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Shaylin Rose Astronomy 1040 Article 1 Black Hole Connected to a Be Star The article I found this week is from space.com. The heading of this article is Oddly Quiet Black Hole Spotted Around Fast-Spinning Star by Mike Wall, published January 15th. I would first like to start off by saying I’m sorry I don’t know if I read this article accurate enough to understand the true meaning of what is happening. What I comprehended is a huge star known as the MWC 656 also known as a “B–emission” or Be stars, shares space with a companion of a stellar mass black hole. Be stars usually share companions but more often with small and very dense supernova remnants know as neutron starts. This is the first time a black hole has ever been found as a companion of a Be star. Researched reported that this black hole companion emits no X RAY radiation which is very uncommon for a black hole which explains why the object eluded detection until now. I retrieved my information from http://www.space.com/24290-quiet-black-hole-discovery.html I also watched the video from this website http://www.space.com/24299-weirdly-passive-black-hole-discovered-orbiting-fast-spinning-staranimation.html Article 2 The article I found for this week is from space.com the title is New Supernovas in Night Sky Captivates Amateur Astronomers and written by Megan Gannon on January 23, 2014. In this past week a new supernova appeared in a nearby galaxy M82, at only 12 million light years away this is the closest star explosion to be spotted from earth in at least 20 years. This star explosion was discovered by students at the University College London. This supernova is considerably brighter than any part of the galaxy and as it brightens it may outshine billions of stars in M82. The star explosion happened on January 22, also because this new supernova is twelve million light years away this star actually exploded twelve million years ago. But we are only getting a glimpse of it now. Supernovas are not rare but spotted so close to earth is rare. The last supernova that was this close to earth was in 1993 known as galaxy M81. This new supernova is very special to astronomers because its type can be used to measure distance across the universe. I found this very interesting and the video I watch was amazing to see an opionion I read at the end of this article 1 read a comment saying that the video was very misleading and it shows that there are multiple supernovas, but there’s not. Article is http://www.space.com/24388-new-supernova-m82-photos-amateur-astronomers.html Video is from http://www.space.com/24373-supernova-explosion-seen-in-nearby-galaxyvideo.html Article 3 NASA Satellites sees Sochi Winter Olympics venues from space An article I found on space.com by Tariq Maik was published February 7 the opening day of the 2014 winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. The photos that were in the article were captured by the NASA Terra satellite that was launched in space in December 1999.NASA’s Terra satellite used its advance Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer to show vegetation, snow, buildings, and the ocean. The images show the Olympic park coastal cluster for indoor sports and the Rosa Khutar ski resort. Also, the Olympic torch was launched to the space station last fall, there cosmonauts took the torch for a spacewalk and then returned in to earth in November. Article: http://www.space.com/24614-winter-olympics-from-space-nasa-photos.html Article 4 On March 25, senior writer of space.com Mike Wall wrote an article Mars Rover Curiosity Takes Aim at Next Martian Science Project. This article goes to tell that the one –ton Curiosity Rover is just 282 feet north from the site of “the Kimberley” where four different types of terrain intersect. The interesting things of these durable sandstones are while looking similar the rocks likely formed and evolved very different from each other. These sandstones that were found by Curiosity represent a different type of rock. The variation in these sandstones like why some are harder than others, help scientist piece together the past of this red plants life. In issue that it being found with the Curiosity Rover is the tires are worn out, to help instructors have now been driving Curiosity backwards and choosing less punishing routes. These ideas have been paying off and helping the tires. http://www.space.com/25207-mars-rover-curiosity-science-target.html Article 5 On March 31 a video was captured on the NASA’s solar dynamic observatory of a M1.4 class flare erupting out of the sunspot known as AR2014. During the eruption the plasma erupted out but then it sucked itself back into the sun http://www.space.com/25291-sun-sticks-out-a-tongue-of-super-heated-plasma-video.html Article 6 In the article by Miriam Kramer titled the Incredible Technology: How to Grab an Asteroid and Park it Near Earth, found on March 31 tells how NASA has an idea to lasso an asteroid and bring it to a near orbit of the moon to let astronauts visit and examine the asteroid. They have thought of two ways to accomplish this task, one is send a robotic probe to a small asteroid and bring back the whole thing to examine. The second idea was taking part of the larger space rock and parking it near the moon. These two missions will help work out problems of sending humans into space deeper than ever. These two missions would also help us to detect a dangerous asteroid if it were on a path to earth. The idea of snagging a space rock attains designing a robot that would seal a 32 foot asteroid into a bag and bring it into the orbit near the moon. Astronomers have already decided that 2009BD would be a candidate for the mission of picking up a smaller asteroid and bringing it back, and planning to launch mission in 2019 and bring the rock to the earth-moon system by 2023. With the fact that human launching will be in 2024 or earlier. The mission to pick up a larger part of rock and take it near the moon has four possible steroid candidates, asteroid Itokawa, Asteroid Bennu, 199JU and 2008EV. These missions would launch no earlier than 2019. Mostly all the comments on this article were saying it’s a bad idea and if something wrong happens it could affect earth and this idea is more of a distraction then anything. http://www.space.com/25289-asteroid-retrieval-mission-incredible-technology.html Article 7 An article from space.com written by Robert Z Pearlman titled Its t-365 Until Astronaut and Cosmonaut Spend One Year on Space Station, published on march 31. This article goes to that NASA astronaut Scott Kelly will leave planet Earth in 2015 to spend a year in space. Kelly is not going alone, cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko are now in their final twelve months of training for their year long experience on the international space station. These two men are to launch onto