First light on Gemini South
Giant infrared telescopes to give a super-sharp view of the whole sky
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Robert Hanbury Brown
A pioneer of radar and radio astronomy dies at 85
Stellar link helps black holes weigh in
Discovery allows astronomers to ‘weigh’ black holes from a snapshot of their host galaxies
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Sodium spotted in the atmosphere of distant planet
Astronomers get the first-ever glimpse of the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar system
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Fresh light shed on black holes
Glowing gas around a black hole gives astronomers new insights
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X marks the spot for our local black hole
Galactic X-rays pinpoint our local black hole 1500 times more accurately than earlier studies
Six of the best for gravitational lens
A distant galaxy is imaged six times by the strong gravity of a galactic cluster
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Fragment of ancient asteroid falls to Earth
A carbon-rich meteorite may be the first fragment ever found of a primitive class of asteroids
Did interplanetary dust seed life on Earth?
Dust grains are more likely to have initiated life than comet impacts
Tiny black hole lurks in neighbouring galaxy
Nearby galaxy M33 bucks the trend in giant black holes
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