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MaxBCG Catalogue
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Title: A MaxBCG Catalogue of 13,823 Galaxy Clusters from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Authors: B.P. Koester, T.A. McKay, J. Annis, R. H. Wechsler, A. Evrard, L. Bleem, M. Becker, D. Johnston, E. Sheldon, R. Nichol, C. Miller, R. Scranton, N. Bahcall, J. Barentine, H. Brewington,...
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Major scientific achievement
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The online edition of Nature will publish, on 8 January 2007, a major scientific achievement in astronomy, in which European astronomers have participated, using a space telescope with ESA participation.
More details will be posted on the ESA TV Website and on the ESA Web Portal after Sunday nig...
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Mars Solar Conjunction
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Mars Spacecraft During Solar Conjunction.
Every day for the past decade, the U.S. has had a presence at Mars, using spacecraft to understand this extreme world and its potential as a past or present habitat for life.
During that time, all spacecraft have become virtually incommunic...
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SNLS-03D3bb
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A supernova more than twice as bright as others of its type has been observed, suggesting it arose from a star that managed to grow more massive than theoretically predicted. The observation suggests supernovae of this type are not "standard candles" as previously thought, which could affect thei...
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CHXR73B
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CHXR 73 B is one of the smallest companion objects ever seen
A research team led by a Penn State University astronomer has used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to discover and photograph one of the smallest objects ever seen around a normal star beyond our Sun. Weighing in at 12 times the mas...
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Mariner 4 Mystery
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On July 14, 1965, Mariner 4 swooped over Mars. It was a moment of high drama. Six other probes had already tried to reach the red planet and failed. Since the days of H.G. Wells (War of the Worlds, 1898), people had been hearing about life on Mars, and they were ready to see the canals and cities. The wait wa...
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Mars Odyssey Orbiter image
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A nice picture from the Mars Odyssey orbiter. Image released on 6th May 2005.
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Robledo de Chavela
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The Deep Space Network (DSN) that is situated in Spain, California and Australia is about to be setback because the Robledo de Chavela 70-metre dish near Madrid will be out of commission from the end of June until 1 October, following the discovery of two of the four antenna bearings were damaged.
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Generation-X
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Scientists from around the world are engaged in building a new generation of observatories, with larger effective areas and higher resolutions, to probe the very early universe.
"To reach the sensitivity required to image these first discrete objects in the universe needs a major advanc...
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Mileura Widefield Array
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A novel telescope that will aid the understanding of the early universe is moving closer to full-scale construction thanks to a $4.9 million award from the National Science Foundation to a U.S. consortium led by MIT.
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VADER
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Title: VADER - A Satellite Mission Concept For High Precision Dark Energy Studies
Authors: Rene Fassbender, Jutta Stegmaier, Anne-Marie Weijmans, Stefan Koestner, Andreas Kruselburger, Cornelia Diethart, Peter Fertl, Elisabetta Valiante, Matthew Hayes, Peter Schuecke...
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Supernova 2006ce
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The magnitude 12.5 Supernova 2006ce[img]http://static.flickr.com/54/147216299_93b0f1afba_o.j...
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CARMA
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This Friday, May 5, astronomers from the University of Maryland, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the California Institute of Technology will dedicate the world's most powerful millimetre-wave-length radio telescope.
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Supernova 2001ig
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Using the Gemini South telescope in Chile, Australian astronomers have found a predicted "companion" star left behind when its partner exploded as a very unusual supernova. The presence of the companion explains why the supernova, which started off looking like one kind of exploding sta...
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Abell 400 black holes
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A pair of supermassive black holes in the distant universe are intertwined and spiralling toward a merger that will create a single super-supermassive black hole capable of swallowing billions of stars, according to a new study by astronomers at the University of Virginia, Bonn University and th...
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