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1. Did Kepler Scientist Leak Data? Um, Not Really

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   ... verify and confirm their findings, rather than releasing all of it, as per NASA's standard policy which requires astronomers to release their data from publicly funded instruments in one year. Then ... Tuesday, 27 July 2010

2. Lulin

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   ... and dust whenever they venture near the sun. Comet Lulin, which is formally known as C/2007 N3, was discovered in 2008 by astronomers at Taiwan's Lulin Observatory. Lulin passed closest to Earth -- 38 ... Wednesday, 21 July 2010

3. New Technique Could Track Down Dark Energy

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   ... (GBT) have given astronomers a new way to map large cosmic structures such as dark energy. (...) Read the rest of New Technique Could Track Down Dark Energy (477 words) © nancy for Universe Today, ... Wednesday, 21 July 2010

4. Searching for the Elusive Type Ia Supernovae Progenitors

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   Astronomers have Type Ia supernovae pretty well figured out. The way these exploding stars brighten and then dim are so predictable that they have been used to measure the universe's expansion.  ... Monday, 12 July 2010

5. July 11 Total Eclipse Among the Mysterious Moai

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   The Moai statues on Easter Island. A group of astronomers are now on the mysterious Easter Island, one of the few solid places to stand on Earth where a total solar eclipse will be visible on July 11, ... Friday, 09 July 2010

6. Powerhouse Black Hole Blows a Huge Bubble

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   Combining observations done with ESO's Very Large Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope, astronomers have uncovered the most powerful pair of jets ever seen from a stellar black hole. The black ... Wednesday, 07 July 2010

7. Celestial Fireworks

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   ... distant universe. Astronomers also use massive clusters to study distant starbursts that occur when galaxies collide, igniting a flurry of star formation. The proximity of NGC 3603 makes it an excellent ... Monday, 05 July 2010

8. Astronomy Without A Telescope – Animal Astronomy

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   Avian astronomers at work. Credit: abc.net.au. In the 1950s, the Sauer research team locked some birds in Olbers planetarium and started messing with them. First they projected a northern hemisphere autumn ... Saturday, 03 July 2010

9. Astronomers Watch Superstorm Raging on Distant Exoplanet

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   ... km per hour. "It's definitely not a place for the faint-hearted," said Ignas Snellen, from Leiden University, in the Netherlands who led a team of astronomers using the Very Large Telescope ... Wednesday, 23 June 2010

10. A Matter of Perspective

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    ... the gull is flying from it. Astronomers catalog the nebula as IC 2177. This cosmic cloud is one of many sites of star formation within the Milky Way galaxy. It is located 3,800 light-years away from Earth, ... Tuesday, 22 June 2010

11. Occulation Reveals Distant Kuiper Belt Object is Surprisingly Icy Bright

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    ... to wait for a very elusive – if not short-lived – special event. And in doing so, you may find something completely unexpected. Enter James Elliot from MIT. Elliot and astronomers from ... Friday, 18 June 2010

12. Occultation Reveals Distant Kuiper Belt Object is Surprisingly Icy Bright

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... to wait for a very elusive – if not short-lived – special event. And in doing so, you may find something completely unexpected. Enter James Elliot from MIT. Elliot and astronomers from ... Friday, 18 June 2010

13. Astronomers Witness Star Birth

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    Astronomers caught a glimpse of a future star just as it is being born out of the surrounding gas and dust, in a star-forming region similar to the one pictured above. (Spitzer Space Telescope image of ... Thursday, 17 June 2010

14. Podcast: The Future of Astronomy

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    ... But now we want to look forward, studying the current space missions and experiments to uncover the mysteries that astronomers hope to solve. Click here to download the episode. Or subscribe to: astronomycast.com/podcast.xml ... Thursday, 17 June 2010

15. Hubble Delves into Two Recent Jupiter Mysteries

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    ... Team. Jupiter has a few mysteries these days. Between an equatorial belt that has gone missing and an impact that didn't leave a mark, astronomers decided they needed to put the Hubble Space Telescope ... Wednesday, 16 June 2010

16. Weird Collection of Worlds in the Latest Cache of CoRoT Expoplanets

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    Family portrait of the first 15 CoRoT planets. Credit: Patrice Amoyel (CNES) The CoRoT (Convection, Rotation and Transits) spacecraft has been busy, and using this exoplanet-finding-machine astronomers ... Monday, 14 June 2010

17. Astronomers Zoom in on Solar Systems in the Making

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    For the first time, astronomers have observed in unprecedented detail the processes giving rise to stars and planets in nascent solar systems. Using both Keck telescopes on Mauna Kea in Hawaii outfitted ... Friday, 11 June 2010

18. Exoplanet Confirms Gas Giants Can Form Quickly

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    For the first time, astronomers have been able to directly follow the motion of an exoplanet as it moves to the other side of its host star. Credit: ESO/A.-M. Lagrange For the first time, astronomers ... Thursday, 10 June 2010

19. Hubble Images Suggest Rogue Asteroid Smacked Jupiter

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... in Australia, and soon, observatories around the world, including NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, were zeroing in on the unexpected blemish. Astronomers had witnessed this kind of cosmic event before. ... Thursday, 03 June 2010

20. Hubble Catches Stars On The Move

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    Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Jun 03, 2010 - By exploiting the exquisite image quality of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and comparing two observations made ten years apart astronomers have, for the first ... Thursday, 03 June 2010