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Hubble Finds Dead Stars 'Polluted' with Planet Debris |
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Deep inside the Hyades star cluster, a pair of burned-out stars are yielding clues to the presence of rocky planets that may have whirled around them. Asteroid debris is 'raining' into the hot atmospheres of these white dwarfs. Asteroids should consist of the same material that form terrestrial planets, and seeing evidence of asteroids points to the possibility of Earth-sized planets in the same system. |
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Around The Institute
HLA Data Release 5
The Hubble Legacy Archive (HLA) announces the availability of Data
Release 5 as of March 8, 2011. New in this release are a new,
interactive footprint interface (pictured); multi-wavelength source
lists; high-level WFC3 science products from the Early-Release Science
and the Multi-Cycle Treasury program CANDELS; and the ability to
obtain source information directly from the Interactive Display
overlay. DR5 also completes the processing of the WFPC2 data, all of
which are now public.
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Very Wide Field Surveys in the Light of Astro2010
A general theme to the top recommendations of the Astro2010 Decadal Survey
is the importance of wide-area surveys. These surveys will provide data that
are much deeper and covering larger solid angles than previous surveys, opening
new parameter space for discovery.
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