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A Black Hole in Medusa's Hair
Mar 11, 2009 |
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This composite image of the Medusa galaxy (also known as NGC 4194) shows X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in blue and optical light from the Hubble Space Telescope in orange. Located above ...
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Giant Planet Set for a Cataclysmic Show
Dec 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Chinese astronomers have discovered a giant planet close to the exotic binary star system QS Virginis. Although dormant now, in the future the two stars will one day erupt in a violent ...
Black Holes in Star Clusters stir up Time and Space (w/ Video)
Dec 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Within a decade scientists could be able to detect the merger of tens of pairs of black holes every year, according to a team of astronomers at the University of Bonn’s Argelander-Institut ...
Suzaku catches retreat of a black hole's disk
Dec 10, 2009 |
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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.
A faint star orbiting the Big Dipper's Alcor discovered
Dec 10, 2009 |
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Next time you spy the Big Dipper, keep in mind that there is another star, invisible to the unaided eye, contributing to this constellation.
German high-school students involved in an astronomical research project
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 05, 2009 |
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This week, Astronomy & Astrophysics publishes a somewhat unusual research article because it is co-authored by German high-school students. Led by astronomer Klaus Beuermann (University of Göttingen, Germany), the team i ...
Kepler and the Search for Life in Our Galaxy
Sep 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- There are so many stars in our galaxy that even if planets with complex life (animals and plants) are rare - say one for every billion stars - there could still be dozens here in the Milky ...
Astronomers discover pair of solar systems in the making
Jul 01, 2009 |
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Two University of Hawai'i at Mānoa astronomers have found a binary star-disk system in which each star is surrounded by the kind of dust disk that is frequently the precursor of a planetary system. Doctoral ...
Most efficient spectrograph to shoot the Southern skies
May 26, 2009 |
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ESO's Very Large Telescope, Europe's flagship facility for ground-based astronomy, has been equipped with the first of its second generation instruments: X-shooter. It can record the entire spectrum of a celestial ...
Largest collection of anomalous white dwarfs observed by Hubble
Apr 23, 2009 |
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Twenty-four unusual stars, 18 of them newly discovered, have been observed in new Hubble telescope images. The stars are white dwarfs, a common type of dead star, but they are odd because they are made of ...
New EINSTEIN@HOME effort launched: home computers to search Arecibo data for new pulsars
Mar 24, 2009 |
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Einstein@Home, based at the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee (UWM) and the Albert Einstein Institute (AEI) in Germany, is one of the world's largest public volunteer distributed computing projects. More ...
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