1. Breaking News! Galileo to appear at San Diego 2009 Science Festival– dates forthcoming!
2. U.S. Congress passes resolution H.Con.Res.375 to commemorate the International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009)!

Galileo reunites with  Galileo’s Daughter author Dava Sobel at AAS in St. Louis!

See “Famous People Wandering the Halls of AAS.”

“Certainly I had imagined encounters with Galileo often enough to almost feel his presence in my life, but I never heard the sound of his wonderful singing voice until his alter-ego Mark Thompson serenaded me. Music and humor, like observation and interpretation, helped Galileo make sense of the universe.”

Dava Sobel, world-renowned author of Galileo’s Daughter, Longitude, The Planets, and Letters to Father

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Be sure to see Galileo during his upcoming conjunction at the AAS/ASP convention in St. Louis this comingTuesday, June 3. If you would like him to know that you attendedhis presentation, or if you have a Galileo-sightingat another time in St. Louis, please feel free to add your comment in the box provided.

SHOW UPDATE!!! On Tuesday June 3, 2008, Mark Thompson will present an excerpt from Galileo 1610, Galileo’s Lute and the Law of Falling Bodies, at the 120th annual meeting of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP).

Where: Room 274 -St. Louis Convention Center

When:10:00 a.m. It is the first presentation (62.01)of the Oral Session– IYA: The Arts/Research Experiences.

If you plan to attend, please let Signore Galilei know in the reply section below and leave a comment if you wish.Â

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Three big sunspots have materialized– one causes an M2- class solar flare!

 Credit: SOHO/MDI

 Galileo’s Sunspot Drawing

Io creates glowing spots on Jupiter!

 

On On 3/17 the Moon is 0.3 degree north of the bright open cluster M44 (the Beehive or Praesepe) in Cancer at 14:00 UT.

A pinwheel binary star system in Sagittarius (Wolf-Rayet 104) could go supernova at anytime… and destroy the earth in a flash!

We cannot help but wish that Aristotle finally has it right (though I doubt it)– when he says the world cannot be complete without something that’s free from creation and destruction, and it could not be that such a giant star should jump out all at once, like a stroke of lightning.

Lunar Eclipse Wednesday, Feb. 20!

Man discovered on Mars?