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Mars, Saturn and Jupiter
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Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Jupiter, are visible in the early evening spring sky.
Jupiter will be at opposition on May 4, 2006 in the constellation Libra.
Mars during May will increase its distance from the Earth from 286 to 322 million kilometres. The planet appears in the western evening s...
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Sun 25.04.06
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The large Sunspot 875 is joined by Sunspot 876 that has just emerged into view.
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Black Holes are Green
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NASA will announce that Black Holes are "Green".
(Green as in energetically efficient...)
Astronomers using the Chandra X-ray Observatory will hold a media teleconference at 18:00 GMT (1 p.m. EDT) Monday, April 24, to announce a fundamental discovery about black holes.
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Sun 24.04.06
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Sunspot 875 starts to emerge from the suns eastern limb.
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Venus and Uranus
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Venus and Uranus will have a close encounter in the dawn sky of April 18th.
Look to the east, before the Sun rises and find the bright `star` in Aquarius.
A pair of binoculars (or a small telescope) will show up Uranus right below it.
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Sun 13.04.06
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Saturn
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In a few days time the planet Saturn will be the closest to the planet Earth for 2006 - It will be only 1215.9 million kilometres away.
Saturn appears as a bright yellowish star, low to the east-northeast as evening twilight is ending. It is the brightest object in the constellation of Cancer.
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Aurora Alert
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Aurora Alert:
A geomagnetic storm may trigger auroras tonight.
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Sun 11.04.06
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V2362 Cygnus
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A Nova in Cygnus was discovered by Hideo Nishimura and Miyawaki, Kakegawa from Japan on April 2.
The Nova had a discovery photographic magnitude of 10.5.
Currently it at magnitude 8.
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Sun 06.04.06
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Supernova 2006be
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A magnitude 15.4 supernova, 2006be, was discovered on the 24th March, 2006 by the Lick Observatory Supernova Search in the spiral galaxy IC 4582, in the constellation Corona Borealis , located 6".2 west and 0".5 south of the nucleus.
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Sun 20.03.06
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Aurora Alert
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Auroras with a geomagnetic K-Index of 6 (Moderate G2) are expected tonight.
The solar wind stream hit Earth last night, March 18th, sparking a geomagnetic storm and auroras.
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Sun 13.03.06
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The sun is relatively sunspot clear today.
Apart from two tiny sunspots (858) that appeared near the top centre.
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