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| UpdatedVenus passes between the Sun and the Earth on June 6, 2012.
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Thomas Mathewson, an avid amateur astronomer in Hudson, Wisconsin, points out the shadow of the planet Venus as it transits the Sun on June 5, 2012 (US time).
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Venus, bottom right, passes between the Sun and the Earth on June 6, 2012.
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| UpdatedTime has run out for millions around the world to watch Venus pass in front of the Sun in an astronomical event that will not be seen for another 105 years.
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Any Minister of Education who doesn't instruct teachers to interrupt normal curriculum tomorrow so students can watch the transit of Venus is a bum.
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Far west residents can witness a very rare astronomical event tomorrow morning.
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| UpdatedAustralian astronomers say finding planets outside the solar system that can sustain life should be made a top priority.
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| UpdatedIn this episode, Tim Palmer speaks to NSW Greens MP Cate Faehrmann, Joe Hildebrand from the Daily Telegraph, host of Sunday Extra on Radio National Jonathan Green and former Australian Army officer Graham Wilson.
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| UpdatedThe Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex has secured exclusive rights to broadcast the Mars landing of the world's largest robotic laboratory.
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| UpdatedA whirlwind, more than 800 metres high and about 30 metres in diameter, rises from the surface of Mars. The image was captured on the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in February, the time of Martian year when that planet is farthest from the sun.
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| UpdatedNASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected faint wisps of oxygen in the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Dione.
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An astronaut attempting to visit recently discovered planet GJ1214b would land in hot water - literally, United States scientists say.
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| UpdatedNASA's planet-hunting space telescope finds 11 new planetary systems, including one with five planets all orbiting closer to their parent star than Mercury circles the Sun.
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| UpdatedArtist's concept of Kepler-20e - NASA's Kepler mission has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system. The planets, called Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f, are too close to their star to be in the so-called habitable zone where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface, but they are the smallest exoplanets ever confirmed around a star like our sun, December 20, 2011.
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| UpdatedAstronomers say that for the first time they have spotted two Earth-sized worlds orbiting a Sun-like star, in another big advance in the search for the study of so-called exoplanets.
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| UpdatedThe planet, Kepler-22b, that sits squarely in its star's so-called 'habitable zone', the region where liquid water could exist on the surface.
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| UpdatedA burst of gamma-ray radiation from a distant galaxy, detected on December 25 last year, may have come from a comet crashing into a neutron star, astrophysicists say.
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| UpdatedScientists are recalibrating their search for alien life to take into account the possibility that radically different life forms may exist in environments which would be extremely hostile to organisms such as those found on Earth.
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| UpdatedUS space agency NASA has released video which it says shows an asteroid which shot between the Earth and the moon earlier this week.
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| UpdatedA huge asteroid has made its closest approach to Earth in 200 years, but astronomers had said there was no chance of a collision.
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| UpdatedA huge asteroid will pass closer to Earth than the moon this week, but scientists say there is no chance of a collision.
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| UpdatedNASA says there are fewer giant asteroids in space than once thought and most of the biggest near-Earth asteroids have been found, leaving little threat of one smashing into the planet.
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| UpdatedAstronomers identify the Milky Way galaxy's position in the large-scale structure of the cosmos.
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| UpdatedAstronomers have spotted an exotic planet that seems to be made of diamond racing around a tiny star in our galactic backyard.
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