SETI@home & Science IRC Links 2019/02/20

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“It is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.” -- Sir Ernest Shackleton, born on Feb. 15, 1874.

BOINC - If you have macOS development experience and are interested in volunteering time to help support and maintain the BOINC macOS client please have a look at the more detailed description here: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/MacDeveloper

SETI Institute in the news February 7 - February 13, 2019 (Feb. 20): National Geographic Asks: Are We Alone?; Star Shadows and Citizen Science; Laurance Doyle Talks about Talking with Aliens; Where is Everybody? Seth Shostak on BBC; The Drake Equation in Science History https://www.seti.org/seti-institute-news-february-7-february-13-2019

BOOKS - Michael Wall -  Out There: A Scientific Guide to Alien Life, Antimatter, and Human Space Travel (For the Cosmically Curious) 2018 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39088976-out-there

Dragon Aurora over Iceland  https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190218.html

Doomed Star Eta Carinae https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190220.html

A Brilliant Daytime Meteor Exploded Over Cuba This Month. Here's Where It Came From https://www.space.com/cuba-meteor-orbit-trajectory-nailed-down.html

Did You Know the Earth’s Atmosphere Extends Beyond the Orbit of the Moon? Strictly speaking, there aren’t strict boundaries between Earth and space. Our atmosphere doesn’t just end at a certain altitude; it peters out gradually. A new study from Russia’s Space Research Institute (SRI) shows that our atmosphere extends out to 630,000 km into space. https://www.universetoday.com/141560/did-you-know-the-earths-atmosphere-extends-beyond-the-orbit-of-the-moon/

NASA to Provide Coverage of SpaceX Commercial Crew Flight Test https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-provide-coverage-of-spacex-commercial-crew-flight-test

SpaceX Aims for Thursday Night Launch from Florida with Israeli Moonlander and Payloads for USAF, Indonesia https://www.americaspace.com/2019/02/20/spacex-aims-for-thursday-night-launch-from-florida-with-israeli-moonlander-and-payloads-for-usaf-indonesia/

Hello Hippocamp! Neptune's 14th moon is finally part of the family https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-02-21/hippocamp-neptunes-14th-moon-confirmed/10824936

Ingredients for water could be made on surface of moon, a chemical factory https://www.nanowerk.com/news2/space/newsid=52185.php

Deep-Sky Observing Without Equipment, Part II — The Winter Sky https://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/deep-sky-naked-eye-winter/

What Was It Like When The Universe Made Its Heaviest Elements? The heaviest elements in the periodic table have their own unique story. No, they don’t come from a supernova. https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/what-was-it-like-when-the-universe-made-its-heaviest-elements-188097f11fc6

Your daily Mars forecast: Fatally cold, with some light winds https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/your-daily-mars-forecast-fatally-cold-with-some-light-winds

This star in the Andromeda galaxy has exploded every year for millions of years - The star, which annually erupts as a nova, has left behind one of the largest clouds of stellar debris ever observed. And it's not done yet. http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/02/annually-exploding-star-found-in-andromeda

Where is the universe’s missing matter? When astronomers add up the mass of all the normal matter in the present-day universe, about a third of it can’t be found. Where is it? https://earthsky.org/space/missing-normal-matter-chandra-intergalactic-gas

BOOKS - NASA Earth Science Division - Earth, A Photo-Essay (2019) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/earth-book-2019 https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ContentFeature/earth-book-2019/downloads/249517_EARTH%20BOOK-TAGGED.pdf

Eclipse Season is Here https://nineplanets.org/news/eclipse-season-is-here/

Video: Piloting the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo http://hobbyspace.com/Blog/?p=17873 [Update Feb.20: The test flight has been postponed due to weather issues: Friday is likely the next target]

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