Sky & Telescope's News Bulletin - Mar 11
From: SJG (stuartgoldman_at_gmail.com)
Date: 03/12/05
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Date: 11 Mar 2005 19:12:14 -0800
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* * * SKY & TELESCOPE's WEEKLY NEWS BULLETIN - March 11, 2005 * * *
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THE MOST MASSIVE STARS
Astronomers have long wondered what is the upper mass limit for stars.
In recent decades, many astronomers believed that limit was somewhere
in the neighborhood of 100 to 150 solar masses for stars forming in the
modern-day universe. Stars above this mass limit should generate so
much light that the sheer pressure of their own radiation blows off
enormous amounts of mass, quickly whittling them down to 100 to 150
solar masses. Now, astronomers have observational evidence that this
thinking is largely correct....
> http://SkyandTelescope.com/news/article_1476_1.asp
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HANS BETHE (1906-2005)
Hans Bethe, one of the towering figures of 20th-century astrophysics,
died on Sunday, March 6th, at his home in Ithaca, New York, at the age
of 98. Among his many awards and honors, Bethe (pronounced BAY-tuh) won
the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics for his theoretical calculations in the
1930s that demonstrated how stars generate energy -- thus solving a
mystery that had endured for centuries.
"His discoveries are honored on the highest possible level," says
University of Illinois astronomer James B. Kaler. "He has the grandest
award to be found anywhere: the Sun itself. He taught us how it
works...."
> http://SkyandTelescope.com/news/article_1475_1.asp
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ROSETTA BUZZES EARTH
The night sky is full of visible Earth satellites; you can often count
half a dozen creeping across the stars in the hour after dark, just by
keeping watch with your unaided eyes. But rare indeed is the
interplanetary spacecraft that's visible from Earth.
On March 4th, following publicity by the European Space Agency (ESA),
many telescope users succeeded in spotting and tracking the ESA's
Rosetta probe as it flew by Earth....
> http://SkyandTelescope.com/news/article_1474_1.asp
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HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS WEEK'S SKY
* First-quarter Moon on Thursday, March 17th.
* Mercury (magnitude -1) is low in the west in evening twilight.
* Jupiter (magnitude -2.4, in Virgo) rises in the east around the end
of twilight and is well up in the southeast by 10 p.m. -- the brightest
"star" in the sky.
For more details, see This Week's Sky at a Glance and Planet Roundup:
> http://SkyandTelescope.com/observing/ataglance
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