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Astronomers say they have found a miniature version of our own solar system 5,000 light years across the galaxy the first planetary system that really looks like our own, with outer giant planets and room for smaller inner planets. The discovery, they said, means that our solar system might be more t...
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Asteroid 6137
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An amateur astronomer called John is celebrating the rare honour of having an asteroid named after him. Asteroid number 6137 is now officially called Johnfletcher, after the retired postman from Tuffley, Gloucester. [url=htt...
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Youngest identical twin stars
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The analysis of the youngest pair of identical twin stars yet discovered has revealed surprising differences in brightness, surface temperature and possibly even the size of the two. The study, which is published in the June 19 issue of the journal Nature, suggests that one of the stars formed sign...
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Asteroid Deflection Research Centre
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Iowa State University has established an Asteroid Deflection Research Centre that will bring together scientists from around the world to develop asteroid deflection technologies. Read more
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Nova in Ophiuchus
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A magnitude 10 nova in Ophiuchus was discovered on the 25th May, 2008, by several Japanese observers; -- K. Nishiyama, Kurume, Fukuoka-ken, and F. Kabashima, Miyaki-cho, Saga-ken -- H. Nishimura, Kakegawa, Shizuoka-ken -- K. Haseda, Toyohashi, Aichi; vi...
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Exoplanet Exploration Program
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Hundreds of planets have been discovered outside of our solar system, but conspicuously absent from the list are ones that resemble Earth. On 29 and 30 May astronomers and scientists from all around the world will gather in Pasadena to discuss how we might find another Earth, and how we might detect p...
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Successful Galactic Hunt
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NASA has scheduled a media teleconference Wednesday, May 14, at 1 p.m. EDT, to announce the discovery of an object in our Galaxy astronomers have been hunting for more than 50 years. Read more
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ESA Vacancy Notice
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ESA has just launched its campaign to recruit the next generation of European astronauts, and is expecting tens of thousands of applications from the best and the brightest across Europe. But it is also looking for men and women with the right stuff to fill challenging positions at all levels, parti...
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Stellar pancakes flamed by massive black holes
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According to two astrophysicists of the Observatory of Paris, the fate of stars which venture too close to a galactic massive black hole could prove even more violent than previously believed. Not only are the stars are crushed into a "pancake" shape by the enormous gravity of the b...
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China & ESA Agreement
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On Friday 18 November, Sun Laiyan, Administrator of the China National Space Administration, and ESA Director General, Jean-Jacques Dordain, signed an Intergovernmental Framework Agreement for space cooperation for peaceful purposes.
The signing ceremony took place in the Diao Yu Tai G...
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JAXA Problems
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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will examine its 16 operational satellites after a spate of minor mechanical glitches in the lunar orbiter Kaguya and other satellites in recent months. It will be the first such inspection of all domestic satellites in service. JAXA hopes the checks will id...
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Newall Telescope
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An archaeological dig in Cambridge has uncovered surprising ancient remains and the foundations of the world's largest telescope of the late Victorian era.
Archaeologists from the University of Cambridge Archaeological Unit, recently working at the site of the new Kavli Institute for Cosmol...
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Indiana Asteroid Program
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The Indiana Asteroid Program began with a borrowed lens and a bet over a chocolate ice cream cone. Almost 60 years later, its final chapter was written with the naming of a heavenly body after one of the most dedicated staff members Indiana University Bloomington's Department of Astronomy has ever s...
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Yellow supergiant eclipsing binary
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Astronomers have spied a faraway star system that is so unusual, it was one of a kind -- until its discovery helped them pinpoint a second one that was much closer to home. In a paper published in a recent issue of the Astrophysical Journal Letters, Ohio State University astronomers and their colleagu...
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Amino acetonitrile
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Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn have detected for the first time a molecule closely related to an amino acid: amino acetonitrile. The organic molecule was found with a 30 metre radio telescope in Spain and two radio interferometers in France and Austra...
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