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Amateur stargazers discover new planet

Two amateur British astronomers say they have discovered a new planet which they want to be named af...

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Distant faint `satellite galaxy` discovered

Astronomers have discovered a faint satellite galaxy 10 billion light years from Earth.

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Astronomers see more planets than stars in galaxy

The more astronomers look for other worlds, the more they find that it is a crowded and crazy cosmos...

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Astronomers make biggest map of dark matter

International astronomers said today they have created the largest map of dark matter ever observed ...

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Astronomers discover 2 hidden alien planets

Astronomers have tracked two elusive extrasolar planets that went undetected in image data from NASA...

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What`s the age of the Moon? It could be waning

That old Moon might not be as antique as we thought, some scientist think. They say it`s possible th...

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Astronomical finding may help treat cancer patient

Astronomers studying stars and black holes have discovered that heavy metals emit low-energy electro...

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Neutron star hit by super giant matter flares up

The flare took place on a neutron star, the collapsed heart of a once much larger star. Now about 10...

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Ten new planets discovered

An international team, including scientists from the University of Oxford, has discovered 10 new pla...

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Planet going the wrong way?

All planets are known to move around their stars in the same direction as the star spins. But, now a...

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Milky Way `clone` captured by European astronomers

Astronomers in Europe claim to have captured a striking image of a giant Milky Way "clone".

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US astronomers launch search for alien life on 86 planets

A massive radio telescope in Virginia has begun listening for signs of alien life on 86 planets.

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Astronomers unveil `super-exotic` exoplanet

An exoplanet is a planet outside the solar system.

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Aboriginal tribes created a sundial 10,000 yrs ago

A new find from Oz has suggested that ancient Aboriginal tribes were the world’s first astronomers.

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`Biggest ever` black hole discovered

Astronomers discovered what they say is the biggest ever black hole which weighs the same as 6.8 bil...

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New Cambridge light on cosmic `dark ages`

Remnants of the first stars have helped astronomers get closer on cosmic `dark ages`.

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Small black hole called microquasar `discovered`

Astronomers have discovered a small black hole, called a microquasar, weighing only as much as a sta...

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Star system that resembles a game of snooker

Astronomers have discovered an unusual star system which looks like a game of snooker.

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Scientists estimate Earth-sized planets could be common

The researchers found larger numbers of smaller planets than of larger planets.

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Ancient galaxy is more than 13 bn light yrs away

Astronomers today said a galaxy born in childhood of Universe lies at least 13 bn light years away. ...

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A new way to spot planets hidden in their star’s glare

Astronomers have developed a new way to spot planets previously hidden in their star`s glare which w...

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How young galaxies can grow gently

Galaxies often collide and then merge to form larger systems.

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Scientists find planet that may be sure for life

Astronomers for the first time spotted a planet beyond Earth called the Goldilocks zone for life.

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New solar system aliens models

New supercomputer simulations show what the solar system might look like to aliens.

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Australian Aborigines `world`s first astronomers`

An Oz study has uncovered signs that the country`s ancient Aborigines may have been the world`s firs...

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Massive solar storm to hit Earth in 2012

Astronomers are predicting that a massive solar storm is to hit Earth in 2012.

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Astronomers obtain 3D view of stellar explosion

The Very Large Telescope showed that the blast more concentrated in one particular direction.

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Astronomers discover unusual cosmic lens

For the first time astronomers have found a distant as a gravitational lens.

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A new type of exploding star discovered

Astronomers have discovered a new type of exploding star, according to a pair of studies.

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Astronomers and Cassini spacecraft capture Saturn storm

For the first time, amateur astronomers used the composite infrared spectrometer instrument aboard N...

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Astronomers `spot mega star cradle`

The question of how massive stars form is one of the great conundrums of modern astronomy.

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`A new camera helps astronomers watch stars being born`

The first few images taken by a new near-infrared camera -- LUCIFER 1 -- is helping astronomers ob...

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Astronomers take pictures of exoplanets

By using a small telescope, astronomers took a picture of three small planets orbiting a star outsid...

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Astronomers measure ‘biggest’ comet

Astronomers have measured Comet McNaught, which is believed to be the biggest comet to date. McNaugh...

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Astronomers solve enigma of eclipsing star

Astronomers on Wednesday said they may have explained the riddle of a dimming star that has perplexe...

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Universe expansion is speeding up: Astronomers

Astronomers have claimed that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, after studying thousand...

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Astronomers discover supermassive black holes

Astronomers, using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, have discovered two of the earliest and most prim...

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Host star destroying massive extra-solar planet: Astronomers

A recently discovered extra-solar planet, which is nearly double of Jupiter`s sizeis being distorted...

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Cannibal star is devouring a planet: Astronomers

Like the Roman god Saturn who ate his own children, a star 600 light years from Earth is slowly gobb...

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NASA astronomers unravel secret of the supernova

Supernovas have long been used as "cosmic mile markers" to measure the expansion of the universe, bu...

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Astronomers find oldest stars outside Milky Way

European Southern Observatory astronomers have said they had uncovered the oldest stars in our galac...

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Astronomers come closer to understanding source of cosmic rays

New images from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope are helping astronomers take a step closer to...

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Astronomers capture image of cosmic cat

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has recently released a stunning new image of the vast cloud...

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We could find Earth-like planets soon: Astronomers

Astronomers say they are on the verge of finding planets like Earth orbiting other stars, a key step...

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Astronomers spot `super-Earth` 80 light years away

US astronomers have detected the second smallest exoplanet ever discovered with a mass just four tim...

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Astronomers discover new tidal streams in Andromeda Galaxy

An international team of astronomers has identified two new tidal streams in the Andromeda Galaxy, t...

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Japanese astronomers discover great balls of fire in sky

Huge balls of fire, 10,000 times hotter than the Sun, that were unleashed by a supernova in one of t...

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Astronomers see `skeleton` of the universe

Astronomers in Chile and Japan have for the first time seen part of the "cosmic web" of galaxies tha...

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Scientists see blast from past -- 13 billion years ago

Astronomers have seen the furthest back in time ever, measuring light from a star that exploded 13 b...

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Astronomers `spot` meteorite on vast Nullabor Plain

Astronomers have discovered a specific piece of meteorite on Nullabor Plain, after tracking it from ...

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