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The Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) is an innovative design for a wide-field imaging facility being developed at the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy.
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Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey for Transient Objects
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Fossil lichens
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Scientists declared they have found 600-million-year old fungi-algae symbiotic organism in marine fossils believed to be the ancestors of the earliest land-based lichens ever found, shedding light on the sea-to-land evolution of plant life.
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New Wide Field Near-Infrared Imager for ESO's Very Large Telescope Europe's flagship ground-based astronomical facility, the ESO VLT, has been equipped with a new 'eye' to study the Universe. Working in the near-infrared, the new instrument - dubbed HAWK-I - covers about 1/10th the area of the Fu...
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superfast super-bright X-ray flares
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Mystery cosmic objects light up in X-ray then go dim in an hour In less time than it takes you to get ready for work, some X-ray emitting space objects become hundreds of times brighter than usual, then dim back down. But what those objects are, astronomers haven't yet figured out. In 2003 and 2007, scie...
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Turbulence generated by thunderstorms can drive the multiple east-west jet streams on the giant planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune and explain a long-standing conundrum concerning the puzzling differences between the innermost two planets, Jupiter and Saturn, and the outermost tw...
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Gravitational lensing
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Author: Arlie O. Petters My research deals with the mathematical and physical aspects of gravitational lensing, which is the action of gravity on light. In a typical gravitational lensing scenario, light originates from a distant source like a star, galaxy, or quasar, and experiences deflectio...
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Milky Way Project
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The Milky Way Project aims to sort and measure our galaxy, the Milky Way. Initially we're asking you to help us find and draw bubbles in beautiful infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescope. Understanding the cold, dusty material that we see in these images, helps scientists to learn how stars fo...
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A scientist believes techniques used to find oil and gas in the North Sea could help establish whether life could survive on Mars.
Professor John Parnell, from Aberdeen University, has been studying the Haughton meteor crater using methods for detecting oil and gas underground.
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Warped stars feed black holes to fatten them up Why are supermassive black holes so, well, supermassive? It has long been a mystery how enough matter can reach these cosmic gluttons to swell them to such large sizes. Now it seems the answer could be connected to a starry disc at the heart of the Andromed...
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The Kielder Observatory is a new astronomical facility for the north of England. Kielder, Hexham, Northumberland, UK Permanent telescopes: Meade LX 200 14 inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope with built-in GPS and motor drives, mounted on equatorial wedge, wired for computer connection in war...
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Stellar surface gravity
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Advance in astronomy 'can help find other worlds' The pull of gravity on a distant star can now be measured more accurately, shedding light on other worlds, say astronomers. A team led by Thomas Kallinger of the University of Vienna used data from the Kepler space telescope - which is searching for ot...
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Alpha Centauri D
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Title: A new submm source within a few arcseconds of alpha Centauri: ALMA discovers the most distant object of the solar system Author: R. Liseau, W. Vlemmings, E. O'Gorman, E. Bertone, M. Chavez, V. De la Luz The understanding of the formation of stellar and planetary systems requires the understa...
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Astrosat
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The highly sanitised X-ray optics laboratory located in a corner of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research building, in India, is teeming with activity these days.
Technicians donning protective overalls are working furiously to give the finishing touches to a project which is the firs...
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Title: The serendipitous discovery of a possible new solar system object with ALMA Author: W. Vlemmings, S. Ramstedt, M. Maercker, B. Davidsson The unprecedented sensitivity of the Atacama Large millimeter/submillimeter array (ALMA) is providing many new discoveries. Several of these are se...
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