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Astronomers at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have produced the first images of the sky as seen by a prototype of the Long Wavelength Array (LWA), a revolutionary new radio telescope to be constructed in southwestern New Mexico. The images show emissions from the center of our Galaxy, a superm...
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The First Billion Years project
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Title: The First Billion Years project - III: The impact of stellar radiation on the coevolution of Populations II and III Authors: Jarrett L. Johnson, Claudio Dalla Vecchia, Sadegh Khochfar With the first metal enrichment by Population (Pop) III supernovae (SNe), the formation of the first meta...
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Exoplanet Euclid Legacy Survey
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Title: ExELS: an exoplanet legacy science proposal for the ESA Euclid mission I. Cold exoplanets Authors: M.T. Penny, E. Kerins, N. Rattenbury, J.-P. Beaulieu, A.C. Robin, S. Mao, V. Batista, S. Calchi Novati, A. Cassan, P. Fouque, I. McDonald, J.B. Marquette, P. Tisserand, M.R. Zapatero Osorio...
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ACME Spectra project
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Title: ACME Stellar Spectra. I. Absolutely Calibrated, Mostly Empirical Flux Densities of 55 Cancri and its Transiting Planet Authors: Ian J. M. Crossfield The ACME Spectra project provides absolutely calibrated, mostly empirical spectra of exoplanet host stars for use in analysis of the star...
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Yallop algorithm
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Predicting the first visibility of the young lunar crescent for a given location is a problem that has challenged astronomers and mathematicians for more than four millennia. Numerous computational methods and algorithms for predicting the visibility of the lunar crescent have been proposed i...
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V2491 CYGNI
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Koichi Nishiyama and Fujio Kabashima, from Japan have discovered a magnitude 8 Nova in Cygnus on CCD images taken on April 10th. IMAGE (117kb, 618 x 645) Position(2000): R.A. = 19h 43m 01.96s...
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Ultraluminous X-ray sources
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Title: New Hubble Space Telescope imaging of the counterparts to six ultraluminous X-ray sources Authors: T. P. Roberts (1), A. J. Levan (2), M. R. Goad (3) ((1) Durham University, (2) University of Warwick, (3) University of Leicester) We report the results of new Hubble Space Telescope imaging o...
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Supernova 2009nr
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A possible magnitude 13.6 supernova was discovered on the 22nd December, 2009, in the spiral galaxy UGC8255 (MCG+02-34-002) in the constellation Virgo. The supernova is located 36' East and 50' North from the center of the galaxy. Position (2000): RA 03 10 58.95, Dec +11 29 29.3
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Latest ESA Bulletin
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Global environmental change is the most fundamental challenge facing humanity. How are satellites providing the information needed for understanding the effect of increasing human activity? The two lead articles in the latest issue of ESA's magazine tackle the subject. Later this year,...
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Lowell Amateur Research Initiative
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The LARI program hopes to engage the ever-growing and technically sophisticated amateur astronomy community in some exciting research projects with Lowell astronomers. A passionate researcher, Percival Lowell always sought to communicate new ideas and the joy of astronomy research to the pu...
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Open University Mars research
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Funding for Open University research to explore potential for life and habitats of Mars The Open University has received three funding awards, totalling £682,656, from the UK Space Agency's £2M allocation for science associated with Mars exploration. The projects will enhance the UK's scienc...
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The SNP wants Scotland to be home to the UK's first commercial spaceport. Virgin Galactic has already identified RAF Lossiemouth in Moray as a potential launch site, and Angus Robertson, the local MP and the SNP's Westminster leader, is backing the idea. [url=http://news.scotsman.com/scotlan...
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Without knowing the conditions of early Earth, researchers havent been able to answer some fundamental questions of earth science: when the Earths magnetic field originated, how the Earths relationship with the moon changes over time, and when oxygen first appeared in the atmosphere (and, inci...
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AARTFAAC
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Title: AARTFAAC: Towards a 24x7, All-sky Monitor for LOFAR Authors: Peeyush Prasad, Stefan J. Wijnholds The Amsterdam-ASTRON Radio Transient Facility And Analysis Centre (AARTFAAC) project aims to implement an All-Sky Monitor (ASM), using the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) telescope. It will e...
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Possible nova in Sagittarius
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A possible magnitude 12.5 nova was discovered by T. Kojima (Japan) on the 23rd April, 2012, in the constellation Sagittarius. Position (J2000): R.A. 18 11 03.75 | Dec. -27° 17' 27.6''
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