Title: "Bots, Blood Cells, and Brians: Truly Fearless Engineering"
          by Andrew Beal

Time: 4:00 PM on Thursday
          September 28, 2006

Place: Science Room 334

All students and faculty are welcome to attend our seminars.

Refreshments will be served.

Science News

Astronomers find supernova first spotted in A.D. 185
Nearly 2,000 years ago, Chinese astronomers spotted a bright light materializing in the night sky. Turns out the skywatchers had witnessed the spectacular explosion of a dying star. That was the year 185 AD. Tuesday astronomers said they might have identified the remains from this ancient stellar explosion, now considered the oldest supernova on record.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060928.html

Face on Mars -- Recent Images
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060926.html
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060925.html

Earth as seen From Saturn
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060927.html

Autumnal Equinox: Vertical Lines on the Sunlit Earth
http://astronomy.physics.tamu.edu/Java/Tools/Earth/Sun/

Movie: Magic Quarter with Chriss Angel?
http://astro.sfasu.edu/movies/MagicQuarter.wmv

Movies: The World's Safest Table Saw
http://www.sawstop.com/

The space station is really growing!
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060920.html

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Clear skies,
Dan Bruton
astro@sfasu.edu