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Royal Astronomical Society

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Name: Royal Astronomical Society

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

The KAT is purring: SA’s new radio telescope starts delivering quality science

Previous StoryNext StoryYou are here: Home >> SPi World News >> World Market Sector NewsSouth Africa’s first radio telescope array, the seven dish KAT-7 located in the Karoo, which was originally intended to be mainly an engineering prototype ... [Published SPi World News - May 18 2013]

Entities: Circinus, Royal Astronomical Society, Radio Astronomy, Neutron Star

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Green Giant

Fancy living here? TV star’s former home for sale

SEALED bids are invited for university house which was once home to botanist and broadcaster David Bellamy.The 19th Century Observatory House, is in the grounds of the university’s original astronomical and meteorological observatory, in Durham, which ... [Published Sunderland Echo - May 17 2013]

Entities: David Bellamy, Ralph Allen Sampson, Matthew Wright, Green Giant

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 2 reports

Double Star System Detected Using New South...

Astronomers using the Karoo Array Telescope (KAT-7) in South Africa have revealed giant outbursts from X-ray binary star system Circinus X-1.The team watched as the double star system fired off energetic matter from its core into the surrounding system ... [Published Red Orbit - May 16 2013]

Entities: Circinus, DOUBLE STAR, Neutron Star, Richard Armstrong

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

University of Durham

Sealed bids for Durham University property

The 19th Century Observatory House is in the grounds of the university?s original astronomical and meteorological observatory, in Durham, which was founded in 1839. The university owns the Grade II-listed observatory ? still used by the Department of ... [Published nebusiness.co.uk - May 15 2013]

Entities: University of Durham, Property, Knight Frank LLP, David Bellamy, Matthew Wright

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

NASA

Stunning Nasa Images Shows Sun Spew Four Billion H-Bombs of Energy

The sun exploded in a series of spectacular flares which blasted into space at 745 miles per second, in stunning scenes captured by Nasa. Share article There were also coronal mass ejections yesterday - super massive explosions on the sun, in what has ... [Published International Business Times UK - May 15 2013]

Entities: NASA, Robert Massey, Hydrogen Bomb

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Four colossal Sun flares in 48 hours

The Sun has unleashed four colossal bursts of radiation in 48 hours.On Tuesday, it released the biggest solar flare of 2013 so far, an intense burst associated with a huge eruption of particles.When these eruptions reach Earth, they can interfere with ... [Published BBC - May 15 2013]

Entities: NASA, Robert Massey, Solar Maximum, Royal Astronomical Society

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

This date in science: Baily’s Beads discovered

May 15, 1836 . On this date, Francis Baily, an English astronomer, saw beads of sunlight shining along the edge of the moon’s silhouette during an eclipse of the sun. It was an annular eclipse – nowadays often called a ring of fire eclipse – meaning ... [Published EarthSky - May 15 2013]

Entities: Fred Espenak, Royal Astronomical Society, GNU Free Documentation License, Solar Eclipse, Wikimedia Commons

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Hubble Telescope Discovers 'Polluted' Dead Stars

Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered two dead stars"We have identified chemical evidence for the building blocks of rocky planetsThe discovery came after the researchers used the Hubble telescopeWhite dwarf atmospheres are typically ... [Published Yahoo! News - May 14 2013]

Entities: Hubble Space Telescope, European Space Agency, Carbon, American Astronomical Society, Royal Astronomical Society

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 5 reports

Dead stars give a glimpse of what the Sun will look in future

London, May 10 (ANI): Scientists have studied two dead stars, which they say are giving us a glimpse as to how our Solar System might look like a few billion years from now.The burnt-out stars are located in the Hyades cluster, in the Constellation Taurus, ... [Published TruthDive - May 10 2013]

Entities: Solar System, Silicon, Royal Astronomical Society, Spectrograph

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

Paul Murdin

Get involved! Send photos, video, news & views. Text SWINDON NEWS to 80360 or email us What’s out there? Are we alone? Does life exist on other planets? What forms might it take? Are we being watched? Any more questions?Discoverer of the first black hole, ... [Published Swindon Advertiser - May 10 2013]

Entities: Royal Astronomical Society, Astrophysics, University of Cambridge

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

Winter skies offer spectacular showers

Early birds were yesterday treated to a meteor shower which at least one skywatcher describes as creating a spectacular trail through the sky.In Taranaki, Jodi Taylor said she was travelling to the cowshed in Maud Rd yesterday morning and spotted the ... [Published Taranaki Daily News - May 07 2013]

Entities: Comet Halley, Royal Astronomical Society, Tauranga (New Zealand), Atmosphere

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

Partial Solar Eclipse on Friday

The latest trace of the solar eclipse in New Zealand in the last eight years will occur on Friday. The midpoint of the partial eclipse will be at 11.49 am.The moon will be wrapping 7.8% of the sun in Auckland. The southern covering of the moon will be ... [Published French Tribune - May 06 2013]

Entities: Solar Eclipse, Auckland, New Zealand, Royal Astronomical Society, Dunedin (New Zealand)

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..." Notes for editors: 1. A copy of the scientific paper "A return to strong radio flaring by Circinus X-1 observed with the Karoo Array Telescope test array KAT-7 (Armstrong et al, 2013)" published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society is available from Media Relations on request

South Africa's new radio telescope reveals giant outbursts from binary star system [Published EurekAlert! - May 16 2013]

...' Dr Robert Massey, from the UK's Royal Astronomical Society, told BBC: "What's interesting about these events is that you have them in quick succession."

