Today's journal club was hosted by Prof. Michael De Robertis.
1. GRB 090423, redshift about 8.2, is the most distant astronomical object ever detect in the Universe. Read it at Nature News & Views here. Bursted just about 600 Myrs after the big bang, it might shed some light on the cosmic 'dark ages'. Two individual groups studied the mechanisms and progenitors of this burst. Their papers are published in the same issue of Nature at page1254 and page 1258.
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Sep30 Recap
Today's host was Prof. Marshall McCall. Few highlights were:
1. LCROSS changed its target crater based on LRO's results. Read nature news here.
2. India space agency announced that they found water molecules on the moon, using NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper carried by Chandrayaan-1. Read NASA mission news here.
1. LCROSS changed its target crater based on LRO's results. Read nature news here.
2. India space agency announced that they found water molecules on the moon, using NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper carried by Chandrayaan-1. Read NASA mission news here.
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