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1. Into the Looking Glass

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   Recently, technicians at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., completed a series of cryogenic tests on six James Webb Space Telescope beryllium mirror segments at the center's X-ray ... Tuesday, 27 July 2010

2. Gravitational Lensing Caught By Amateur Telescope

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   Just a few short years ago, even the thought of capturing an astronomy anomaly with what's considered an "amateur telescope" was absolutely unthinkable. Who were we to even try to do what ... Monday, 26 July 2010

3. Dreamy, Young Stars

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   The Orion Nebula is a 'happening' place where stars are born and this colony of hot, young stars is stirring up the cosmic scene in this image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The young stars dip and ... Sunday, 25 July 2010

4. Astronomy Without A Telescope – Our Ageing Universe

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   ... A Telescope – Our Ageing Universe (649 words) © Steve Nerlich for Universe Today, 2010. | Permalink | One comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: astrophysics;entropy Feed enhanced by Better ... Saturday, 24 July 2010

5. 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

6. New Technique Could Track Down Dark Energy

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   Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope CREDIT: NRAO/AUI/NSF From an NRAO press release: Dark energy is the label scientists have given to what is causing the Universe to expand at an accelerating rate, ... Wednesday, 21 July 2010

7. Comet Whacked Neptune 230 Years Ago

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   ... they discover a way to travel back in time to witness a long-ago event? To make the discovery, a team from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research actually used the Herschel Space Telescope's ... Wednesday, 21 July 2010

8. Comet Whacked Neptune 200 Years Ago

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   ... they discover a way to travel back in time to witness a long-ago event? To make the discovery, a team from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research actually used the Herschel Space Telescope's ... Wednesday, 21 July 2010

9. WISE Mission Completes All-sky Infrared Survey

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   ... eyes of WISE have not blinked since launch," said William Irace, the mission's project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "Both our telescope and spacecraft ... Tuesday, 20 July 2010

10. Astronomy Without A Telescope – Brown Dwarfs Are Magnetic Too.

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    ... can only (stifles laughter) burn deuterium but that's something, isn't it?(...) Read the rest of Astronomy Without A Telescope – Brown Dwarfs Are Magnetic Too. (541 words) © Steve ... Saturday, 17 July 2010

11. Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast: July 16-19, 2010

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! Are you ready for a rock the night weekend? Then come along as you won't need a telescope to watch the movement of the planets and the Perseid meteor shower heating ... Friday, 16 July 2010

12. Boatload of Herschel Science Papers Released

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    A part of a Herschel/HIFI spectral scan (the white curve) overlaid on a background Spitzer Space Telescope image (ESA/HIFI/HEXOS/E. Bergin). Love to read science papers? Here's a batch that will ... Friday, 16 July 2010

13. Swift Briefly Blinded by Mega X-ray Blast

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    The brightest gamma-ray burst ever seen in X-rays temporarily blinded Swift's X-ray Telescope on 21 June 2010. This image merges the X-rays (red to yellow) with the same view from Swift's Ultraviolet/Optical ... Wednesday, 14 July 2010

14. Pluto Goes into the Dark

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    ... telescope and a QHY8CCD single shot color camera, captured from 01:00am until 02:00 am E.S.T. on July 6, 2010. Pluto and B92 sits within the large Sagittarius Star Cloud, M24. Great shot, John! For more ... Wednesday, 14 July 2010

15. In the Constellation Cassiopeia

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    ... it could no longer be seen with the naked eye. In the 1950s, the remnants of the supernova could be seen again with the help of telescopes. When the star exploded, it sent out a blast wave into the surrounding ... Tuesday, 13 July 2010

16. Farewell Lutetia

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    ... continue afterwards. Shortly after closest approach, Rosetta began transmitting data to Earth for processing. Lutetia has been a mystery for many years. Ground telescopes have shown that it presents confusing ... Monday, 12 July 2010

17. Conduct Virtual Explorations of Mars with New WorldWide Telescope Feature

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    Screenshot showing Olympus Mons in 3-D using the World Wide Telescope. Love 3-D imagery of Mars? There's now a firehose just for you! The WorldWide Telescope has teamed up with NASA to use images ... Monday, 12 July 2010

18. Astronomy Without A Telescope – Coloring In The Oort Cloud

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    ... Furthermore, the wide range of colors found across different classes of trans-Neptunian objects may help to determine their origins.(...) Read the rest of Astronomy Without A Telescope – Coloring ... Saturday, 10 July 2010

19. Podcast: Astronomy With the Unaided Eye

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    Full Moon We talk a lot about telescopes here on Astronomy Cast, but you really don't need any special equipment to appreciate what the night sky has to offer. Just head outside with some sky charts, ... Thursday, 08 July 2010

20. 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