Stunning Nasa Images Shows Sun Spew Four Billion H-Bombs of Energy [Published International Business Times UK - May 15 2013]

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Professor Judith Armitage elected to Royal Society [Published Merton College - May 15 2013]

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The KAT is purring: SA’s new radio telescope st... [Published SPi World News - May 18 2013]
Fancy living here? TV star’s former home for sale [Published Sunderland Echo - May 17 2013]
Double Star System Detected Using New South... [Published Red Orbit - May 16 2013]
South Africa's new radio telescope reveals gian... [Published Space Fellowship - May 16 2013]
South Africa's new radio telescope reveals gian... [Published EurekAlert! - May 16 2013]
The KAT is purring: SA’s new radio telescope st... [Published Engineering News - May 16 2013]
Sealed bids for Durham University property [Published nebusiness.co.uk - May 15 2013]
Stunning Nasa Images Shows Sun Spew Four Billio... [Published International Business Times UK - May 15 2013]
Four colossal Sun flares in 48 hours [Published BBC - May 15 2013]
This date in science: Baily’s Beads discovered [Published EarthSky - May 15 2013]
Relax. It’s not Global Warming ‘End Times’ [Published Human Events Online - May 15 2013]
Professor Judith Armitage elected to Royal Society [Published Merton College - May 15 2013]
Hubble Telescope Discovers 'Polluted' Dead Stars [Published The Oregon Herald - May 14 2013]
Hubble Telescope Discovers 'Polluted' Dead Stars [Published Yahoo! News - May 14 2013]
Fearmongering and the 400ppm CO2 level [Published Politisite - May 11 2013]
Dead Stars Polluted By Debris [Published National Geographic - May 10 2013]
PAPER Instrument In The Karoo Producing... [Published Red Orbit - May 10 2013]
Understanding the surfaces of asteroids [Published European Space Agency - May 10 2013]
Dead stars give a glimpse of what the Sun will ... [Published TruthDive - May 10 2013]
Hubble Observes Planet âPollutedâ Dead Stars In... [Published Universe Today - May 10 2013]
Hubble spots Earth-like debris polluting dying ... [Published Los Angeles Times - May 10 2013]
Paul Murdin [Published Swindon Advertiser - May 10 2013]
Polluted stellar graveyard gives glimpse of our... [Published Cambridge Network - May 10 2013]
'Dirty' stars hint at Sun's future [Published BBC - May 09 2013]
Hubble Telescope Discovers 'Polluted' Dead Stars [Published LiveScience.com - May 09 2013]
Hubble Telescope Discovers 'Polluted' Dead Stars [Published Space.com - May 09 2013]
Hubble Telescope finds dead stars polluted with... [Published EarthSky - May 09 2013]
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Finds Dead Stars ... [Published FinanzNachrichten.de - May 09 2013]
09.05 - 'Polluted' stellar graveyard gives glim... [Published MyScience - May 09 2013]
Winter skies offer spectacular showers [Published Taranaki Daily News - May 07 2013]

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This date in science: Baily’s Beads discovered [Published EarthSky - May 15 2013] May 15, 1836 . On this date, Francis Baily, an English astronomer, saw beads of sunlight shining along the edge of the moon’s silhouette during an eclipse of the sun. It was an annular eclipse – nowadays often called a ring of fire eclipse – meaning ...
Fearmongering and the 400ppm CO2 level [Published Politisite - May 11 2013] Relax CO2 has been much higher in Earths History By Albert N. Milliron The headlines are comparative to Y2K and other end of the world predictions. If the right-wing were pushing an issue with such data, the left would be pointing out that in earths ...
Hubble Telescope finds dead stars polluted with... [Published EarthSky - May 09 2013] This is an artist’s impression of a white dwarf (burned-out) star accreting rocky debris left behind by the star’s surviving planetary system. It was observed by Hubble in the Hyades star cluster. At lower right, an asteroid can be seen falling toward ...
Hunting for Brown Dwarf Planets [Published Centauri Dreams - Apr 30 2013] Brown dwarfs fascinate me because they’re the newest addition to the celestial menagerie, exotic objects about which we know all too little. The evidence suggests that brown dwarfs can form planets, but so far we’ve found only a few. Two gravitational ...
Robotic Replicators [Published Centauri Dreams - Apr 26 2013] Centauri Dreams regular Keith Cooper gives us a look at self-replication and the consequences of autonomous probes for intelligent cultures spreading into the universe. Is the Fermi paradox explained by the lack of such civilizations in the galaxy, ...