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Title: Young Exoplanet Transit Initiative (YETI) Authors: R. Neuhäuser, R. Errmann, A. Berndt, G. Maciejewski, H. Takahashi, W.P. Chen, D.P. Dimitrov, T. Pribulla, E.H. Nikogossian, E.L.N. Jensen, L. Marschall, Z.-Y. Wu, A. Kellerer, F.M. Walter, C. Briceño, R. Chini, M. Fernandez, St. Raetz...
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Title: Discovery of an Unusual Optical Transient with the Hubble Space Telescope Authors: K. Barbary, K. S. Dawson, K. Tokita, G. Aldering, R. Amanullah, N. V. Connolly, M. Doi, L. Faccioli, V. Fadeyev, A. S. Fruchter, G. Goldhaber, A. Goobar, A. Gude, X. Huang, Y. Ihara, K. Konishi, M. Kowalski, C....
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First photograph of an exo planet
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European and American scientists say they have photographed a planet outside the Solar System for the first time. The European Southern Observatory group said the red image is the first direct shot of a planet around another star. The planet, known as 2M1207b, is about five times the size of Jupiter...
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Title: The Herschel Orion Protostar Survey (HOPS) Authors: Megeath, S. Thomas; Fischer, W.; Ali, B.; Allen, L.; Poteet, C.; Watson, D.; Wilson, T A complete description of the formation of stellar systems, from the initial collapse of a cloud core to the emergence of planets, requires a detailed u...
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SDSS White Dwarf - M Star Library
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Title: The SDSS White Dwarf - M Star Library Authors: René Heller, Axel D. Schwope, Roy H. Ostensen The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), originally targeted at quasi-stellar objects, has provided us with a wealth of astronomical byproducts through the last decade. Since then, the number of white d...
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Kreutz sungrazing
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A new Kreutz sungrazing comet has been discovered in images taken by the SOHO satellite.
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The birth of a black hole was witnessed this morning. (9th May 22:45:53.95 UT)
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The Gamma ray burst GRB050509b was detected by NASA's orbiting Swift telescope, and was most likely the merger of two dense neutron stars.
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Vegetation's Red Edge:
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Vegetation's Red Edge: A Possible Spectroscopic Biosignature of Extraterrestrial Plants
Earth's deciduous plants have a sharp order-of-magnitude increase in leaf reflectance between approximately 700 and 750 nm wavelength. This strong reflectance of Earth's vegetation sugges...
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XPM Catalogue
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Ukrainian astronomers create Europe's largest stars catalogue Scientists from Kharkiv National University Karazin (Eastern Ukraine) created Europe's largest catalogue of the stars. "It describes 300 million space objects, is the second largest star directory in the world". &qu...
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Brookhaven College asteroid search
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Stargazers search for asteroids Brookhaven College students in the astronomy division officially recorded evidence of at least one unidentified object during their autumn asteroid search initiative. The asteroid search was part of the International Astronomical Search Collaboration, als...
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ASTRON
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ASTRON performs first successful astronomical observations with a Focal Plane Array ASTRON has performed the first successful astronomical observations with a so-called Focal Plane Array (FPA), installed on one of the fourteen dishes of the Westerbork telescope. Focal Plane Arrays are clust...
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PSR J1903+0327
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CSIRO astronomers said they are stumped by the formation of an "eccentric" fast-spinning star. Scientists at the Australia Telescope National Facility will today publish their findings in the online journal Science Express on the pulsar, which is called J1903+0327. Astronomer Dav...
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Express Production Real-time e-VLBI Service project
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Telescopes from the four corners of the earth have been successfully linked up to create a real-time virtual telescope, enabling astronomers from the EU-funded Express Production Real-time e-VLBI Service (EXPReS) project to simultaneously observe galaxies in the distant universe. The virtu...
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MONET telescope
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New Sutherland telescope under construction A new telescope specially geared to help learners is under construction at Sutherland in the Northern Cape. The South African Astronomy Observatory says 40% of the telescope's time will be devoted to helping learners in the Southern Hemisphere - via t...
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MIT Optical Rapid Imaging System
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Title: First results from the MIT Optical Rapid Imaging System (MORIS) on the IRTF: a stellar occultation by Pluto and a transit by exoplanet XO-2b Authors: A. A. S. Gulbis, S.J. Bus, J. L. Elliot, J. T. Rayner, W.E. Stahlberger, F. E. Rojas, E. R. Adams, M.J. Person, R. Chung, A. T. Tokunaga, C.A. Zulu...
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