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Category: Astronomy

  • Gemini Planet Imager First Light!

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    Gemini Planet Imager First Light! Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) was designed, built, and optimized for imaging faint planets next to bright stars and probing their atmospheres. It will also be a powerful tool for studying dusty, planet-forming disks around young stars. It is the most advanced such instrument to be deployed on the 8-meter Gemini…

  • Water found in stardust suggests life is universal

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    Water found in stardust suggests life is universal Pockets of water have been detected in dust from our solar system – suggesting that life’s ingredients may be spread across the universe Source: www.newscientist.com/article/dn24907-water-found-in-stardust-suggests-life-is-universal

  • ALMA Spots Supernova Dust Factory

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    ALMA Spots Supernova Dust Factory Striking new observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope capture, for the first time, the remains of a recent supernova brimming with freshly formed dust. If enough of this dust makes the perilous transition into interstellar space, it could explain how many galaxies acquired their dusty, dusky appearance.…

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    Photo of M42 I too the other night to kick off the new year. Meteor or satellite included!  

  • Astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell dies

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    In sad news, Sir Bernard Lovell has passed away. Sir Bernard was the founder of the Jodrell Bank Observatory. More info here. Sir Bernard, who was born near Bristol and studied in the city, was the founder of University of Manchester’s Jodrell Bank Observatory. Jodrell Bank and the surrounding Cheshire countryside is dominated by the Lovell Radio…