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Making Jupiters
Aug 21, 2009 |
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IC348 is a glowing nebula of young stars, hot gas, and cold dust seen in the direction of the constellation of Perseus. It is the nearest rich cluster of young stars to earth, being only about one thousand ...
Australia and NZealand join in super telescope bid
Aug 21, 2009 |
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Australia and New Zealand announced a joint bid Friday for a giant radio telescope project which will reach for the earliest traces of the universe in a search for intelligent life.
Chandra X-Ray Observatory Turns Ten
Aug 20, 2009 |
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"We and the cosmos are one. The cosmos is a vast body, of which we are still parts. …It is a vital power rippling exquisitely through us all the time." D.H. Lawrence*
Galaxies Demand a Stellar Recount
Aug 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For decades, astronomers have gone about their business of studying the cosmos with the assumption that stars of certain sizes form in certain quantities. Like grocery stores selling melons ...
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 ...
Scientists make first discovery using revolutionary long wavelength demonstrator array
Aug 18, 2009 |
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Scientists from NRL's Space Science and Remote Sensing Divisions, in collaboration with researchers from the University of New Mexico and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory located in Socorro, N.M., ...
The Edge of a Black Hole
Aug 18, 2009 |
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The existence of black holes is one of the most amazing and bizarre predictions of Einstein's theory of gravity. Despite his original misgivings about their reality, massive black hole holes are today believed ...
We have a 'right to starlight,' astronomers say
Aug 15, 2009 |
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The public's "right to starlight" is steadily being eroded by urban illumination that is the bane of astronomers everywhere, the International Astronomical Union said on Friday.
Tiny Flares Responsible for Outsized Heat of Sun's Atmosphere
Aug 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Solar physicists at NASA have confirmed that small, sudden bursts of heat and energy, called nanoflares, cause temperatures in the thin, translucent gas of the sun's atmosphere to reach millions ...
Planck Sees Light Billions of Years Old
Aug 14, 2009 |
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The Planck space telescope has begun to collect light left over from the Big Bang explosion that created our universe.
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 ...
Huge new planet tells of game of planetary billiards
Aug 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists has found a new planet which orbits the wrong way around its host star. The planet, named WASP-17, and orbiting a star 1000 light years away, was found by the UK's WASP ...
Trigger-Happy Star Formation
Aug 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study from two of NASA's Great Observatories provides fresh insight into how some stars are born, along with a beautiful new image of a stellar nursery in our Galaxy. The research shows ...
Variability of type 1a supernovae has implications for dark energy studies
Aug 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The stellar explosions known as type 1a supernovae have long been used as "standard candles," their uniform brightness giving astronomers a way to measure cosmic distances and the expansion ...
Scientists discover storms in the tropics of Titan
Aug 12, 2009 |
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For all its similarities to Earth -- clouds that pour rain (albeit liquid methane not liquid water) onto the surface producing lakes and rivers, vast dune fields in desert-like regions, plus a smoggy orange ...
