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Thursday, 01 October 2009 16:23
$4 million facility to support joint Australian, NZ bid for SKA
The Western Australian town of Geraldton, 460 kilometres north of Perth, is set to play a key role in Australian astronomy in support of the bid to host the $2.5 billion Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio-telescope, with the Australian Government’s announcement today that a new research facility is to be built in the town.
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Thursday, 11 September 2008 19:17
Astronomers see gamma-ray burst shot toward Earth halfway across Universe
The international astronomy community "hit the jackpot" on March 19, 2008, as its astronomers observed GRB 080319B, a gamma-ray burst whose explosive jet shot material in the direction of Earth at an estimated speed of 99.99995% the speed of light. The event was the furthest in distance ever seen by a naked eye on Earth.
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Thursday, 15 May 2008 05:12
NASA's supernova hunt in Milky Way ends with discovery of G1.9+0.3
Using data from the space-based NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory and the ground-based NRAO Very Large Array, astronomers just found a supernova within our Milky Way galaxy that exploded about 140 years ago. NASA scientists took fifty years to find it.
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Friday, 09 May 2008 19:25
MARVELS project by NASA looks for new planets
The Multi-object Apache Point Observatory Radial Velocity Exoplanet Large-area Survey (MARVELS) is set to survey about 11,000 stars. Beginning in 2008, astronomers hope to find at least 150 planets never before seen circling some of these stars.
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Sunday, 13 January 2008 21:23
Astronomers hit Einsteinian jackpot
An international team of scientists used the Hubble Space Telescope to find a never-before-seen double Einstein ring. The important discovery helps astronomers learn more about dark matter, dark energy, and curved space of the universe.
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Saturday, 12 January 2008 21:40
Brace for impact: Collision between Smith's Cloud and Milky Way
Smith’s Cloud, a gigantic cloud of hydrogen gas, is heading toward our Milky Way Galaxy at over 540,000 miles per hour (864,000 kilometers per hour)—or about 150 miles per second. And, a collision is about to happen ....
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Wednesday, 09 January 2008 20:53
Another update: asteroid has only 1-in-40 chance (2.5%) of hitting Mars
The trajectory of asteroid 2007 WD5 as it nears Mars is being better estimated by astronomers here on Earth. As of January 8, 2008, it is expected to miss the Red Planet by about 18,641 miles (30,000 kilometers).
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