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Cosmology's best standard candles get even better

Cosmology's best standard candles get even better

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 18, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (13) | comments 1

Members of the international Nearby Supernova Factory (SNfactory), a collaboration among the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a consortium of French laboratories, and Yale ...


MESSENGER at Mercury

Magnesium detected in MESSENGER flyby of Mercury (w/Video)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft served up another curveball to a University of Colorado at Boulder team after a second flyby of the hot inner planet Oct. 6 detected magnesium -- an element created inside exploding ...


NASA's Swift satellite comet tally highlighted

Swift satellite comet tally highlighted

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 24, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A montage of comet images made using NASA's Swift spacecraft illustrates just how different three comets can be. The images, including a never-released image of Comet 8P/Tuttle, were shown during a webcast ...


Swift’s Comet Tally

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

A montage of comet images made using NASA’s Swift spacecraft illustrates just how different three comets can be. The images, including a never-released image of Comet 8P/Tuttle, were shown today during a live, 24-hour video ...


The origin of supernovae confirmed

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (17) | comments 2

Where do supernovae come from? Astronomers have long believed they were exploding stars, but by analysing a series of images, researchers from the Dark Cosmology Centre at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen ...