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- Team maps Milky Way, confirms existence of four spiral arms January 5, 2009Other scientific groups already are interested in using the new map for their research.
- New satellite studies unusual brown dwarfs January 5, 2009Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) will probe the coolest, most distant, and dustiest parts of the universe.
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- Cosmic Log: Astronomy’s big year (MSNBC) January 5, 2009Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: The organizers of the International Year of Astronomy are using the Web to get you to step away from the computer and actually see the sky.
- Astronomy in everyday life (Toronto Sun) January 5, 2009To celebrate the Year of Astronomy, the University of Toronto will run 3,000 ads aboard TTC busses and subways to get people talking about the stars. Updated 5th January 2009, 5:21pm
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- Our Galaxy Is Bigger Than We Thought January 6, 2009Honey, I blew up the galaxy. Well, not exactly. It appears that the Milky Way Galaxy has always been larger than we originally thought. We're also moving faster and unfortunately more...
- The Englishman who beat Galileo January 5, 2009Our friend, Paul Sutherland, of Skymania News, has posted a most interesting article about English explorer, navigational expert, mathematician, scientist and astronomer, Thomas Harriot, who was born in Oxford about...