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Monday, April 8, 2013

Astronomical News

NASA has selected a $200 million mission to carry out a full-sky survey for exoplanets orbiting nearby stars. The space observatory, called the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), is scheduled for a 2017 launch.
The hundreds of volcanoes on Io are strangely farther east than they're supposed to be.
The sun has cut communications from Earth to Mars rover Curiosity and will soon follow suit for rover Opportunity, Odyssey and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).
Swiss Space Systems' SOAR rocket plane is scheduled to start launching satellites into orbit by the end of 2017.
Astronomers working on a multi-year program with the Hubble Space Telescope have announced the discovery of the most distant supernova ever observed, a stellar explosion that occurred over 10 billion years ago.
The Kepler space telescope's prime objective is to hunt for small worlds orbiting distant stars, but that doesn't mean it's not going to detect some extreme relativistic phenomena along the way.
This might look like a painting of a fantasy star scene but it's actually a very real image from three of the world's most advanced space telescopes.

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