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Spitzer Unveils Biggest Milky Way View at Adler Planetarium

Spitzer Unveils Biggest Milky Way View at Adler Planetarium

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 14 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's largest image of our Milky Way galaxy, taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, went on display this week at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago.


NASA's WISE infrared satellite to reveal new galaxies, stars, asteroids

NASA's WISE infrared satellite to reveal new galaxies, stars, asteroids

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created 15 hours ago | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Data from the satellite, says principal investigator and UCLA professor Edward Wright, will help scientists answer fundamental questions about the history of our solar system, the Milky Way ...


STAR TRAK for December: Geminid meteors flash in December skies

STAR TRAK for December: Geminid meteors flash in December skies

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The annual Geminid meteor shower, which will reach its maximum on the night of Dec. 13-14, usually offers the best show of the year, outperforming even the Perseid shower of August. This year ...


Artificial Intelligence Shuffles Schedules, Cuts Patients' Wait Times

Artificial Intelligence Shuffles Schedules, Cuts Patients' Wait Times

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some of the same artificial intelligence (AI) underlying NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is now streamlining patient care at Strong Memorial Hospital, helping radiologists and technologists ...


Team using Subaru Telescope makes major discovery

Team using Subaru Telescope makes major discovery

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (21) | comments 2

An international team of scientists that includes an astronomer from Princeton University has made the first direct observation of a planet-like object orbiting a star similar to the sun.


Stellar family portrait takes imaging technique to new extremes

Stellar family portrait takes imaging technique to new extremes

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Noted for harbouring Eta Carinae -- one of the wildest and most massive stars in our galaxy -- the impressive Carina Nebula also houses a handful of massive clusters of young stars. The youngest of these stellar ...


A Superbright Supernova That’s the First of Its Kind

A Superbright Supernova That’s the First of Its Kind

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (24) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- An extraordinarily bright, extraordinarily long-lasting supernova named SN 2007bi, snagged in a search by a robotic telescope, turns out to be the first example of the kind of stars that first ...


Newly discovered star one of hottest in Galaxy

Newly discovered star one of hottest in Galaxy (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (20) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers at The University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics have discovered one of the hottest stars in the Galaxy with a surface temperature of around 200,000 degrees ...


Superior Super Earths

Superior Super Earths

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (46) | comments 14

Super Earths are named for their size, but these planets - which range from about 2 to 10 Earth masses - could be superior to the Earth when it comes to sustaining life. They could also provide an answer to ...


Black hole caught zapping galaxy into existence?

Black hole caught zapping galaxy into existence?

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (25) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- Which come first, the supermassive black holes that frantically devour matter or the enormous galaxies where they reside? A brand new scenario has emerged from a recent set of outstanding ...


Herschel takes a peek at the ingredients of the galaxies

Herschel takes a peek at the ingredients of the galaxies

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The European Space Agency has today released spectacular new observations from the Herschel Space Observatory, including the UK-led SPIRE instrument. Spectrometers on board all three Hershel ...


Fermi Telescope Peers Deep into Microquasar

Fermi Telescope Peers Deep into Microquasar (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has made the first unambiguous detection of high-energy gamma-rays from an enigmatic binary system known as Cygnus X-3. The system pairs a hot, massive ...


The Energy Sources of Ultraluminous Galaxies

The Energy Sources of Ultraluminous Galaxies

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (20) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ultraluminous infrared galaxies ((ULIRGs) are galaxies whose luminosity exceeds that of a trillion suns; for comparison, the Milky Way galaxy has a typical (and much more modest) luminosity ...


Cosmic 'dig' reveals vestiges of the Milky Way's building blocks

Cosmic 'Dig' Reveals Vestiges of the Milky Way's Building Blocks

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (21) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Peering through the thick dust clouds of our galaxy's "bulge" (the myriads of stars surrounding its center), a team of astronomers has unveiled an unusual mix of stars in the stellar grouping ...


Infrared Image of Circumstellar Disk Illuminates Massive Star Formation Process

Infrared Image of Circumstellar Disk Illuminates Massive Star Formation Process

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of astronomers from Ibaraki University, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Kanagawa University, University of Tokyo, Academica Sinica, and National Astronomical Observatory of Japan ...