Progress M-02M/33P launch on Soyuz-U

GRB 090423: probably the birth of a black hole / Credit: Science@NASA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKfmGQ_SqJA

ほとんどロシアからでしたありかとッ(^_^;)
この動画にリンクしているサイト2,649
MEMBRANA | Зарегистрировано самое раннее событие в жизни Вселенной
http://www.membrana.ru/articles/global/2009/04/29/163000.html
686
Наука и техника KM.RU. Зафиксирована гибель самой древней звезды
http://science.km.ru/magazin/view.asp?id=3762256694C4489A904EEB36A4C49B3A
130億光年の彼方、地球から最も遠くの星の撮影に成功-Technobahn
http://www.technobahn.com/cgi-bin/news/read2?f=200904301543

NASA's Spitzer Telescope Warms Up To New Career - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-078
Spitzer's Warm Mission 05.06.09 "View Vodcast"
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/jpl-spitzer-20090506.html
Spitzer To Get New Mission After Helium Runs Out
NASA's Spitzer Telescope Warms Up to New Career
"The end of the coolant will begin a new era for Spitzer. The telescope will start its "warm" mission with two channels of one instrument still working at full capacity. Some of the science explored by a warm Spitzer will be the same, and some will be entirely new. "
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/may/HQ_09-099_Spitzer_Warms_Up.html

"The Spitzer Space Telescope is close to running out of coolant. Around May 12, the telescope will use up the last drop of the coolant that chills the instruments to just a few degrees above absolute zero."
The Spitzer Space Telescope Speaks Its Mind | Universe Today
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/05/04/the-spitzer-space-telescope-speaks-its-mind/

First two ALMA antennas successfully linked | Portal to the Universe " 6 May 2009,ESO Top News
Scientists and engineers working on the world's largest ground-based astronomical project, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), have achieved another milestone - the successful linking of two ALMA astronomical antennas, synchronised with a precision of one millionth of a millionth of a second - to observe the planet Mars. ALMA is under construction by an international partnership in the Chilean Andes.
http://www.portaltotheuniverse.org/news/view/9730/

Panspermia Flower Power | Universe Today
"Panspermia is a hypothesis that suggests life isn’t an Earth-only affair. However, panspermia remains in the realms of speculation as we haven’t found any examples of extraterrestrial life (so far), let alone the possibility that life may be roaming freely through the vacuum of space.
But panspermia as a life-spreading mechanism remains a possibility."
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/05/06/panspermia-flower-power/

Spatial correlation between submillimetre and Lyman-α galaxies in the SSA 22 protocluster
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v459/n7243/full/nature07947.html
Nature 459, 61 (2009). doi:10.1038/nature07947
Lyman-α emitters are thought to be young, low-mass galaxies with ages of ∼108 yr (refs 1, 2). An overdensity of them in one region of the sky (the SSA 22 field) traces out a filamentary structure in the early Universe at a redshift of z ≈ 3.1 (equivalent to 15 per cent of the age of the Universe) and is believed to mark a forming protocluster. Galaxies that are bright at (sub)millimetre wavelengths are undergoing violent episodes of star formation, and there is evidence that they are preferentially associated with high-redshift radio galaxies, so the question of whether they are also associated with the most significant large-scale structure growing at high redshift (as outlined by Lyman-α emitters) naturally arises. Here we report an imaging survey of 1,100-μm emission in the SSA 22 region. We find an enhancement of submillimetre galaxies near the core of the protocluster, and a large-scale correlation between the submillimetre galaxies and the low-mass Lyman-α emitters, suggesting synchronous formation of the two very different types of star-forming galaxy within the same structure at high redshift. These results are in general agreement with our understanding of the formation of cosmic structure.

International Space Station Daily Report
"Significant Events Ahead (all dates Eastern Time, some changes possible!):
05/06/09 -- Progress M01M/32P undocking & deorbit
05/07/09 -- Progress M-02M/33P launch (on Soyuz-U, 51st rocket of this type"
http://www.nasa.gov/directorates/somd/reports/iss_reports/
日本時間8日午前3時37分

Energia
"At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of Progress M-02M cargo vehicle under the International Space Station program."
http://www.energia.ru/eng/iss/iss19/progress-m-02m/photo_04-29.html

Highlights : Nature
"世界天文年2009を記念して連載されている天文に関する総説で、今週号では、観測天文学における最後の未開拓分野、すなわち最初に出現した星や銀河、大質量ブラックホールの形成を取り上げている。"
http://www.natureasia.com/japan/nature/updates/index.php?id=72029&issue=7243

NASA Announces Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Briefings for Press
Thursday, May 7
4 p.m. -- Exploration Systems
5 p.m. -- Science
6 p.m. -- Space Operations
Friday, May 8
9 a.m. -- Aeronautics
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/may/HQ_M09-076_FY2010_Budget_Briefings.html

水星探査機メッセンジャーによる水星磁気圏における磁気リコネクションの観測
水星磁気圏は地球磁気圏よりも強く太陽磁場の影響に反応している。
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/324/5927/606
水星探査機メッセンジャーによる水星外気圏の観測：マグネシウムの検出と各成分の分布
水星外気圏の高分解能画像から、マグネシウム、カルシウム、ナトリウムそれぞれの空間分布が明らかになった。
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/324/5927/610
水星地殻の進化：水星探査機メッセンジャーによる水星全体の様子
惑星探査機マリナー10号と、水星探査機メッセンジャーの第一、第二接近通過時のデータから、水星表面の大部分が火山起源であることが示唆された。
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/324/5927/613
水星のレンブラント衝突クレーターの進化
レンブラント盆地（Rembrandt basin）と呼ばれるクレーターは、独特な放射状および同心円状の地形パターンを示しており、火山平原からの物質に埋められる途中の段階にある。
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/324/5927/618