News, Wednesday, 21 June 2006 Happy Solstice! Summer officially returns to the northern hemisphere this morning at 6:26 a.m. MDT. +++++ Utah Cosmic Ray Detector Project Moving Ahead Construction is accelerating on a $17 million cosmic ray observatory west of Delta, Utah, thanks to two U.S. agencies: the Bureau of Land Management, which issued a permit, and the National Science Foundation, which approved a $2.4 million grant. http://unews.utah.edu/p/?r=061606-1 Ed. Note: Anyone interested in seeing and photographing the cosmic ray observatory from above? We'd fly out of the SLC airport and split the cost ($50). If interested email me at paw@wirelessbeehive.com. +++++ Evidence for Ultra-Energetic Particles in Jet from Black Hole An international team of astronomers led by researchers at Yale has obtained key infrared observations that reveal the nature of quasar particle jets that originate just outside super-massive black holes at the center of galaxies... http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/06_releases/press_062006.html +++++ Cluster Makes An Effervescent Discovery Space is fizzing. Above our heads, where the EarthÂ’s magnetic field meets the constant stream of gas from the Sun, thousands of bubbles of superheated gas are constantly growing and popping. http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEMX66L8IOE_index_0.html +++++ Uncovering Rhea Two Saturnian moons meet in the sky. Dione departs after crossing the face of Rhea for several minutes. http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/image-details.cfm?imageID=2165 +++++ NASA Sends Teachers Spaceward Bound NASA is taking teachers to a barren desert in Chile to help inspire the next generation of explorers. http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2006/jun/HQ_06243_spaceward_bound.html +++++ STS-121 Press Kit Find the press kit for the next shuttle mission (currently set to launch on the 1st of July) at: http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/149873main_sts121_press_kit.pdf +++++ Pace Quickens for NASA Spacecraft Orbiting Mars NASA's newest spacecraft at Mars has already cut the size and duration of each orbit by more than half... http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2006-085 +++++ STS Update http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/news/status-20060619.html +++++ ************************************************** ************************************************** Images and Data From Cassini-Huygens At: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/latest/index.cfm http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press-releases.cfm +++++ Information On The Mars Rovers At: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html +++++ SLAS 2006 Star Party Schedule http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/LOCAL.HTML +++++ SSA / UMNH 2006 Southern Utah Public Star Party Schedule http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/STARPARTIES.HTML +++++ ************************************************** News is being sent to you because of your affiliation with the Salt Lake Astronomical Society or because you asked to be subscribed. To unsubscribe please send your request to paw at wirelessbeehive dot com. Check out my NASA Solar System Ambassador web site at: http://www.umnh.utah.edu/utahsky and mirrored at http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/ For astronomy clubs in Utah see: http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/UTAHCLUBS.HTML For the Utah Astronomy Listserve see: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy ************************************************** -- Patrick Wiggins NASA Solar System Ambassador to Utah & NE Nevada paw at wirelessbeehive dot com http://www.umnh.utah.edu/utahsky http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/ 435.882.1209 801.918.9092