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Saturday, March 1, 2014

Astronomical News

The leaky spacesuit worn by Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano during a spacewalk last July had leaked a week earlier, a problem that NASA failed to correctly diagnose, a panel investigating the near-drowning has found.
The number of known planets beyond the solar system took a giant leap thanks to a new technique that verifies candidate planets found by NASA’s Kepler space telescope in batches rather than one-by-one.
Hubble has slewed in the direction of M82 to snap this dreamy portrait of SN 2014J, the closest supernova to erupt in recent decades.
Water vapor has been detected in the atmosphere of one of the first alien planets ever identified by astronomers.
Earlier this month, a peanut-shaped asteroid buzzed Earth and astronomers managed to image it using radar.
As the recent X4.9-class flare ripped across the surface of the sun, a fleet of solar observatories were ready to measure its impact.
Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata has captured many impressive views through his camera lens, but this is one of the most beautiful.
Solar maximum may be starting to wane, but the sun has no intention on slipping into the stellar doldrums quietly.

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