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Barton’s Blog | To the clouds and beyond…

Four and a half years ago a scrappy skunk works project by the name of “Project Sputnik” was kicked off at Dell to gauge interest in a developer-focused laptop. The project received an amazing amount of interest and support from the community and as result, nine months later this project became an official product — the ultra-mobile XPS 13 developer edition.

• Barton George (@barton808) | Twitter

Avid father of 3. Founder & lead Project Sputnik (dev systems). Office of the CTO at Dell focusing on DevOps & Open Source. These insightful opinions are my own

• Ubuntu-based Developer and Engineering systems

Part of Project Sputnik, these systems began as an open-ended exploratory project to identify what you — developers — demand in an ideal laptop. With your input, Project Sputnik became an official product and continues to evolve.

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Runs Linux

The Briggo Coffee Robot, Runs Linux

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The stories center on an Austin, Texas-based startup called Briggo, which has created a fully automated, one-stop coffee kiosk that churns out what it believes is a superior cup of joe. You can order and pay by smartphone, customize the brewing process to your precise specifications, and schedule it to be ready for pickup the minute you arrive. And it really doesn’t care if you say “venti” instead of “large.”

Desktop App Pick

• GitHub – JannikHv/gydl: gydl (Graphical Youtube-dl) is a GUI wrapper around the already existing youtube-dl program.

Gydl (Graphical Youtube-dl) is a GUI wrapper around the already existing youtube-dl program.

— NEWS —

Ubuntu’s Drops Unity for Gnome

• Ubuntu Unity is dead: Desktop will switch back to GNOME next year

We will continue to produce the most usable open source desktop in the world, to maintain the existing LTS releases, to work with our commercial partners to distribute that desktop, to support our corporate customers who rely on it, and to delight the millions of IoT and cloud developers who innovate on top of it.

Our efforts were seen fragmentation not innovation. And industry has not rallied to the possibility, instead taking a ‘better the devil you know’ approach to those form factors, or investing in home-grown platforms.

We will shift our default Ubuntu desktop back to GNOME for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

• Welcoming Ubuntu to GNOME and Wayland | Christian Schaller

am personally happy to see this convergence of efforts happening because I have for a long time felt that the general level of investment in the Linux desktop has not been great enough to justify the plethora of Linux desktops out there, so by now having reached a position where Canonical, Endless, Red Hat and Suse again share one desktop technology stack

Canonical Elimniating Jobs

Reportedly 30 to 60% of staff could be let go depending upon what comes of these outside investments. But the headcounts are going up in areas of security, cloud, and other money-making enterprise efforts.

• Staff, projects shed as Ubuntu maker Canonical tries to lure investors • The Register

In the best-case scenario, The Reg understands, departments would suffer a 30 per cent headcount reduction but in the worst it was 60 per cent. It’s not clear how many staff have gone, but Canonical is believed to have a workforce of 700.

• unity8org – A fork of unity 8

• From the Canyon Edge: ThankHN: A Thank-You Note to the HackerNews Community, from Ubuntu

• Drop MIR/Unity for Wayland/Gnome (351 weight)

• Release/GA Unity 8 (15 weight)
• Easily, the most heavily requested, major change in this thread was for Ubuntu to drop MIR/Unity in favor of Wayland/Gnome. And that’s exactly what Mark Shuttleworth announced in an Ubuntu Insights post here today. There were a healthy handful of Unity 8 fans, calling for its GA, and more than a few HackerNews comments lamenting the end of Unity in this thread.

Welcome to Gnome and Wayland

Unity will Continue as a Fork

Lightworks 14 Released

Like a sequel to the Expendables, Lightworks 14.0 is packed to the rafters with cameos from features you always knew were there, but had sort of forgotten all about.

Part of the ‘old dog, new tricks‘ vibe is thanks to the top-to-toe redesign the non-linear editor is sporting. Lightworks’ new look (called “Fixed”, funnily enough) addresses the software’s most oft cited criticism: that it’s hard to use. Thew new layout aims to offer a “more organised” workspace, and help you discover, learn, and use the editor’s various features.

Light works supports Ubuntu 16.10 or later — sorry LTS users. You won’t be able to export to MP4 or MOV; you can’t import WMV; and there’s no FX plugin-support.

