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VISTA: Pioneering new survey telescope starts work

VISTA: Pioneering new survey telescope starts work

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created 3 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

VISTA is the latest telescope to be added to ESO's Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. It is housed on the peak adjacent to the one hosting the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) and shares ...


Scientists observe super-massive black holes using Keck Observatory in Hawaii

Scientists observe super-massive black holes using Keck Observatory in Hawaii

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created 16 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 3

An international team of scientists has observed four super-massive black holes at the center of galaxies, which may provide new information on how these central black hole systems operate. Their findings ...


Galaxy Collision Switches on Black Hole

Galaxy Collision Switches on Black Hole

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created 19 hours ago | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- This composite image of data from three different telescopes shows an ongoing collision between two galaxies, NGC 6872 and IC 4970.


Cassini closes in on the centuries-old mystery of Saturn's moon Iapetus

Cassini closes in on the centuries-old mystery of Saturn's moon Iapetus

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 21 hours ago | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Extensive analyses and modeling of Cassini imaging and heat-mapping data have confirmed and extended previous ideas that migrating ice, triggered by infalling reddish dust that darkens and warms the surface, ...


Suzaku catches retreat of a black hole's disk

Suzaku catches retreat of a black hole's disk

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 1

(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.


Fermi sees brightest-ever blazar flare

Fermi sees brightest-ever blazar flare

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 09, 2009 | 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

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (9) | comments 7

(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 ...


XMM-Newton celebrates decade of discovery

XMM-Newton celebrates decade of discovery

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory is celebrating its 10th anniversary. During its decade of operation, this remarkable space observatory has supplied new data for every aspect of astronomy. ...


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 ...


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 4.7 / 5 (23) | 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.



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