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FOX News
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Astronomers have discovered 28 new planets outside of our solar system, increasing to 236 the number of known exoplanets, revealing that planets can exist around a broad spectrum of stellar types, from tiny, dim stars to giants.
"We added 12 percent to..
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Space.com
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New telescope images reveal a previously unknown rich cluster of stars in the inner parts of the Milky Way.
This closely-packed star family, consisting of about 100,000 stars and located some 30,000 light-years away, was spotted with the European South..
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skytonight.com
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After a drought of 2½ years, we can finally look forward to a total lunar eclipse on the evening of March 3, 2007. On that night the Moon gradually slides into and out of the shadow cast by Earth in space. It is one of the grandest and most beautiful eve..
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BBC News
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Baby stars have been discovered spawning in the otherwise barren outskirts of a galaxy.
The finding has surprised astronomers because the galactic periphery was assumed to lack high concentrations of ingredients needed to form stars.
The stars can b..
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BBC News
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The first stars to appear in the Universe may have been powered by dark matter, according to US scientists.
Normal stars are powered by nuclear fusion reactions, where hydrogen atoms meld to form heavier helium.
But when the Universe was still young..
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BBC News
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Rocky planets, possibly with conditions suitable for life, may be more common than previously thought in our galaxy, a study has found.
New evidence suggests more than half the Sun-like stars in the Milky Way could have similar planetary systems.
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MSNBC
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Giant-sized telescopes such as Hubble, Spitzer and Chandra offer unprecedented views of the cosmos, but astronomers are eager to put more powerful tools into orbit around the Earth.
Without the extra help, said Rachel Somerville, an astronomer at the M..
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Scientific American
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Stargazers have yet to lay eyes on any of the nearly 240 planets detected outside our solar system. These so-called exoplanets are too faint for current telescopes to distinguish from the stars they orbit*; instead astronomers rely on indirect methods to..
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BBC News
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The most accurate catalogue of the distances to more than 100,000 stars has just been released.
Cambridge astronomer Dr Floor van Leeuwen has spent the past 10 years checking and recalculating data gathered by the Hipparcos satellite.
It collected t..
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BBC News
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The first image of the surface of a Sun-like star has been captured.
It confirms that Altair, one of the brightest stars in the night sky, is a rapidly spinning, non-spherical body.
Until now, telescopes have only been powerful enough to zoom in on..
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Independent
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Astronomers have pinpointed two massive stars, orbiting close to each other in space, that could merge to create a "super" sun, 100 times bigger than our own.
The massive "binary" star system, located in a galaxy orbiting the Milky Way, has been captur..
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BBC News
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A haul of 28 new planets beyond our solar system has been detected by the world's most prolific planet hunters.
The finds were among 37 objects seen orbiting distant stars by a US and Anglo-Australian team in the last year.
Other objects reported by..
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BBC News
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The dual suns that rise and set over Luke Skywalker's homeworld in the film Star Wars may be more than just fantasy, according to data from Nasa.
In a classic scene from the 1977 movie, the hero gazes into the distance as two yellow suns set on the hor..
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