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Jose Luis Ortiz of Sierra Nevada Observatory has seemingly found a very large Trans Neptunian object while checking out some old images from their TNO survey that was started in 2002. They managed to recover the object on the 29th from the Observatorio Astronomico de Mallorca. They measure...
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Comet 17P/Holmes
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The 17th magnitude comet 17P/Holmes currently in the constellation Perseus has rapidly brightened, becoming a magnitude 3, naked-eye object in the evening sky, according to astronomers in Japan, Persia and Europe. A...
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Mira AB
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Mira A (right), a highly evolved red giant star, and Mira B (left), a white d...
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Comet 174P/Echeclus
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Astronomers have found a `complex structure` around coma of Centaur 60558 (it was first reported by Choi and Weissman in late 2005, and originally classified as a Centaur) . The object is now known as comet 174P/Echeclus.
It was imaged using the 1.8 meter Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope on...
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Asteroid 89 Julia
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Astronomers from Canberra will be setting up their scopes along the Bibbenluke - Cathcart Road this Saturday evening for the 9.57pm visit of Asteroid Julia. Read more Asteroid...
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Galaxy Zoo
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A new project known as Galaxy Zoo is calling on members of the public to log on to its website and help classify one million galaxies. The hope is that about 30,000 people might take part in a project that could help reveal whether our existing models of the Universe are correct. Computers users undergo...
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Short-period comets
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Are comets born in great swarms? The puzzling abundance of comets in short solar orbits has led a pair of astronomers to suggest that they are fragments of larger bodies that crumbled as they entered the inner solar system. Short-period comets take less than 200 years to circle the sun and are thought...
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Extrasolar Planets
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Major Scientific Discovery on Extrasolar Planets.
NATURE, the scientific journal, will publish on the 26 January 2006, a major paper on a discovery addressing extra-solar planets.
The European Southern Observatory ESO contributed to this publication and has produced a Video Ne...
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The ancient sea
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The ancient sea was more like a giant salty lake than a rolling ocean, report scientists from Imperial College London in the May edition of the Journal of the Geological Society.
A new computer model that simulates how tides in North West Europe would have behaved 300 million years ago shows a sea wi...
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Solar supernova
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A 1976 study published in the journal Nature showed that strange Xenon, which is made in supernova explosions, is present within the composition of the Sun. Those findings by the UMR and Grambling team were largely dismissed. Now, in the March 31 2005 issue of Nature, a Japanese and French team repor...
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Seti WOW signal
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The Seti WOW signal 6EQUJ5 On August 15, 1977., SETI received a 1 shot signal that many have described as a WOW signal. It involved a short duration high energy pulse. Each of the first 50 columns of the computer printout shows the successive values of intensity (or power) received from the Big Ear radi...
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Alien life
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The chances of finding life somewhere else in the Universe depends on how many planets are capable of supporting life. According to new calculations by astronomers at Open University, as many as half of all star systems cou...
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European Extremely Large Telescope
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ESO, the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere, is taking an important step towards the realisation of a new, giant telescope for Europe's astronomers, by creating the ESO Extremely Large Telescope Project Office. It will be headed by Jason Spyromilio, for...
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Trans-Neptunian objects
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The new Trans-Neptunian objects mentioned in the press earlier this year are being formally announced this week at a planetary conference in Cambridge, England.
Bearing the extremely temporary names 'Xena,'([url=http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/blobrana/database/2003...
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Giant MeerKAT will bring hi-tech astronomy to Karoo, and scientists hope R15bn Square Kilometre Array will follow. How many people know of the big KAT of the Karoo? Not many, because this sleek giant is a major astronomical telescope, which has been developed locally. The MeerKAT, a giant astronom...
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