Jodcast News
A round up of the latest astronomy news from the Jodcast - a podcast covering all aspects of astronomy from The University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Observatory (UK).
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In the news this month: the discovery of the Milky Way's youngest supernova, a supernova caught in real time, a runaway supermassive blackhole, and HiRISE looks for Mars Polar Lander.
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In the news this month: evidence for a black hole at the centre of Omega Centauri, X-ray light echoes show that Sagittarius A* was active 300 years ago, radio observations catch a supermassive black hole in outburst, and the Hubble Space Telescope celebrates 18 years in orbit.
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In the news this month: Methane discovered in the atmosphere of an extra-solar planet, a new age determination for the Small Magellanic Cloud, a super-bright gamma-ray burst visible to the naked eye, and an observatory is used as a location in the new James Bond film.
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In the news this month: proof of high energy X-rays from a nearby binary system, evidence of the system that caused the explosion of a Type 1a supernova is discovered, simulations of water flows replicate Martian surface features and the winners of the Planetary Society's Apophis Competition are announced.
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In the news this month: huge gas cloud on a collision course with the Milky Way; MESSENGER takes the first close-up images of Mercury in more than 30 years; thin galaxies harbour secrets and the UK has been withdrawn from the Gemini Observatory collaboration.
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In the news this month: black hole blasts companion galaxy, latest results from Venus Express, Earth's Moon may be younger than thought and the UN declare 2009 the International Year of Astronomy.
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In the news this month: Hubble takes a close look at Comet Holmes, evidence of rocky planet formation in the Pleiades cluster, STFC plan to pull out of the Gemini project, and ESA's Rosetta spacecraft was spotted by several observatories prompting alerts on the minor planet circulars.
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In the news this month: outburst from Comet Holmes, direct evidence of cosmic ray production, black hole challenges theories of stellar evolution and an asteroid is named after .
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In the news this month: star formation seen in galactic tail, Magellanic clouds are new visitors, new results from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and pulsars were discovered earlier than thought.
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In the news this month: discovery of a tail caused by the star Mira, giant void in the universe, rings of Uranus seen edge-on for the first time and Brian May defends his PhD thesis.
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In the news this month: images of Io's plasma wake, evidence of water vapour around a hot jupiter, ancient galaxy found at the end of the dark ages, and Greenwich opens a new planetarium.
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In the news this month: hottest exoplanet found, outburst precursor to a supernova, mystery of ancient shorelines on Mars, a proposal for liquid mirror telescopes on the Moon and Arecibo suffers from budget cuts.
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In the news this month: a new class of supernova is discovered, there is evidence that Mercury has a molten core, a fossil star is found in the Milky Way and a new class of stellar explosion may have been found.
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In the news this month: Hubble celebrates its 17th birthday with the release of an image of star formation in the Carina nebula, a planet is found in the habitable zone of a nearby star and AIM hopes to shed light on noctilucent clouds.
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In the news this month: Liverpool telescope throws light on gamma-ray bursts, astronomers use computers to blow up a white dwarf, latest results from Akari, strange cloud formations seen on Saturn and binary star-system may be just as likely to form planets as our Sun.
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In the news this month: Liverpool telescope throws light on gamma-ray bursts, astronomers use computers to blow up a white dwarf, latest results from Akari, strange cloud formations seen on Saturn and binary star-system may be just as likely to form planets as our Sun.
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In the news this month: the Ulysses spacecraft spots solar outburst, a new theory may explain dark galaxies and the Rosetta spacecraft has an encounter with Mars. Plus, on 3rd March 2007 there is a total lunar eclipse.
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In the news this month: huge gas cloud on a collision course with the Milky Way; MESSENGER takes the first close-up images of Mercury in more than 30 years; thin galaxies harbour secrets and the UK has been withdrawn from the Gemini Observatory collaboration.
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In the news this month: the first triple quasar system is discovered; Hubble maps dark matter in 3D; new dwarf galaxies found in the local group; lakes found on Titan; Comet McNaught provides great views; the Hubble Space Telescope suffers problems and the Sky At Night reaches 50.
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In the news this month: the first triple quasar system is discovered; Hubble maps dark matter in 3D; new dwarf galaxies found in the local group; lakes found on Titan; Comet McNaught provides great views; the Hubble Space Telescope suffers problems and the Sky At Night reaches 50.
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In the news this month: first results from Stardust released, Swift spies an unusual gamma ray burst, a large mountain range is spotted on Titan, a survey finds more than 1000 galactic planetary nebulae and the COROT spacecraft is launched to look for extrasolar planets and study the surfaces of stars.
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In the news this month: first results from Stardust released, Swift spies an unusual gamma ray burst, a large mountain range is spotted on Titan, a survey finds more than 1000 galactic planetary nebulae and the COROT spacecraft is launched to look for extrasolar planets and study the surfaces of stars.
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In the news this month: a transit of Mercury is observed, the Large Millimeter Telescope is inaugurated in Mexico, the barrel toroid magnets on the ATLAS detector at CERN were powered up, Mars Global Surveyor is feared lost and we get a summary of the Leonid meteor shower.
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In the news this month: COBE scientists (George Smoot and John Mather) awarded the Nobel prize, the STEREO mission to image the Sun in 3D takes off, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) discovers ultra-short period planets, evidence for ice sheets on the Moon is called into question, the Faulkes Telescopes both suffer natural disasters and Mount Stromlo Observatory is re-opened.
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In the news this month: 2003UB313 and its moon get named bu the International Astronomical Union; the world's first female space tourist returns to Earth from the International Space Station; Solar-B is launched to study the Sun; galaxies are found in the early Universe; an update on the Mars Rovers; ESA's Mars Express images the 'face on Mars'; Iceland turns off its lights to let people see the stars.
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In the news this month: Pluto is reclassified as a dwarf planet, geysers are spotted on Mars and SMART-1 is planned to be crashed into the Moon.
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In the news this month: Cassini spots lakes on Titan, Venus express causes problems for weather experts, an X-ray survey shows a lack of black holes and RS Ophiuchi gives us new knowledge about stellar explosions.
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In the news this month: the GEO600 gravitational wave detector begins operations, names have been given to the two newly discovered moons of Pluto and the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys recovers from a power problem.
