News Paolo Candy/Ci.A.O. Cimini Astronomical Observatory & Planetarium Have you seen Comet Lulin? There’s a comet in the evening sky, and it’s making quite a splash with observers. Astronomy Senior Editor Michael E. Bakich saw it through thin clouds the night of February 23 from his backyard near downtown Milwaukee, so he has great confidence that you can see it, too. Read more. Related blog & video: John Chumack captures Lulin, by Karri Ferron, Copy Editor NASA NASA’s Goddard brings the Moon to Earth This winter the television production team at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, shrank the Moon down to a 6-foot globe and put it on display in the Goddard visitor center. The team made a new, fully spherical short film called “Return to the Moon.” Designed expressly for the Science On a Sphere (SOS) platform, it opens in science museums and elsewhere around the country February 27, 2009. Read more. ESA/VIRTIS/INAF-IASF/Obs. de Paris-LESIA Watching Venus glow in the dark European Space Agency’s (ESA) Venus Express spacecraft has observed an eerie glow in the nighttime atmosphere of Venus. This infrared light comes from nitric oxide, and it is showing scientists that the atmosphere of Earth’s nearest neighbor is a temperamental place of high winds and turbulence. Read more. NASA/Swift/Stefan Immler Fermi Telescope sees most extreme gamma-ray blast yet NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope saw the first gamma-ray burst in high-resolution — and it’s one for the record books. The blast had the greatest total energy, the fastest motions, and the highest-energy initial emissions ever seen. Read more. Subaru/NAOJ Turbulence may promote the birth of massive stars On long, dark winter nights, the constellation Orion the Hunter dominates the sky. Within the Hunter’s sword, the Orion Nebula (M42) swaddles a cluster of newborn stars called the Trapezium. These stars are young but powerful, each one shining with the brilliance of 100,000 Suns. They are also massive, containing 15 to 30 times as much material as the Sun. Read more. More astronomy headlines: Launch of carbon-seeking satellite is unsuccessful Swift spies Comet Lulin Kepler Mission to see other Earths New recipe for dwarf galaxies: start with leftover gas

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