Five new planets found / Black hole discoveries

    NEWSALERT: Tuesday, January 5, 2009 @ 1701 GMT
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KEPLER DETECTS FIVE 'HOT JUPITERS' IN SIX WEEKS
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A robotic planet-hunting telescope in deep space has detected five new
blistering worlds beyond the solar system, but the Kepler probe's search
for Earth-like planets is just beginning.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1001/04kepler/


ENDEAVOUR'S JOURNEY TO PAD SET FOR WEDNESDAY MORNING
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NASA is ready to roll the fully assembled shuttle Endeavour to Kennedy
Space Center's launch pad 39A beginning at 4 a.m. EST Wednesday. Endeavour
is targeted for launch February 7 on the first of five flights scheduled
in this final year of space shuttle missions.

http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts130/status.html


MASSIVE BLACK HOLE IMPLICATED IN STELLAR DESTRUCTION
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New results from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Magellan
telescopes suggest that a dense stellar remnant has been ripped apart by a
black hole a thousand times as massive as the Sun.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1001/04chandra/


GIANT INTERGALACTIC GAS STREAM LONGER THAN THOUGHT
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A giant stream of gas flowing from neighbor galaxies around our own Milky
Way is much longer and older than previously thought. The new revelations
provide a fresh insight on what started the gaseous intergalactic
streamer.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1001/04stream/


ASTRONOMERS DISCOVER WALTZING BLACK HOLES
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Astronomers have discovered 33 pairs of waltzing black holes in distant
galaxies. This result shows that supermassive black hole pairs are more
common than previously known from observations.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1001/04blackholes/


DELTA 4 ASSIGNED TO DELVIER MILITARY SATELLITE INTO ORBIT
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The U.S. Air Force has tapped the Delta 4 as its rocket of choice to
launch the fourth Wideband Global SATCOM spacecraft two years from now,
officials announced Monday.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1001/04wgs4/

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