Stars

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Shadow of a water world close to nearby star
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A team of European astronomers has for the first time measured the transit of a Neptune-sized planet around another star.
Source: bescenta
Date Published: May 16, 2007

Star ‘dust’ sighted by Very Large telescope
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An international team of astronomers have detected a huge cloud of dust around a star.
Source: bescenta
Date Published: August 06, 2007

Big space
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Astronomers suggest radical recount of stars.
Source: scenta
Date Published: August 21, 2009

Exploring the universe
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Astronomers want Kepler to find more than just Earth-like orbiting stars.
Source: scenta
Date Published: September 04, 2009

Free from the atmosphere
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An artificial, laser-fed star now shines regularly over the sky of Paranal, Chile, home of one of the world's most advanced ground-based telescopes.
Source: bescenta
Date Published: June 14, 2007

Brown dwarf joins the jet set
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European Space Agency (ESA) astronomers have observed the outflow of matter in the formation of brown dwarfs.
Source: bescenta
Date Published: May 24, 2007

A new look at Orion
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Two new instruments offer the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) on Mauna Kea in Hawaii novel ways to look at the Universe.
Source: bescenta
Date Published: May 18, 2007