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Are you a Planet? A humble proposal.

UB313/Xena/Gabrielle/Eris/Dysnomia! (NASA/Artists’ Conception)     Here’s a fun proposal. Next time you find yoursef bored, go into the science department of your local university and just casually...

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June 2009 News & Notes.

Blast! (Credit: Marc Halpern/the Blast Collaboration). BLAST takes off! Recently, scientists got a look into some of the earliest moments of the universe. BLAST, the Balloon borne Large Aperture,...

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AstroEvent: Catch Jupiter’s Moons in 1-2-3-4 order.

Jupiter+moons at 2200 UT February 1st. (Created by Author in Starry Night). Recently I’d caught something at a star party that’s worth looking out for; Jupiter’s moons in 1-2-3-4 order. This event...

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01.02.2011: NEOWISE: Mission Accomplished.

Comet 65P Gunn as captured by NEOWISE. (Credit: NASA/JPL/CALTech). An orbiting sentinel recently completed its secondary science mission. WISE, NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, recently...

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16.02.11: The Tyche Files.

The realm of the outer solar system; here be hypothetical worlds? (Credit: NASA). Something kept floating around our astro-radar yesterday as we busily wrote about comet flybys, launches, and wacky...

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15.03.11: A Borderline Brown Dwarf.

A brown dwarf family portrait bracketed by our sun & Jupiter. (Artist’s conception: NASA/JPL/CalTech).  Oh Be A Fine Girl/Guy Kiss Me Now… the mnemonic for stellar classification running from...

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A Close Pre-Historic Brush with Scholz’s Star

An artist’s conception of Scholz’s Star and its brown dwarf companion passing through the outer solar system. (Credit: Michael Osadciw/University of Rochester). A fascinating announcement out of the...

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Astro Video of the Week: White Dwarf, Brown Dwarf

+19th magnitude white dwarf WD 1202-024. (SDSS) Wanna see a wacky planetary system? A recent discovery by MIT, Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Bishop’s University researchers was...

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