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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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