OUR RESEARCH REPORTS

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  Tapestry of Blazing Starbirth.....
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  This is an artist's impression of the Jupiter-size extrasolar planet, HD 189733b, being eclipsed by its parent star. Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have measured carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide in the planet's atmosphere.
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  This illustration reveals the proposed structure of the gas and dust disc surrounding the nearby, young star TW Hydrae.
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  This artist's illustration shows an alien world that is losing magnesium and iron gas from its atmosphere. The observations represent the first time that so-called 'heavy metals' — elements more massive than hydrogen and helium have been detected escaping from a hot Jupiter
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  This is an artist impression of a planet that is four times the mass of Jupiter and orbits 8 billion kilometres from a brown-dwarf companion (the bright red object seen in the background).
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  This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the cluster Westerlund 2.....