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Watch it: Lost shuttle tool bag visible in orbit (USA Today) Amateur astronomers have spotted the world's most famous — and expensive — lost tool bag, which has been circling the Earth for the past week. Endeavor astronaut Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper lost her grip on the $100,000, backpack-size bag while cleaning up after a grease gun leaked during a Nov. 18 spacewalk. From his back yard in Lakewood, N.J., Edward Light spotted the bag after sunset Saturday ... us.rd.yahoo.com
Backyard Skywatchers Find Tool Bag Lost in Space (SPACE.com via Yahoo! News) Amateur astronomers have been monitoring a shiny tool bag that has been orbiting Earth ever since it was dropped last week by an astronaut during a spacewalk outside the International Space Station. us.rd.yahoo.com
Backyard Skywatchers Find Tool Bag Lost in Space (SPACE.com) A tool bag lost in space is making appearances above North America and Europe. us.rd.yahoo.com
Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast - November 21 - 23, 2008 (Universe Today) Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! Are you ready for the weekend? It's Friiiiiday and it's time to make a date with the Queen as we gather up a few more studies in the great constellation of Cassiopeia. Since we've got some dark skies ahead of us, expect to be a little more "challenged" this [...] us.rd.yahoo.com
Holiday Mathis horoscopes for November 21 (Chicago Sun-Times) The sun explodes into adventurous Sagittarius. This is the sign of the centaur, half-human and half-horse. A centaur named Chiron performed heroic acts and showed great heart, so was rewarded and transformed into a constellation by Zeus. us.rd.yahoo.com
Southern Cross Stargazer (Miami Herald) SUNDAY By 6 p.m., Venus, the brilliant jewel, adorns the lid of the tilted Sagittarian Teapot in the southwest and sets by mid-evening. Golden Jupiter and its moon system glow above the Teapot. Dim blue Neptune, in Capricornus the Sea Goat, sails into the southwest. Blue-green Uranus, in Aquarius, drifts across the south. The lonely star Fomalhaut (mouth of the Southern Fish) twinkles directly ... us.rd.yahoo.com
Find Fomalhaut in the Celestial Sea (MSNBC) High overhead around the 8 p.m. local standard time is a bright configuration of stars that people unfamiliar with the sky often mistake for the Big Dipper. Big it is, but — at least in an official sense — a dipper it is not. us.rd.yahoo.com
Find Fomalhaut in the Celestial Sea (SPACE.com) The star now known to harbor a planet is easy to find. us.rd.yahoo.com
Out of this World Pictures: First Direct Photos of Exoplanets (Scientific American) Two groups of researchers searching for extrasolar planets--planets orbiting stars other than our own sun--laid claim today to an astronomy milestone: photographing extrasolar planets directly, rather than inferring their presence through effects on their parent stars. [More] us.rd.yahoo.com
On the shores of the celestial sea (Casper Star-Tribune) In ancient times most of Wyoming was under the surface of what paleontologists refer to as the Sundance Sea. Today, the last vestiges of that vast inland sea can be found in what is modern-day Utah: the Great Salt Lake. us.rd.yahoo.com
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