January / February 2021 Mercury now available – Cotswold Astronomical Society

The latest Mercury newsletter is now available, the January / February 2021 issue can be downloaded from the Digital media | Mercury page.

In this issue:

Editors Spot
Coordinators Report
Dates for your diary
Members Photos
Solar Graphs
An Observing Challenge

Astronomy News Feeds

Astronomy
Radio Astronomy
Space
Dark Matter

Options Appoints former Quantbot Founder and CEO Michael Botlo To Board

28 January 2021

In addition to this, Michael holds Masters Degrees in Physics and Astronomy and a PhD in Experimental Nuclear Physics. He was an inaugural ... [...]

Astronomers find possible exoplanet-in-the-making within its own whirlpool

28 January 2021

Astronomers have discovered a possible newly-born planet forming within its own “whirlwind” of dust and pebbles, in orbit around a young star 330 ... [...]

Phosphine on Venus? It's probably just sulfur dioxide

28 January 2021

Nature Astronomy is working with the authors to resolve the matter.” Now, a new study seems to put the final nail in the Venusian phosphine theory. “ ... [...]

Discover the Moon, Mars... and moths: Join in with next month's Virtual Dark Skies Festival and ...

28 January 2021

The festival may even complement home schooling as experts from professors and astronomers to astrophotographers reveal science secrets from the ... [...]

Remembering Michael Ovis: someone who made life 'a huge adventure'

28 January 2021

And their interest in astronomy soon had them attending astronomy club meetings together. "When he loved something he really really loved it and ... [...]

The Uncensored Guide To 'Oumuamua, Aliens, And That Harvard Astronomer

28 January 2021

In 2017, an astronomical event occurred that was unlike any other: for the first time, we observed an object that we are certain originated from beyond ... [...]

Maybe We Are Top 10!

28 January 2021

The unit of measurement in radio astronomy is call the Jansky. America's first Boy Scout troop was in Pawhuska. The first Girl Scout cookie was sold in ... [...]

Prebiotic Ingredient: How Scientists Discovered a Precursor of Life Around a Young Star

28 January 2021

They aren't as hot and bright as fully-fledged stars, making observations difficult unless researchers use a very powerful radio telescope. Astronomers ... [...]

Hopes of finding life on Venus are dashed as study finds atmosphere does NOT contain traces of ...

27 January 2021

Astronomers say a misconfiguration of the antenna at Chile's Atacama ... The 72-second blast, spotted by Dr Jerry Ehman through a radio telescope, ... [...]

Craige 'Ea Ea' Schensted, obituary

27 January 2021

At the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Craige worked as a mathematical researcher in the Radio Astronomy Laboratory and invented new forms of ... [...]

Purported phosphine on Venus more likely to be ordinary sulfur dioxide

27 January 2021

Astronomers revisited and comprehensively reinterpreted the radio telescope observations underlying a widely reported 2019 claim that phosphine gas ... [...]

Fifty Years Ago

27 January 2021

He was security officer and plant maintenance supervisor for the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. Burial in the Arbovale Cemetery. Edgar H. [...]

AFOSR advances science of wound-healing technology

28 January 2021

AFOSR advances science of wound-healing technology ... creates future warfighting technologies for the Air and Space Forces, protecting the lives of ... [...]

Inoculated individual may carry coronavirus, scientist says

28 January 2021

This is precisely why we say that a vaccinated individual should observe certain anti-epidemic measures in order not to infect the others," the scientist ... [...]

UW researcher joins International Space Station broadcasting

28 January 2021

THE SCIENCE BEHIND THE BOOK. During the planning stages of the book, Kidd became friends with Boothby who was living in South Carolina at ... [...]

UWA launches International Space Centre

28 January 2021

Scientists will study the effects of gravity and space on human physiology and plant ... The Centre was launched by WA Minister for Science, the Hon. [...]

Mae Jemison, former astronaut and first woman of color in space, giving digital lecture at OSU next ...

28 January 2021

Although the lecture, “Exploring the Frontiers of Science and Human Potential,” is open to anyone, advance registration is required and is available ... [...]

House Democrat says the COVID-19 vaccination distribution is 'not an issue that should be tainted ...

28 January 2021

It's pure science and pure healthcare,” she said. ... Johnson is first Black woman to lead the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee and ... [...]

Dark matter not 'super heavy' or 'super light': In a first, scientists calculate its mass range

28 January 2021

Now, scientists from the University of Sussex have found a new way to know more about dark matter. They have narrowed down the range of masses ... [...]

CMS Leads Search For Higgs Pair Production

28 January 2021

Or maybe a candidate to explain dark matter in the universe -another unexplained puzzle which, admittedly, might well have a completely different ... [...]

For bestselling Russian-Israeli author, physics is a day job

28 January 2021

The book's protagonist is a physicist who is searching for the answer to a scientific problem (dark matter) while also searching for his lost father. [...]

Entrepreneur Tisha Vaculin constantly Striving for success!

28 January 2021

... and Dark Matter just to name a few. Most recently she has started a new venture in management. Tisha started her company 'Vaculin Entertainment' ... [...]

News, movies and music! Samsung TV Plus adds record news and two more grid channels

28 January 2021

The broadcaster will be ranked alongside Dark Matter and MyTime Movie Network. Finally, music lovers get their hands on Qwest TV Jazz & Beyond. [...]

No Horror Film Can Match Madanapalle Incident

28 January 2021

Horror, mystery, suspense and dark matter- these are the elements of Madanapalle Tantrik murders incident. The well educated and highly placed ... [...]