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1. Stunning New Image of Wolf-Rayet Star and the Carina Nebula

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   ... known as NGC 3372), a huge region of star formation in the southern Milky Way. The image was captured by ESO’s Wide Field Imager at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. (...) Read the rest of Stunning ... Wednesday, 28 July 2010

2. Astronomy Without A Telescope – Our Ageing Universe

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   Energy transfer - something that old universes can't quite manage like they used to. Credit: Gemini observatory. It all started so full of promise. All at once, our universe burst upon the scene, ... Saturday, 24 July 2010

3. Most Massive Star Discovered: Over 300 Suns at Birth!

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   ... the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope to tip the stellar scales at 265 times the mass of our Sun. What's even more impressive is that R 136a1 ... Thursday, 22 July 2010

4. 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

5. Boatload of Herschel Science Papers Released

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   ... keep you busy for a while. 152 papers were released this morning highlighting the Herschel telescope's first science results. A few papers describe the observatory and its instruments, and the rest ... Friday, 16 July 2010

6. The View From Easter Island

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   ... an image of the sun taken in extreme ultraviolet light at about the same time by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly on the Solar Dynamics Observatory. The composite brings out the correlation of structures ... Wednesday, 14 July 2010

7. Swift Briefly Blinded by Mega X-ray Blast

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   ... X-ray eye on NASA's Swift space observatory on June 21, 2010. The X-rays traveled through space for 5-billion years before slamming into and overwhelming the space-based telescope. "This ... Wednesday, 14 July 2010

8. Pluto Goes into the Dark

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   ... to show the Dark nebula and the 'rich & pretty' surrounding star field," he said. The image was taken from John's observatory in Yellow Springs, Ohio, using his homemade 16” Newtonian ... Wednesday, 14 July 2010

9. Are You Keeping an Eye on SDO Keeping an Eye on the Sun?

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   Have you been checking out the Solar Dynamics Observatory website and seeing all the amazing, high resolution images of our closest star? If not, you should. Above is a great new video of SDO's ... Friday, 09 July 2010

10. All-Sky Stunner from Planck

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    A multi-color all-sky image of the microwave sky. Credit: ESA, HFI and LFI consortia After a year of observations, the Planck observatory team released an all-sky microwave image, and what a gorgeous ... Monday, 05 July 2010

11. R Coronae Australis: A Cosmic Watercolor

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    The nearby star-forming region around the star R Coronae Australis imaged by the Wide Field Imager (WFI) on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. From an ESO press ... Wednesday, 30 June 2010

12. Light for the Ages

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    ... fall to winter in Earth's Southern Hemisphere. In this image from 2007, NASA's Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) satellites provided the first three-dimensional images of the sun. STEREO, ... Sunday, 20 June 2010

13. Zoom into a New VISTA of the Sculptor Galaxy

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    The new VISTA telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile (the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy) has captured a great new image of the Sculptor Galaxy (NGC 253), and this video allows ... Thursday, 17 June 2010

14. Fully Functional Pan-STARRS is now Panning for Stars, Asteroids and Comets

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    Pan-STARRS PS1 Observatory just before sunrise on Haleakala, Maui. Credit: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophyiscs There's a new eye on the skies on the lookout for 'killer' asteroids ... Wednesday, 16 June 2010

15. Many Famous Comets May be Visitors from Other Solar Systems

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    Comet Hale-Bopp. Credit: E. Kolmhofer, H. Raab; Johannes-Kepler-Observatory, Linz, Austria Most comets are thought to have originated great distances away, traveling to the inner solar system from the ... Thursday, 10 June 2010

16. Exoplanet Hunting Robotic Telescope Sees First Light

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    ...  Although its first light image is of a nebula, the TRAPPIST (TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope) at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile will focus on detecting and characterizing planets ... Tuesday, 08 June 2010

17. Dramatic Moonset — Amazing Sight on Cerro Paranal

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    ... gorgeous view of the observatory itself. As the Moon was setting after a long night of observing, ESO staff member Gordon Gillet welcomed the new day by capturing this stunning image from 14 km away.  ... Monday, 07 June 2010

18. Spirialing 'UFO' Over Australia Was Likely Falcon 9 Booster

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    ... early morning skies, about 6 am local time. Geoffrey Wyatt, from the Sydney Observatory, said it appeared to have been the Falcon 9 rocket, which launched about an hour earlier. Another image below.  ... Saturday, 05 June 2010

19. Spirialing 'UFO' Over Australia Was Likely Falcon 9 Rocket

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    ... early morning skies, about 6 am local time. Geoffrey Wyatt, from the Sydney Observatory, said it appeared to have been the Falcon 9 rocket, which launched about an hour earlier. Another image below.  ... Saturday, 05 June 2010

20. A Trilogy of Tremendous Volcanoes

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    Mt. Cleveland in Alaska. NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen & Robert Simmon, using data from the NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team. You like volcanoes? We've ... Friday, 04 June 2010