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Scientists Nudge Closer to the Edge of a Black Hole
Oct 06, 2006 |
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NASA scientists and their international partners using the new Japanese Suzaku satellite have collected a startling new set of black hole observations, revealing details of twisted space and warped time never ...
Astronomers discover largest-ever dark matter structures spanning 270M light-years
Feb 21, 2008 |
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A University of British Columbia astronomer with an international team has discovered the largest structures of dark matter ever seen. Measuring 270 million light-years across, these dark matter structures criss-cross the ...
500 days at Venus, and the surprises keep coming
Sep 03, 2007 |
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Venus Express has now orbited Earth’s twin for 500 Earth days, completing as many orbits. While the satellite maintains steady and excellent performance, the planet continues to surprise and amaze us.
First fuzzy photos of planets outside solar system
Nov 13, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using the Gemini North telescope and W.M. Keck Observatory on Hawaii's Mauna Kea have obtained the first-ever direct images identifying a multi-planet system around a normal star. ...
Scientists Predict Big Solar Cycle
Dec 22, 2006 |
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Evidence is mounting: the next solar cycle is going to be a big one. Solar cycle 24, due to peak in 2010 or 2011 "looks like its going to be one of the most intense cycles since record-keeping began almost ...
Supercomputer study shows Milky Way's halo of dark matter in unprecedented detail
Nov 20, 2006 |
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Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have used NASA's most powerful supercomputer to run the largest simulation to date of the formation and evolution of the dark matter halo that envelopes ...
Worlds in collision
Sep 23, 2008 |
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Two terrestrial planets orbiting a mature sun-like star some 300 light-years from Earth recently suffered a violent collision, astronomers at UCLA, Tennessee State University and the California Institute of ...
Hubble Sees Double Einstein Ring
Jan 10, 2008 |
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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a never-before-seen optical alignment in space: a pair of glowing rings, one nestled inside the other like a bull's-eye pattern. The double-ring pattern is ...
Scientists Determine the Nature of Black Hole Jets
Oct 06, 2006 |
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NASA and Italian scientists using Swift have for the first time determined what the particle jets streaming from black holes are made of.
Hubble Finds Extrasolar Planets Far Across Our Galaxy
Oct 04, 2006 |
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The planet bonanza was uncovered during a Hubble survey, called the Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search (SWEEPS). Hubble looked farther than has ever successfully been searched for extrasolar ...
Astronomers see inside a quasar for the first time
Oct 05, 2006 |
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For the first time, astronomers have looked inside quasars -- the brightest objects in the universe -- and have seen evidence of black holes.
Predicted Planet Seen -- First Since Neptune 162 Years Ago
Dec 09, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In 2006, astronomer Alice Quillen of the University of Rochester predicted that a planet of a particular size and orbit must lie within the dust of a nearby star. That planet has now been photographed by ...
A new era in search for 'sister Earths'?
Jul 25, 2008 |
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Research presented at a recent astronomical conference is being hailed as ushering in a new era in the search for Earth-like planets by showing that they are more numerous than previously thought and that ...
Strange star stumps astronomers
May 16, 2008 |
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An obese oddball of a star has left astronomers wondering how it could have formed. Dr David Champion and his colleagues at CSIRO’s Australia Telescope National Facility publish their findings about the star ...
Two new star systems are first of their kind ever found
Mar 31, 2008 |
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Astronomers have spied a faraway star system that is so unusual, it was one of a kind -- until its discovery helped them pinpoint a second one that was much closer to home.
