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Peter Townend poses for photographs in front of the construction works at Cherrybrook Station. Cherrybrook, Saturday, July 21st 2018. Peter Townend wants answers over the Cherrybrook Station Precinct. Residents have been waiting for a decision to be handed down for the past 5 years. (AAP Image / Angelo Velardo)
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Residents living in limbo land

A BAND of residents in the Cherrybrook priority precinct are calling for the NSW Planning Department to release finalised plans for the rezoned region, identified by the government in 2013 as a growth area.

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This artist's conception shows the closest known planetary system to our own, called Epsilon Eridani. Observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope show that the system hosts two asteroid belts, in addition to previously identified candidate planets and an outer comet ring. Epsilon Eridani is located about 10 light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. It is visible in the night skies with the naked eye. The system's inner asteroid belt appears as the yellowish ring around the star, while the outer asteroid belt is in the foreground. The outermost comet ring is too far out to be seen in this view, but comets originating from it are shown in the upper right corner. Astronomers think that each of Epsilon Eridani's asteroid belts could have a planet orbiting just outside it, shepherding its rocky debris into a ring in the same way that Jupiter helps keep our asteroid belt confined. The planet near the inner belt was previously identified in 2000 via the radial velocity, or

Is this Solar System 2.0?

THERE’S something odd about our Solar System. We’ve found some 470 stars with planets around them. But it’s only now that we’ve spotted one that looks anything like our own.

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Pictured is the inside of Sydney WaterÕs Northside Storage Tunnel which runs from North Head in Manly to Lane Cove.

What lies deep beneath Sydney?

DEEP down and known to only a few lies one of Sydney’s great engineering feats, carved out of 200 million-year-old rock. The Daily Telegraph steps inside a mysterious marvel, unopened for four years.

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Mike Drinkwater cares for a 5 month old Tasmanian Devil joey called 'Bear', at the Australian Reptile Park, Somersby. The park supports Threatened Species Day on September 7th.

Beastly burden: Our fight for the future

THERE’S a life-and-death struggle going on that involves strong characters, mysterious villains, cuddly critters and forensic investigation. But this is no movie plot — though Adelaide scientists play a leading role.

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