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• Jupiter to play peekaboo with its moons
He writes about astronomy for The New York Times and other publications, and he is also an on-camera meteorologist for News 12 Westchester, New York.
• Black hole captured in mid-belch
Marscher's team aimed the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Long Baseline Array — a system of 10 radio telescopes — at the galaxy BL Lacertae. A kind of supermassive black hole known as a blazar was suspected of spewing out a pair of ...
• China to finish Antarctic station in 2009
Scientists will ... search for the ice core dating from 1.2 million years ago on Dome A, and study the geological evolution under the icecap, the global climate changes and astronomy there," Sun said. Several nations claiming a part of Antarctica have ...
• Stellar blast echoes through cosmos
... said, noting advancements in detectors and other telescope technology. "We can compare these (light echoes) to their supernova remnants and also better estimate how far away they are. Distance is one of the hardest things to determine in astronomy."
• Largest telescope would be out of this world
The so-called dark ages of astronomy describe a half-billion year period following the Big Bang when clouds of ionized gas cooled as the universe expanded. The only faint noise came from hydrogen atoms doing spin-flips, which gives off radio ...

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