Saturn’s moon Enceladus spreads its influence
A huge doughnut-shaped cloud of water vapor created by the moon encircles Saturn.
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Black hole, star collisions may illuminate universe’s dark side
Scientists unveiled a ready-made method for detecting the collision of stars with an elusive type of black hole. By Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey — Published: September 22, 2011
Planet Sized diamond found
Cruising through the Milky Way in your reconnaissance craft, your sensors pick up a powerful radio beacon. Altering your course to take a closer look, you find not a ship in distress, but an ultradense sphere of neutrons, packing a sun’s worth of mass into something the size of a city.
New asteroid named Hermanus
In a function hosted by Overstrand Mayor Councilor Nicolette Botha-Guthrie on 10th August 2011 a ceremony was held to announce the naming of the newly-discovered asteroid Hermanus. In the words of John Saunders, Chairman of the Hermanus Astronomy Centre, this is the story of how Hermanus got its own asteroid:
NASA spacecraft to enter large asteroid Vesa’s orbit July 16
An article in Astronomy.com online magazine Observations will help scientists understand the earliest chapter of our solar system’s history.