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IN THE NEWS
ESA/NASA the spacecraft Rosetta woke up after 957 days in
hibernation. Earth got its first communication which arrived
at the ESA operations centre in Damstadt, Germany at 19:18
local time. The signal was also received by ground stations
at the Goldstone,calif and Camberra,australia part of NASA’s
Deep Space Network.
Supernova, cigar galaxy
A supernova was discovered in M82 also
known as the cigar galaxy. It is 12 million
light years from Earth. It is the closest star
explosion detected in more than 20 years.
Discovered by a team led my Steve Fossey at
the University of London Observatory. The
team included stuedents, Ben Cooke, Tom
Wright,Matthew Wilde and GuyPpollock.
The spacecraft is heading towards comet67P/
Churyumov-Gerasmonko.
SpaceX
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