stars), which it does by the simple act of contracting. As your massive cloud of hydrogen contracts, it gets super hot and super dense and super spherical, and ultimately can produce one or many stars. From the looks of this baby, there are many proto-stars being created within its innards.



This is absolutely unbelievable.

//A// **//nebula//** //is an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen gas, helium gas and other ionized gases. -Wikipedia//

The nebula apparently is name-less! I think we should give it a name.

-Emma



I found this and I was amazed. I also found this.

// The hourglass shape of the supernova remnant SN 1987A isn’t as well balanced as thought, according to an August picture of the exploded star. Using data on the remnant from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile, astronomers were able to confirm that, when massive stars explode, some of the ejected material gets shot into space faster than other debris. //

// - Alex W //

__ Moons __

Enceladus





-Emma Full Moon Aries

__ News __

http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2010/11/04/131063948/moon

http://www.eaas.co.uk/news/solar_features.html

Cool video, but the first astronomer (I think thats the right word) seems a little shaky about the whole situation. After the video ends it goes into an unrelated video. Sorry.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/asteroid-2055-yu55-passes-close-by-earth-how-close-did-it-get/2011/11/09/gIQAdQpw5M_story.html



-Kimmy <3

__Space Technology__



This is the inside of a space shuttle! -Emma

media type="youtube" key="cEHCaZtWCnY" height="315" width="560" This is a video on the final launch of Atlantis. -Nicole media type="youtube" key="Gbtulv0mnlU" height="315" width="560" This is another video on the recovery of the Discovery's booster in the Atlantic. -Nicole

__Asteroids and Comets__ __Stars (INCLUDES SUN)__

Found an article about the Lyrid Meteor Shower. [] -Jada

I found this really cool picture on a website. Check it out!!! -Julia

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=Solar Flares: What Does It Take to Be X-Class?=
 * This next article is not about a new planet of discovery.**
 * I think we as 8th graders should be more aware as to what happens in space and what things can happen to us on earth. For example, the mighty Sun that gives us light. To me Space is like weather forecasting but a little more trickier. I say this because first of all we have a lot of technology to predict hurricanes and all that. But for space and especially the sun its harder because we can't get to close to the sun. That makes life a little bit harder for NASA to predict solar flares. You might not know about solar flares yet but hopefully in this brief article it will teach you something about them and how come we need to be more aware of them.**

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 * Also about solar flares.**
 * Lastly another solar flare article.**


 * This will maybe give you a more description about solar flares and about the Sun. Also, this link has awesome facts about the sun and maybe things that you might have not even know about are sun.**

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 * I hope you guys like at least one of the articles I put up for you to read about. And maybe learn something new.**
 * Thanks a lot, Love this wiki-space thing.**

-Max (Fantastic stuff, Max. Thanks for finding all of those, I enjoyed them quite a lot. I embedded a video of solar flares from one of the sites. Mr. L.)

media type="custom" key="11287784" I have no clue to what the green fog is (possibly the Northern Lights?). This is a time lapse sequences of photographs taken with a special low-light 4K-camera by the crew of expedition 28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from August to October, 2011. -Emma (Emma, I was literally coming to this page to put that same video up, it's phenomenal. The green fog is the the Northern Lights.) 11/11/11- AWESOME IMAGE FROM NASA

**11/10/11: Interesting mishap, Russia fails to send an unmanned probe into space. More on this story here:**

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"If they are not successful, the probe, which is loaded with toxic fuel, could re-enter the atmosphere within days or weeks."......Man if it's not one thing crashing to Earth these days, it's another. (Mr. L.)

11/10/11- Image of 30 Dordus: One of the Biggest Star Clusters near the Milky Way Galaxy. The 2,400 stars in the center, The Tarantula Nebula, are Producing intense radiation and powerful winds.

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2105.html

-Aaron

\ 11/7/11: Duck! Asteroid to pass quite close to Earth tomorrow during dinner time. This is evidently the first time that something this big and close has been recognized //before// it passes by Earth at a narrow range (201,oooish miles, closer than the Moon). It is more typical for the thing to miss us and //then// be observed:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/asteroids/news/yu55-20111107.html

Not really news but I was surfing the internet for cool pictures of space (broad search but came up with pretty cool results). Isn't that what everyone does with their spare time? Anyway I found a cool pic and thought you guys might like it! -- Kathryn <3 P.S. Mr. L, what is this? -My best guess is that that is a distant nebula. Nebulae are enormous (really enormous) volumes of gas and dust (mostly Hydrogen and a smattering of others) that exist all over the place in the universe. Their name comes from the Latin for "mist". To be a nebula, it has to be actively 'building' new stuff (stars), which it does by the simple act of contracting. As your massive cloud of hydrogen contracts, it gets super hot and super dense and super spherical, and ultimately can produce one or many stars. From the looks of this baby, there are many proto-stars being created within its innards.

11/7/11- NASA Spacecraft Cassini focuses on imagery of Saturn's Moon Enceladus and Saturn's Ring

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/whycassini/cassini20111107.html

-Aaron

Learn More About Cassini Here:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/main/index.html

Saturn's Ring (Unprocessed)

9/24- Satellite re-entry confirmed, though "NASA said it didn't know the precise time or location yet." Everybody good? Check in on your grandmas.... []

9/21- Massive Satellite to plummet back to Earth..... Duck!!: []



9/2- Scientists //really// like Martian rocks: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/02/science/space/02mars.html

Find out what NASA is planning through this Mission Calender:
http://www.nasa.gov/missions/calendar/index.html

-Aaron

I found this and I was amazed. I also found this. // The hourglass shape of the supernova remnant SN 1987A isn’t as well balanced as thought, according to an August picture of the exploded star. Using data on the remnant from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile, astronomers were able to confirm that, when massive stars explode, some of the ejected material gets shot into space faster than other debris. // // - Alex W //

I found this while looking around it was taken in Australia. -Ben W Source: http://onebigphoto.com/australian-stars-night-shift

Huge Eruptive Prominence Seen on Sun


<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Hey heres a video on stars! And it's not totally boring or complicated! YAY !!! media type="youtube" key="pag1NdPKcYM" height="315" width="560" <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">~Joanelle:)

__Other__

Kuiper Belt: A second source of comets, asteroids, and other small bodies made largely of ice, in the shape of a flat ring stretching from the orbits of Neptune and Pluto to the internal boundary of the Oort Cloud. It is thought that it could contain more than ten times as many comet nuclei as the Oort Cloud.

Asteroid Belt:The area between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter where a whole bunch of asteroids orbit. Incidentally, our asteroid belt is nothing like what they depict in movies. They’re not all jumbled up, crashing into one another, and death-defyingly difficult to negotiate.

Oort Cloud: A spherical cloud of small rocky and icy bodies postulated to orbit the sun beyond the orbit of Pluto and up to 1.5 light years from the sun, and to be the source of comets. Its existence was proposed by J. H. Oort~Joanelle:)

**Found this article on how Mars used to have water flowing under its surface. Take a look** http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Dec11/roverVein.html **This a few questions posed on how a human might survive in space and other questions like that.** http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/970603.html **This is some footage Saturn pretty close up taken by the Cassini orbiter.** [| apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110613.ht...] **Article the Mars bound Rover** http://www.spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av028/120107tcmpreview/ - Ben

Heres a link for an interactive 360 degree view of the constellations, check it out

http://media.skysurvey.org/interactive360/index.html

-Ben