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World's largest telescope to be mounted in Namibia to monitor the Milky Way Farm Goellschau in the Khomas Highland in Namibia will soon be the home of HESS II, the world's largest telescope. HESS is an acronym for High Energy Stereoscopic System and the system will be the largest telescope of its type...
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eXtreme Deep Field
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Hubble Goes to the eXtreme to Assemble Farthest Ever View of the Universe Like photographers assembling a portfolio of best shots, astronomers have assembled a new, improved portrait of mankind's deepest-ever view of the universe. Called the eXtreme Deep Field, or XDF, the photo was assembled by...
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Deep blank field catalogue
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Title: Deep blank field catalogue for medium- and large-size telescopes Authors: F. M. Jiménez-Esteban, A. Cabrera-Lavers, N. Cardiel, J. M. Alacid The observation of blank fields, defined as regions of the sky that are devoid of stars down to a given threshold magnitude, constitutes one of the m...
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Astronomical unit
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Appearances aside, the stars are not eternal and the planets do not move with clockwork precision. For these reasons, one astronomer is proposing that his colleagues ditch the astronomical unit, or AU, as the standard measure of distance within the solar system. One AU is roughly the average dista...
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Anoushe Ansari
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The Russian Federal Space Agency officially announced that Iranian born Anoushe Ansari would travel in space on the Soyuz aircraft next spring. It is not an official Russian-Iranian flight, since Ms. Ansari, a U.S. citizen, is to fund the flight on her own to become the first female space to...
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WIYN telescope
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WIYN telescope to get billion-pixel camera The number of larger-aperture telescopes is growing, but size isn't all that matters in a research telescope. Also important is how much of the sky the telescope can clearly image. A telescope used by Indiana University astronomers and their colle...
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Amalthea
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Amalthea was discovered by the exceptionally keen eyesight of American astronomer Edward Barnard in 1892 using the 36 inch (91 cm) refractor telescope at Lick Observatory. This was the first discovery of a Jovian moon since Galileo's discovery in 1610.
Barnard's dis...
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Comet C/2008 S3 (Boattini)
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Comet C/2008 S3 (Boattini) was discovered on he 29th September, 2008, by A. Boattini (Mt Lemmon Survey). The preliminary orbital elements of the comet indicate a perihelion passage on the 4th April, 2011, at a distance of 3.1 AU from the Sun. [url=http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/mpec/K08/K08S96....
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New Exoplanet Surveys
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Title: New Exoplanet Surveys in the Canadian High Arctic at 80 Degrees North Authors: Nicholas M. Law, Suresh Sivanandam, Richard Murowinski, Raymond Carlberg, Wayne Ngan, Pegah Salbi, Aida Ahmadi, Eric Steinbring, Mark Halman, James Graham Observations from near the Eureka station on Ellesm...
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LITTLE THINGS
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Title: Little Things Authors: Deidre A. Hunter, Dana Ficut-Vicas, Trisha Ashley, Elias Brinks, Phil Cigan, Bruce G. Elmegreen, Volker Heesen, Kimberly A. Herrmann, Megan Johnson, Se-Heon, Michael P. Rupen, Andreas Schruba, Caroline E. Simpson, Fabian Walter, David J. Westpfahl, Lisa M. Youn...
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Astronomy for Development programme
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International Astronomical Union's Office of Astronomy for Development makes landmark agreements The International Astronomical Union's (IAU) Office of Astronomy for Development (OAD) programme is announcing a number of exciting new partnerships that will assist with the IAU's decadal st...
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Send message into space
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Chance to send message into cosmos Australians will bombard the nearest Earth-like planet outside our solar system with text messages of peace during National Science Week, which begins on Saturday. The messages are not expected to arrive at their destination until 2029, because the planet, Gli...
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Earth's north magnetic pole is drifting away from North America and toward Siberia .
After some 400 years of relative stability, Earth's North Magnetic Pole has moved nearly 1,100 kilometres out into the Arctic Ocean during the last century.
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MYStIX
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Title: MYStIX First Results: Spatial Structures of Massive Young Stellar Clusters Authors: Michael A. Kuhn (1), Adrian Baddeley (2), Eric D. Feigelson (1), Konstantin V. Getman (1), Patrick S. Broos (1), Leisa K. Townsley (1), Matthew S. Povich (1,3), Tim Naylor (4), Robert R. King (4), Heather A...
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DeSSpOt
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Title: DeSSpOt: an instrument for stellar spin orientation determination Authors: Anna-Lea Lesage, Magnus Schneide, Günter Wiedemann We designed and constructed a special instrument to enable the determination of the stellar's spin orientation. The Differential image rotator for Stellar...
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