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Universe Today (Top 5 items)

1. Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast - May 16-18, 2008 (Thu May 15 7:10 pm)
   "Everybody dancing in the moonlight… Dancing in the moonlight… Everybody feeling warm and bright… It's such a fine and natural sight… Everybody dancing in the moonlight." Oh! Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! Pardon...
2. Mars Is REALLY Cold (Thu May 15 6:07 pm)
   We knew Mars was cold, but new observations from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter indicate that the crust and upper mantle of Mars are stiffer and colder than previously thought. And scientists say any liquid water that might exist below the...
3. Carnival of Space #54 (Thu May 15 1:03 pm)
   We have another new host for the Carnival of Space. This week we look to David S. F. Portree and his blog Altair VI. Click here to read the Carnival of Space #54 And if you're interested in looking back, here's an archive to all the...
4. Mapquesting the Solar System (Thu May 15 12:55 pm)
   Map generators like Mapquest and Yahoo! Maps have bailed me out quite a few times, helping me get where I needed to go. So imagine in the future, navigating on other bodies in our solar system and having the ability to find landmarks and...
5. Elusive Molecule Found in Venus' Atmosphere (Thu May 15 8:40 am)
   Hydroxyl, an important but difficult-to-detect molecule, has been found in the upper atmosphere of Venus by the Venus Express spacecraft. This is the first time this molecule has been detected on another planet, and even though it is thought...

EurekaAlert Space News (Top 5 items)

1. Marian Koshland Science Museum forms partnership with Science Center Singapore (Wed May 14 11:00 pm)
   (The National Academies) In a new collaboration, the Marian Koshland Science Museum of the National Academy of Sciences is licensing several components of its global warming and infectious diseases exhibits to the Science Center Singapore....
2. Jaguar upgrade brings ORNL closer to petascale computing (Wed May 14 11:00 pm)
   (DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Upgrades to Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Jaguar supercomputer have more than doubled its performance, increasing the system's ability to deliver far-reaching advances in climate studies, energy research...
3. University of Miami's CSTARS to host valuable hurricane, typhoon satellite image library (Wed May 14 11:00 pm)
   (University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science) The University of Miami's Center for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing announced that it will house a library of data collected via spaceborne C-Band Synthetic...
4. LIDAR imaging detector could build 'super road maps' of planets and moons (Wed May 14 11:00 pm)
   (Rochester Institute of Technology) Technology that could someday "MapQuest" Mars and other bodies in the solar system is under development at Rochester Institute of Technology's Rochester Imaging Detector Laboratory in collaboration with Massachusetts...
5. Key molecule discovered in Venus's atmosphere (Wed May 14 11:00 pm)
   (European Space Agency) Venus Express has detected the molecule hydroxyl on another planet for the first time. This detection gives scientists an important new tool to unlock the workings of Venus's dense atmosphere.

Bad Astronomy Blog (Top 5 items)

1. Introducing Dr. Bauer! (Thu May 15 11:22 pm)
   My friend Amanda Bauer just got her PhD in astronomy! W00t! She’s at UT Austin, and you may know her better as astropixie. She is very cool and deserving and I’m sure all you BABLoggees who read her blog will go over there and...
2. Joss Whedon's Dollhouse trailer (Thu May 15 8:53 pm)
   Update: the video originally linked in this article was evidently not from the source, so it was taken down. However, there is a link below to a legit video. Joss Whedon is, simply put, a genius. While I never got into "Buffy" or "Angel",...
3. 9-1-1, that spells ?Moon? (Thu May 15 4:00 pm)
   So a guy calls 911 because of someone knocking at his door, then calls a second time because of a suspected drug deal. Then he calls a third time to find out the phase of the Moon. Hmph. Here’s a tip for all you prospective 9-1-1-dialers...
4. 757-990-8980 (Thu May 15 2:46 pm)
   For about a year now, I’ve been getting spam calls to my cell phone. This is more than annoying: I pay for my minutes, so this actually costs me money, directly. A lot of these calls have a recorded voice telling me that this is the...
5. The odd couple and the missing neutron star (Thu May 15 1:30 pm)
   Pulsars are intrinsically cool. Take a massive star. Let it cook for a few millions years. Then the core collapses, and the outer layers explode outward in a supernova. The inner part, the core, can become a black hole, or the almost-equally-bizarre...