Russia’s Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft on march 28 2015. Both men have already experienced half a year in space but never a full year. http://www.space.com/25286-one-year-space-station-mission-countdown.html Article 8 On April 12 an article on space.com called Searching high and low for dark matter was written by Bruce Lieberman. Lieberman goes to say in his article that attended the At Dark Matter 2014 in UCLA where 160 physicists from around the world came to share their research on the cosmology’s biggest mystery. What is the unknown stuff that makes up a quarter of the universe? The Kavli foundation was the group that conducted this meeting, the point of the meeting was to find out to see if everyone was on the right path of figuring out what dark matter is. Blas Cebrera a member explains that the only leading idea of finding evidence of a dark matter particle is the WIMP (weakly interacting massive particle) another big topic at this conference was Dan Hooper he had a presentation about to indirectly detect dark matter by studying radiation coming from the center of the Milky Way. Hooper explains that gamma rays are the most energetic form of light radiating from the center of the galaxy, which could be very likely to be a signal of annihilating dark matter particles. We believe that dark matter is made of particles and we expect them to be stable meaning they don’t decay into other particles or forms of radiation. http://www.space.com/25466-top-scientists-discuss-dark-matter.html Article 9 Blood Moon photos: spectacular total lunar eclipse views by stargazers was an article written by Miriam Kramer on April 15 the morning following the lunar eclipse. This article included videos and photos from stargazers who watched the eclipse happen. The first total lunar eclipse of 2014 lasted for 3.5 hours and was seen from North America, South America, Hawaii and parts of Alaska. Even though the clouds did not work in our favor most photos came to be pretty clear and red with no disturbance from the thin layer of cirrus clouds. This eclipse was known as the Blood moon because the sunlight scattered by Earth’s atmosphere casts a red pall on the face of the moon. Another fascinating thing that happened that night was just before the eclipse mars made its closest approach to earth since 2008. April 28-29 the sun will turn into a “ring of fire” during the annular eclipse, but will only be visible from uninhabited part of Antarctica. The next lunar eclipse will be on October 8th and be visible to much of North America. http://www.space.com/25508-blood-moon-photos-total-lunar-eclipse.html Article 10 An article titled NASA photo may show birth of new Saturn moon was written by Mike Wall on april 15. In April 2013 the Cassini probe took a photo of the egde of Saturns outermost ring and noticed an arc and some strange bumps nearby, these were proababy created by gravity of a small, ice object that could possibly be a newborn moon. Carl Murray the lead researcher stated ‘ we may be looking at the act of birth, where is object just leaving the rings and heading off to be a moon in its own right.” They named this object Peggy, about .5 miles wide which is to small to be seen in images taken by Cassini. In 2016 researchers will move the spacecraft closer to the rings edge to study Peggy. Saturn has over 60 known moons ranging in size. Scientist believe that these moons form in the ice particles within the rings and then move outward while growing and combining with other nascent satellites. This study on Peggy helped scientist with new information. Even though Peggy is done growing and maybe disintegrating, it gave a unique opportunity because Saturn may be done making new moons. http://www.space.com/25502-saturn-moon-birth-nasa-photo.html Article 11 An article on space.com by Tariq Malik posted on April 22 no other then the day of Earth day. The picture was captured by the GOES-East satellite. The picture taken of earth was taken 22,300 miles above the planet. The weather was also given by looking at the picture a cold front from Montreal, Canada to southern Texas passing through Tennessee. Rain will happen in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and other Midwestern locales. The GOES satellites constantly monitor the planet for data analysis. The satellite hover over a specific point of earth for continuous weather monitoring. http://www.space.com/25595-earth-day-from-space-satellite-photo.html Article 12 In the article Milky Way Structure Mapped in Unprecedented Detail by Katine Moskvitch tells that astronomers are one step closer to solving the mystery as what the milky way looks like. It’s tough to get a broad view of the galaxy from within. The article goes on to say that astronomers are fairly confident that the milky way is a spiral galaxy. Mark Reid led a new study of using the very long baseline Array to map our galaxy. http://www.space.com/25584-milky-way-structure-spiral-arms.html Article 13 There wasn’t much of a “finding something new” in this article but I find the northern lights amazing. I have never seen them in person, only in pictures and puzzle art forms this article was interesting to be because of the images. I found this on space.com By Nin Sen and the title of the article is Spellbinding Colors of Northern Lights Astound Alaska Photographer. An astrophotography by the name of Dora Miller captured the aurora image on April 20th the picture is breathtaking from the display of the purple and green lights. Dora has studied auroras and she has never seen one as beautiful as this one. An Aurora is caused by the charged particles from the sun that interacts with the earth’s upper atmosphere causing a glow. http://www.space.com/25675-spellbinding-northern-lights-colors-alaska-photo.html Article 14 As we have studies gamma rays are the fastest wave length. A gamma ray burst that was talked about in the article from space.com by Megan Gannon, is known as the brightest flash in the universe. This gamma ray burst gives off an afterglow of light waves that move in a corkscrew shape spiral. That would explain the title Weird Corkscrew-Shaped Light Unleashed by Universe’s Most Powerful Explosions. The discovery was unveiled Wednesday April 30th. To explain a gamma ray burst to say a big bundle of waves is an understatement. These intensely bright flashes of light may only last a second but they give off more energy than our sun will radiate in its entire lifetime. Gamma ray bursts happen when a massive dying star collapses in a jet spewing black hole. The light waves of this burst move around in a corkscrew spiral motion. Researches analyzed the afterglow of a gamma ray burst and found that the light from a gamma ray burst that occurred 10 billions years ago reached earths sight on October 24,2012. “ we were gobsmacked by this high level of circular polarization. http://www.space.com/25707-corkscrew-shaped-light-gamma-ray-bursts.html