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NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Two Planets Transiting Same Star
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09/09/2010 01:39 AM
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NASA's Kepler Mission has discovered the first confirmed planetary system with more than one planet transiting the same star. (2010-08-27)
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UI astronomers capture first-of-kind image at distant star
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09/09/2010 01:39 AM
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Two University of Iowa researchers have made the first direct radio image of a stellar coronal loop at a star, other than the sun, thereby providing scientists with information that may lead to a better understanding of how such phenomena as space weather affect the Earth. (2010-01-14)
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First known binary star is discovered to be a triplet, quadruplet, quintuplet, sextuplet system
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09/09/2010 01:39 AM
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In ancient times, people with exceptional vision discovered that one of the brightest stars in the Big Dipper was, in fact, two stars so close together that most people cannot distinguish them. The two stars, Alcor and Mizar, were the first binary stars-a pair of stars that orbit each other-ever known. (2009-12-10)
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MSU researcher adds to knowledge of how early stars, galaxies formed
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09/09/2010 01:39 AM
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Research by a Michigan State University scientist sheds new light on how stars and galaxies were formed back in the early days of the universe - some 13 billion years ago. (2009-07-10)
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Radio telescope images reveal planet-forming disk orbiting twin suns
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09/09/2010 01:39 AM
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Astronomers are announcing today that a sequence of images collected with the Smithsonian's Submillimeter Array (SMA) clearly reveals the presence of a rotating molecular disk orbiting the young binary star system V4046 Sagittarii. (2009-06-11)
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Largest collection of anomalous white dwarfs observed in new Hubble images
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09/09/2010 01:39 AM
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Twenty-four unusual stars, 18 of them newly discovered, have been observed in new Hubble telescope images. The stars are white dwarfs, a common type of dead star, but they are odd because they are made of helium rather than the usual carbon and oxygen. This is the first extensive sequence of helium-core white dwarfs to be observed in a globular cluster, a dense swarm of some of the oldest stars in our galaxy. (2009-04-23)
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Newly Born Twin Stars Are Far From Identical
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09/09/2010 01:39 AM
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Two stars, each with the same mass and in orbit around each other, are twins that one would expect to be identical. So astronomers were surprised when they discovered that twin stars in the Orion Nebula, a well-known stellar nursery 1,500 light years away, were not identical at all. (2008-06-19)
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Science with Integral -- 5 years on
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09/09/2010 01:39 AM
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With eyes that peer into the most energetic phenomena in the universe, ESA's Integral has been setting records, discovering the unexpected and helping understanding the unknown over its first five years. (2007-10-18)
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The missing link in the evolution of magnetic cataclysmic stars?
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09/09/2010 01:39 AM
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An international team of astronomers might have discovered the missing link in the evolution of the so-called magnetic cataclysmic variable stars. They determined the spin and orbital periods of the binary star Paloma. (2007-09-17)
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Double-star systems cycle between big and small blasts
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09/09/2010 01:39 AM
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Certain double, or binary, star systems erupt in full-blown explosions and then flare up with smaller bursts, according to new information gathered by NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) and analyzed by a team of astronomers, including postdoctoral researcher Mark Seibert of the Carnegie Observatories. (2007-03-08)
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Integral expands our view of the gamma-ray sky
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09/09/2010 01:39 AM
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Integral's latest survey of the gamma-ray universe continues to change the way astronomers think of the high-energy cosmos. With over seventy percent of the sky now observed by Integral, astronomers have been able to construct the largest catalogue yet of individual gamma-ray-emitting celestial objects. (2007-02-21)
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Superstrings could add gravitational cacophony to universe's chorus
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09/09/2010 01:39 AM
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Albert Einstein theorized long ago that moving matter would warp the fabric of four-dimensional space-time, sending out ripples of gravity called gravitational waves. No one has observed such a phenomenon so far, but University of Washington researchers believe it is possible to detect such waves coming from strange wispy structures called cosmic superstrings. (2007-01-09)
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Mystery of Quintuplet stars in Milky Way solved
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09/09/2010 01:39 AM
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For the first time, scientists have identified the cluster of Quintuplet stars in the Milky Way's galactic center, next to the super massive black hole, as massive binary stars nearing the end of their life cycle, solving a mystery that had dogged astronomers for more than 15 years. (2006-08-21)
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Astronomers link old stars and mysterious cosmic explosions
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09/09/2010 01:39 AM
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Cosmic gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the universe, have the extreme brilliance of a billion billion Suns and occur several times a day. (2005-12-15)
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