The Young Astronomers Newsletter

The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 26 Number 1 January 2018

By Bob Patsiga

In this month’s edition of the newsletter Bob discusses:

• NASA needing to adjust Voyager-1’s attitude to better communicate with Earth, resort to creative engineering solutions to further ensure its mission duration.
• Researchers at CERN have discovered methods to isolate and capture small amounts of anti-matter, They have made initial studies of what they have captured.
• Astronomers in Australia have found the oldest galaxy to date, 10.7 Billion years old.
• The anniversary of the launch of Sputnik-1 and the implications it had for the United States space program and education system.
• Attempts by astronomers to detect exo-moons orbiting exo-planets.
• Astronomical birthdays for January.
• Celestial happenings in January.

And this month’s newsletter includes astronomical history matching game.