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  TRAPPIST Participated in the Detection of Ten Percent of All Transiting Exoplanets Known to Date

  April 25, 2013 — Among the many planets detected orbiting other stars (exoplanets) over the last twenty years, a little less than three hundred periodically pass in front of their star. This is what astronomers call ... > full story
• Stars
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  Mysterious Hot Spots Observed in Cool Red Supergiant

  April 24, 2013 — Astronomers have released a new image of the outer atmosphere of Betelgeuse – one of the nearest red supergiants to Earth – revealing the detailed structure of the matter being thrown off ... > full story
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  Scientists Detect 'Dark Lightning' Energy Burst Linked to Visible Lightning

  April 24, 2013 — Researchers have identified a burst of high-energy radiation known as 'dark lightning" immediately preceding a flash of ordinary lightning. The new finding provides observational evidence that the ... > full story
• Extrasolar Planets
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  Eris (Xena)
   
  

  Looking for Life by the Light of Dying Stars

  April 24, 2013 — Astronomers have now demonstrated that with the advanced technology available in the next decade we should be able to detect biomarkers like oxygen and methane in the planets that orbit dead stars ... > full story
• Galaxies
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  Galaxy Goes Green in Burning Stellar Fuel

  April 23, 2013 — Astronomers have spotted the "greenest" of galaxies, one that converts fuel into stars with almost 100-percent efficiency. The findings come from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), ... > full story
• Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
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  Hubble Captures Comet ISON

  April 23, 2013 — When the Hubble picture of ISON was taken on April 10, the comet was slightly closer than Jupiter's orbit at a distance of 386 million miles from the Sun. Hubble photographed a jet blasting dust ... > full story
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  Hubble Sees a Unique Cluster: One of the Hidden 15

  April 19, 2013 — Palomar 2 is part of a group of 15 globulars known as the Palomar clusters. These clusters, as the name suggests, were discovered in survey plates from the first Palomar Observatory Sky Survey in the ... > full story
• Nebulae
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  NASA's Hubble Sees a Horsehead of a Different Color

  April 19, 2013 — Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to photograph the iconic Horsehead Nebula in a new, infrared ... > full story
• Extrasolar Planets
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  Three Super-Earth-Size Planets Found in 'Habitable Zone'

  April 18, 2013 — NASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone," the range of distance from a star where the surface temperature of ... > full story

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  • New Earth-Like Planets Found Orbiting a Sun-Like Star
  • New Techniques Allow Discovery of Smallest Super-Earth Exoplanets
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  Distant Blazar Is a High-Energy Astrophysics Puzzle

  April 18, 2013 — Blazars are the brightest of active galactic nuclei, and many emit very high-energy gamma rays. New observations of the blazar known as PKS 1424+240 show that it is the most distant known source of ... > full story

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