 Milky Way’s Giant Black Hole Awoke from Slumber 300 Years Ago April 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 53 vote(s)
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Using NASA, Japanese, and European X-ray satellites, a team of Japanese astronomers has discovered that our galaxy’s central black hole let loose a powerful flare three centuries ago. | |
 Famous Supernovae Still Echo Across the Milky Way May 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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While walking home on November 11, 1572, astronomer Tycho Brahe idly glanced at the sky. He was surprised to see a bright star in the constellation Cassiopeia that hadn’t been there before. The new star, which ... | |
 Voyager 2 proves solar system is squashed December 10, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 121 vote(s)
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NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft has followed its twin Voyager 1 into the solar system's final frontier, a vast region at the edge of our solar system where the solar wind runs up against the thin gas between the ... | |
 Milky Way Mapping Project Finds Surprisingly Slow Stars June 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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On Earth, making a map is as easy as taking aerial photographs or surveying a patch of land on foot. In contrast, mapping the Milky Way galaxy is a tremendous challenge. The distances are too large to travel, ... | |
 More Evidence Found for Water on Mars February 15, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 69 vote(s)
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A spacecraft recently arrived at Mars has provided new evidence that fluids, likely including water, once flowed widely through underlying bedrock in a canyon that is part of the great Martian rift valley. | |
 Scientists Hold Seance for Supernova May 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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Astronomers have unearthed secrets from the grave of a star that blasted apart in a supernova explosion long ago. By decoding ghostly echoes of light traveling away from the remains of a supernova called Cassiopeia ... | |
 Scientists watch supernova in real-time August 30, 2006 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 119 vote(s)
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For the first time a star has been observed in real-time as it goes supernova – a mind bogglingly powerful explosion as the star ends its life, the resulting cosmic eruption briefly outshining an entire galaxy. ... | |
 Findings Suggest Jets Bursting From Martian Ice Cap August 17, 2006 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 55 vote(s)
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Every spring brings violent eruptions to the south polar ice cap of Mars, according to researchers interpreting new observations by NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter. | |
 Close-up of a dying heavyweight May 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn and European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Garching near Munich have for the first time taken a close-up of an individual ... | |
 Black Holes May Fill the Universe with Seeds of Life April 20, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 85 vote(s)
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New research shows that black holes are not the ultimate destroyers that are often portrayed in popular culture. Instead, warm gas escaping from the clutches of enormous black holes could be one source of ... | |
 Chandra sees brightest supernova ever May 07, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 72 vote(s)
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The brightest stellar explosion ever recorded may be a long-sought new type of supernova, according to observations by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ground-based optical telescopes. This discovery indicates ... | |
 Do galaxies follow Darwinian evolution? December 06, 2006 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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Using VIMOS on ESO's Very Large Telescope, a team of French and Italian astronomers have shown the strong influence the environment exerts on the way galaxies form and evolve. The scientists have for the first ... | |
 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. | |
 Future Space Telescopes Could Detect Earth Twin April 11, 2007 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 65 vote(s)
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For the first time ever, NASA researchers have successfully demonstrated in the laboratory that a space telescope rigged with special masks and mirrors could snap a photo of an Earth-like planet orbiting a ... | |
Looking for New Light June 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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In many ways, astronomers are in the dark about asteroids. In the dark depths of the Kuiper Asteroid Belt beyond Neptune's orbit, and even in the nearby Main Belt between Jupiter and Mars, most asteroids are too small to ... | |
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