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Happy Birthday, John Dobson!
— September 8, 2010
Amateur astronomy's iconic guru of telescope-making turns 95 on September 14th.
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Hubble Revisits Supernova 1987A
— September 3, 2010
It's been two decades since the Hubble Space Telescope got its first look at a star in the Large Magellanic Cloud that blew itself to smithereens.
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S&T's New Single-Issue Magazine
— September 1, 2010
Sky & Telescope has just produced a slim but extremely useful publication.
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The Dinosaurs Got a Warning Shot
— August 31, 2010
New research shows that eastern Europe took a hit just 2,000 to 5,000 years before the Big One nearly wiped out life on Earth 65 million years ago.
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Mount Wilson: One Year After the Fire
— August 26, 2010
In August-September 2009, a raging wildfire nearly destroyed Mount Wilson Observatory. But heroic firefighting efforts saved the historic site, and life on the summit is slowly returning to normal.
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Two Exoplanets in an Interactive Dance
— August 26, 2010
Two transiting planets of the star Kepler 9 are tugging on each other and swapping orbital energy back and forth. And a third planet may be watching on.
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Big Bear's Big New Eye
— August 25, 2010
The "first-light" image from the world's largest solar telescope reveals details in an Earth-size sunspot only 50 miles across.
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One Star, Seven Planets
— August 24, 2010
European astronomers had found a bustling solar system in the southern constellation Hydrus: a Sunlike star with at least five and probably seven worlds swarming around it.
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Jack Horkheimer Passes Away at 72
— August 20, 2010
The airwaves will no longer carry that signature phrase "Keep looking up!", as an iconic figure of amateur astronomy died today at age 72.
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The Incredible Shrinking Moon
— August 20, 2010
Planetary scientists have long considered the Moon dead, geologically speaking. But new high-resolution views of the lunar surface argue otherwise.
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A New Twist on Dark Energy
— August 19, 2010
Careful observations of the galaxy cluster Abell 1869, so massive that it bends the light from dozens of more distant galaxies, have given cosmologists a powerful new tool in their quest to understand dark energy.
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A Runaway Star with a Story To Tell
— August 18, 2010
Now streaking away in the Milky Way's outermost halo, HE 0437-5439 had a very close run-in with the galaxy's central black hole. And that was just the beginning.
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Home Computers Dredge Up Weird Pulsar
— August 17, 2010
The Einstein@Home project logs its first discovery, 17,000 light-years away in Vulpecula, through a computer in a couple's basement.
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Astro2010: U.S. Astronomy's Crystal Ball
— August 18, 2010
If you had $12 billion to spend on ground- and space-based observatories over the next 10 years, how would decide what to build? A 255-page National Research Council study, just released, provides some answers.
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