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Citizen Scientists Discover Rotating Pulsar
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09/09/2010 01:37 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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The 'Magic' of Tin
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09/09/2010 01:37 AM
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The metal tin lacks the value and prestige of gold, silver, and platinum - but to nuclear physicists, tin is magic. (2010-08-09)
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Origin of Key Cosmic Explosions Still a Mystery
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09/09/2010 01:37 AM
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When a star explodes as a supernova, it shines so brightly that it can be seen from millions of light-years away. (2010-07-13)
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Pan-STARRS 1 telescope begins science mission
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09/09/2010 01:37 AM
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The world became a slightly safer place on May 13, when the Pan-STARRS 1 (PS1) telescope in Hawaiʻi started surveying the sky for killer asteroids. (2010-06-17)
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New 'doubly magic' research reveals role of nuclear shell
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09/09/2010 01:37 AM
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Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the University of Tennessee (UT) and six collaborating universities have performed an unprecedented nuclear reaction experiment that explores the unique properties of the "doubly magic" radioactive isotope of 132Sn, or tin-132. (2010-06-02)
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The cosmic burp of dying stars
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09/09/2010 01:37 AM
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The mysteries of the Universe and how we came to be are set to be unlocked by a technique for modelling fluids, similar to one which is becoming increasingly popular within the film industry to improve the realism of special effects. (2010-05-28)
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Death of a star in 3 dimensions
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09/09/2010 01:37 AM
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Massive stars end their lives in gigantic explosions, so called supernovae, and can become - for a short time - brighter than a whole galaxy, which is made up of billions of stars. (2010-05-13)
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Hubble catches heavyweight runaway star speeding from 30 Doradus
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09/09/2010 01:37 AM
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A heavy runaway star rushing away from a nearby stellar nursery at more than 400 000 kilometres per hour, a speed that would get you to the Moon and back in two hours. (2010-05-12)
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Largest atlas of nuclear galactic rings unveiled
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09/09/2010 01:37 AM
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An international team of astrophysicists has just unveiled the most complete atlas of nuclear rings, enormous star-forming ring-shaped regions that circle certain galactic nuclei. (2010-04-30)
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Searching for Dark Energy with the Whole World's Supernova Dataset
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09/09/2010 01:37 AM
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The international Supernova Cosmology Project (SCP), based at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has announced the Union2 compilation of hundreds of Type Ia supernovae, the largest collection ever of high-quality data from numerous surveys. Analysis of the new compilation significantly narrows the possible values that dark energy might take-but not enough to decide among fundamentally different theories of its nature. (2010-04-22)
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NASA's Swift Catches 500th Gamma-ray Burst
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09/09/2010 01:37 AM
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In its first five years in orbit, NASA's Swift satellite has given astronomers more than they could have hoped for. Its discoveries range from a nearby nascent supernova to a blast so far away that it happened when our universe was only 5 percent of its present age. (2010-04-20)
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The Light and Dark Face of a Star-Forming Nebula
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09/09/2010 01:37 AM
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Today, ESO is unveiling an image of the little known Gum 19, a faint nebula that, in the infrared, appears dark on one half and bright on the other. On one side hot hydrogen gas is illuminated by a supergiant blue star called V391 Velorum. (2010-03-31)
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Super Supernova: White Dwarf Star System Exceeds Mass Limit
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09/09/2010 01:37 AM
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An international team led by Yale University has, for the first time, measured the mass of a type of supernova thought to belong to a unique subclass and confirmed that it surpasses what was believed to be an upper mass limit. (2010-03-16)
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CU-Boulder physics professors help create hottest temperature in universe
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09/09/2010 01:37 AM
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Two University of Colorado at Boulder physicists are part of a collaborative team working with the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York that have created the hottest temperature matter ever measured in the universe -- 7.2 trillion degrees Fahrenheit. (2010-02-18)
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More Supernova Current Events and Supernova News
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