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Date: Oct 23 06:54 2010

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Unknown Brilliant X-Ray Explosion in Milky Way The object -- a binary system -- was revealed recently when an instrument on the International Space Station named MAXI (Monitor of All-Sky X-ray Image) on the Exposed Facility of the Japanese Experiment Module "Kibo" caught it in the act of erupting with a massive blast of X-rays known as an X-ray nova. The MAXI mission team quickly alerted astronomers worldwide to the discovery of the new X-ray source at 2:00 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, 20 October, and NASA's Swift Observatory quickly conducted an urgent "target-of-opportunity" observation nine hours later, which allowed for the location of the X-ray nova to be measured accurately. Read more __________________

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Date: Oct 23 06:53 2010

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MAXI/GSC detects a X-ray transient MAXI J1409-61 The MAXI/GSC has detected a faint X-ray transient, MAXI J1409-619, with a position of (R.A., Dec) = (212.26, -61.95) = (14h09m02s.4, -61d57m00s.0) (J2000) with a typical error of about 0.2 degrees. Read more __________________

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