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Can We Spot Volcanoes on Alien Worlds? Astronomers Say Yes.
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09/09/2010 01:38 AM
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Volcanoes display the awesome power of Nature like few other events. Earlier this year, ash from an Icelandic volcano disrupted air travel throughout much of northern Europe. Yet this recent eruption pales next to the fury of Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanic body in our solar system. (2010-09-08)
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Extreme X-ray source supports new class of black hole
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09/09/2010 01:38 AM
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A group of international astronomers in the UK, France and the USA, led by the University of Leicester, have found proof to confirm the distance and brightness of the most extreme ultra-luminous X-ray source, which may herald a new type of Black Hole. (2010-09-08)
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With new technique, UF astronomers find potassium in giant planet's atmosphere
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09/09/2010 01:38 AM
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Any driver who's seen deer silhouetted by the headlights of an oncoming car knows that vital information can be conveyed by the outlines of objects. (2010-09-01)
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Space telescope's new survey of outer galaxy helps Iowa State astronomers study stars
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09/09/2010 01:38 AM
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The Spitzer Space Telescope is now taking aim at the outer reaches of the Milky Way and helping two Iowa State University astronomers advance their star studies. (2010-08-31)
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NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Two Planets Transiting Same Star
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09/09/2010 01:38 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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Pulverized Planet Dust Might Lie Around Double Stars
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09/09/2010 01:38 AM
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Tight double-star systems might not be the best places for life to spring up, according to a new study using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. (2010-08-25)
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Decadal survey of astronomy and astrophysics
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09/09/2010 01:38 AM
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A new report by the National Research Council identifies the highest- priority research activities for astronomy and astrophysics in the next decade that will "set the nation firmly on the path to answering profound questions about the cosmos." (2010-08-16)
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NGC 4696: A cosmic question mark
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09/09/2010 01:38 AM
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NGC 4696 is an elliptical galaxy with a difference. Lacking the complex structure and active star formation of their spiral brethren, elliptical galaxies are usually little more than shapeless collections of ageing stars. (2010-08-12)
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Discovery of Saturn's auroral heartbeat
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09/09/2010 01:38 AM
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An international team of scientists led by Dr Jonathan Nichols of the University of Leicester has discovered that Saturn's aurora, an ethereal ultraviolet glow which illuminates Saturn's upper atmosphere near the poles, pulses roughly once per Saturnian day. (2010-08-04)
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Newborn Stars Discovered in Dark Cosmic Cloud
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09/09/2010 01:38 AM
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A wave of massive star formation appears poised to begin within a mysterious, dark cloud in the Milky Way. (2010-07-08)
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Hubble captures bubbles and baby stars
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09/09/2010 01:38 AM
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A spectacular new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image - one of the largest ever released of a star-forming region - highlights N11, part of a complex network of gas clouds and star clusters within our neighbouring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud. This region of energetic star formation is one of the most active in the nearby Universe. (2010-06-23)
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NJIT professor heads panel studying sudden car acceleration
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09/09/2010 01:38 AM
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Louis J. Lanzerotti, PhD, a distinguished research professor in the department of physics at NJIT, will lead the 13-member panel organized by the National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academies to identify possible causes of unintended acceleration in vehicles in the aftermath of Toyota's large recalls. (2010-06-23)
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Astronomers Witness a Star Being Born
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09/09/2010 01:38 AM
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Astronomers have glimpsed what could be the youngest known star at the very moment it is being born. Not yet fully developed into a true star, the object is in the earliest stages of star formation and has just begun pulling in matter from a surrounding envelope of gas and dust, according to a new study that appears in the current issue of the Astrophysical Journal. (2010-06-18)
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Zooming in on an infant solar system
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09/09/2010 01:38 AM
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A team led by University of Arizona astronomer Joshua Eisner has observed in unprecedented detail the processes giving rise to stars and planets in nascent solar systems. (2010-06-14)
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