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Yunnan radio telescope
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Chinese scientists on Monday completed the main part of the radio telescope which will serve China's moon-probe project scheduled for launch in 2007.
The antenna measures 40 metres in diameter, and weighs 400 tons. It's located in southwest China's Yunnan Province and is the country's secon...
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On January 1, the Polish researcher Dr. Grzegorz Pojmanski from Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory discovered his second comet using the ASAS automatic telescope.
After the observation was confirmed on January 4 , the comet was given the name C/2006 A1 (Pojmanski).
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Global dimming
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Two new studies suggest that the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth's surface is increasing...
Previous work had found the opposite trend, leading to a popular theory known as "global dimming".
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Deep Space Network Array
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The US space agency NASA may choose the Northern Cape, in Africa as a site for an array of telescopes and antennae that communicate with spacecraft.
Nasa was considering establishing the Deep Space Network Array (DSNA) to replace the existing Deep Space Network (DSN).
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IRS46
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The Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered some of life's most basic ingredients in the dust swirling around the young star IRS 46. The ingredients --...
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Optical Vortex
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A new optical device might allow astronomers to view extrasolar planets directly without the annoying glare of the parent star. It would do this by "nulling" out the light of the parent star by exploiting its wave nature, leaving the reflected light from the nearby planet to be observed in sp...
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Supernova 2005kj
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A magnitude 16.3, Type IIn, supernova 2005kj, was discovered on the 17th November, 2005, by the Nearby Supernova Factory, in a galaxy in the constellation Hydra.
The supernova is located 82" east and 16".5 south of the centre the galaxy.
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Nova in Scutum
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NOVA SCUTI 2005 Number 2
V477 SCUTI discovery magnitude 10.6 (photographic)
Position(2000): R.A. = 18h 38m 42.93s Dec = -12o 16' 15.6"
Field of view 45 x 60`
Spectra taken Oct. 15.75 UT by R. K. Das, N. M. Ashok...
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Supernova 2005dv
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A Magnitude 14.8 supernova 2005dv, was discovered on 4th of September by the Cortina Astronomical Association (CROSS), in the galaxy NGC 5283 .
It is located 8" west of the centre of the galaxy.
The Type as yet is unknown.
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Nasa news
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The Mars Exploration Rover Spirit has reached the summit of Husband Hill.
A Nasa news briefing on Thursday, September 1st at NASA Headquarters will reveal what Spirit is seeing as well as the current status.
The briefing will begin at 17:00 GMT in the Headquarters auditorium, 300 E St...
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Supernova 2005df
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A magnitude 13.7 Supernova, 2005df, was discovered on the 29th July 2005 by Robert Evans, in the galaxy NGC 1559, located 15" east and 40" north of the nucleus.
The type is unknown, as yet.
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NASA has announced that a news conference will start at 16:00 GMT (12:00 EDT), 18TH August, in the agency's Webb Auditorium, 300 E Street SW, Washington.
Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA's associate administrator for Space Operations, will update the media about plans for the next Space Shuttle miss...
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Tether technology
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A team of university graduate students and faculty from Tennessee, with the help of NASA engineers, have "launched" a subscale spacecraft model and caught it in mid-air with a unique rendezvous or "catch" mechanism.
Their successful demonstration of this mechanism that could grab a payload or...
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Mimas, Dione and Rhea
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Saturn's moon's Mimas, Dione and Rhea, (left to right) on the far side of Saturn's nearly edge-on rings.
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Maser cloud
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A giant cloud in space is emitting regular flashes of laser light, astronomers have shown. The laser is powered by the spinning corpse of a dead star.
The discovery is the first direct proof that laser mechanisms operate in interstellar clouds, says Joel Weisberg of Carleton College in Northfi...
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