2009 to be UN International Year of Astronomy
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The United Nations has proclaimed 2009 to be the International Year of Astronomy to mark the 400th anniversary of observations by Galileo that revolutionised our understanding of the cosmos, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) said here on Thursday.
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HILO, Hawai&#39;i - A new camera at the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope atop Mauna Kea will be able to capture images 3,600 times larger that those taken by the camera on the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers said.
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In what could be a breakthrough in the search for worlds, an international team of astronomers claims to have made an image of a planetlike object beyond our solar system.
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NASA is inviting members of the general public from around the world to suggest a new name for the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, otherwise known as GLAST, before it launches in mid-2008.
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WASHINGTON It&#39;s a global celestial event and scientists say the annual Geminid Meteor Shower is the best astronomy show of the year.
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A troubled, 20-year journey to create the world&#39;s most powerful optical telescope is nearing an end, with astronomers hoping to begin using the instrument to look for heavenly breakthroughs early next year.
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PPARC -- British astronomers are celebrating a world first that could revolutionise the future of astronomy. They have just begun a project to operate a global network of the world's biggest robotic telescopes, dubbed 'RoboNet-1.0' which will be controlled by intelligent software to provide rapid observations of sudden changes in astronomical objects, such as violent Gamma Ray Bursts, or 24-hour surveillance of interesting phenomena...
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Hubble Space Telescope -- An international team of astronomers is announcing today that they have identified the probable surviving companion star to a titanic supernova explosion witnessed in the year 1572 by the great Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe and
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Astronomers have found plenty of double, or binary asteroids. Triples are known to exist, too (the first triple was found in 2005).
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International Heliophysical Year, no less Just days after the launch of THEMIS, NASA's mission to unravel the mysteries of the aurorae, the international scientific community is celebrating the start of the International Heliophysical Year (IHY).â¦
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Grazie a gruppo internazionale astronomi, fra cui italiani
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Upcoming events around the world.
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DAVOS, Jan 26 (IPS) - UN Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon has called on  world leaders to agree some 2010 milestones towards achieving the  2015 Millennium Development Goals.
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Teams of international scientists have   used observations from NASA's Swift satellite and other   telescopes to witness the evolution of a cosmic blast into a   stellar explosion or supernova.
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It&#39;s a celestial event and scientists say the annual Geminid Meteor Shower is the best astronomy show of the year, with meteors shooting across the sky in all directions.
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s collisions go, the one taking place in the vicinity of the constellation Hydra is a doozy. Out there, some 800 million light-years from Earth, two galactic clusters - one with about 1,000