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World's most sensitive astronomical camera developed
Sep 29, 2009 |
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A team of Université de Montréal researchers, led by physics PhD student Olivier Daigle, has developed the world's most sensitive astronomical camera. Marketed by Photon etc., a young Quebec firm, the camera ...
Super Planetary Nebulae
Aug 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists in Australia and the United States, led by Associate Professor Miroslav Filipović from the University of Western Sydney, have discovered a new class of object which ...
Giant Galaxy Hosts the Most Distant Supermassive Black Hole
Sep 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Hawaii (UH) astronomer Dr. Tomotsugu Goto and colleagues have discovered a giant galaxy surrounding the most distant supermassive black hole ever found. The galaxy, so distant ...
Astronomers find coldest, driest, calmest place on Earth
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 31, 2009 |
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The search for the best observatory site in the world has lead to the discovery of what is thought to be the coldest, driest, calmest place on Earth. No human is thought to have ever been there but it is expected to yield ...
Solar System's Young Twin Has Two Asteroid Belts
Oct 27, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have discovered that the nearby star Epsilon Eridani has two rocky asteroid belts and an outer icy ring, making it a triple-ring system. The inner asteroid belt is a virtual twin ...
How a cometary boulder lit up the Spanish sky
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Last July, people in Spain, Portugal and France watched the brilliant fireball produced by a boulder crashing down through the Earth’s atmosphere. In a paper to be published in the journal ...
A Look into the Hellish Cradles of Suns and Solar Systems
Aug 19, 2009 |
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The dense star cluster RCW 38 glistens about 5500 light years away in the direction of the constellation Vela (the Sails). Like the Orion Nebula Cluster, RCW 38 is an "embedded cluster", in that the nascent ...
Seeing the unseen universe
Aug 01, 2006 |
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A new method for incorporating astronomical observational data into computer simulations promises to be a significant advance in enabling future cosmological surveys aimed at understanding dark energy and dark matter. Dark ...
Pluto Isn't Even Largest Dwarf Planet
Jun 14, 2007 |
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Die-hard Pluto fans still seeking redemption for their demoted planet have cause for despair this week. New data shows that the dwarf planet Eris is 27 percent more massive than Pluto, thereby strengthening the decree last ...
Astronomical and mathematical physics awards go to chaos and X-ray leaders
Feb 01, 2008 |
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The American Institute of Physics (AIP) announces the winners of the 2008 Dannie Heineman Prizes for Astrophysics and for Mathematical Physics. The mathematical physics prize goes to Mitchell Feigenbaum of Rockefeller University ...
London students find Jupiter-sized oddball planet
Apr 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of astronomers from University College London (UCL), including undergraduate students, have discovered that an exotic world passes directly in front of the Sun-like star it orbits, ...
Computer Finds Massive Black Hole in Nearby Galaxy
Jun 09, 2009 |
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Astronomers Karl Gebhardt of The University of Texas at Austin and Jens Thomas of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics have used new computer modeling techniques to discover that the black ...
Astronomers simulate life and death in the universe
Oct 29, 2007 |
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Stars always evolve in the universe in large groups, known as clusters. Astronomers distinguish these formations by their age and size. The question of how star clusters are created from interstellar gas clouds and why they ...
Spitzer Finds Planets Thrive Around Stellar Twins
Mar 29, 2007 |
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The double sunset that Luke Skywalker gazed upon in the film "Star Wars" might not be a fantasy.
Hidden Population of Powerful Black Holes Revealed in Large Sky Survey
Jan 09, 2008 |
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A team of Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-II) scientists, led by Princeton University's Reinabelle Reyes and including astronomers at Penn State, has identified a large number of "hidden quasars" -- supermassive black holes ...
