This Week in Space #16

Astronomy Picture of the Day
February 3: Venus and Jupiter in Morning Skies. Credit & Copyright: Babak Tafreshi (TWAN)
February 4: Light Echoes from V838 Mon . Credit: NASA and the Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI)
February 5: A Spider Shaped Crater on Mercury . Credit: MESSENGER, NASA, JHU APL, CIW
February 6: Three Month Composite of Comet Holmes. Credit & Copyright: John Pane
February 7: A Sunspot in the New Solar Cycle . Credit & Copyright: Greg Piepol
February 8: NGC 4013 and the Tidal Stream . Image Credit & Copyright: R Jay Gabany (Blackbird Observatory) - collaboration; D.Martínez-Delgado(IAC, MPIA), M.Pohlen (Cardiff), S.Majewski (U.Virginia), J.Peñarrubia (U.Victoria), C.Palma (Penn State)
February 9: The Bay of Rainbows. Credit & Copyright: Alan Friedman

Cosmic Log by Alan Boyle
February 5: See a dark-matter magnet
February 6: Scientific smorgasbord on the Web
February 7: Take a virtual space voyage

NASA Photo of the Day
February 4: Illusion and Evolution. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Jean-Paul Kneib (Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille) et al.
February 5: Mysterious Galaxy. Image Credit: Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI/M. West X-ray: NASA/CXC/Penn State/G. Garmire
February 6: Mission STS-122 Begins. Image Credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann
February 7: Chrysalis. Image Credit: NASA/Sandra Joseph, Tony Gray, Robert Murray

Sky and Telescope
February 7: NASA Wants You! by Stuart Goldman
February 7: February 20th's Eclipse of the Moon by Alan MacRobert
February 8: This Week's Sky at a Glance by Alan MacRobert

Space.com
February 6: Eyes to the Skies Getting Bigger By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press
February 7: Mercury's Mysteries, Old and New By Clara Moskowitz
February 7: Cosmic Finger Taps Our Galaxy's Shoulder By Jeanna Bryner
February 8: Space Magnetism May Hold Secret to Fusion Power By Jeremy Hsu
February 8: Robotic Observatory Opens on Antarctic Plateau By Bill Christensen
February 9: Hard-To-See Meteor Shower Observed from Arctic By Peter JenniskensPrincipal Investigator, Quadrantid Multi-Instrument Aircraft Campaign, SETI Institute
February 9: Coming Feb. 20: Total Eclipse of the Moon By Joe Rao
February 9: NASA Probe Begins Hunt for Alien Planets By Tariq Malik
February 9: How a Lunar Eclipse Saved Columbus By Joe Rao
February 9: Mystery of Saturn's Watery Moon Solved By Jeanna Bryner

The Space Review
February 4: Not-so-rare Earth? by Taylor Dinerman
February 4: Fire and grace by Dwayne Day