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Hubble's deepest view of universe unveils never-before-seen galaxies

Hubble's Deepest View of Universe Unveils Never-Before-Seen Galaxies (w/ Video)

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created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (35) | comments 26

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 2004, Hubble created the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), the deepest visible-light image of the Universe, and now, with its brand-new camera, Hubble is seeing even farther. This image was ...


Aussie galaxy survey to lead to 'new physics'

Aussie galaxy survey to lead to 'new physics'

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created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (22) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- Australian astronomers have released the first set of data from the first project to look at the effects of "dark energy" halfway back in the Universe's lifetime.


Team using Subaru Telescope makes major discovery

Team using Subaru Telescope makes major discovery

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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.


Brightness variations of sun-like stars: The mystery deepens

Brightness variations of sun-like stars: The mystery deepens

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created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- An extensive study made with ESO's Very Large Telescope deepens a long-standing mystery in the study of stars similar to the Sun. Unusual year-long variations in the brightness of about one ...


Cosmic rays hunted down: Physicists are closing in on the origin of cosmic rays

Cosmic rays hunted down: Physicists are closing in on the origin of cosmic rays

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created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- A thin rain of charged particles continually bombards our atmosphere from outer space. The mysterious particles were first detected 100 years ago but until 10 years ago when a new type of ...


Fermi sees brightest-ever blazar flare

Fermi sees brightest-ever blazar flare

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created 21 hours ago | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- A galaxy located billions of light-years away is commanding the attention of NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and astronomers around the globe. Thanks to a series of flares that began ...


Swift spacecraft

Magnetic Power Revealed in Gamma-Ray Burst Jet

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created 22 hours ago | popularity 4.1 / 5 (9) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- A specialized camera on a telescope operated by U.K. astronomers from Liverpool has made the first measurement of magnetic fields in the afterglow of a gamma-ray burst (GRB). The result is ...


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

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

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created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | 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 ...


Studying a Star Before it is Born

Studying a Star Before it is Born

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created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first phase of a star's formation are thought to begin deep inside a natal cloud of gas and dust. In the earliest stages, material coalesces under the influence of gravity into so-called ...


NASA to launch sky-mapping spacecraft (AP)

NASA to launch sky-mapping spacecraft

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created Dec 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3

(AP) -- NASA's latest space telescope will scan the sky in search of never-before-seen asteroids, comets, stars and galaxies, with one of its main tasks to catalog objects posing a danger to Earth. The sky-mapping ...


Suzaku catches retreat of a black hole's disk

Suzaku catches retreat of a black hole's disk

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Studies of one of the galaxy's most active black-hole binaries reveal a dramatic change that will help scientists better understand how these systems expel fast-moving particle jets.


RIT astronomer mines Spitzer Space Telescope data for massive starbursts

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created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Understanding the evolution of galaxies is one of the biggest questions confronting astronomers today. Looking at distant astronomical objects gives scientists important clues to the origins of the Milky Way Galaxy and other ...


A faint star orbiting the Big Dipper's Alcor discovered

A faint star orbiting the Big Dipper's Alcor discovered

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created 7 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Next time you spy the Big Dipper, keep in mind that there is another star, invisible to the unaided eye, contributing to this constellation.


Stellar family portrait takes imaging technique to new extremes

Stellar family portrait takes imaging technique to new extremes

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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 ...



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