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XPS 13 Kaby Lake Sputnik Review

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The New XPS 13 Developer Edition Lands in Europe, United States and Canada

Today, on the 59th anniversary of the launch of the Sputnik satellite, the 6th generation XPS 13 developer edition makes its debut in both the US, Canada and Europe. This Kaby Lake-based system comes with Ubuntu 16.04LTS preloaded and features the InfinityEdge display

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Runs Linux

Mavizen’s 130 MPH TTX02 Electric Motorcycle Runs on Linux

Here are some more specs:

• Top Speed: 130 MPH
• Core operating system is open source Linux
• USB based system bus allows virtually unlimited number of peripherals to extend the capabilities of the machine with plug’n’play

Desktop App Pick

Undistract Me

Notifies you when long-running terminal commands complete.

Distro of the Week

NIxOS

NixOS is a Linux distribution with a unique approach to package and configuration management. Built on top of the Nix package manager, it is completely declarative, makes upgrading systems reliable, and has many other advantages.

— NEWS —

Linux pioneer Munich poised to ditch open source and return to Windows

At a meeting next week, city leaders are expected to back proposals to switch to Windows 10 by 2021.

• 4365792.pdf

The Skype Linux App Will Stop Working on March 1

That e-mail goes on to state that version 4.3 of Skype for Linux will no longer work after March 1, 2017.

Civilization VI released for Linux, video and port report

Aspyr Media have officially released the Linux port of Civilization VI [Steam] and after testing it here’s some thoughts.

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• Name: Dana L

• Subject: Mirrored Hard Drives

• Message:

Greetings guys!

After a recent ad on MY computer that was running Windows 10 (Grammy’s) I just had enough. I currently have Linux installed on a 500 GB hard drive, and Windows 10 still exists on a 1 TB boot drive, with REFS mirrored for Media on 2 x 2 TB drives.

I’d like to mirror the 2 x 2 TB drives for the Media, and perhaps move my /home directory over to the 1 TB drive. No software raid, and was thinking of using ZFS.

I’m running Antergos on my desktop and laptop, so I’d appreciate any pointers, since last time I tried ZFS with Antergos a kernel update trashed things.

I’m familiar with ZFS somewhat, but only under *BSD and I’ve been running Linux on and off since the pre 1.0 kernel.

Btw, I’d like this to be a stable running system.

Thanks for all the shows, you guys rock.

• Name: Jim B

• Subject: ThinkPads now shipping with Linux

• Message:

ThinkPad P51s, P51, and P71 announced with options for Linux preinstalled.
Guessing you probably saw this but Linux preinstalled as option now.

Lenovo unveils refreshed line of Windows 7 and Windows 10 powered ProThinkPad P-series laptops

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KDE – Plasma 5.9 Kicks off 2017 in Style.

Tuesday, 31 January 2017. Today KDE releases this year’s first Plasma feature update, Plasma 5.9. While this release brings many exciting new features to your desktop, we’ll continue to provide bugfixes to Plasma 5.8 LTS.

Black market Blackphones get sent a kill message that bricks them [Updated] | Ars Technica

A reader in Germany contacted Ars after the update “bricked” his phone, which he had purchased through eBay. “The Blackphone 2 I’ve received came in retail packaging and looks just like the one that you guys reviewed,” the reader told Ars. “It worked up to Silent OS 3.0.7 Silent OS, [but] 3.0.8 seems to intentionally brick the baseband on some devices.”

TING

• Ting – mobile that makes sense

macOS patches for Dell XPS 13 9350

This project targets at giving the relatively complete functional macOS for XPS13 9350. Before you start, there’s a brief introduction of how to finish powering up macOS on your laptop

• Dell XPS 15 Kaby Lake w/ Nvidia 1050 review

Re: RAID56 status?

I’d like to update the wiki to “More and more RAID5/6 bugs are found”

OK, no kidding, at least we did exposed several new bugs, and reports
already exists for a while in mail list.

Some examples are:

1) RAID5/6 scrub will repair data while corrupting parity
   Quite ironic, repairing is just changing one corruption to
   another.

