News tagged with milky
Giant galaxy Messier 87 finally sized up
May 20, 2009 |
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The new observations reveal that Messier 87's halo of stars has been cut short, with a diameter of about a million light-years, significantly smaller than expected, despite being about three times the extent ...
James Webb Space Telescope unfolds by animation (w/Video)
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May 13, 2009 |
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Although engineers, scientists and manufacturers are still in the process of building all of the instruments that will fly aboard NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, they had to figure out long ago, how it ...
Galactic X-ray emissions originate from stars
May 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A 25-year old astronomical mystery has been solved: Most of the diffuse X-ray emissions in the Milky Way do not originate from one single source but from so-called white dwarfs and from stars ...
Why Are Galaxies So Smooth?
May 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers has discovered streams of young stars flowing from their natal cocoons in distant galaxies. These distant rivers ...
Resolving a galactic mystery
Apr 29, 2009 |
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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 ...
Rogue Black Holes May Roam the Milky Way
Apr 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It sounds like the plot of a sci-fi movie: rogue black holes roaming our galaxy, threatening to swallow anything that gets too close. In fact, new calculations by Ryan O'Leary and Avi Loeb ...
Kepler Captures First Views of Planet-Hunting Territory
Apr 16, 2009 |
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NASA's Kepler mission has taken its first images of the star-rich sky where it will soon begin hunting for planets like Earth.
Discovery poses challenge to galaxy formation theories
Apr 10, 2009 |
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A team led by an Indiana University astronomer has found a sample of massive galaxies with properties that suggest that they may have formed relatively recently. This would run counter to the widely-held belief ...
Dust Cover Jettisoned From NASA's Kepler Telescope
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers have successfully ejected the dust cover from NASA's Kepler telescope, a spaceborne mission soon to begin searching for worlds like Earth.
Adventures in the 'Goldilocks zone'
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 12, 2009 |
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When NASA's Kepler telescope rocketed into the night sky last week, two Berkeley astronomers watching its fading contrail were hoping that the telescope will reveal Earth's — and humanity's — place in the ...
Galactic Dust Bunnies Found to Contain Carbon After All
Mar 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, researchers have found evidence suggesting that stars rich in carbon complex molecules may form at the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
Kepler Set to Launch Tonight on Planet Finding Mission
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Kepler spacecraft and its Delta II rocket are "go" for a launch tonight that is expected to light up the sky along Florida's Space Coast at 10:49 p.m. EST as the rocket lifts off from ...
With March 6 Kepler launch, work begins for Berkeley astronomers
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When NASA's Kepler telescope rockets into the night sky on Friday, March 6, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, two University of California, Berkeley, astronomers - key members ...
Clemson astronomers to study mysterious antimatter in the Milky Way
Feb 16, 2009 |
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NASA has awarded Clemson astronomers $244,000 to use data from several space-based gamma-ray telescopes to study a mysterious emission coming from the central regions of the Milky Way galaxy.
Stars cheek by jowl in the early Universe
Feb 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the early Universe, some galaxies may have had stars packed together a hundred times more closely than in the present day, according to research by a University of Bonn team to be published ...