Space.com News (Top 5 items)

1. Brrr! Mars Colder Than Expected (Thu May 15 6:15 pm)
   A peek under the Martian north pole reveals a thick ice cap.
2. Space Rocks Could Reseed Life on Earth (Thu May 15 6:15 pm)
   Asteroid impacts could help spread life throughout the universe.
3. Bumpy Road to Mars, Part 1 (Thu May 15 6:15 pm)
   Phoenix Lander arrives on Mars May 25, taking after a long and rocky road.
4. NASA Faces Rocket Test Delays for New Spaceship (Thu May 15 6:15 pm)
   NASA is expecting delays for the first tests of its shuttle successor.
5. Bizarre Star Gets Stranger (Thu May 15 6:15 pm)
   Scientists have spotted a wacky pulsar that doesn't behave like its fellows.

Science@NASA (Top 5 items)

1. Galactic Hunt Bags Missing Supernova (Wed May 14 1:00 am)
   At long last, astronomers have found one of the Milky Way's mysteriously missing supernovas. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story.
2. Phoenix Set to Land on Mars (Tue May 13 1:00 am)
   NASA's Phoenix lander is getting ready to touch down on Mars and begin an unprecedented investigation of the Red Planet's arctic realm. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story.
3. Space Station Tricorder (Fri May 9 1:00 am)
   Astronauts are using a Star Trek tricorder-like device to keep track of microscopic life forms onboard the International Space Station. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story.
4. Planets by the Dozen (Thu May 8 1:00 am)
   A NASA-funded survey set to begin in 2008 could dramatically increase the number of known planets outside our solar system. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story.
5. A Super Solar Flare (Tue May 6 1:00 am)
   In September 1859, a solar flare erupted so intense that the explosion itself was visible to the human eye. A ferocious geomagnetic storm ensued in which Northern Lights descended as far south as Cuba, the Bahamas and Hawaii. Meanwhile,...

Astronomer's Telegrams (Top 5 items)

1. ATel 1528: Swift detects an X-ray and optical outburst from a Galactic source probably associated with 1RXH J173523.7-354013 (Wed Dec 31 6:00 pm)
   The Swift team and collaborators report on the detection of an outburst from a previously unknown Galactic transient consistent in position with the ROSAT source 1RXH J173523.7-354013. ...
2. ATel 1527: XMM-Newton slew-survey counterpart to the INTEGRAL source IGR J18307-1232 (Wed Dec 31 6:00 pm)
   We report the first X-ray identification of the source IGR J18307-1232 which was reported in the 3rd INTEGRAL IBIS/ISGRI soft gamma-ray survey catalog (Bird et al. ...
3. ATel 1526: Discovery of Supernova Candidate by CFHT-COVET (Wed Dec 31 6:00 pm)
   Continued search by CFHT-COVET (ATEL 1487, ATEL 1519) reveals another optical transient on UT 2008 May 13.366 : Name | RA(J2000) | Dec(J2000) | Mag (r') | Offset from host | COVET-080513A | 12h42m21.09s | 11d59m49.5s | 21.3...
4. ATel 1525: Continued Radio Non-Detection of SN 2006gy with the VLA at 8.4 and 43 GHz (Wed Dec 31 6:00 pm)
   We continue our VLA monitoring of SN 2006gy, which is among the most luminous supernovae ever seen. On 2008 Feb. 10.0 UT, no radio emission was seen at the optical position with the following 3-sigma upper limits: 8.4 GHz: 0.25 mJy/bm;...
5. ATel 1524: Swift UVOT Measurement of ROTSE3 J115649.1+542726, a Possible Tidal Disruption Event ? (Wed Dec 31 6:00 pm)
   The magnitude 18 optical transient ROTSE3 J115649.1+542726, described as a possible AGN at z=1.02 by Yuan et al. 2008 (ATel #1515), was observed with Swift at our request beginning on 2008 May 14 00:10 UT. ...