2) RAID5/6 scrub can report false alerts on csum error

3) Dev-replace cancel sometimes can cause kernel panic.

And if we find more bugs, I’m not surprised at all.

So, if really want to use RAID5/6, please use soft raid, then build
single volume btrfs on it.

I’m seriously considering to re-implement btrfs RAID5/6 using device
mapper, which is tried and true.

• Re: RAID56 status?

• Flash-Friendly File System
  

+The SGI XFS Filesystem

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Shutting down FTP services

Building a local Steam caching server to ease the bandwidth blues | Ars Technica

SteamPipe is used to deliver what the client needs, be it a whole game or just an update, in roughly megabyte-size chunks. (Chunking like this allows developers to publish updates without having to push a whole new game package—they just invalidate old chunks and upload new ones.) As Valve points out on the SteamPipe developer community page, SteamPipe uses plain ol’ HTTP rather than a proprietary protocol. And that gives us the opportunity to stick our fingers into the process and mess with it.

How things will work with our Steam caching server if what we want isn’t in cache.

#

`DigitalOcean

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Teleconsole

Teleconsole is a free service to share your terminal session with people you trust.
Your friends can join via a command line via SSH or via their browser over HTTPS.
Use this to ask for help or to connect to your own devices sitting behind NAT.

• Gravitational Teleport
• Oh My Giraffe

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Welcome the new Ubuntu-based Precision line-up — Mobile Workstations plus a new All-in-One

Today I am excited to announce the next generation of our Ubuntu-based Precision mobile workstation line. Not only have we rev’d the current line-up but we have also added the Precision 5720 All-in-One. This follows the introduction back in October of the 6th generation XPS 13 developer edition.

TING

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Raspberry Pi’s PIXEL Linux desktop environment now available for x86 PCs | Ars Technica

PIXEL (which is a clunky backronym for Pi Improved Xwindows Environment, Lightweight) is an extensively modified version of the LXDE X11 desktop environment. It was originally released in September for use with _Raspberry Pi_single-board computers, but now it has also been _packaged up for x86 PCs.

KillDisk Ransomware Targets Linux; Demands $250,000 Ransom, But Won’t Decrypt Files

What is KillDisk?

KillDisk is a destructive data wiping malware that has previously been used to sabotage companies by randomly deleting files from the computers.

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Intel’s Compute Card is a PC that can fit in your wallet | Ars Technica

Intel told us that processors with a TDP of up to 6W could fit inside the Compute Cards, which covers both low-power Atom chips like those that powered early versions of Intel’s Compute Stick to full Core M and Y-series Core i5 and i7 CPUs like the ones you find in laptops.

From OSX to Ubuntu

A year earlier I decided to switch from OSX to Ubuntu, so now is a good time to make a little retrospective. TL;DR: Linux now offers a pleasant desktop user experience and there’s no way back for me.

Mac’s share falls to five-year low

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Late Night Linux – Episode 01

In Episode 01 of Late Night Linux we talk about Desktop Linux market share, KDE Neon, Ubuntu Touch, what we think will happen in 2017, CyanogenMod becoming Lineage OS and loads more.

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Noah joins us in studio for a fun edition of Unplugged! Updates are landing on Ubuntu Phones, the ridiculous work around for a major performance boost on AMD cards, the real problem with Dell’s latest Ubuntu laptops & more!

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• jangouts/jangouts · GitHub

Videoconferencing based on WebRTC and Janus Gateway with an UI inspired by Google Hangouts

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• A new version of Ubuntu MATE Welcome is ready for testing in the PPAs for 14.04, 15.04 and 15.10

TING

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We take a look at sleeping away fear, lunar formation, neonatal hypoglycemia, sending messages to interstellar space, viewer feedback, Curiosity news, and as always take a peek back into history and up in the sky this week.

