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Turning point: Olivier Guyon
Optical physicist plans to use 'genius grant' to promote search for exoplanets.
- Virginia Gewin
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China aims high from the bottom of the world
Country plans two world-class telescopes for its Antarctic observatory.
- Jane Qiu
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Private foundation plans space telescope
Deep-space mission would hunt for hazardous near-Earth asteroids.
- Ron Cowen
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Astronomers catch video of near-miss asteroid
Sixth-closest near-Earth encounter tracked by telescope.
- Eric Hand
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Nations to split telescope project
Australia and South Africa will share the SKA.
- Geoff Brumfiel
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Hubble to revisit exoplanet puzzle
Team aims to settle running dispute over mysterious object.
- Ron Cowen
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Infant galaxy offers tantalizing peek at early Universe
Discovery hints at an unexpected cohort of baby star systems.
- Ron Cowen
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Global observatory sees first light
Expanding network of telescopes will give a seamless view of the changing sky.
- Eric Hand
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Superconducting detectors offer high-speed astronomy
Microwave kinetic inductance detectors could help find gravitational waves and extrasolar planets.
- Eric Hand
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Bound and unbound planets abound
Two teams searching for extrasolar planets have jointly discovered a new population of objects: ten Jupiter-mass planets far from their host stars, or perhaps even floating freely through the Milky Way. See Letter p.349
- Joachim Wambsganss
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Brazil ignites telescope race
Deal boosts Europe's bid to build world's biggest observatory, as US groups compete for funds.
- Adam Mann
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Books & Arts |
Last days of the lone astronomer
A celebratory account of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey highlights astronomy's culture shift to big science — but at what risk to individual ingenuity, asks Joss Bland-Hawthorn?
- Joss Bland-Hawthorn
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Astronomy: Ready for boarding — finally
NASA and Germany have spent 15 years and billions of dollars on SOFIA, an airborne telescope that is about to produce its first results. Eric Hand asks whether the science will justify the cost.
- Eric Hand
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Astronomy: Clouds with an H2 lining
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Earthquake defence and the price of a telescope
- Leopoldo Infante
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Telescope arrays give fine view of stars
Optical interferometry is no longer on the fringe of astronomy.
- Eric Hand
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Galileo backed Copernicus despite data
Stars viewed through early telescopes suggested that Earth stood still.
- Katharine Sanderson
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