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  • August 2008

    • Dutch Teacher Discovers Green 'Space Ghost'

      NPR  |  Aug 10, 08 2:14 PM CDT

      Dutch Teacher Discovers Green 'Space Ghost'

      (Newser) - A Dutch schoolteacher earned her moment in the sun by discovering a cosmic ball of gas some have labeled a space “ghost,” NPR reports. Hanny van Arkel, 25, was working as a volunteer with a galaxy-classifying website when she came upon what “looked like a regular galaxy but much bluer.” Experts say it consists of hot gas that is perhaps reflecting the light of a distant galaxy. More »

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      Netherlands  • teacher  • black hole  • galaxy  • outer space  • Ghost  • quasars

  • June 2008

    • New Planets Yield Hopes of Life Beyond

      New York Times  |  Jun 24, 08 1:43 PM CDT

      New Planets Yield Hopes of Life Beyond

      (Newser) - The discovery, announced last week, that rocky, Earth-sized planets appear to be circling sun-sized stars in our own galaxy should thrill the closet Star Trek geek in all of us, Natalie Angier writes in the New York Times. "If planets abound, scientists suspect that life abounds, too, at least of the microbial kind," she writes—exciting stuff, given previous news of unfriendly gas giants. More »

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      astronomy  • space exploration  • extraterrestrial life  • planet  • deep space  • Milky Way  • galaxy

  • May 2008

    • Stargazers Witness Birth of Supernova

      Space.com  |  May 22, 08 3:43 AM CDT

      Stargazers Witness Birth of Supernova

      (Newser) - A  pair of Princeton astronomers have become the first people ever to witness the explosive death of a star, Space.com reports. The pair were observing another supernova in its later stages when they happened to spot a huge burst of X-rays 90 million light years away. Astronomers believe their observations will fill in some blanks in knowledge about this cosmic phenomenon. More »

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      NASA  • astronomy  • star  • star  • galaxy  • supernova

  • January 2008

    • Gates Sees Stars, Donates $10M to 'Scope

      Guardian (UK)  |  Jan 5, 08 4:05 PM CST

      Gates Sees Stars, Donates $10M to 'Scope

      (Newser) - Bill Gates and Bill Simonyi—space geeks and Microsoft billionaires both—are donating $30 million to the Chilean-based Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the Guardian reports. The $400 million endeavor, scheduled to be working in 2015, will snap pics of the sky with a 3,200 megapixel digital camera every 15 seconds—and aid endeavors ranging from galaxy-hunting to cosmology. More »

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      International Space Station  • Bill Gates  • astronomy  • Chile  • universe  • telescope  • galaxy  • Andes Mountains

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