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Iconic rings and flares of galaxies created by violent, intergalactic collisions

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 21, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 5

The bright pinwheels and broad star sweeps iconic of disk galaxies such as the Milky Way might all be the shrapnel from massive, violent collisions with other galaxies and galaxy-size chunks of dark matter, according to a ...





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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 8 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

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 ...


WISE Launch Delayed 24 Hours

WISE Launch Delayed 24 Hours

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created 9 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Liftoff of a Delta II rocket and its NASA payload, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), has been delayed 24 hours. At the soonest, launch now will be Saturday, Dec. 12, during a ...


Galaxy Collision Switches on Black Hole

Galaxy Collision Switches on Black Hole

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created 11 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.


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.


NASA's WISE Set to Blast Off and Map the Skies

NASA's WISE Set to Blast Off and Map the Skies

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created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The countdown clock is ticking, with just days to go before the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, rockets into space on a mission to map the entire sky in infrared light.


Fermi sees brightest-ever blazar flare

Fermi sees brightest-ever blazar flare

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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 ...


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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 ...


Entropy alone creates complex crystals from simple shapes, study shows

Entropy alone creates complex crystals from simple shapes, study shows

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (20) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a study that elevates the role of entropy in creating order, research led by the University of Michigan shows that certain pyramid shapes can spontaneously organize into complex quasicrystals.


XMM-Newton celebrates decade of discovery

XMM-Newton celebrates decade of discovery

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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 ...



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