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Sleep and Fear

• A fear memory was reduced in people by exposing them to the memory over and over again while they slept
• The Study
• Scientists have shown that sleep is very important for strengthening new memories
• Previous projects have shown that spatial learning and motor sequence learning can be enhanced during sleep
• If the results of this new study continue to show promising results it will be the first time that emotional memory have been manipulated in humans during sleep
• What it Could Mean
• It offers the potential of a new way to enhance typical daytime treatments of phobias, through exposure therapy by adding a nighttime component
• If it can be extended to pre-existing fear, the bigger picture is that, perhaps, the treatment of phobias can be enhanced during sleep.\”
• The Test
• 15 healthy human subjects received mild electric shocks while seeing two different faces
• Subjects also received different odorants to smell with each face such as woody, clove, new sneaker, lemon or mint
• This caused the brain to associate the faces and corresponding smells with fear
• During the slow wave sleep state, when memory consolidation is thought to occur, a smell was represented without the corresponding face and shock
• When a given smell was reintroduced during sleep, it was activating the memory of that face over and over again
• The Results
• When the subjects woke up they saw the face linked to the smell they had been exposed to during sleep
• Their fear reactions were lower than their fear reactions to the other face
• Fear was measured in two ways, through small amounts of sweat in the skin, similar to a lie detector test and through neuroimaging with fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging).
• The fMRI results showed changes in regions associated with memory and changes in patterns of brain activity in regions associated with emotion
• These brain changes reflected a decrease in reactivity that was specific to the targeted face image associated with the odorant presented during sleep
• Further Reading / In the News
• First evidence that fear memories can be reduced during sleep | MedicalXpress.com

— NEWS BYTE —

Lunar Formation and Age

• New research suggests that the moon is younger than scientists had previously believed
• Current Leading Lunar Formation Theory
• Suggest that the Moon was created when a mysterious planet, one the size of Mars or larger, slammed into the Earth about 4.56 billion years ago, just after the solar system came together
• New analyses of lunar rocks suggest that the moon, is actually between 4.4 billion and 4.45 billion years old
  +This analysis would mean the moon would 100 million years younger than previously thought and would reshape scientists\’ understanding of the early Earth
• Opens New Questions
• Giving the Earth another 100 million years of development before a giant impact could have provided enough time for a primordial atmosphere to develop
• If that did have time to occur, could an impact have been able to \’blown off\’ that atmosphere
• Age of Smaller Solar System Bodies
• Scientists are very sure that the solar system\’s age is 4.568 billion years
• They can pin down the formation times of relatively small bodies such as asteroids precisely
• By noting when these objects underwent extensive melting, from the heat generated by the collision and fusion of these objects\’ building-block \”planetesimals.\”
• Analysis of meteorites that came from the asteroid Vesta and eventually rained down on Earth reveals that the 330-mile-wide (530 kilometers) space rock is 4.565 billion years old
• Vesta cooled relatively quickly and is too small to have retained enough internal heat to drive further melting or volcanism
• Age of Larger Solar System Bodies
• The age of larger solar-system bodies is harder to narrow down
• Earth likely took longer to grow to full size compared to a small asteroid like Vesta
• Every step in its growth tends to erase, or at least cloud, earlier events
• Lunar formation Impact Event
• Currently the \’lunar formation impact event\’ puts the age of the Moon at around 4.56 billion years ago
• As scientists refine techniques and technology improves, estimates are pushing the moon\’s formation date farther forward in time
• The moon is thought to have harbored a global ocean of molten rock shortly after its formation
• Currently, the most precisely determined age for the lunar rocks that arose from that ocean is 4.360 billion years
• Here on Earth, scientists have found signs in several locations of a major melting event that occurred around 4.45 billion years ago
• Evidence is building that the catastrophic collision that formed the moon and reshaped Earth occurred around that time, rather than 100 million years or so before
• Multimedia
• YouTube | Where Did The Moon Come From? – Do We Really Need the Moon? – Preview – BBC Two | BBC
• YouTube | The formation of the Moon | piesforyou
• Further Reading / In the News
• The Moon Is 100 Million Years Younger Than Thought | Space.com

