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Each week in 107-02 we will discuss something interesting that has been in
Browse these  links for something interesting that has been in
the news. The subjects will be drawn from the [http://www.nytimes.com/ New York Times], [http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ Astronomy Picture
the news, or recently observed with one of our telescopes.
of the Day], and press releases from [http://www.nasa.gov/ NASA], the [http://www.esa.int European Space Agency], the
[http://www.eso.org/public/ European Southern Observatory], or the [http://oposite.stsci.edu/ Space Telescope Institute]. If there is something
interesting from one of our telescopes we may tell you about that too.  This page has the highlights.


== Week of January 16, 2012 ==
*[http://www.nytimes.com/pages/science/index.html New York Times Science]
 
*[http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ Astronomy Picture of the Day]
[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/science/scientists-find-more-planets-orbiting-two-stars.html The New York Times] and  [http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature10768.html Nature]  reported  the discovery of more planets orbiting two stars.  Like the fictional [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatooine Tatooine of Star Wars] there would be two "suns" in its sky. These new discoveries are the size of Saturn, and they are so close to
*[http://www.nasa.gov/ NASA]
their stars that they are too hot to be habitable. 
*[http://www.esa.int European Space Agency]
 
*[http://www.eso.org/public/ European Southern Observatory]
 
*[http://oposite.stsci.edu/ Space Telescope Institute]
The first planet found orbiting two stars was [http://www.sciencemag.org/content/333/6049/1602/ Kepler 16].  The Kepler telescope finds planets by capturing the moment when they pass between us and their stars, blocking out a tiny fraction of the star's light (often less than 0.1%).  By recording these events
*[http://www.sharedskies.org/gallery Recent images from the Shared Skies telescopes]
 
== Week of January 9, 2012 ==
 
The science journal [http://www.nature.com/nature/index.html Nature] reported  the discovery
made at the [http://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann11083/ Very Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory]  
of a cloud of gas that is on a trajectory to fall into the
million-solar-mass black hole at the center of the Milky Way.  Click this link to see what they had to say.You may have to be connected through  the University of Louisville's network to read the full article.
 
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[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v481/n7379/full/nature10767.html Nature Volume 481 Number 7379 pp5-108]
</center>
 
A gas cloud has been spotted approaching the Milky Way's central black hole. Observations of its closest approach, expected to occur in mid-2013, may offer insight into the black hole's immediate surroundings.
 
 
<center>[[File:Eso1151a.jpg|600px]]</center>
 
<center>Credit: ESO</center>
 
 
 
The discovery was also described in the New York Times with the headline [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/20/science/forecast-for-sagittarius-a-black-hole-a-cold-gas-cloud.html Black Hole Forecast: A Cold Gas Cloud]
 
 
The center of the Milky Way is a site known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_A* Sagittarius A*, or SgrA*] for short.  You can watch a short video about this here:
 
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[http://www.youtube.com/user/ESOobservatory#g/c/25F06D1140B44361 YouTube: ESO Discovery of gas near the center of our galaxy]
</center>

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