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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