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Galaxy Evolution Explorer Mission Celebrates Sixth Anniversary
Apr 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer Mission marks its sixth anniversary studying galaxies beyond our Milky Way through its sensitive ultraviolet telescope, the only such far-ultraviolet detector ...
Wall Divides East and West Sides of Cosmic Metropolis
Jan 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study unveils NGC 604, the largest region of star formation in the nearby galaxy M33, in its first deep, high-resolution view in X- rays. This composite image from Chandra X-ray Observatory ...
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Heaviest stellar black hole discovered in nearby galaxy
Oct 17, 2007 |
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Astronomers have located an exceptionally massive black hole in orbit around a huge companion star. This result has intriguing implications for the evolution and ultimate fate of massive stars.
Swift satellite images a galaxy ablaze with starbirth
Feb 26, 2008 |
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Combining 39 individual frames taken over 11 hours of exposure time, NASA astronomers have created this ultraviolet mosaic of the nearby "Triangulum Galaxy." "This is the most detailed ultraviolet image of ...
Astronomers crunch numbers, universe gets bigger
Aug 03, 2006 |
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That intergalactic road trip to Triangulum is going to take a little longer than you had planned. An Ohio State University astronomer and his colleagues have determined that the Triangulum Galaxy, otherwise ...
Three times farther away in outer space than previously possible -- a new way to measure cosmic distances
Jun 08, 2009 |
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Ohio State University researchers have found a way to measure distances to objects three times farther away in outer space than previously possible, by extending a common measurement technique.
Milky Way's Sister Galaxy Shines in New Portrait
Jun 14, 2006 |
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Sibling rivalry is alive and well in outer space. The Milky Way galaxy has two sister spirals competing for attention from photographers. The Andromeda galaxy usually wins the contest, posing frequently for ...
Astronomers Measure Slowest Motion Across The Sky
Mar 03, 2005 |
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In the March 4th issue of Science, astronomers report that they have measured the slowest ever motion of a galaxy across the plane of the sky. This distant whirlpool of stars appears to creep along despite its actual speed ...
Radio Telescopes' Sharp Vision Yields Rich Payoffs
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Jan 11, 2008 |
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Having the sharpest pictures always is a big advantage, and a sophisticated radio-astronomy technique using continent-wide and even intercontinental arrays of telescopes is yielding extremely valuable scientific ...
NASA's SkyView Delivers the Multiwavelength Cosmos
Feb 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Some three million times a year, researchers, educators, and amateur astronomers all over the world ask NASA's SkyView virtual observatory to serve up images of some interesting corner of ...
New Massive Black Hole Smashes Record
Oct 30, 2007 |
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Using two NASA satellites, astronomers have discovered the heftiest known black hole to orbit a star. The new black hole, with a mass 24 to 33 times that of our Sun, is more massive than scientists expected ...
Gemini Uncovers 'Lost City' Of Stars
Aug 15, 2005 |
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Like archaeologists unearthing a 'lost city', astronomers using the 8-meter Gemini South telescope have revealed that the galaxy NGC 300 has a large, faint extended disk made of ancient stars, enlarging the known diameter ...
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