have found more real-life versions of Luke Skywalker's home planet Tatooine from "Star Wars" — alien worlds that see two suns rise and set each day instead of one. And these two newfound worlds are also extremely close to the habitable zones of their parent stars, scientists say.

The discovery cements what appears to be a new class of twin sun alien planets and may help astronomers estimate how many of such binary stars possess planets. The finding also suggests that many planets might lie in the habitable zones of such systems, researchers said.



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A powerful flare erupted from the sun Thursday, Jan. 19, unleashing a plasma wave that may supercharge the northern lights for skywatchers in high latitudes this weekend.

The solar flare occurred at about 11:30 am EST (1600 GMT) and touched off a massive solar explosion — known as a coronal mass ejection — aimed at Earth, space weather experts and officials said. The charged particles from the sun explosion should reach Earth by Saturday night (Jan. 21), and could amp up northern lights displays when they hit the upper atmosphere.



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November 19th at Swantner Park, start time will be 7pm.



January 14th 2012 at PINS (Padre Island National Seashore) 7pm

February 4th at PINS 7pm

March 17th at PINS 730pm

April 28th at PINS 8pm



Note of interest:
The Texas Star Party 2012 starts on April 15th through the 22nd in Fort Davis Texas. Visit http://texasstarparty.org/ for details.

Start time is 730pm, not sure about the outside activities (moon watch) as the clouds and threats of a thunderstorm are fairly prominent. We'll see though. Hope to see you there.

10-08-2011 730pm

As of right now, the website is being rebuilt due to backside software issues at the previous host, I've moved us to a new host. Stay tuned for further notice.

The next meeting of the CCAS will be at 730pm on the 9th of Sept on the 4th floor of the Science and Technology Bldg at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi. Hope to see you there.

This is primarily a business meeting to discuss upcoming events and club business. It's open and free to the public.