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Nov 30
Mission complete for Nanosail-D Launched
on 19th November 2010 to
collect data on the breaking
action of the Earth's
atmosphere on satellites and
to
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Nov 28
M 51's last supernova in high resolution It's
like photographing a golf
ball on the Moon! Such is
the resolution of the image
made by an international
team of researchers
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Nov 25
Is their an ocean under
Pluto's surface?
The possibility that Pluto
hides an ocean of liquid
water beneath the thick
layer of ice that covers it
has long been discussed.
Though
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Nov 23
Permanent magnetic fields in pulsars? A
pulsar is a rapidly rotating
neutron star that emits
radiation in pulses. The
detection of the first
pulsar was made at radio
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Nov 21
The exact distance to Cygnus
X-1
Since its discovery almost
half a century ago, the
powerful source of X-rays
known as Cygnus X-1 has been
one of the most studied
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Nov 19
The galactic gas cycle
Just as water on Earth goes
through a cycle of rain,
rivers, sea, evaporation and
so on, so the gas in
galaxies is thought to go
through a cycle that
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Nov 16
Why are some old stars rich
in metals?
Thanks to a long study using
the telescopes of the
European Southern
Observatory and the Nordic
Optical Telescope on La
Palma, a
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Nov 14
Earth's core
older than
previously thought
The results of research by
Aleksey Smirnov and
colleagues at the University
of Rochester and Yale have
recently been
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Nov 12
"L'Astrofilo" arrives in newsagents!
This time it's us making the news. Our magazine will now be printed each month and will be available at the incredible price of only 3.50 euro. The first issue printed will be December 2011, and will be available in newsagents in Italy from 18th November. This issue will also be on offer today and tomorrow at the Erba Astrofest (near Como) at the stands of some of our collaborators. Further details of the magazine can be found in the editorial
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Nov 10
A mass extinction caused by methane and carbon
9 million years after the
mass extinction that wiped
the dinosaurs off the face
of the Earth there was
another mass
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Nov 8
The White House is not hiding E.T.
Amongst the various
initiatives established by
the Obama administration,
helping it to appear closer
to the people of the United
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Nov 4
Detecting alien lights
Given the limits of our technology, the search for aliens presently relies on the detection of either radio or luminous signals beamed in our direction
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Nov 2
A star with spiral arms!
Nello It appears as number
206462 in the Smithsonian
Astrophysical Observatory
Star Catalog (SAO for short)
and is an eighth magnitude
star, 457 light
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