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Clover project
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A multimillion-pound project to develop a new type of telescope, deemed to be "first-rate science", has been cancelled before its completion by the Science and Technology Facilities Council. The Clover project is jointly run by the universities of Cardiff, Oxford, Cambridge and Man...
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La Silla Observatory
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First Light for Gamma-Ray Burst Chaser at La Silla A new instrument has seen First Light at the ESO La Silla Observatory. Equipping the 2.2-m MPI/ESO telescope, GROND takes images simultaneously in seven colours. It will be mostly used to determine distances of gamma-ray bursts. Taking images in d...
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Supernova 2005gl
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Title: On the progenitor of SN 2005gl and the nature of Type IIn supernovae
Authors: Avishay Gal-Yam (Caltech), D. C. Leonard (SDSU), D. B. Fox (PSU), S. B. Cenko (Caltech), A. M. Soderberg (Caltech), D.-S. Moon (Caltech), D. J. Sand (Steward), W. Li (UCB), A. V. Filippenko (UCB),...
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Multiple Meteorite Magmas
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Cosmochemists have identified six main compositional types of magma that formed inside asteroids during the first 100 million years of Solar System history. These magmas vary in their chemical and mineralogical make up, but all have in common low concentrations of sodium and other volatile elem...
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Plasma Jets
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Jets of charged particles have been caught in the act of forming for the first time in a new laboratory experiment.
The research may help astrophysicists understand how magnetic fields confine jets over hundreds or thousands of light years in length - similar to those that spew from stars and gala...
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Nova in The LMC
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A magnitude 10.6 nova was discovered by W. Liller (Chile) on the 5th February, 2009, in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Position(2000): RA = 05h 40m 44.20s, Dec = -66° 40' 11.6"
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Andrea Boattini
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Italian astronomer Andrea Boattini broke the record for the number of new comets sighted in one year when he spotted his seventh at Christmas. The previous record had been held for some 150 years by Italian astronomers Francesco De Vito and Giovanni Battista Donati who in the mid-1800s sighted six c...
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7 possible supernovas
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The Catalina Real-time Transient Survey has discovered seven possible supernovas. CSS090126:093230+174119 2009-01-26 UT 05:24:01 RA 09:32:30.11 Dec 17:41:19.8 Mag 17.7 Type SN CSS090125:112317+101741 2009-01-25 UT 09:42:38 RA 11:23:16.75 Dec 10:17:41.5 Mag 19.2 Type SN CSS090120:1646...
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Helium Rain
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Helium Rains Inside Saturn, Jupiter And Other Jovian Planets, Research Suggests Models of how Saturn and Jupiter formed may soon take on a different look. By determining the properties of hydrogen-helium mixtures at the millions of atmospheres of pressure present in the interior of Saturn and Ju...
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Comet dust
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Contrary to expectations for a small icy body, much of the comet dust returned by the Stardust mission formed very close to the young sun and was altered from the solar systems early materials. When the Stardust mission returned to Earth with samples from the comet Wild 2 in 2006, scientists knew the m...
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Telescope Networks
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For the first time, a CSIRO radio telescope has been linked to others in China and Europe in real-time, demonstrating the power of high-speed global networks and effectively creating a telescope almost as big as the Earth. Last week a CSIRO telescope near Coonabarabran NSW was used simultaneously...
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Exoplanet research with SAFARI
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Title: Exoplanet research with SAFARI: A far-IR imaging spectrometer for SPICA Authors: J.R. Goicoechea, K. Isaak, B. Swinyard The far-IR spectral window plays host to a wide range of both spectroscopic and photometric diagnostics with which to open the protoplanetary disks and exoplanet rese...
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MAG 29
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A Cornell-led team of astronomers has observed dust forming around a dying star in a nearby galaxy, giving a glimpse into the early universe and enlivening a debate about the origins of all cosmic dust. The findings are reported in the Jan. 16 issue of the journal Science (Vol. 323, No. 5912). Cornell...
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AMIGA project
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Title: Gipsy 3D: Analysis, Visualisation and Vo-Tools Authors: J. E. Ruiz (1), J. D. Santander-Vela (1), V. Espigares (1), L. Verdes-Montenegro (1), J. M. van der Hulst (2) ((1) Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia - CSIC, (2) Kapteyn Astronomical Institute) The scientific goals of the AMIGA pr...
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MicroObservatory online telescope
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Celebrate International Year of Astronomy 2009 by Controlling a real Telescope - The MicroObservatory online telescope network. You can now explore the universe using working telescopes that you control via the Internet free of charge, and have access to your image within 48 hours. Each of the ea...
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