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Fastest wind from stellar-mass black hole recorded Zee News This result by astronomers, who used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory for the mission, has important implications for understanding how this type of black hole behaves. The record-breaking wind is moving about 20 million mph, or about 3 percent of the ... See all stories on this topic » Zee News

Hubble reveals a new type of planet Astronomy Magazine Since the planet's mass and size are known, astronomers can calculate the density, which works out to about 2 grams per cubic centimeter. Water has a density of 1 g/cm 3 , while Earth's average density is 5.5 g/cm 3 . This suggests that GJ 1214b has ... See all stories on this topic »

Astronomy in the Pub BBC News Come join us in one of the darkest village pubs in the South East for a night ofastronomical discovery. The Horns Lodge pub is turning off its lights for the evening, and hosting an extra special night for all ages. Not only will we have many ... See all stories on this topic » BBC News

New Ultradense Planet Found; Astronomers Baffled National Geographic That poses a problem for astronomers: If CoRoT-20b is structured like a traditional gas giant, with a solid core surrounded by a gassy atmosphere, the planet's core would have to make up 50 to 77 percent of the world's total mass. See all stories on this topic » National Geographic

New 'water world' planet found by Harvard grad student opens new frontier of ... Toronto Star “That's the cool thing about astronomy. As we build bigger telescopes, we can find more of these planets.” As more are found, astronomy really has to start naming these planets, including “our little planet” GJ1214b, said Berta. See all stories on this topic » Toronto Star

Stars Over the Coast astronomy column Feb. 26-March 3 Parade of bright ... Press-Register - al.com (blog) By Mark R. Kent, Press-Register VISIBLE PLANETS: Four planets can be spotted in the evening skies if you look in the right places. Venus and Jupiter are obvious, the two blowtorch planets in the west (Jupiter is the higher one). See all stories on this topic » Press-Register - al.com (blog)

Hubble Finds Extrasolar Waterworld Planet Sci-News.com Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have identified a new class of planet, a waterworld enshrouded by a thick, steamy atmosphere. An artist's impression of exoplanet GJ1214b orbiting a red dwarf star (NASA / ESA / D. Aguilar ... See all stories on this topic » Sci-News.com

New 'water world' discovered Hamilton Spectator The next advance to help astronomers study atmospheres will be the James Webb Telescope, to be launched in 2018, said Berta. He is convinced that within a decade, or two at the most, astronomerswill have found an Earth-like planet, something a little ... See all stories on this topic »

Steamy water-world gets Astronomy Now Online "The outer part of the planet – the atmosphere – probably has a lot of steam in it," Berta tells Astronomy Now. "But as you go deeper into the planet, it's not like oceans we know of, it's water in very strange forms. It's still made out of molecules ... See all stories on this topic » Astronomy Now Online

UA-China Collaboration Advances Astronomy Research UA News (press release) Black as the night sky into which the astronomers peer, the 90Prime camera sits mounted atop the UA's 90-inch telescope on Kitt Peak. UA astronomer Edward Olszewski's daughter, Cynthia Olszewski, stands beside the instrument. (Photo by Jill Bechtold) ... See all stories on this topic » UA News (press release)

Blogs 4 new results for astronomy

What's On Astronomy.FM ~ Wednesday thru Thursday | Astronomy.FM By Tavi Greiner WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22 –- THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23 Today's Radio Schedule at a GLANCE: SET #1: 60-Second Earth ~ Discovery Now ~ Space Pirate. Astronomy.FM

Astronomy is dangerous By noreply@evga.com So I thought it would be interesting to go outside and look at the planets (Venus and Jupiter I think) with my binoculars in front of my house the other day. I was curious to see if I could make out either of the planets with a pair of binoculars but I ... EVGA Forum RSS Feed

Illustrated guide to Venus Jupiter conjunction in February March ... By Deborah Byrd Talk about global unity! We'll all be seeing bright planets Venus and Jupiter edge closer together in late February and March 2012. EarthSky

Australian Aboriginal Astronomy: Karrugang and the Origin of the ... By Aboriginal Astronomy Project The Aboriginal Astronomy Project is a collaboration of researchers who are studying the astronomicalknowledge and traditions of Indigenous Australians. It is based in the Department of Indigenous Studies (Warawara) at Macquarie ... Australian Aboriginal Astronomy