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S Geminorum
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Maxima of long period variable S Gemini on the 14th March, 2010 Magnitude: 8.0 - 14.7 V Type: Mira Period: 293.23 days Position (2000): RA 07 43 02.520 | Dec +23 26 58.23
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Herbig-Haro (HH) objects
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Hubble Movies Provide Unprecedented View of Supersonic Jets from Young Stars Credit: NASA, ESA, and P. Hartigan (Rice University) A team of scientists has collected enough high-resolution Hubble Space Telescope images over a 14-year period to stitch together time-lapse movies of powerful jet...
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VZ Aquarii
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The cataclysmic variable star VZ Aquarii is in outburst. Date of Outburst: 23rd October, 2008 Magnitude: 11.3 - 17.2 Period: 40.6 days Satellite Period: ? Type: UGSS Position(2000): RA=21h30m24.64s, DE=-02°59'17.1"
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G333.2-0.4 Giant Molecular Cloud
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Title: A Spitzer Space Telescope survey of massive young stellar objects in the G333.2-0.4 giant molecular cloud Authors: Janet P. Simpson, Angela S. Cotera, Michael G. Burton, Maria Cunningham, Nadia Lo, Indra Bains The G333 giant molecular cloud contains a few star clusters and H II regions, pl...
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Le Gentil 3
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Just to the north of Deneb, halfway between Deneb and Herschel's Garnet Star, is the dark nebula Le Gentil 3, or Globular Filament 7 (GF 7, catalogued by Schneider & Elmegreen in 1979). Le Gentil 3 was discovered and catalogued by the French astronomer Guillaume-Joseph-Hyacinthe-Jean-Bapt...
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UZ Serpentis
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The Z Cam-type dwarf nova UZ Serpentis is in outburst Date of Outburst: 4th October 2008 Magnitude: 12.0 - 16.7 Period: 26.4 days Satellite orbit: 0.173 days Type: Dwarf Nova Position(2000): RA=18 11 24.90, Dec= -14 55 33.9
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XO-3 Exoplanetary System
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Title: The Spin-Orbit Misalignment of the XO-3 Exoplanetary System Authors: Joshua N. Winn, John Asher Johnson, Daniel Fabrycky, Andrew W. Howard, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Norio Narita, Ian J. Crossfield, Yasushi Suto, Edwin L. Turner, Gil Esquerdo, Matthew J. Holman We present photometric and spec...
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Sino-German 6cm Polarisation Survey
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Polarised Radio Emission of the Milky Way Urumqi Radio Telescope finds new Supernova Remnants in the framework of Sino-German Cooperation The Sino-German polarisation survey of the Galactic plane has used the Urumqi 25-m telescope of the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory to conduct continuu...
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WASP-13b
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Title: The 0.5 Jupiter mass transiting exoplanet WASP-13b Authors: I. Skillen, D. Pollacco, A. Collier Cameron, L. Hebb, E. Simpson, F. Bouchy, D.J. Christian, N.P. Gibson, G. Hébrard, Y.C. Joshi, B. Loeillet, B. Smalley, H.C. Stempels, R.A. Street, S. Udry, R.G. West, D.R. Anderson, S.C.C. Bar...
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HESS J1825-137
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A team of astronomers from France and South Africa announced the first catalogue of a new type of gamma-ray source, a dozen clouds of “relic” radiation from dead stars that reveal information about the energetic past of these celestial objects. These findings were presented on Feb. 5, 2007 at the fi...
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G117-B15A
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After 31 years of tracking the light-output of a 400 million-year-old white dwarf called G117-B15A, (RY LMi) located in Leo Minor, from telescopes at McDonald Observatory, astronomer S.O. Kepler of Brazil’s Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul and a slew of University of Texas colle...
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Sagittarius B2 (North)
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Title: Infall, Fragmentation and Outflow in Sgr B2
Authors: Sheng-Li Qin, Jun-Hui Zhao, James M. Moran, Daniel Marrone, N. Patel, Sheng-Yuan Liu, Yi-Jehng Kuan, Jun-Jie Wang
Observations of H2CO lines and continuum at 1.3 mm towards Sagittarius B2 (North) and S...
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Delphinus
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One of the smallest constellations is reaching its highest point in the southern sky at around midnight local daylight time this week: Delphinus, the Dolphin. It certainly attracted the attention of ancient watchers of the sky, for despite its tiny size and the fact that it only consists of faint st...
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S Orionis
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Two of the World's Largest Interferometric Facilities Team-up to Study a Red Giant Star Using ESO's VLTI on Cerro Paranal and the VLBA facility operated by NRAO, an international team of astronomers has made what is arguably the most detailed study of the environment of a pulsating red giant star. T...
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SV Draconis
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Maxima of long period variable SV Draconis on the 9th March, 2010 Magnitude: 9.1 - 15.0 V Type: Mira Period: 256.24 days Position (2000): RA 18 33 38.42, Dec +49 22 19.8
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