 Galaxies Gone Wild April 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 30 vote(s)
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Interacting galaxies are found throughout the Universe, sometimes as dramatic collisions that trigger bursts of star formation, on other occasions as stealthy mergers that result in new galaxies. A series ... | |
 Radio telescope reveals secrets of massive black hole April 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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At the cores of many galaxies, supermassive black holes expel powerful jets of particles at nearly the speed of light. Just how they perform this feat has long been one of the mysteries of astrophysics. | |
Plan to identify watery Earth-like planets develops April 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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Astronomers are looking to identify Earth-like watery worlds circling distant stars from a glint of light seen through an optical space telescope and a mathematical method developed by researchers at Penn State and the University ... | |
 Scientists identify smallest known black hole April 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 52 vote(s)
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Using a new technique, two NASA scientists have identified the lightest known black hole. With a mass only about 3.8 times greater than our Sun and a diameter of only 15 miles, the black hole lies very close ... | |
 Two new star systems are first of their kind ever found March 31, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 53 vote(s)
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Astronomers have spied a faraway star system that is so unusual, it was one of a kind -- until its discovery helped them pinpoint a second one that was much closer to home. | |
 Black hole found in enigmatic Omega Centauri April 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 38 vote(s)
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A new discovery has resolved some of the mystery surrounding Omega Centauri, the largest and brightest globular cluster in the sky. Images obtained with the Advanced Camera for Surveys onboard the NASA/ESA ... | |
 Black hole sheds light on a galaxy April 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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A light echo occurs when interstellar gas is heated by radiation and reacts by emission of light. An international team led by Stefanie Komossa from the Max Planck Institute for extraterrestrial Physics in ... | |
 Stellar Birth in the Galactic Wilderness April 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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A new image from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer shows baby stars sprouting in the backwoods of a galaxy -- a relatively desolate region of space more than 100,000 light-years from the galaxy's bustling center. ... | |
New rocky planet found in constellation Leo April 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 39 vote(s)
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Spanish and UCL (University College London) scientists have discovered a possible terrestrial-type planet orbiting a star in the constellation of Leo. The new planet, which lies at a distance of 30 light years from the Earth, ... | |
 Ocean Planets on the Brink of Detection February 02, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 116 vote(s)
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Imagine a world with no land at all, merely the impenetrable depths of a seething ocean. Models of planet formation predict the existence of such worlds, even though our own solar system has none. Indeed, ... | |
 Hubble Pinpoints Record-Breaking Explosion April 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 42 vote(s)
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Researchers working at the University of Warwick, with colleagues in Leicester University, ESA and NASA, have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to pin point what remains of what was the brightest naked-eye ... | |
 The drifting star: Astronomers 'listen' to an exoplanet-host star and find its birthplace April 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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By studying in great detail the 'ringing' of a planet-harbouring star, a team of astronomers using ESO's 3.6-m telescope have shown that it must have drifted away from the metal-rich Hyades cluster. This discovery ... | |
Terrestrial Planet Formation in Binary Star Systems January 26, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 42 vote(s)
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The list of confirmed extrasolar planets keeps growing, and has now passed two hundred members — almost all of which are gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn. But the hunt is on for Earth-like worlds! With the successful launch ... | |
Models show one nearby star system could host Earth-like planet July 24, 2006 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 73 vote(s)
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The steady discovery of giant planets orbiting stars other than our sun has heightened speculation that there could be Earth-type worlds in nearby planetary systems capable of sustaining life. Now researchers running computer ... | |
 Spitzer Sees Shining Stellar Sphere April 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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Millions of clustered stars glisten like an iridescent opal in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. | |
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