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EINSTEIN PASSES NEW TESTS

Albert Einstein's 90-year-old general theory of relativity has just been
put through some of its most stringent tests yet, and it has passed each
one with flying colors. Radio observations show that a recently discovered
binary pulsar is behaving in lockstep accordance with Einstein's theory of
gravity in at least four different ways, including the emission of
gravitational waves and bizarre effects that occur when massive objects
slow down the passage of time....

> http://SkyandTelescope.com/news/article_1473_1.asp

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SATURN LIGHTS

As any seasoned night-sky observer will tell you, the best time to glimpse
an aurora is directly after a solar storm. And what's true for Earth,
astronomers recently learned, is also true for Saturn. However, three
papers published in the February 17th issue of NATURE suggest that
Saturn's aurorae behave much differently than those here on Earth, or
anywhere else in the solar system.

The Hubble Space Telescope took spectacular ultraviolet images of Saturn's
southern hemisphere region over a period of several weeks in January
2004....

> http://SkyandTelescope.com/news/article_1470_1.asp

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HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS WEEK'S SKY

* New Moon on Thursday, March 10th.
* Mercury (magnitude -1) is having its best evening apparition of 2005.
Look for it low in the west in evening twilight.
* Saturn (magnitude 0.0, in Gemini) shines brightly very high in south the
during evening, excellently placed for telescopic viewing. It's near
Castor and Pollux (and substantially brighter).

For more details, see This Week's Sky at a Glance and Planet Roundup:

> http://SkyandTelescope.com/observing/ataglance

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