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  2. NAI Member Receives Sagan Medal


    G. Jeffrey Taylor from NAI’s University of Hawai’i Team is the recipient of the 2008 Carl Sagan Medal for Excellence in Public Communication in Planetary Science. The Sagan Medal, presented by the American Astronomical Society (AAS) on an (almost) annual basis, was established by AAS’s Division for Planetary Sciences to recognize and honor outstanding communication by an active planetary scientist to the general public. Recipients are scientists...

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  3. A Quartet of Stars


    Evgenya Shkolnik of NAI’s University of Hawai’i Team reported this week at AAS in Austin that she and her colleagues have discovered an extremely rare quartet of stars orbiting each other within a region smaller than Jupiter’s orbit around the Sun. Did they originate in this configuration or were they forced together by a dense disk of gas in their youth?

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