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Cosmology/Astrophysics News
November 23, 2016
for Rose City Astronomers SIG
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Dumbbell Nebula M27
Science – October 14, 2016
• 30m telescope considers new home– http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/10/hawaii-deliberates-giant-telescope-considers-new-home
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Nature – October 20, 2016
• Unexpected X-ray flares near NGC-4697– http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v538/n7625/full/538321a.html
– http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v538/n7625/full/nature19822.html
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Science – October 21, 2016
• Mars lander crash complicates follow-up rover in
2020– http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/10/mars-lander-crash-complicates-follow-rover-2020
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• Icy heart may be key to Pluto’s strange geology– http://www.nature.com/news/icy-heart-could-be-key-to-pluto-s-strange-geology-1.20856
• Birth of stellar siblings – how triple star systems form– http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v538/n7626/full/538466a.html
– http://www.almaobservatory.org/images/newsreleases/161026_0.pdf
• Potassium isotopic evidence for a high-energy giant
impact origin of the Moon– http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v538/n7626/full/nature19341.html
Nature – October 27, 2016
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Science – October 28, 2016• Hunt for Planet Nine heats up
– http://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6311/399
• Stellar bars knock holes in galaxy discs– https://mnras.oxfordjournals.org/content/462/4/3430?related-urls=yes&legid=mnras;462/4/3430
• Gravity field of the Orientale basin from the Gravity
Recovery and Interior Laboratory Mission (our Moon)
– http://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6311/438
• Formation of the Orientale lunar multiring basin
– http://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6311/441
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• Small stars host water worlds– https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.03460
• Axions – particles which might account for dark matter
– http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v539/n7627/full/539040a.html
– Calculation of the axion mass based on high-temperature lattice quantum chromodynamics
– http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v539/n7627/full/nature20115.html
• The formation of Charon’s red poles from seasonally cold-trapped volatiles (Pluto’s moon)
– http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v539/n7627/full/nature19340.html
Nature – November 3, 2016
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Science – November 4, 2016
• No cosmology news this issue
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• Cosmic rays make more muons than
expected– http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.192001
Nature – November 10, 2016
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Science – November 11, 2016
• NSF says: Out with the old telescopes, in with the new
– http://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6313/693
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Scientific American – November 2016
• Black Holes, Wormholes and the Secrets of Quantum
Spacetime– http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v315/n5/full/scientificamerican1116-26.html
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Scientific American – December 2016
• Solar System Smashup– https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/our-solar-system-was-born-through-high-energy-crashes-not-stately-growth/
• Hope Springs Eternal for Easy Access to Water on
Europa (Jupiter moon)– https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/plumes-spotted-on-europa-suggest-easy-access-to-water/
• The Milky Way Transformed – Gaia data release– https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/celestial-cartography-is-in-the-midst-of-a-dramatic-upgrade/
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Miscellaneous
• New York Times article, photos and videos about Webb
Space Telescope to launch October 2018– http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/science/nasa-webb-space-telescope-hubble.html
• Unfurling video– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiHG-hzeOnM
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