Citations:astroboffin

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 * 2008, Lewis Page, "Quasar scrutineers use entire galaxy as telescope lens", The Register, 15 December 2008:
 * A team of crafty astroboffins say they have managed to probe the guts of a quasar ten billion lightyears away - using nothing less than an entire galaxy as the main lens of their telescope.
 * 2012, Brid-Aine Parnell, "Star sacrifices 2,000 comets a DAY to cloak twin planets in dust", The Register, 13 April 2012:
 * Astroboffins using a new multinational observatory have spotted evidence of two planets orbiting nearby star Fomalhaut – which is just 25 light years away and cloaked in a comet graveyard.
 * 2012, Neil McAllister, "North Korea's satellite a dud, say US astroboffins", The Register, 17 December 2012:
 * North Korea may have successfully launched a satellite into orbit, as reported last week, but it might as well have deployed a pile of scrap metal, US-based astroboffins say.
 * 2012, "Spotted! Planet that could support life", Pakistan Today, 20 December 2012, page 14 (reprint of Brid-Aine Parnell, "Boffins spot planet that could support life... just 12 light years away", The Register, 19 December 2012):
 * An international team of astroboffins have discovered that the nearest single Sun-like star has one planet orbiting in the sweet spot for potential alien life.
 * An international team of astroboffins have discovered that the nearest single Sun-like star has one planet orbiting in the sweet spot for potential alien life.