IIUM ASTRONOMY CLUB

Archive for August, 2009

News: This week's astronomy headlines
NASA/JPL
Life’s building block discovered in comet
The discovery of glycine in a comet supports the idea that the fundamental building blocks of life are prevalent in space. Read more.
Reale, et al. (2009)

Tiny flares responsible for outsized heat of Sun’s atmosphere

Nanoflares are sudden bursts of energy that are so small they cannot be resolved individually. Read more.
A. Bouchez et al.
Scientists discover storms in the tropics of Titan
No one considered how storms in one location can trigger them in many other locations.
Read more.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
Mars orbiter shows angled view of martian crater
The high-resolution camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has returned a dramatic oblique view of the martian crater that a rover explored for 2 years. Read more.

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