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February issue
at 3.50 euro! the main articles of
the month:
3 historic discoveries for Kepler
The Kepler space telescope has overcome some of the fundamental barriers towards the confirmation of the existence of Earth-like planets. Amongst the most incredible recent discoveries...
2 Moons for the Earth
How many natural satellites does Earth have? Just one, the Moon, everyone knows that! What very few people know is that at any one time the Earth actually has at least two Moons. A long time in the...
A shower of extra-solar comets
At a distance of 60 light years from Earth, there is a planetary system in a phase of evolution similar to that which occurred in our own solar system 4 billion years ago...
The gas cycle in galactic halos
Where does a galaxy finish and intergalactic space
start? Where does the gas thrown above the disk of a
galaxy by supernova explosions end up? The answer to
these questions...
Record breaking rotation in the Tarantula
A star that spins at over 2 million km/h has been discovered by astronomers working on a survey at the European Southern Observatory.
This incredible velocity is the result of the...
Jan 27
Kepler: another 26 planets in 11 systems
The validation process for
planets discovered by the
Kepler space telescope,
which began just a few
months ago, is giving
excellent results. The
latest
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Jan 25
Pillars of Creation as seen by Herschel
It looks like a patch of sky
after a thunder storm, with
the sunlight filtering
through the clouds, but this
is what the Herschel space
>>>
Jan 23
The most distant dwarf satellite galaxy
It sounds impossible to
discover a dwarf galaxy at a
distance of 10 billion light
years, given that such
galaxies are difficult to
detect even
>>>
Jan 20
The VISTA view of the Helix
Here's what ESO's 4.1 metre
VISTA (Visible and Infrared
Survey Telescope for
Astronomy) telescope can do
when it photographs a
spectacular object
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Jan 18
Tissint, the freshest Martian meteorite
It's been called Tissint and
it fell last July near
Foumzgit, in Morocco. Thanks
to several eyewitnesses, it
was possible to recover
almost 7 kg
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Jan 16
Phobos-Grunt falls to Earth!
After the post-launch
problems of the Phobos-Grunt
probe, which prevented it
from starting its journey
towards the Martian
satellite Phobos,
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Jan 14
200 million variable objects
Since 2005, at the Mt.
Bigelow Observatory, a group
of astronomers from the
University of Arizona have
been working on the Catalina
Sky
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Jan 11
El Gordo, the largest distant cluster
It's in the constellation of
Phoenix at a distance of 7.2
billion light years and is
the most massive and hottest
of all the known galaxy
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Jan 9
Hunting for habitable extrasolar moons
The significant number of
giant planets that orbit
their stars within the
habitable zone is resulting
in new possibilities in the
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Jan 5
The Omega Nebula photo-graphed by ESO
The European Southern
Observatory, celebrating its
50th anniversary this year,
has just released this new,
exceptional
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Jan 3
Vesta's meteorite mine
One of the biggest surprises
during the first months of
the Dawn mission (the probe
in orbit around the asteroid
Vesta)has been the
discovery of a
>>>
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