<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!-- generator="WordPress/2.9.2" -->
<rss version="0.92">
<channel>
	<title>astronomy@iowa</title>
	<link>http://astronomy.brentstuder.com</link>
	<description>Dispatches from the Universe</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 04:56:36 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs>
	<language>en</language>
	
	<item>
		<title>Copernicus Given Hero&#8217;s Burial</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nicolaus Copernicus, the 16th century Polish astronomer and canon in the Catholic Church, was reburied in a formal ceremony in Frombork, Poland, on May 22, over 460 years after his death in 1543. In that same year, his greatest work, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres), was published and legend [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://astronomy.brentstuder.com/?p=207</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Supernova in NGC4088</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
On April 13 a Type II supernova was discovered in the unusual galaxy NGC4088. This particular 90-second image was taken by Cedar Amateur Astronomers charter member Doug Slauson on April 21, using his 9.25-inch Celestron Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope with an attached SBIG STV at f/3.75.
At a distance of 55 million light-years, NGC4088 is a spiral galaxy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://astronomy.brentstuder.com/?p=198</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>It&#8217;s a bird. It&#8217;s a plane&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At 13:40 UT (that&#8217;s 7:40 a.m. CST) on March 2, the near-Earth asteroid 2009 DD45 zipped past Earth at a distance of only 0.00048 A.U. Considering that the average Earth-Sun distance is 1 Astronomical Unit, 0.00048 A.U. works out to be a mere 45,000 miles! That&#8217;s a close shave by anyone&#8217;s standards. The Moon&#8217;s average [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://astronomy.brentstuder.com/?p=190</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>The Kepler Mission</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
If all goes well on March 6, the Kepler telescope will blast off from Cape Canaveral&#8217;s launch pad 17-B aboard a Delta II rocket and usher in a new era of space exploration. NASA&#8217;s Kepler mission will begin an unprecedented 3 1/2 year mission to locate Earth-like extrasolar planets. While over 250 planets outside our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://astronomy.brentstuder.com/?p=164</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>The Heart Nebula</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Spanning nearly 200 light-years, IC 1805—known colloquially as the heart nebula—is a stellar nursery in which we find the star cluster Melotte 15. Compared to our own 5 billion year-old Sun, the stars of Melotte 15 are still in their infancy at a mere 1.5 million years of age. Destined to live short lives and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://astronomy.brentstuder.com/?p=154</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Snow Moons and Blue Moons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
The Full Moon of February occurred at 8:49 a.m. CST this morning. Known as the Snow Moon, it is the second Full Moon of the northern hemisphere&#8217;s winter. As far as the lunar calendar is concerned, February is unique in that it is the only month in which is it not possible to have two [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://astronomy.brentstuder.com/?p=131</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Ring of Fire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
In the early morning hours of January 26, the Moon will slip in front of the Sun producing a solar eclipse visible to observers on the Indian Ocean. This  eclipse is a bit unusual, however, in that the Moon will be near the apogee of its orbit around Earth. As discovered by Johannes Kepler in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://astronomy.brentstuder.com/?p=121</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Be Seeing You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Where am I?
In the Village.
 What do you want?
Information.
 Whose side are you on?
That would be telling&#8230;We want information&#8230;Information.
 You won&#8217;t get it.
By hook or by crook, we will.
 Who are you?
The new Number 2.
 Who is Number 1?
You are Number 6.
 I am not a number. I am a free man!
Irish-American actor Patrick McGoohan [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://astronomy.brentstuder.com/?p=56</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Solar System&#8217;s Fifth Dwarf Planet Named</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On September 17, the International Astronomical Union announced that 2003 EL61 would be classified as the fifth named dwarf planet and officially designated Haumea. The name was chosen after meetings of the IAU&#8217;s Committee on Small Body Nomenclature and the Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature. The number of dwarf planets is now five: Ceres, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://astronomy.brentstuder.com/?p=52</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Shine on, Shine on Harvest Moon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At 4:13 a.m. CDT the Full Moon of occurred. Being the Full Moon nearest the autumnal equinox, which occurs at 10:44 a.m. CDT on September 22, this Full Moon is traditionally called the Harvest Moon. So what is so special about this particular Full Moon, which can occur any time from mid-September to early October? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://astronomy.brentstuder.com/?p=51</link>
			</item>
</channel>
</rss>
