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University of Arizona astronomers discover most primitive supermassive black ...

17 Mar 2010 at 9:00pm  (University of Arizona) Astronomers have come across what appear to be two of the earliest and most primitive supermassive black holes known. The discovery, based largely on observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, will provide a better understanding of the roots of our universe, and how the very first black holes, galaxies and stars all came to be.
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Newly discovered planet could hold water

17 Mar 2010 at 9:00pm  (European Space Agency) The Corot satellite strikes again with another fascinating planet discovery. This time, the newly discovered gas giant planet may have an interior that closely resembles those of Jupiter and Saturn in our own solar system.
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Cassini shows Saturnian roller derby

17 Mar 2010 at 9:00pm  (Queen Mary, University of London) The seemingly serene orb of Saturn is in fact a gas giant with extraordinary patterns of charged particles and rough and tumble roller derbies for rings. Such are the findings of NASA's Cassini spacecraft since its arrival at Saturn in 2004 - they are combined in two review papers to be published in the March 19 issue of the journal Science.
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Physics press conferences at next week's American Physical Society March Meeting

17 Mar 2010 at 9:00pm  (American Institute of Physics) The following press conferences will take place during the March Meeting of the American Physical Society (APS), to be held March 15-19, 2010 in the Portland Convention Center.
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International team of scientists reports discovery of a new planet

16 Mar 2010 at 9:00pm  (University of California - Santa Barbara) An international team of scientists, including several who are affiliated with UC Santa Barbara, has discovered a new planet the size of Jupiter. The finding is published in the March 18 issue of the journal Nature.
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Tomas moving away from Fiji Islands after causing damages

16 Mar 2010 at 9:00pm  (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) Cyclone Tomas hit the north and east areas of Fiji as a Category 4 cyclone on the Saffir-Simpson Scale, and has now moved south of them. NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite captured an image of the heavy rains that were falling in Tomas during his swath of destruction in the Fiji Islands.
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Planck sees tapestry of cold dust

16 Mar 2010 at 9:00pm  (European Space Agency) Giant filaments of cold dust stretching through our Galaxy are revealed in a new image from ESA's Planck satellite. Analyzing these structures could help to determine the forces that shape our Galaxy and trigger star formation.
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First temperate exoplanet sized up

16 Mar 2010 at 9:00pm  (ESO) Combining observations from the CoRoT satellite and the ESO HARPS instrument, astronomers have discovered the first "normal" exoplanet that can be studied in great detail. Designated Corot-9b, the planet regularly passes in front of a star similar to the sun located 1,500 light-years away from Earth towards the constellation of Serpens (the Snake).
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Astronomers observe fast growing primitive black holes

16 Mar 2010 at 9:00pm  (University of Copenhagen) The most distant quasars found in the early universe, a mere 800 million years after the Big Bang, have been observed by an international team of astronomers including members from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen. The findings have been published in the prestigious scientific journal Nature.
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Western researcher solves 37-year-old space mystery

15 Mar 2010 at 9:00pm  (University of Western Ontario) A researcher from the University of Western Ontario has helped solve a 37-year-old space mystery using lunar images released yesterday by NASA and maps from his own atlas of the moon.
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