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The Pole star comes to life again
Jul 21, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Northern Star, whose vibrations were thought to be dying away, appears to have come to life again.
Death of massive star creates brightest burst ever seen
Mar 20, 2008 |
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Gamma-Ray Bursts are the most powerful explosive events in the Universe. They occur in far-off galaxies and so are usually faint. But on the morning of March 19th 2008 the Swift satellite found a burst which ...
The hibernating stellar magnet: First optically active magnetar-candidate discovered
Sep 24, 2008 |
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Astronomers have discovered a most bizarre celestial object that emitted 40 visible-light flashes before disappearing again. It is most likely to be a missing link in the family of neutron stars, the first ...
Astronomers discover stars with carbon atmospheres
Nov 21, 2007 |
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Astronomers have discovered white dwarf stars with pure carbon atmospheres. The discovery could offer a unique view into the hearts of dying stars.
Search for the water of life -- Astronomers find water on extra-solar planet
Jul 11, 2007 |
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Researchers at UCL (University College London) are part of an international team which has discovered water on an extra-solar planet for the first time. Findings will be published in this week’s Nature.
Invisible hand in invisible matter
Oct 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of astronomers have found an unexpected link between mysterious 'dark matter' and the visible stars and gas in galaxies that could revolutionise our current understanding ...
Huge asteroid hurtles toward Earth
Jun 29, 2006 |
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An asteroid that's about one-half-mile wide is hurtling toward Earth, expected to narrowly miss the planet early Monday.
Did the solar system 'bounce' finish the dinosaurs?
May 02, 2008 |
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The sun’s movement through the Milky Way regularly sends comets hurtling into the inner solar system – coinciding with mass life extinctions on earth, a new study claims.
Speeding Bullet Star Leaves Enormous Streak Across Sky
Aug 15, 2007 |
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NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer has spotted a surprisingly long comet-like tail behind a star streaking through space at supersonic speeds. The star, named Mira after the Latin word for "wonderful," has been ...
Hubble Survey Finds Missing Matter, Probes Intergalactic Web
May 20, 2008 |
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Although the universe contains billions of galaxies, only a small amount of its matter is locked up in these behemoths. Most of the universe's matter that was created during and just after the Big Bang must ...
Supersonic 'rain' falls on newborn star
Aug 29, 2007 |
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Astronomers at the University of Rochester have discovered five Earth-oceans’ worth of water that has recently fallen into the planet-forming region around an extremely young, developing star.
Astronomers discover scaled-down Jupiter and Saturn in a faraway solar system like our own
Feb 14, 2008 |
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An international team of astronomers has discovered two planets that resemble smaller versions of Jupiter and Saturn in a solar system nearly 5,000 light years away. The find suggests that our galaxy hosts ...
Fifty Times sharper than Hubble
Oct 05, 2007 |
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M87, the central galaxy of the Virgo cluster in a distance of only 50 million light years, was observed by Yuri Kovalev from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronony (MPIfR) in Bonn and his colleagues ...
'Lucky Camera' takes sharpest ever images of stars
Sep 05, 2007 |
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A team of astronomers led by Cambridge University have taken pictures of the stars that are sharper than anything produced by the Hubble telescope, at 50 thousandths of the cost.
Very high frequency radiation makes dark matter visible
Dec 14, 2006 |
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The stars and gas which are seen in galaxies account for only a few percent of the gravitating material in the Universe. Most of the rest has remained stubbornly invisible and is now thought to be made of a ...