— TWO-BYTE NEWS —

Infant Blood Sugar

• Newborns with low blood sugar sometimes have to go to the intensive care unit for intravenous infusions of glucose
• A new study has found that rubbing a sweet gel onto the insides of babies’ cheeks can also help with low blood sugar
• Neonatal Hypoglycemia
• Low blood sugar in newborns, or neonatal hypoglycemia, occurs when the tiny body needs more glucose to meet energy needs than is available in the bloodstream
• Prolonged hypoglycemia risks neurological injury.
• Prevalence
• Low blood glucose shows up in 5 to 15 percent of otherwise healthy newborns as measured by blood tests
• Of note, doctors typically don’t run the analysis on every newborn
• Doctors often only call for blood sugar blood tests if they see symptoms, such as poor color, seizures, irritability, lethargy, jittery behavior and a lack of interest in feeding
• Although many infants with low blood glucose don’t have such symptoms
• One report designates at-risk infants as those who are born preterm, have diabetic mothers, or are either large or small for their gestational age
• The Study
• In the new study, researchers identified 237 apparently healthy newborns who had one of those risk factors or who were feeding poorly
• Half of the babies were randomly assigned to get a gel made of dextrose, a form of glucose, rubbed on the inner cheeks up to six times over 48 hours; the rest received a placebo gel
• Results in the Following Week
• Placebo gel group | 30 babies, 25%, were placed in intensive care for hypoglycemia
• Dextrose gel group | 16 babies, 13%, were placed in intensive care for hypoglycemia
• Previous Usage
• Dextrose had been tried in the 1990s as an oral rub for infants but wasn’t fully tested or put into widespread use
• Further Reading / In the News
• Dextrose rub helps newborns with low blood sugar | Body & Brain | Science News

New Horizons Message Initiative

• SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) have created a petition called the New Horizons Message Initiative
• This petition is asking NASA officials to upload a yet-to-be-determined crowdsourced message from humanity onto the New Horizons craft after its encounter with the Pluto system
• \”This website is an opportunity for anyone who is interested to sign a petition that asks NASA to approve the future use of the spacecraft\”
• Were There Plans About This from NASA?
• Before New Horizons launched, NASA officials discussed including an onboard message, but decided against it due to a small team on a tight budget
• The team didn\’t want to get distracted from the project
• New Horizons Message Initiative
• The group would need formal permission from the agency and sub-support to make this happen
• NASA funds will not be used for the project, but initiative officials are asking for support from private individuals.
• The idea is to use some of the spacecraft\’s memory to store messages from earthlings beamed up to the probe, when New Horizons completes its mission
• They say that it might be possible to reprogram about 100 megabytes of its memory and upload a new sights and sounds of Earth
• Further Reading / In the News
• Want to Phone Aliens? Help Get Your Messages On NASA\’s Pluto-Bound Spacecraft | Space.com
• New Horizons Message Initiative
• Twitter | New Horizons Message @NewHorizonsMsg

— VIEWER FEEDBACK —

Lightsaber Tech?!?!?!

• Viewer Feedback : Check This Out
• Nikki, Summer SciByte co-host, current STOked radio co-host
• What’s Going On?
• Researchers have found a way to bind photons together much like molecules
• This discovery goes against what scientists previously understood of photons: that elementary light particles are massless loners that do not interact with each other.
• Most of the properties of light we know about originate from the fact that photons are massless, and that they do not interact with each other
• The Test
• Researchers fired a couple of photons into a cloud of rubidium – a chemical element belonging to the metal group – in a vacuum chamber cooled to just a few degrees above absolute zero.
• When the photons exited the other side of the cloud of atoms the researchers were surprised to see the pair emerge as a single molecule.
• The cloud they passed through is a special type of medium in which photons interact with each other strongly that they begin to act as though they have mass, and they bind together to form molecules
• Rydberg Blockade
• Rydberg blockade states that when an atom has energy imparted to it, nearby atoms cannot be excited to the same degree
• The pair of photons moved through the cloud of atoms, the first photon excited atoms, but had to move forward before the second photon could do the same.
• The pair of photons pushed and pulled each other through the cloud like atomic interaction, which made these two photons behave like a molecule
• The Future
• The team is hoping to use their newly discovered state of matter in the advancement of quantum computing
• Further Reading / In the News
• Researchers at Harvard University and MIT discover previously unobserved state of matter by binding photons together into molecules, creating real-life \’lightsaber\’ | CTVNews

