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21) Message boards : MilkyWay@home Science : NASA spacecraft to fly by Mercury (Message 1479)
Posted 14 Jan 2008 by BlackGoose05
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UPDATE:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080114/us_nm/space_mercury_dc

22) Message boards : MilkyWay@home Science : NASA spacecraft to fly by Mercury (Message 1469)
Posted 14 Jan 2008 by BlackGoose05
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Just thought this was very cool...

Mariner 10's three passes by Mercury provided information on less than half of the planet.

"Probably the first thing that most of us want to see is what the other 55 percent of Mercury looks like," said Vilas.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080114/ap_on_sc/mercury_messenger

Check out where it is and how close Messenger is to Mercury...

http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/whereis/index.php

23) Message boards : MilkyWay@home Science : Astronomers describe violent universe (Message 1442)
Posted 11 Jan 2008 by BlackGoose05
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"One example is an approaching gas cloud discussed at the meeting Friday. The cloud has a mass 1 million times that of the sun. It is 47 quadrillion miles away. But it's heading toward our Milky Way galaxy at 150 miles per second. And when it hits, there will be fireworks that form new stars and really light up the neighborhood"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080111/ap_on_sc/odd_universe;_ylt=AjG8ZDvVJV_Jxo2LuTMNNrKHgsgF
24) Message boards : MilkyWay@home Science : Milky Way could hold hundreds of rogue black holes (Message 1412)
Posted 10 Jan 2008 by BlackGoose05
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Or this star going supernova in our "cosmic neighborhood"...

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080108-eta-carinae.html

;o)
25) Message boards : MilkyWay@home Science : Milky Way could hold hundreds of rogue black holes (Message 1408)
Posted 10 Jan 2008 by BlackGoose05
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Let's hope we don't "run" into one...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080109/ts_alt_afp/usscienceblackholes

Keep crunchin' !!!
26) Message boards : MilkyWay@home Science : Milky Way's two stellar halos have opposing spins (Message 1032)
Posted 13 Dec 2007 by BlackGoose05
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http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn13043-milky-ways-two-stellar-halos-have-opposing-spins.html


Here's another link to basicly the same news...
Very fascinating and surprising - the very reason i'm crunching for Milkyway@home.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20071212/sc_space/hugenewfoundpartofmilkywayrotatesbackward;_ylt=AuUwiqy4YmCxCVlTnBC2wYgPLBIF


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