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Astronomers from Durham University use prototype instrument to observe the total eclipse of the sun Astronomers from Durham University used a prototype of a new instrument being developed in collaboration with a team from Yunnan Astronomical Observatory in China, to observe the outer layers of...
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McCormick Observatory
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The Clark telescope at the McCormick Observatory at the University of Virginia will be undergoing a small but crucial renovation soon -- the polishing of the lens that has scanned the stars for more than 100 years.
Robert and Rose Capon donated $20,000 for the renovation of the 32½-foot...
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Star tourism
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The world is looking up this year - and Tasmania is a good place to do this because it is literally heavenly for astronomers. And because 2009 is the International year of Astronomy, there will be global interest in our night-sky treasures. This year there is expected to be an increase in tourists comi...
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Time Domain Astronomy
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Title: Opening the 100-Year Window for Time Domain Astronomy Authors: Jonathan Grindlay, Sumin Tang, Edward Los, Mathieu Servillat The large-scale surveys such as PTF, CRTS and Pan-STARRS-1 that have emerged within the past 5 years or so employ digital databases and modern analysis tools to acc...
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Plumes of methane identified on Mars[url=http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081021/full...
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CALIFA: The local extragalactic universe unveiled The Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area survey (CALIFA survey), that counts with the participation of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), announces today its first public release of data, offering an unprecedented detailed view...
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When the Arecibo L-Band Feed Array (ALFA) was installed on a misty April morning two years ago, it promised to bring phenomenal new sensitivity to the Arecibo Observatory.
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CFHTLS
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Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey Reveals Dark Secrets of the Universe Astronomers from France and Canada have publicly released the final version of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey (CFHTLS), a unique and powerful multi-color collection of data obtained over 6...
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Vista
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In the heart of Oxfordshire, plans are being readied to ship the final and most crucial parts of another telescope, an all-British project, to the rocky, high-altitude desert in northern Chile.
The arrival of the four metres-wide main mirror, precision-polished at the Rutherford Appleton L...
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Queens University Belfast is one of the founding members of the WASP (Wide Angle Search for Planets) Project. While the prototype camera, WASP0, was constructed in 2000, the Project has its roots to development work at the Isaac Newton Group in the mid-1990's through the CoCAM instruments. [url=...
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Strangelets
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Forget dangers from giant meteors:
Earth is facing another threat from outer space.
Scientists have come to the conclusion that two mysterious explosions in the 1990s were caused by bizarre cosmic missiles.
The two objects were picked up by earthquake detectors as they tore through Eart...
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Galloway Dark Sky Park
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Scotland's Darkest Spot Joins Battle Against Light Pollution Wrecking Our Night Sky It is one of the darkest places in the world a cold and lonely wilderness in the south of Scotland. On a clear night the heart of Galloway Forest Park offers one of Earth's clearest views of the cosmos. Stargazers floc...
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Possible supernova in NGC4214
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A possible magnitude 16 supernova was discovered on the 5th February, 2010, in the barred irregular galaxy NGC4214 in the constellation Canes Venatici. The supernova is located 20" East and 27" North from the center of the galaxy. Position (2000): RA 12 15 41.06, Dec +36 20 02.9
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AAO Observer
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Title: AAO Observer Number 122 (August 2012) Authors: Andrew Green The newsletter of the Australian Astronomical Observatory. In this issue: SPIE Extravaganza; The AAO's Gemini High-resolution Optical SpecTrograph (GHOST) concept; First Cosmological Constraints from the 6dFGS Peculiar V...
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Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey
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Title: CFHTLenS: The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey Authors: Catherine Heymans, Ludovic Van Waerbeke, Lance Miller, Thomas Erben, Hendrik Hildebrandt, Henk Hoekstra, Thomas D. Kitching, Yannick Mellier, Patrick Simon, Christopher Bonnett, Jean Coupon, Liping Fu, Joachi...
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