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Remote Sensors focus on space

  • the brightest supernova ever seen
  • how to photograph a black hole
  • a rare kind of galaxy discovered by an amateur
  • Chris Hadfield explains how to play a guitar when neither the guitar nor the player have any weight.

 

From Astronomy Magazine: Brightest supernova ever seen pushes theoretical models to the edge

In June 2015, a supernova appeared in the sky over the Southern Hemisphere, and astronomers believe it could mark the death throes of a very unusual star.The supernova, named ASASSN-15lh, was 20 times brighter at its peak than the combined light of the Milky Way galaxy’s 100 billion stars, making it the brightest supernova ever observed. In fact, it’s twice as bright as the previous record-holder. READ MORE

Also from Astronomy Magazine’s website: Photographing a Black Hole. The loudest nearby black hole (by some measurements, at least) is the Milky Way’s own central supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A* (“A-star”). And we might be about to get a real picture of its heart.

Feryal Ozel from the University of Arizona is part of the Event Horizon Telescope, and she presented its capabilities on the second day of the American Astronomical Society’s meeting in Kissimee, Florida. This telescope will take a picture of the innermost region of a black hole: its event horizon, where material passes the “point of no return” on its way toward being consumed.

But even for Sgr A*, the closest black hole, trying to image this area is like trying to resolve a DVD on the surface of the Moon. To do so would require building a telescope the size of the entire Earth. But luckily, Ozel and her team can do just that. READ MORE

From the Sky & Telescope magazine website: An amateur discovers a rare galaxy.

Comet approaching, CME sideswiping Earth

From: http://spaceweather.com
COMET CATALINA (C/2013 US10) Robot looks upis making its closest approach to Earth, only 67 million miles away. The beautiful green comet is only barely visible to the naked eye, but it is an easy target for backyard telescopes and digital cameras as it passes through the handle of the Big Dipper.

This is Comet Catalina’s first visit to the inner solar system–and its last. The comet’s close encounter with the sun in mid-November has placed it on a slingshot trajectory toward interstellar space. Enjoy it now. Once it recedes from Earth, we may never see it again
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WARP 3,1–lost and found!

CoverOur thanks to former member Nicole Pigeon who found and scanned WARP 3,1. You can now find it on our website here, as WARP 3.

We are now missing only two issues to complete our archives on line. They are probably labelled as 3,3 & 3,4, even though they are in actual fact the 5th and 6th issues of WARP.  Long story made short–the warp speed refers to the month of publication.
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