News tagged with galactic plane

An atlas of the Milky Way

Sino-German research group draws a new map at the Urumqi radio telescope and discovers two supernova remnants.

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created Aug 30, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

A green ring fit for a superhero

(PhysOrg.com) -- This glowing emerald nebula seen by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is reminiscent of the glowing ring wielded by the superhero Green Lantern. In the comic books, the diminutive Guardians of ...

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created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Most complete 3-D map of local universe unveiled

(PhysOrg.com) -- Today, astronomers unveiled the most complete 3-D map of the local universe (out to a distance of 380 million light-years) ever created. Taking more than 10 years to complete, the 2MASS Redshift ...

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created May 25, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 33 | with audio podcast

Resolving a galactic mystery

An extremely deep Chandra X-ray Observatory image of a region near the center of our Galaxy has resolved a long-standing mystery about an X-ray glow along the plane of the Galaxy. The glow in the region covered ...

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created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (19) | comments 3




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Scientists chart high-precision map of Milky Way's magnetic fields

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) are part of an international team that has pooled their radio observations into a database, producing the highest precision map to date of ...

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created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Citizen scientist project finds thousands of ‘star bubbles’

Remember when you were a kid and blowing bubbles was such great fun? Well, stars kind of do that too. The “bubbles” are partial or complete rings of dust and gas that occur around young stars in ...

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created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Not all who wander are lost

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some stars have orbits that take them to interesting places, and they have interesting stories to tell about how they were formed. For more than a decade, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) ...

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created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Krawczynski group receives NASA grant to spy on black holes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Henric Krawczynski, PhD, professor of physics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, is a big-game hunter of the astrophysical variety — he hunts celestial beasts, ...

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created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

2012: Shadow of the Dark Rift

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the most bizarre theories about 2012 has built up with very little attention to facts. This idea holds that a cosmic alignment of the sun, Earth, the center of our galaxy -- or perhaps ...

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created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 32 | with audio podcast

Can Earth-sized planets survive their star's expansion?

Two Earth-sized planets have been discovered circling a dying star that has passed the red giant stage. Because of their close orbits, the planets must have been engulfed by their star while it swelled up ...

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created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 18 | with audio podcast

New insight into the bar in the center of the Milky Way

(PhysOrg.com) -- It sounds like the start of a bad joke: do you know about the bar in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy? Astronomers first recognized almost 80 years ago that the Milky Way Galaxy, around ...

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created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

New operating system for space: High-tech tycoons

The tycoons of cyberspace are looking to bankroll America's resurgence in outer space, reviving "Star Trek" dreams that first interested them in science.

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created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 7

Allen, Rutan plan huge plane to launch spaceships

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and aerospace pioneer Burt Rutan are building the biggest plane ever to haul cargo and astronauts into space, in the latest of several ventures fueled by technology tycoons ...

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created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (14) | comments 32

New all-sky map shows the magnetic fields of the Milky Way with the highest precision

(PhysOrg.com) -- With a unique new all-sky map, scientists at MPA have made significant progress toward measuring the magnetic field structure of the Milky Way in unprecedented detail. Specifically, the map ...

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created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 2 | with audio podcast


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