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Jan 30
Asteroid 2012 BX34 buzzes Earth
In 2011 a total of about 30
small asteroids passed
closer to the Earth than the
Moon, and there is no reason
to think there will be any
fewer this
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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
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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
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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
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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 huge mountain that rises almost 21 km above its
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