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Wednesday’s CSExtra offers a roundup of space activities from around the globe: In Washington, Congress re-convenes with spending controls high on the agenda; super massive black holes reveal new clues about their activities; a Canadian child astronomer scores a first; photos of the partial solar eclipse from Oman produce a surprise; in Bolivia, the popularity of a hardy grain is on the rise and on the lips of those planning long space missions; a veteran NASA astronaut retires.
1. Spacepolicyonline.com: The new Congress convenes on Wednesday at noon. The Washington space website offers a breakdown of the House and Senate and a summary of the top priority among incoming lawmakers, reducing the federal deficit. However, the new Republican led House and Democratic led Senate are unlikely to agree on the best strategy for achieving that goal.
http://www.spacepolicyonline.com/pages/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1312:budget-cuts-top-priority-as-112th-congress-convenes-tomorrow&catid=67:news&Itemid=27
2. From Science Magazine online: Astrophysicists are changing their minds about why the super massive black holes at the center of some galaxies spew high energy radiation. A previous theory attributed the cause to intergalactic collisions. A new study, based in part on imagery collected by the Hubble Space Telescope, suggests the collisions are not the source.
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/01/collisions-cleared-as-cause-of-g.html?ref=hp
3. From Space.com: On Jan. 2, Kathryn Aurora Gray, 10, of Fredericton in New Brunswick, Canada became the youngest person to discover a supernova. The exploding star UGC 3784 is 240 million light years from the Earth.
http://www.exploredeepspace.com/scienceastronomy/ten-year-old-discovers-supernova-110104.html
4. From MSNBC: A French photographer captures a spectacular picture of this week’s partial solar eclipse from Oman. The image includes a dark trace of the International Space Station as the spacecraft crosses the bright yellow face of the sun.
http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/01/04/5765312-sun-gets-double-crossed?chromedomain=cosmiclog
5. From the Associated Press via the Huntsville Times and others: The story of Quinoa, a nutritious and hardy grain that grows in the most difficult of conditions. Gradually the crop is emerging as an export in places like Bolivia. NASA researchers consider Quinoa a candidate for a food that could be grown by astronauts in space on long missions.
http://www.al.com/newsflash/index.ssf/story/quinoas-popularity-boon-to-bolivians/1b1be92cea8d45019d0dd46a373864fe
6. From Collectspace.com: Long time NASA astronaut Marsha Ivins retires.
http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum38/HTML/001272.html
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