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(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers at The University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics have discovered one of the hottest stars in the Galaxy with a surface temperature of around 200,000 degrees - 35 times hotter than the Sun. http://www.physorg.com/news178987042.html Space & Earth Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:37:50 EST news178987042 (AP) -- Thousands of stargazers across Asia stayed awake overnight to catch a glimpse of what was advertised as an intense Leonid meteor shower, but the show fizzled rather than sizzled for many because of cloudy conditions. http://www.physorg.com/news177754664.html Space & Earth Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:18:19 EST news177754664 (PhysOrg.com) -- The Leonid meteor shower best viewing this year will be in the hours before dawn on Nov. 17. http://www.physorg.com/news177261848.html Space & Earth Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:30:02 EST news177261848 (PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers from The University of Western Ontario in London, Canada have released footage of a meteor that was approximately 100 times brighter than a full moon. The meteor lit up the skies of southern Ontario two weeks ago and Western astronomers are now hoping to enlist the help of local residents in recovering one or more possible meteorites that may have crashed in the area of Grimsby, Ontario. http://www.physorg.com/news174133342.html Space & Earth Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:22:47 EST news174133342 (PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers are making plans to create a galaxy-sized observatory to look for gravitational waves. The project is part of a joint effort with astronomers from Australia and Europe, who also aim to try to detect gravitational waves. http://www.physorg.com/news172400153.html Physics Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:56:18 EST news172400153 (PhysOrg.com) -- With the casting today of a 6.5-meter mirror in Arizona, Mexican and American astronomers have taken the first step toward creation of a major new telescope that will survey infrared objects in the northern sky with unprecedented sensitivity. http://www.physorg.com/news170595726.html Space & Earth Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:42:36 EST news170595726 (PhysOrg.com) -- Solar flares are amongst the most dangerous cosmic phenomena man has ever known. Though they pose no harm to humans, their effect on technology is vast. When they occur, they possess the capability to knock out satellites orbiting earth and bring down power grids that provide electricity to millions of people. In order to avoid catastrophe physicists around the globe are working to accurately forecast these solar flares. http://www.physorg.com/news170535071.html Physics Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:51:47 EST news170535071 (AP) -- NASA is charged with seeking out nearly all the asteroids that threaten Earth but doesn't have the money to do the job, a federal report says. http://www.physorg.com/news169304506.html Space & Earth Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:02:32 EST news169304506 Amateur astronomers across the UK are preparing to tweet the world`s first mass participation meteor star party, as part of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009). Led by Newbury Astronomical Society, the Twitter Meteorwatch will take place from the evening of Tuesday 11th until the morning of 13th August 2009, covering the peak of the Perseids meteor shower. http://www.physorg.com/news169136268.html Space & Earth Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:50:03 EST news169136268 (PhysOrg.com) -- The expanding spot discovered on Venus last month may not have garnered as much attention as the meteor impact with Jupiter, but its cause is certainly more puzzling. http://www.physorg.com/news168610535.html Space & Earth Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:16:10 EST news168610535 (PhysOrg.com) -- It began with a furrowed brow, a moment of puzzlement, quickly dismissed. http://www.physorg.com/news168529100.html Space & Earth Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:39:34 EST news168529100 A team of astronomers has discovered a group of rare galaxies called the "Green Peas" with the help of citizen scientists working through an online project called Galaxy Zoo. The finding could lend unique insights into how galaxies form stars in the early universe. http://www.physorg.com/news167921680.html Space & Earth Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:30:04 EST news167921680 Four hundred years after Galileo first turned his handmade telescope toward the heavens, the world's largest, most technologically advanced telescope is set to make its formal debut. http://www.physorg.com/news166709746.html Space & Earth Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:30:01 EST news166709746 On June 29th, neighbors of Paul Mortfield in Ontario, Canada, heard "cheers of excitement" coming from the astronomer's house. What caused the commotion? http://www.physorg.com/news166451645.html Space & Earth Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:35:50 EST news166451645 The International Space Station (ISS) is about to make a remarkable series of flybys over the United States. Beginning this 4th of July weekend, the station will appear once, twice, and sometimes three times a day for many days in a row. No matter where you live, you should have at least a few opportunities to see the biggest spaceship ever built. http://www.physorg.com/news166107098.html Space & Earth Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:30:02 EST news166107098 The next generation of instruments for ground-based telescopes took a leap forward with the development of a new ultra-fast camera that can take 1,500 finely exposed images per second even when observing extremely faint objects. http://www.physorg.com/news164548647.html Technology Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:29:20 EST news164548647 The most crowded collision of galaxy clusters has been identified by combining information from three different telescopes. This result gives scientists a chance to learn what happens when some of the largest objects in the Universe go at each other in a cosmic free-for-all. http://www.physorg.com/news159100327.html Space & Earth Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:32:30 EST news159100327 At sunset on Thursday, astronomers around the world will be limbering up for a 100-hour marathon aimed at celebrating the night sky and nurturing the Galileos of tomorrow. http://www.physorg.com/news157871372.html Space & Earth Thu, 02 Apr 2009 06:10:38 EST news157871372 Talk about a big construction project... http://www.physorg.com/news156525597.html Space & Earth Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:21:13 EST news156525597 For decades, distant galaxies that emitted their light six billion years ago were no more than small specks of light on the sky. With the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope in the early 1990s, astronomers were able to scrutinise the structure of distant galaxies in some detail for the first time. Under the superb skies of Paranal, the VLT's FLAMES/GIRAFFE spectrograph - which obtains simultaneous spectra from small areas of extended objects - can now also resolve the motions of the gas in these distant galaxies. http://www.physorg.com/news155940094.html Space & Earth Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:41:56 EST news155940094 An asteroid of a similar size to a rock that exploded above Siberia in 1908 with the force of a thousand atomic bombs whizzed close past Earth on Monday, astronomers said on Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news155287963.html Space & Earth Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:33:05 EST news155287963 (PhysOrg.com) -- The vast expanses of intergalactic space appear to be filled with a haze of tiny, smoke-like "dust" particles that dim the light from distant objects and subtly change their colors, according to a team of astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-II), including a researcher from the University of California, Davis. http://www.physorg.com/news154893222.html Space & Earth Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:54:42 EST news154893222 (PhysOrg.com) -- Some three million times a year, researchers, educators, and amateur astronomers all over the world ask NASA's SkyView virtual observatory to serve up images of some interesting corner of the cosmos. Since 1994, this digital archive has made access to and manipulation of celestial surveys its specialty. It boasts a full spectrum of data, ranging from radio to gamma-rays. http://www.physorg.com/news152985391.html Space & Earth Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:57:06 EST news152985391 Astronomers this year are about to get a windfall of new and improved telescopes of unprecedented power with which to explore the universe. The bonanza arrives 400 years after Galileo spied craters on the moon through the world's first telescope. http://www.physorg.com/news151006087.html Space & Earth Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:08:07 EST news151006087 One, the old-fashioned way: Find a dark place with starry skies and count the meteors streaking overhead. Two, the new way: Find a dark place with starry skies and then completely ignore the meteors. Instead, watch the Moon. That's where the explosions are. http://www.physorg.com/news139667447.html Space & Earth Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:30:47 EST news139667447 The first thing an alien race is likely to hear from Earth is chirps and whistles, a bit like R2-D2, the robot from Star Wars. In reality, they are the sounds that accompany the aurora. Now ESA's Cluster mission is showing scientists how to understand this emission and, in the future, search for alien worlds by listening for their sounds. http://www.physorg.com/news133783814.html Space & Earth Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:10:14 EST news133783814