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Anthony Wesley has reported another impact on Jupiter At approximately 20:30 UTC, 3rd June, 2010, Anthony Wesley recorded a bright flash that lasted a couple of seconds on Jupiter.
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Palomar Sky Survey II
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The Palomar Sky Survey II (POSS II) got underway in August 1985, with the first of the 14" photographic glass plates being pulled off the Palomar 48-inch (1.2 m) Schmidt Camera (now known as The Samuel Oschin telescope). Jean Mueller was hired as the 48-inch (1.2 m) Night Assistant in July of tha...
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Extragalactic background light
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MAGIC discovers the most distant very-high energy gamma-ray emission from an accreting supermassive black hole. The MAGIC (Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov) telescope has detected emission of very high energy gamma rays from the active nucleus of the [url=http://astronomy.ac...
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Astronomers have sighted the smallest extrasolar planet yet orbiting a normal star - a distant world just three times the size of our own. Discovering a planet with a similar mass to that of Earth is considered the "holy grail" of research into planets that lie outside our Solar System. It...
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Venus Life
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Life on Venus could be blown to Earth by powerful winds, scientists claim. Previous research has considered the possibility of micro organisms existing in Venus's atmosphere despite extreme temperatures on its surface. But two scientists at the Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology say microbes fro...
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NASA scientists have uncovered new details about how plasma from superstorms interact with Earths magnetosphere. The surprising result of this model is that the magnetospheres main phase pressure is dominated by energetic protons from the plasmasphere, rather than from the solar wind - Mei-Ch...
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Cosmological Lithium Discrepancy
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A process similar to a conveyor belt transports heavy elements from the surface of stars into their interiors where they are destroyed, new observations suggest.
The findings, detailed in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature, support the idea that the abundance of heavy elements in stars d...
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GOODS: Going Deep
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What do you call someone who can see billions of years into our cosmic past? An astronomer, of course!
By combining the super sensitive eyes of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, and Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers on the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (...
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Supernovae Ib and Ic
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Title: On the nature of supernovae Ib and Ic Authors: Luc Dessart, D. John Hillier, Chengdong Li, Stan Woosley Using non-LTE time-dependent radiative-transfer calculations, we study the impact of mixing and non-thermal processes associated with radioactive decay on SN IIb/Ib/Ic light curves...
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Russia's lower house of parliament, the State Duma, ratified Wednesday an agreement between Russia and Kazakhstan on further cooperation in effective use of the Baikonur launching site ,Kazakhstan, till 2050.
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University of Arizona and Japanese scientists are convinced that evidence at last settles decades-long arguments about what objects bombarded the early inner solar system in a cataclysm 3.9 billion years ago.
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X-ray Astronomy
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Title: From a sounding rocket per year to an observatory per lifetime Authors: Martin C. Weisskopf I summarise the excitement of my role primarily in the early years of X-ray Astronomy. As a "second-generation" X-ray astronomer, I was privileged to participate in the enormous advance...
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Jodrell Bank has been named as the winner of the BBC's online competition to find the UK's greatest 'Unsung Landmark'. The contest asked visitors to the BBC website to choose their favourite from eight landmarks nominated by the public and selected from an earlier regional round of voting.
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1st VIPERS Science Release On 12th March 2013 the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS) releases its first science results based on 55,000 new galaxy redshifts. VIPERS is using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) to map the large-scale distri...
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