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Big Bear Solar Observatory: The Most Detailed Picture of a Sunspot Ever RecordedResearchers at Big Bear Solar Observatory have tuned their adaptive optics array and achieved first light, capturing this image of a sunspot that is now the most detailed ever captured in visible light. |
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Rich exoplanet system discoveredAstronomers have discovered a planetary system containing at least five planets that orbit a star called HD 10180, which is much like our own Sun. |
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Mars site may hold buried lifeResearchers have identified rocks that they say could contain the fossilised remains of life on early Mars. |
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700 new planets discovered by NASANASA's deep-space Kepler probe has found hundreds of new planets — many similar to earth — sparking new hope of life outside our solar system. |
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Pann-Starrs telescope begins operations to hunt asteroidsA new telescope facility in Hawaii designed to search for asteroids and comets which could threaten Earth has been made operational. |
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‘Take us to your leader’ - UFO files outThe latest instalment of Britain's very own X-Files have revealed an unlikely destination for so-called extraterrestrial visitors - the former home secretary Michael Howard's home. |
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International Space Station gets new observation deckAstronauts have successfully installed an extension to the International Space Station in a series of spacewalks. |
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Avatar’s Pandora possible within years?The concept of life on the moon may currently be limited to sci-fi blockbusters such as James Cameron's Avatar, but a leading astronomer has suggested it could become a reality in just a few years. |
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NASA’s Chandra X-ray Space Observatory imagesFor the first time an infant neutron star has been been observed (blue dot in the centre of the image). |
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Hubble’s New Camera Delivers Another StunnerThe Hubble Space Telescope’s new camera is returning incredibly detailed, stunning images of space. |
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- New road concrete developed that actually cleans the air
- Cannabis electric car to be made in Canada
- Big Bear Solar Observatory: The Most Detailed Picture of a Sunspot Ever Recorded
- Scientists hope to collect electricity from the air
- Rich exoplanet system discovered
- Ultraviolet light reveals how Greek statues really looked
- Spray-on film turns glass into solar panels
- Solar power plant plans move ahead in California
- Mysterious tunnel discovered under Mexican ruins
- Innovative India water plant opens in Madras
- Mars site may hold buried life
- Paralyzed may soon steer wheelchair with just a sniff
- 700 new planets discovered by NASA
- Archaeologists unearth Neolithic henge at Stonehenge
- Pann-Starrs telescope begins operations to hunt asteroids
- How lasers will light up the future of medicine
- Resurrected: woolly mammoth blood protein
- Sony aims for zero footprint
- Government pledges cash for eco-drivers
- Typos may earn Google £320m a year
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