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Mobile operators get fixed price spectrum renewal in $3b Government windfall

The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.

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It’s up to YOU: Pick the next Hubble space discovery

Science - Space



NASA states, “Choose from a list of objects Hubble has never observed before and enter a drawing for one of 100 new Hubble pictures of the winning object.”

You have these six choices:

1.    Star-Forming Region: NGC 6634
2.    Planetary Nebula: NGC 6072
3.    Planetary  Nebula: NGC 40
4.    Spiral Galaxy: NGC 5172
5.    Edge-on Galaxy: NGC 4289
6.    Interacting Galaxies: Arp 274

Go to http://YouDecide.Hubblesite.org and vote for your favorite object out there in the Universe.

A 32-second video explains your choices.

Voting will close on March 1, 2009.

Thereafter, Hubble will use its high-resolution camera to reveal new details about the astronomical object chosen number one in the competition.

The image will be released to the public during the “100 Hours of Astronomy” by the International Year of Astronomy, which will take place from April 2-5, 2009.

Learn more about the International Year of Astronomy on page three.



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