News tagged with pinwheel galaxy
Supernova 'brightens up' September 7-8
(PhysOrg.com) -- The nearest supernova of its type to be discovered for 40 years is predicted to be at its brightest 7-8 September and will be visible through a good pair of binoculars.
Sep 08, 2011 |
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Earliest-yet observation of August SN2011fe supernova nails it: Destroyed star was white dwarf
Last year's discovery of the nearest Type Ia supernova in decades – captured only 11 hours after it exploded – allowed astronomers to finally cinch the identity of the stars behind these explosions, which have become ...
Jan 11, 2012 |
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Stellar discovery
On August 24, astrophysicist Peter Nugent was playing a little catch-up. Nugent, an adjunct professor at Berkeley and group leader of the Computational Cosmology Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, ...
Jan 04, 2012 |
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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 ...
Dec 19, 2011 |
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Closest Type Ia supernova in decades solves a cosmic mystery
Type Ia supernovae (SN Ia's) are the extraordinarily bright and remarkably similar "standard candles" astronomers use to measure cosmic growth, a technique that in 1998 led to the discovery of dark energy ...
Dec 14, 2011 |
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A star with spiral arms
For more than four hundred years, astronomers have used telescopes to study the great variety of stars in our galaxy. Millions of distant suns have been catalogued. There are dwarf stars, giant stars, dead ...
Nov 01, 2011 |
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'Instant cosmic classic' supernova discovered
(PhysOrg.com) -- A supernova discovered yesterday is closer to Earth—approximately 21 million light-years away—than any other of its kind in a generation. Astronomers believe they caught the supernova ...
Aug 25, 2011 |
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A new, distant arm of the Milky Way galaxy
(PhysOrg.com) -- Our Milky Way galaxy, like other spiral galaxies, has a disk with sweeping arms of stars, gas, and dust that curve around the galaxy like the arms of a huge pinwheel.
Jun 13, 2011 |
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A disturbed galactic duo
(PhysOrg.com) -- The galaxies in this cosmic pairing, captured by the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile, display some curious features, demonstrating ...
Apr 20, 2011 |
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Spitzer sees shrouded burst of stars
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have found a stunning burst of star formation that beams out as much infrared light as an entire galaxy. The collision of two spiral galaxies ...
Nov 23, 2010 |
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Spiral galaxies stripped bare
Six spectacular spiral galaxies are seen in a clear new light in images from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. The pictures were taken in infrared light, using the ...
Oct 27, 2010 |
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