Various astronomy news

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OK, not astronomy, but this might be of interest:
'Interstellar's’ Jonah Nolan Developing ‘Foundation’ Series for HBO, WBTV (Exclusive)
http://www.thewrap.com/interstellars-jo ... exclusive/
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We should probably make this thread *sticky*

Flickerhivemind of 67P, some colour images of the asteroid in there, all of them amazing.
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nozmajner wrote:I love when filmmakers actually put in the effort in these kind of things. Like that spaceship in Avatar was thoroughly designed by some actual physicist as I heard.

And Space Engine actually has gravitational lensing.
I love this sort of attention to details as well.

Speaking of SE, we should really turn to it for ideas, because it does quite a few things better than Pioneer does.
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Dawn Gets Closer Views of Ceres

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Dawn is a space probe launched by NASA in 2007
Dawn Gets Closer Views of Ceres
http://fr.wikinews.org/wiki/La_sonde_Da ... A9r%C3%A8s
and
http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/dawn-gets-close ... -of-ceres/
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I'm linking this here now because I don't want to lose it when it matters :)
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/kiang_01/
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Animation showing the spin of Ceres beneath Dawn NASA Page
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