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Title: Chandra Observations of SN 2004et and the X-ray Emission of Type IIp Supernovae Authors: J. Rho, T. H. Jarrett, N. N. Chugai, R. A. Chevalier We report the X-ray detection of the Type II-plateau supernova SN 2004et in the spiral galaxy NGC 6946, using the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. The positi...
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The South African government has approved the establishment of the South African Space Agency.
The agency would be an institutional vehicle for the coordination and implementation of South Africa's national space science and technology programs.
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A University of Florida-led sky survey that may double the number of known planets outside the solar system is part of a major new survey program announced today at the American Astronomical Societys annual meeting in Austin, Texas. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey III, slated to begin mid-year and end...
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Lucky Imaging
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A remarkable new low-cost camera technique is helping UK astronomers find new stars.
A Cambridge team has overcome the problem of turbulence in the atmosphere which makes stars twinkle and hard to see by using a technique known as Lucky Imaging.
Millions of photographs are taken ver...
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WISE Survey
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All WISE Survey Data Now Available to the Public Today, NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and the NEOWISE project released the remaining set of observations collected by the WISE infrared space telescope, making all survey data now available to the public. This latest release of...
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Robert Hooke
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The papers of one of Britains greatest scientists, which were lost for centuries and saved for the nation in a £1 million sale last year, become available to read online today. The innovative digital folio provides unprecedented public access to hundreds of pages of manuscript notes and minutes ke...
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NASA engineers successfully suppressed the blinding light of three stars, including the well-known Vega, by 100 times using the Keck Observatory in Mauna Kea, Hawaii. This breakthrough will enable scientists to detect the dim dust disks around stars, where planets might be forming. Normally th...
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An international project to make the world's most productive ground-based telescope 10 times more capable has reached its halfway mark and is on schedule to provide astronomers with an extremely powerful new tool for exploring the Universe. The National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (V...
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Tidal evolution
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Title: Effect of the stellar spin history on the tidal evolution of close-in planets Authors: Emeline Bolmont, Sean N. Raymond, Jeremy Leconte, Sean P. Matt We investigate how the evolution of the stellar spin rate affects, and is affected by, planets in close orbits, via star-planet tidal intera...
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Planeterrella experiment
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Title: The Planeterrella experiment: from individual initiative to networking Authors: Jean Lilensten, Gabrielle Provan, Sandrine Grimald, Asgeir Brekke, Erwin Fluckiger, Petra Vanlommel, Cyril Simon Wedlund, Mathieu Barthélémy, Philippe Garnier Space weather is a relatively new d...
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VAST
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Title: VAST: An ASKAP Survey for Variables and Slow Transients Authors: Tara Murphy (1), Shami Chatterjee (2), David L. Kaplan, Jay Banyer, Martin E. Bell, Hayley E. Bignall, Geoffrey C. Bower, Robert Cameron, David M. Coward, James M. Cordes, Steve Croft, James R. Curran, S. G. Djorgovski, Sean A...
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Title: 4MOST - 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope Authors: Roelof S. de Jong, Olga Bellido-Tirado, Cristina Chiappini, Eric Depagne, Roger Haynes, Diane Johl, Olivier Schnurr, Axel Schwope, Jakob Walcher, Frank Dionies, Dionne Haynes, Andreas Kelz, Francisco S. Kitaura, Georg L...
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MUCHFUSS project
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Title: MUCHFUSS - Massive Unseen Companions to Hot Faint Underluminous Stars from SDSS Authors: S. Geier, V. Schaffenroth, H. Hirsch, A. Tillich, U. Heber, P. F. L. Maxted, R. H. Ostensen, B. N. Barlow, S. J. O'Toole, T. Kupfer, T. Marsh, B. Gänsicke, R. Napiwotzki, O. Cordes, S. Müller, L. Classen,...
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Cape Canaveral is roughly in the middle of Florida's eastern coastline, just over 75 kilometres east of Orlando.
The first rocket launch from the Cape was Bumper 8 from Launch Pad 3 on 24 July 1950. On February 6, 1959 the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile w...
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The DWARF project
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Title: The DWARF project: Eclipsing binaries - precise clocks to discover exoplanets Authors: T. Pribulla, M. Vanko, M. Ammler - von Eiff, M. Andreev, A. Aslantürk, N. Awadalla, D. Balu'anský, A. Bonanno, H. Boic, G. Catanzaro, L. Celik, P. E. Christopoulou, E. Covino, F. Cusano, D. Dimitrov, P. D...
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