March 8, 2008 - The Weekly Almanac, PA
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The program that caught my eye was Exploring the Universe: Gemini Observatory. Exploring the Universe is a two-hour session that will connect to the Gemini Observatory in Hilo, Hawaii. This observatory consists of twin telescopes located on two of the best sites on Earth for observing space. Together, these telescopes can project the entire night sky to us, live from Hawaii.
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Supernova Outbreak: X rays signal earliest alert
March 8, 2008 - ScienceNews Online
Thanks to a lucky break and an overactive galaxy, astronomers have for the first time caught a massive star in the act of exploding. An X-ray outburst recently recorded by NASA's Swift satellite suggests that researchers began viewing the violent demise of a star in the galaxy NGC 2770 just a few seconds after the first X rays arrived at Earth, and hours before the first visible-light fireworks.
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On Jan. 9, Soderberg and her colleagues were using an X-ray telescope on Swift to study a supernova in NGC 2770 that had been discovered 10 days earlier. Just as Swift began observations of this supernova, it recorded a fresh spike of X rays from another region in the galaxy that lasted for about 7 minutes. On Jan. 11, using the Gemini North telescope on Hawaii's Mauna Kea, Soderberg and her colleagues identified the visible-light fingerprint of the new supernova, now dubbed SN 2008d, in NGC 2770.
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Thanks to a lucky break and an overactive galaxy, astronomers have for the first time caught a massive star in the act of exploding. An X-ray outburst recently recorded by NASA's Swift satellite suggests that researchers began viewing the violent demise of a star in the galaxy NGC 2770 just a few seconds after the first X rays arrived at Earth, and hours before the first visible-light fireworks.
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On Jan. 9, Soderberg and her colleagues were using an X-ray telescope on Swift to study a supernova in NGC 2770 that had been discovered 10 days earlier. Just as Swift began observations of this supernova, it recorded a fresh spike of X rays from another region in the galaxy that lasted for about 7 minutes. On Jan. 11, using the Gemini North telescope on Hawaii's Mauna Kea, Soderberg and her colleagues identified the visible-light fingerprint of the new supernova, now dubbed SN 2008d, in NGC 2770.
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UK scientists keep access to the Gemini telescopes
March 5, 2008 - Nature News
Britain has reached an agreement that will allow UK astronomers continued access to the Gemini Observatory.
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Britain has reached an agreement that will allow UK astronomers continued access to the Gemini Observatory.
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