Well, since there are no clear skies in the forseeable future, I decided to do some surfing on the internet for astronomy topics to write about. I found two articles that caught my attention.
The first was titled "Cool Spacedust Survey Goes Into Orbit" by the staff writers at Space Daily, out of the UK. It's basically a press release for the telescope that will be launched this summer out of the Herschel Space Observatory. The students and astronomers at the University of Nottingham will study space dust for a three year period, focusing on dust more than a million light years away. This telescope will be twice as big as the Hubble and will be able to detect very very faint light.
The second article that I read was titled "NASA to Beam Beatles' 'Across the Universe' Into Space" from the offical NASA website. Today (February 4) at 6pm central time, NASA will be transmitting the song 'Across the Universe' into space via Deep Space Network. Today's date marks the 40th anniversary of the song, and the 50th anniversary of NASA. The song will be aimed at Polaris 431 LY away.
The movie 'Across the Universe', which has nothing to do with space is also being released today, and on a personal note I loved the movie and recommend it to everyone.
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