September 2011
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Zooniverse - First Planet Candidates Discovered by... →
The first Planet Hunters paper has been submitted to the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Discovery News - The Search for Apollo 10's... →
‘Project S’. The search for ‘Snoopy’, the Apollo 10 Lunar Lander that was the first to land on the moon as an unmanned dry run.
‘Snoopy’ si beleved to be still orbiting the sun, and astromers hope to track it down.
The project is the brainchild of amatuer astronomer Nick Howes.
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ESO - The “Little World” of Paranal
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This interpretation of a previous Picture of the Week was created by astronomer Alex Parker. It captures some of the essence of Paranal Observatory — a little world where astronomers leave the Earth behind and travel to the stars… metaphorically at least.
The observatory lies deep in the barren Atacama Desert, which can really seem like an alien environment. It is...
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Hubble - Galaxies in a Swarm of Star Clusters
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In this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, NGC 4874 is the brightest object, located to the right of the frame and seen as a bright star-like core surrounded by a hazy halo. A few of the other galaxies of the cluster are also visible, looking like flying saucers dancing around NGC 4874. But the really remarkable feature of this image is the point-like objects...
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Zooniverse - News from Exteme Solar Systems II. →
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NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers a World Orbiting...
NASA’s Kepler mission has turned fiction into fact. A world with a double sunset that was first imagined in Star Wars over 30 years ago in a galaxy far, far away has become scientific reality. NASA’s Kepler mission has made the first unambiguous detection of a circumbinary planet — a planet orbiting, not one, but two stars — 200 light-years from Earth. The planet is...
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James Webb Space Telescope Saved →
Truly great news!
Visit the Save The James Webb Telescope Facebook group for the full story!
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Zooniverse - Getting Closer to Nantes →
13 September 2011 by Meg
We’re a few weeks away from Nantes where Chris and I will be attending the EPSC-DPS meeting to present results from Planet Hunters (and for me I’ll present a poster on my KBO work as well). Our talk will be on October 4th. We’ve been working hard to get results for Nantes, and we’re asking for your help.
Follow the link to read more
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eso1134 — Science Release: Fifty New Exoplanets...
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Astronomers using ESO’s world-leading exoplanet hunter HARPS have today announced a rich haul of more than 50 new exoplanets, including 16 super-Earths, one of which orbits at the edge of the habitable zone of its star. By studying the properties of all the HARPS planets found so far, the team has found that about 40% of stars similar to the Sun have at least one planet lighter...
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ESO - Red Moon Rising
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Deep in the heart of the Atacama Desert, home of the Paranal Observatory, the Sun is setting at the start of another clear night. This charming photograph, taken by ESO Photo Ambassador Gianluca Lombardi shows one of four Auxiliary Telescopes (ATs) that belong to ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) sitting boldly against a vivid sky of pink and blue. The full Moon, seen...
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Hubble - A Remote Outpost of the Milky Way
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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a compact and distant globular star cluster that lies in one of the smallest constellations in the night sky, Delphinus (The Dolphin). Due to its modest size, great distance and relatively low brightness, NGC 7006 is often ignored by amateur astronomers. But even remote globular clusters such as this one appear bright and...
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