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Dark Energy Survey Set to Seek out Supernovae
July 2, 2013 — The largest ever search for supernovae – exploding stars up to 10 billion times brighter than the Sun – is beginning this August. For the next five years, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) ... > full story -
Astronomer Uncovers the Hidden Identity of an Exoplanet
July 1, 2013 — Hovering about 70 light-years from Earth –- that's "next door" by astronomical standards –– is a star astronomers call HD 97658, which is almost bright enough to see with the naked ... > full story -
Cloud Behavior Expands Habitable Zone of Alien Planets
July 1, 2013 — A new study that calculates the influence of cloud behavior on climate doubles the number of potentially habitable planets orbiting red dwarfs, the most common type of stars in the ... > full story -
NASA Decommissions Its Galaxy Hunter Spacecraft
July 1, 2013 — NASA has turned off its Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) after a decade of operations in which the venerable space telescope used its ultraviolet vision to study hundreds of millions of galaxies ... > full story -
Intergalactic Magnifying Glasses Could Help Astronomers Map Galaxy Centers
June 30, 2013 — Astronomers may have found a new way to map quasars, the energetic and luminous central regions often found in distant ... > full story -
Gas-Giant Exoplanets Cling Close to Their Parent Stars
June 27, 2013 — Gemini Observatory's Planet-Finding Campaign finds that, around many types of stars, distant gas-giant planets are rare and prefer to cling close to their parent stars. The impact on theories of ... > full story -
A Telescope for Your Eye: New Contact Lens Design May Improve Sight of Patients With Macular Degeneration
June 27, 2013 — Contact lenses correct eyesight but do nothing to improve blurry vision of those suffering from age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of blindness among older adults in the ... > full story -
Spiral Galaxies Like Milky Way Bigger Than Thought
June 27, 2013 — Let's all fist bump: Spiral galaxies like our own Milky Way appear to be much larger and more massive than previously believed, according to a new ... > full story -
Astronomers Spy on Galaxies in the Raw
June 26, 2013 — A radio telescope has detected the raw material for making the first stars in galaxies that formed when the Universe was just three billion years old -- less than a quarter of its current ... > full story -
Three Planets in Habitable Zone of Nearby Star: Gliese 667c Reexamined
June 25, 2013 — Astronomers have combined new observations of Gliese 667C with existing data to reveal a system with at least six planets. A record-breaking three of these planets are super-Earths lying in the zone ... > full story
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