Fizzled stars less common than expected

Source: The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette

Becoming a star can be a challenge. But new observations reveal that its much easier in space than in Hollywood. Only about 14 percent of all aspiring celestial stars fizzle out, researchers report. In principle, its easy to deduce how many stars s ...
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Scorpius in Red and Blue

Source: Astronomy Picture of the Day

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Explanation: Cosmic dust clouds dim the light of ba ...
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NASA scientist weighs space rock from millions of miles away

Source: Zee News

Washington: A NASA scientist has accurately determined the mass of a nearby asteroid from millions of miles away. Steve Chesley at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., made the achievement by utilizing da ...
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Australia, S Africa to share telescope

Source: Sydney Morning Herald

The future: the Square Kilometre Array will be the largest and most capable radio telescope ever made. Photo: SKA Organisation/Swinburne Astro AUSTRALIA and South Africa will share joint custody of the world's largest radio telescope. Two decades a ...
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Week in Words

Source: Wall Street Journal

However, a "Greek parallel currency to the euro," which it dubbed the "Geuro," could emerge, if Greece issues debtor notes to meet current obligations, the bank's analysts said in a recent note. The Geuro is a ...
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Alien hunter steps down from extraterrestrial search

Source: CNN

Remember the character Jodie Foster played in the movie "Contact," based on the book by Carl Sagan? She wasn't entirely invented; her character's basis was astronomer Jill Tarter. Tarter, 68, has spent more than three decades leading the search for ...
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‘Hippie-ish’ Nelson has its charms

Source: Montreal Gazette

Up in the northwest forest where Washington, Idaho and British Columbia converge, thereâs a lazy little international border crossing called Nelway, about the size of a gas station. âWhere are you headed?â a Canadian border patrol agent asked when my f ...
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New York Times: ‘Chasing Venus,’ by Andrea Wulf

Source: Eastern Owyhee County District

That beautiful name, transit of Venus, describes the hours-long passage of our nearest planetary neighbor across the face of the sun. Transits occur in eight-year pairs followed by interludes of more than a c ...
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Sic Transit Venus

Source: Scientific American

One brisk wintry day in 1639, a young man named Jeremiah Horrocks — barely 20 — set up a telescope in his quarters near Preston, England and focused an indirect image of the sun onto a small card. Lack of finances had cut short his brief ...
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