SETI public: Alien Worlds through Artists' Eyes and Arecibo Diaries installment

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From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Tue Apr 29 2003 - 11:55:51 PDT

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    Science/Astronomy:

    * Alien Worlds through Artists' Eyes

    http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/alien_worlds_030429-1.html

    There are more than 100 known planets around other stars, and astronomers tell us there are billions. Some are cold. Some are hot. Some are stable. Some are doomed.

    * Arecibo Diaries: The Romance, Drama and Normality of the Observatory
    http://www.space.com/searchforlife/shostak_arecibo_5_030429.html

    Do you remember that opening episode of "The X-Files'" second season? For some reason, the principals had to hack their way into the Arecibo Observatory.

    * Image of the Day: A Stellar Gathering Called M5
    http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/image_of_day_030429.html

    Star clusters are not the most widely celebrated astronomical objects, but they can be photographic jewels. This picture is of M5, a globular cluster that resides in the Milky Way Galaxy and is visible from the Northern Hemisphere. The stars are bound together by mutual gravity, behaving a bit like a miniature galaxy within our galaxy.

    * Astronotes: Failed Star Succeeds at Making X-rays
    http://www.space.com/astronotes/astronotes.html

    When an object forms with much less mass than the Sun but much more than Jupiter, astronomers tend to call it a brown dwarf, or failed star, but a star nonetheless. These odd objects don't shine much in most wavelengths of light -- they do not have enough mass to trigger the thermonuclear fusion that powers regular stars.

    * NASA Offers Expertise For Solar Sail Spacecraft Project
    http://www.space.com/spacenews/spacenews_businessmonday_030428.html

    NASA engineers are lending their expertise to a commercial effort to send a solar sail-powered spacecraft on a journey around the Earth and beyond.

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