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Citizen scientists lead astronomers to mystery objects in space

28 January 2015 Astronomy Now

Volunteers working on the Milky Way Project, one of many so-called citizen scientist activities on the crowdsourcing Zooniverse website, used web-based tools to make an interesting discovery.

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Kepler astronomers discover ancient star with five Earth-size planets

27 January 2015 Astronomy Now

Researchers in the US and UK have discovered one of the oldest planetary systems in the galaxy, orbiting one of the first generation of stars that formed 11.2 billion years ago when the universe was less than 20% of its current age.

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Asteroid that flew close by Earth 26th January has a moon

27 January 2015 Astronomy Now

Radar observations made with NASA’s 70-metre-wide Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, California yesterday show that close-approach asteroid 2004 BL86 has a small moon.

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Exoplanet J1407b possesses ring system 200 times larger than Saturn’s

26 January 2015 Astronomy Now

Researchers in The Netherlands and United States show that a young giant planet or brown dwarf known as J1407b possesses a complex ring system 120 million kilometres in diameter.

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Chandra celebrates the International Year of Light

26 January 2015 Astronomy Now

The United Nations has declared 2015 the International Year of Light, and to recognise the start of the event, the Chandra X-ray Center is releasing a set of images that combine data from telescopes tuned to different wavelengths of light.

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Orbiting Aragoscope could image Earth and sky at higher resolution than Hubble

25 January 2015 Astronomy Now

University of Colorado researchers are poised to update NASA on their revolutionary Aragoscope concept — a telescope in geostationary orbit capable of imaging objects in space or on Earth at hundreds of times the resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Black hole on a diet creates a ‘changing look’ quasar

24 January 2015 Astronomy Now

Yale University-led researchers have been able to study both the bright and dim phases of a quasar in a single source, an object that had dimmed by a factor of six or seven, compared with observations from a few years earlier.

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Rosetta data from ‘C-G’ give closest-ever look at a comet

22 January 2015 Astronomy Now

A special issue of journal Science published 23rd January reveals details about the shape, evolution and lifespan of comet 67P-Churyumov/Gerasimenko.

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Milky Way wormholes could be a ‘galactic transport system’

21 January 2015 Astronomy Now

The sci-fi film “Interstellar” raised the idea of space-time tunnels between worlds to recent public consciousness, but a new study prompts scientists to consider Milky Way wormholes as science fact and re-think dark matter more accurately.

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25-million-year-old galactic dust provides insight into supernovae

21 January 2015 Astronomy Now

Australian researchers analysing galactic dust from the last 25 million years within Pacific Ocean floor sediments found far less plutonium-244 from supernovae than expected, findings that are at odds with current theories.

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  • T Coronae Borealis
    A faint star will reveal itself as it throws a hissy-fit
    26 March 2025
  • Saturn
    Saturn’s Rings to “Disappear”
    24 March 2025
  • Big Bang
    The Lithium Problem
    17 March 2025
  • Uranus' moon Ariel.
    Discover the many fascinating moons of our Solar System
    17 March 2025
  • Mars Chopper
    A bigger and better helicopter to Mars
    16 March 2025
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