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— CURIOSITY UPDATE —

• Water in the Soil
• The Curiosity rover team has now revealed that the first scoop of soil analyzed by the rover showed several percent water by weight
• The data showed about 2% of the soil on the surface of Mars is made of up water
• The sample also released significant carbon dioxide, oxygen, and sulfur compounds when heated
• Organics would not likely preserved in surface soils, which are exposed to harsh radiation and oxidants
• The team says that the layer of surface soil that has been mixed and distributed by frequent dust storms, so that a scoop of this stuff is basically a microscopic Mars rock collection
• Another Ancient River
• Curiosity has discovered a new patch of pebbles formed and rounded eons ago by flowing liquid water
• The new finding at a sandstone outcrop called ‘Darwin’ during a brief science stopover spot called ‘Waypoint 1’.
• This discovery is important because it significantly broadens the area here that was altered by flowing liquid water
• The other location that showed ancient fluid flow was at Yellowknife Bay where the mission spent it\’s first six months exploring
• Because the veins are different, we know that they were made at different times in history
• Further analysis of any other locations like this will help scientists to get a better idea of when and where the water flowed in this location
• Multimedia
• Image Galleries at JPL and Curiosity Mulimedia
• Pebbly Sandstone Conglomerate Rock at Curiosity\’s Waypoint 1 | mars.jpl.nasa.gov
• Social Media
• Curiosity Rover @MarsCuriosity
• Further Reading / In the News
• [Pebbly Sandstone Conglomerate Rock at Curiosity\’s Waypoint 1 | mars.jpl.nasa.gov(https://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/images/?ImageID=5564)
• Mars rover Curiosity finds water in first sample of planet surface | Phys.org
• Curiosity Discovers Patch of Pebbles Formed by Flowing Martian Water on Mount Sharp Trek | UniverseToday.com
• Curiosity Finds Water And Poison In Martian Soil | Popular Science
• Curiosity gets the dirt on Mars | Atom & Cosmos | Science News
• NASA\’s Curiosity Rover Finds More Signs that Ancient Mars Had Water | Space.com

SCIENCE CALENDAR

Looking back

• Oct 04, 1958 : 55 years ago : Sputnik : The Space Age began as the Soviet Union, to the dismay of the United States, launched Sputnik, the first manmade satellite, into orbit around the earth. The craft circled the earth every 95 minutes at almost 20,000 miles per hour 500 miles above the Earth. The Sputnik (meaning \”companion\” or \”fellow traveller\”) was launched from Kazakhstan. It stayed in orbit for about three months. Sputnik fell from the sky on 4 Jan 1958. The 184-lb satellite had transmitted a radio signal picked up around the world, and instrumentation for temperature measurement
• Wikipedia Sputnik

Looking up this week

• Keep an eye out for …
• For the next two weeks you might be able to spot the “false dawn” , also known as Zodiacal light. Caused by sunlight scattered by space dust in the zodiacal cloud, it is so faint that either moonlight or light pollution renders it invisible. YouTube Zodiacal Light from Rozhen | emivanov1
• Thurs, Oct 3 | 12-1 am local | Jupiter rises and climbs higher until dawn
• Fri, Oct 4 | Twilight | Cassiopeia is high in the NE, shaped like a broad W nearly on its end
• Tri, Oct 4 | Twilight | The Big Dipper is lowering in the NW
• Planets
• Venus and Saturn | Are both low in the W-SW during twilight. Saturn is much fainter and is 17* to the right of Venus on Friday (15* ~ pinky to pointer finger stretched out held at arms length)
• Mars | ~3am local | Rises in the E, below Mars is blue-white \’star\’ Regulus (actually two binary stars orbiting each other). They are separated by roughly 6* on the 5th (5* ~ your three middle fingers held together at arms length)

• Jupiter | Rises ~ midnight | Rises in the E and is in he high E-SE by early dawn

• Further Reading and Resources

• Sky&Telescope
• SpaceWeather.com
• StarDate.org
• For the Southern hemisphere: SpaceInfo.com.au
• Constellations of the Southern Hemisphere : astronomyonline.org
• Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand : rasnz.org.nz
• AstronomyNow
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We take a look at a scientific excuse to eat chocolate, shifting plate tectonics, measuring a black hole, a possible new element, comet’s, statue’s, updates on Google Maps, crowdsourcing science, spacecraft and Curiosity updates, and as always take a peek back into history and up in the sky this week.

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