On June 16th 2010, Prof. Michael DeRobertis lead us through the workshop he went to in Ottawa titled "A Workshop on the Governance of National Astronomical Facilities." The workshop was Canada-centric, discussing what the future looks like for Canadian astronomy. The report PDF will be sent around to everyone, if you're interested in looking at it.
On June 30th, Stu Dack brought us some of the past week's astronomy news stories.
Climate change may be increasing the amount of space junk we have hanging around our planet. Go to the story here to find out how!
NASA has listed the top ten cool things that LRO did in its first year.
Was venus a habitable planet at some point. Check out this article from ESA.
Brown University adds to the ever increasing evidence of liquid water on mars in the past.
The GoogleX prize is still up for grabs, but who's in contention?
Check out this wicked cool Earth gravity map.
Hayabusa has much to tell us, hopefully we'll talk to it soon!
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