ICY SCIENCE MAGAZINE WINTER 2014 Vol 2

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102 Supernova, cigar galaxyIN THE NEWS A supernova was discovered in M82 also known as the cigar galaxy. It is 12 millionESA/NASA the spacecraft Rosetta woke up after 957 days in light years from Earth. It is the closest starhibernation. Earth got its first communication which arrived explosion detected in more than 20 years.at the ESA operations centre in Damstadt, Germany at 19:18 Discovered by a team led my Steve Fossey atlocal time. The signal was also received by ground stations the University of London Observatory. Theat the Goldstone,calif and Camberra,australia part of NASA’s team included stuedents, Ben Cooke, TomDeep Space Network. Wright,Matthew Wilde and GuyPpollock.The spacecraft is heading towards comet67P/ SpaceXChuryumov-Gerasmonko. On Jan 6 2014 SpaceX sucessfully lunched the THAICOM 6 satellite. The launch could be seen live on the interenet.ICY SCIENCE | QTR 1 2014

103ScienceScience daily reports that deaths in Penguin chicks is directly relted to climate change. Chicks are dying fromthe worlds largest Magellanic penguin colony. Heavy rains, food shortage all a result from climate changeare contributing to the checks deaths.SOURCE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONThe BBC reported that Neanderthals gave us disease genes. Neanderthals are our closest extinct relatives.Found in southwestern to central Asia and Europe. It is thought that modern humans have around 2.5%Neanderthal DNA. From Icy Science comes out monthly micro digital magazine LOOK UP IN WONDER a guide to the night sky, ISS monthly update and something for the kds. WWW.ICYSCIENCE.COM ICY SCIENCE | QTR 1 2014

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