September / October Mercury now available – Cotswold Astronomical Society

The latest Mercury newsletter is now available, the September / October 2020 issue can be downloaded from the Digital media | Mercury page.

In this issue:

Coordinators Report
Dates for your diary
Members Photos
Mount Tuffley Observatory – Part 2
Society Loan Equipment – the C8

Astronomy News Feeds

Astronomy
Radio Astronomy
Space
Dark Matter

Capturing polarised light in search for alien plants

18 May 2021

Astronomers are in little doubt that a plant-filled planet exists somewhere in the universe. ... Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics. [...]

Astronomy's future waits on NASA's next big telescope

18 May 2021

Astronomy's future waits on NASA's next big telescope ... piece of civil space robotics in all of human history," astronomer Grant Tremblay told me. [...]

Astronomer Virginia Kilborn is Swinburne's first chief scientist

18 May 2021

Radio astronomer Virginia Kilborn has been appointed inaugural chief scientist at Swinburne University of Technology in what the institution is ... [...]

Astronomers confirm third nearest star with a planet

18 May 2021

ISLAMABAD - In the past two decades, scientists have discovered more and more planets orbiting distant stars—but in some sense, they're still just ... [...]

How To Watch The Lunar Eclipse In Hong Kong On May 26

18 May 2021

Just like every other year, 2021 is filled with celestial and astronomical ... See also: Astronomy 2021: Full Moons, Eclipses And Meteor Showers In ... [...]

What to do about 'astronomical' weight gain in children during pandemic

18 May 2021

The pandemic created a perfect storm for an “astronomical” increase in childhood obesity, according to a Children's National Hospital pediatrician. [...]

The Arecibo Observatory Was Like Family. I Couldn't Save It

18 May 2021

Neutron stars are most commonly detected by the electromagnetic radio waves they emit, and the size and sensitivity of Arecibo's radio telescope made ... [...]

Astronomer Virginia Kilborn is Swinburne's first chief scientist

18 May 2021

Radio astronomer Virginia Kilborn has been appointed inaugural chief scientist at Swinburne University of Technology in what the institution is ... [...]

Team approach to defence education

18 May 2021

This includes contributions in space domain awareness, world-leading radio astronomy and earth and planetary science, undersea surveillance, ... [...]

60 years later, is it time to update the Drake equation?

17 May 2021

On November 1, 1961, a number of prominent scientists converged on the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia, for a ... [...]

Why NASA is building a gigantic telescope on the far side of the Moon

17 May 2021

This era, lasting a few hundred million years prior to the large-scale formation of stars, is called the cosmic dark ages. The Lunar Crater Radio Telescope ... [...]

Solar Orbiter captures its 1st video of eruption on the sun

18 May 2021

Scientists are still digging through that data before the spacecraft begins its ... So far, scientists have limited capabilities to monitor and predict space ... [...]

Astronomy's future waits on NASA's next big telescope

18 May 2021

The high-profile, high-price tag James Webb Space Telescope is finally ... Background: The Webb could transform space science, revealing the light of ... [...]

LSU student from Zachary provide work that will make NASA mission to moon in 2022

18 May 2021

“This student-led, cross-campus collaboration reinforces LSU's impact on space exploration and planetary science,” said Cynthia Peterson, dean of ... [...]

Exploring the mysteries of space, finances

18 May 2021

Zach Wilkinson/Daily NewsThe Palouse Discovery Science Center's newest exhibit, “Moneyville,” is now open for visitors from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday ... [...]

Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee Hearing - NASA's Earth Science and Climate Change ...

18 May 2021

Witnesses: Dr. Karen M. St. Germain, Division Director, Earth Sciences Division, Science Mission Directorate, NASA; Dr. Gavin Schmidt, Senior ... [...]

Women in the lead | Northeast Notes

18 May 2021

... boards, shattering sports records, leading universities and developing breakthrough technologies in science, space exploration, and entertainment. [...]

Astronomy's future waits on NASA's next big telescope

18 May 2021

The Roman telescope, expected to gather data to help scientists understand dark matter and dark energy, will have a view one hundred times larger ... [...]

The Rookie Season 4: What We Know So Far

18 May 2021

Some of her best works include “Dark Matter”, “Rogue”, and “A Simple Favor”. Eric Winter as Tim Bradford: Eric Winter is an American former fashion, ... [...]

Olivia's Book Club: Donna Freitas, 'The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano'

18 May 2021

... by Matt Haig, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton, Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver, and Dark Matter by Blake Crouch. [...]

As Organism

17 May 2021

Taylor shows us all levels of what an organism is, from its simplest structure to the most complex to the unimaginable, thanks to dark matter. [...]

What is a show on Netflix that you think got canceled too early?

17 May 2021

Dark Matter was Syfy, but I wish they had picked it up to finish the series. They only had two more seasons to go. I had just caught up with season 3 ... [...]

One Cargo District coffee shop to close, another plans to move in

17 May 2021

Its coffees include Start of Days, with notes of blueberry and apricot, Dark Matter (brown sugar, walnuts and chocolate brownies) and the decaffeinated ... [...]