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Comet ISON as imaged by NASA
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Comets That Will Flyby Earth in 2017 and 2018

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Jesse Rogerson, PhD
Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Apr 24, 2017
In 2017 and 2018 there will be three comets passing relatively close to Earth. One has the chance of being naked-eye brightness. With the help of amateur astronomers, NASA plans to study these in detail. Check out the latest Science at NASA.
Satellite image of the snowpack in the Sierra mountains
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The Snowpack in the Californian Mountains Quadruples

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Jesse Rogerson, PhD
Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Apr 24, 2017
Data from NASA's Airborne Snow Observatory shows that the snowpack in the Tuolumne Basin of the Sierra Nevada mountains is 1.5 cubic kilometers, which is more than the previous 4 years combined. Californians are surely enjoying the extra precipitation, as they have been in a drought for the last 5 years. The Airborne Snow Observatory uses a combination of LIDAR and Imaging Spectrometer fixed to a small plane to measure the snowpack in the mountains of California.
Aurora
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Steve and the Power of Citizen Science

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Jesse Rogerson, PhD
Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Apr 24, 2017
The power of Citizen Science is continuing to show as groups around the world make more and more discoveries. For example, groups of Aurora chasers and documentarians have identified a hereto unknown phenomenon in the sky. At the time, they called it "Steve," in homage to the Movie Over the Hedge (because they didn't know what it was!), however, they have since enlisted the help of Eric Donovan from the University of Calgary. Donovan works with the European Space Agency's (ESA) Swarm magnetic
An image of Saturn taken above the north pole, including the rings.
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A Look Back Towards Home...

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Jesse Rogerson, PhD
Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Apr 21, 2017
On the 12th of April 2017, the Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn took a minute to look back towards its home planet and snap a picture. At the time, the Earth, Moon, and all 7.125 billion humans were about 1.8 billion kilometers away. The fortuitous image catches Earth sitting between the A and F rings of Saturn, with the Keeler and Encke gaps visible as well. Cassini hasn't taken many pics of home, but this is probably my favourite so far. On 22 April 2017, Cassini will take a gravity assist
Chandra X-ray observatory took this image of galaxy NGC 4696
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An Erupting Black Hole in a Large Elliptical Galaxy

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Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Apr 21, 2017
A super massive black hole lurks at the centre of most galaxies. This fact alone indicates that black holes and galaxies must somehow co-evolve, each shepherding the others growth and function. But how do black holes and their host galaxies physically act on each other? In some recent work done using the Chandra X-ray Observatory, astrophysicists have found evidence of massive periodic jets shooting out from the centre of galaxy NGC 4696 (the 4696th galaxy in the New General Catalogue). Every 5
A satellite view of the Strait of Gibraltar
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Phytoplankton in the Strait of Gibraltar

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Apr 21, 2017
Two NASA Satellites were used to create this image of the straight of Gibraltar: Suomi NPP, and Aqua. The images were processed and combined to highlight the blooms of phytoplankton in the area, which has been caught up in the turbulent ocean currents moving through the strait.
An artist's impression of the Cassini spacecraft in the foreground and Saturn in the background.
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The Beginning of the End for Cassini

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Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Apr 21, 2017
A short description of the upcoming Grand Finale of the Cassini Spacecraft. Over the next 5 months, Cassini will make 22 plunges between Saturn's rings and the planet itself. No craft has ever been that close. During this final phase, Cassini will make close up measurements of the rings for the first time, image the planet's cloud-tops in unprecedented detail, and even answer long-standing questions like: how fast does Saturn actually rotate? It's going to be a very interesting 5 months.
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How Could the Moon Generate a Magnetic Field?

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Jesse Rogerson, PhD
Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Apr 21, 2017
The Earth's magnetic field is powered by an internal dynamo at the core of the planet. At the very centre of the Earth is a very hot, solid, iron core that is surrounded by an outer liquid iron region. The heat from the inner core drives convection in the outer core (hot parts of the liquid rise, cool parts fall). All the while, the core is rotating. Since the liquid outer core is a conductor, the motions of rotation and convection generates a magnetic field. The Moon has no such magnetic field
A galaxy cluster.
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Puncturing the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation

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Jesse Rogerson, PhD
Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Apr 21, 2017
The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is light that has been travelling towards us for almost the entire age of the Universe. The light was set on its path at the moment atoms formed, just 400,000 years after the big bang, and about 13.8 billion years ago. As the Universe matured and expanded, galaxies and galaxy clusters formed, hot beds of star formation, gas, dust, black holes, and other matter. As the light from the big bang encountered the galaxy clusters, the hot gas would scatter the
Image of Phobos
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MMX - Martian Moons eXploration

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Jesse Rogerson, PhD
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Apr 21, 2017
In early April 2017, the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), a division of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), announced a new robotic explorer to be launched towards Mars in 2024: the Martian Moons Exploration (MMX). The goal is not to observe the red planet, but its two moons: Phobos and Deimos. These two moons (about 25 km wide) are just a fraction the size of Earth's Moon (about 3400 km wide), and their origins are still disputed. Maybe Phobos and Deimos were
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