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expose-the-light: Omega Centauri Shines Over Dark Forest in Skywatcher Photo Credit: Tunc Tezel / TWAN Omega Centauri, the brightest and largest known globular cluster in the Milky Way, shines brightly over a dark forest in this skywatching photo. [Full Story]

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Omega Centauri Shines Over Dark Forest in Skywatcher Photo

Credit: Tunc Tezel / TWAN

Omega Centauri, the brightest and largest known globular cluster in the Milky Way, shines brightly over a dark forest in this skywatching photo. [Full Story]

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expose-the-light: Milky Moon Photograph by Christoph Malin, TWAN The Milky Way and the setting moon shine together in the night sky over La Palma, part of the Spanish Canary Islands, in a newly released picture taken last August. The stitched panorama also shows the golden glow of city lights as well as the silhouette of Italy’s Telescopio Nazionale Galileo, one of many observatories perched on La Palma’s volcanic peaks. (Watch a time-lapse of the night sky shot from La Palma.)

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Milky Moon

Photograph by Christoph Malin, TWAN

The Milky Way and the setting moon shine together in the night sky over La Palma, part of the Spanish Canary Islands, in a newly released picture taken last August.

The stitched panorama also shows the golden glow of city lights as well as the silhouette of Italy’s Telescopio Nazionale Galileo, one of many observatories perched on La Palma’s volcanic peaks. (Watch a time-lapse of the night sky shot from La Palma.)

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expose-the-light: GRAVITATIONAL TUG OF ‘INVISIBLE’ EXOPLANET DISCOVERED NASA’s Kepler space telescope finds planets beyond the solar system by looking for dips in starlight caused by planets parading past their parent stars, relative to Kepler’s point of view. But there’s another method by which scientists can find sibling Kepler worlds beyond the telescope’s eye. David Nesvorný, with the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., and colleagues parsed through Kepler data on a sunlike star designated “Kepler Object of Interest 872,” or KOI-872, and found something interesting — the planet’s transit was late. Read more

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GRAVITATIONAL TUG OF ‘INVISIBLE’ EXOPLANET DISCOVERED

NASA’s Kepler space telescope finds planets beyond the solar system by looking for dips in starlight caused by planets parading past their parent stars, relative to Kepler’s point of view.

But there’s another method by which scientists can find sibling Kepler worlds beyond the telescope’s eye.

David Nesvorný, with the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., and colleagues parsed through Kepler data on a sunlike star designated “Kepler Object of Interest 872,” or KOI-872, and found something interesting — the planet’s transit was late.

Read more