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Can We Spot Volcanoes on Alien Worlds? Astronomers Say Yes.
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09/09/2010 02:05 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 02:05 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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Recipe for water: just add starlight
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09/09/2010 02:05 AM
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ESA's Herschel infrared space observatory has discovered that ultraviolet starlight is the key ingredient for making water in space. It is the only explanation for why a dying star is surrounded by a gigantic cloud of hot water vapour. (2010-09-03)
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With new technique, UF astronomers find potassium in giant planet's atmosphere
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09/09/2010 02:05 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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University of Colorado students, staff help NASA decommission satellite
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09/09/2010 02:05 AM
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University of Colorado at Boulder undergraduates, who have been helping to control five NASA satellites from campus, participated in the unusual decommissioning of a functioning satellite with a failed science payload in recent days, bringing the craft into Earth re-entry to burn up yesterday. (2010-09-01)
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IceCube neutrino observatory nears complete
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09/09/2010 02:05 AM
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In December 2010, IceCube -- the world's first kilometer-scale neutrino observatory, whiuch is located beneath the Antarctic ice -- will finally be completed after two decades of planning. (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 02:05 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 02:05 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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Astronomers find two large planets, plus possible super-Earth-size one
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09/09/2010 02:05 AM
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A team of three University of Florida astronomers contributed to the Kepler spacecraft's discovery of two Saturn-sized planets, plus a possible third planet with a radius just one-and-a-half times that of Earth, orbiting a distant star. (2010-08-27)
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Pulverized Planet Dust Might Lie Around Double Stars
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09/09/2010 02:05 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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Cosmic accelerators discovered in our galaxy by UCLA physicists, Japanese colleague
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09/09/2010 02:05 AM
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Physicists from UCLA and Japan have discovered evidence of "natural nuclear accelerators" at work in our Milky Way galaxy, based on an analysis of data from the world's largest cosmic ray detector. (2010-08-18)
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Decadal survey of astronomy and astrophysics
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09/09/2010 02:05 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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Citizen Scientists Discover Rotating Pulsar
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09/09/2010 02:05 AM
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Idle computers are the astronomers' playground: Three citizen scientists--an American couple and a German--have discovered a new radio pulsar hidden in data gathered by the Arecibo Observatory. (2010-08-13)
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NGC 4696: A cosmic question mark
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09/09/2010 02:05 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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