Astronomers given Gemini reprieve
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UK astronomers are granted a temporary reprieve over their access to two of the world's finest telescopes.
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Two independent teams of astronomers are reporting that they might be zeroing in on the time that bright galaxies began to light up the primordial universe.
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The surface of one of the brightest stars in the night sky is imaged by scientists.
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With the Moon reaching New    phase on Jan. 10 and thus leaving the sky darker, now is an ideal time to get    out your binoculars and explore the profusion of open or galactic star clusters    now evident in our evening sky.
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A troubled, 20-year journey to create the world'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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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - A long-delayed and nearly canceled upgrade to the Hubble Space Telescope will have to wait until NASA completes delivery of three modules to the International Space Station, officials said on Tuesday.
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A much-postponed launch of a spacecraft meant to explore two of the solar system's largest asteroids has been delayed again, this time until September.
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Colorado astronomers hailed a National Academy of Sciences report Wednesday that urges NASA to send shuttle astronauts - not a robot - to save the aging Hubble Space Telescope.
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The 2004 Geminid meteor shower is underway. Midnight sky watchers this weekend sawbright meteors shooting out of the constellation Geminid--at least a few per hour.
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NASA&#39;s Mars Odyssey mission, originally scheduled to end on Tuesday, has been granted a stay of execution until at least September 2006, reveal NASA scientists.
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PASADENA, Calif., Dec. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Astronomers will present new findings from NASA&#39;s Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope at a listen-and-logon news briefing, Thursday at 10 am Pacific time (1 pm Eastern time).
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NASA and university astronomers are eagerly awaiting  the launch of a&nbsp;space probe bound to collide with a comet and give  researchers a glimpse inside the solar system's&nbsp;icy  wanderers.&nbsp;
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The Geminid meteor shower is one of the annual meteor showers that pull professional and amateur astronomers alike out into the cold night air.
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Ever since two Gemini spacecraft met up high above Earth in 1965, the US space program has used astronauts for every rendezvous in orbit -- with other spacecraft, satellites, space stations or the Hubble Space Telescope.
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By Matt Krupnick, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Feb. 17--BERKELEY -- UC Berkeley scientists will wait at least another day to study the lights in the northern sky.
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This one is named Geminids because it seems to originate from the constellation Gemini. It will deliver about a dozen stars an hour.
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Astronomers are closely watching three sections of the sky after detecting three short but powerful X-ray bursts that may be harbingers of supernovas that could happen in the next few days.