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Star tour: scientists track stars from birth to death.(EARTH: STARS)
Science World; 1/11/2010; 1258 words; ...emit most of their light at ultraviolet wavelengths, whereas the coolest stars shine most brightly at infrared wavelengths. Telescopes gather this light, allowing scientists like Mac Low to figure out a star's age and how it will develop. Like living things...

Science's breakthrough of the year: uncovering 'Ardi'.
NewsRx Health & Science; 1/10/2010; 1203 words; ...Pulsars Detected by Fermi: NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope helped to identify previously unknown pulsars-highly magnetized...mission by space-shuttle astronauts gave the Hubble Space Telescope sharper vision and a new lease on life, resulting in its...

Data on chemistry reported by researchers at Jilin University.
Chemicals & Chemistry; 1/8/2010; 587 words; ...dot(+). The new attraction interaction is a 20-center-2-electron intermolecular covalent pi/pi bonding with a telescope shape," investigators in Changchun, People's Republic of China report. "The covalent pi/pi bonding has the bonding...

How yellow supergiant star pulls off its lengthy disappearing act.
Asian News International; 1/7/2010; 576 words; ...been puzzling over how Epsilon Aurigae pulls off its lengthy disappearing act. Now, "using data from the Spitzer Space Telescope, we've reached a solution to a nearly two-century-old mystery," said study leader Don Hoard, of the California Institute...

"Galactic GPS" to detect gravitational waves passing near Earth.
Asian News International; 1/7/2010; 724 words; ...The discovery of the pulsars was made by studying unknown high-energy sources detected by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. A pulsar is the rapidly spinning and highly magnetized core left behind when a massive star explodes. Because only rotation...