News tagged with water maser
Most distant detection of water in the Universe
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have found the most distant signs of water in the Universe to date. Dr John McKean of the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON) will be presenting the discovery at ...
Apr 22, 2009 |
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Radio telescopes extend astronomy's best 'yardstick'
Radio astronomers have directly measured the distance to a faraway galaxy, providing a valuable "yardstick" for calibrating large astronomical distances and demonstrating a vital method that could help determine the elusive ...
Jun 08, 2009 |
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Seeing the small picture: X-ray nanoprobe pushes observation to ever smaller frontiers
(PhysOrg.com) -- Try to picture putting some atoms under a microscope. Even if you could pick them up, put them on a slide and get them to stay still, you still could not see them with even the most powerful ...
Mar 02, 2009 |
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Stars Forming Just Beyond Black Hole’s Grasp at Galactic Center
(PhysOrg.com) -- The center of the Milky Way presents astronomers with a paradox: it holds young stars, but no one is sure how those stars got there. The galactic center is wracked with powerful gravitational ...
Jan 05, 2009 |
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Most Distant Water in the Universe Found
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have found the most distant water yet seen in the Universe, in a galaxy more than 11 billion light-years from Earth. Previously, the most distant water had been seen in a galaxy ...
Dec 17, 2008 |
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Radio Telescopes' Sharp Vision Yields Rich Payoffs
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 ...
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Jan 11, 2008 |
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Magnetic Fields Sculpt Narrow Jets From Dying Star
Molecules spewed outward from a dying star are confined into narrow jets by a tightly-wound magnetic field, according to astronomers who used the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) ...
Mar 02, 2006 |
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Perseus Spiral Arm of the Milky Way much closer than thought
The Perseus spiral arm, the nearest spiral arm in the Milky Way outside the Sun's orbit, lies only half as far from Earth as some previous results had suggested. An international team of astronomers including ...
Dec 16, 2005 |
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First 'European GPS' Galileo satellites named 'GIOVE'
GIOVE - standing for 'Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element' - is the name that has been chosen for the two satellites which are currently being prepared to take the first step of the In-Orbit Validation phase ...
Nov 10, 2005 |
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Hubble finds mysterious disk of blue stars around a black hole
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have identified the source of a mysterious blue light surrounding a supermassive black hole in our neighbouring Andromeda Galaxy (M31). Though the light ...
Sep 20, 2005 |
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Field guide for confirming new earth-like planets described
Astronomers looking for earth-like planets in other solar systems — exoplanets — now have a new field guide thanks to earth and planetary scientists at Washington University in St. Louis.
Sep 07, 2005 |
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