Thirty-Meter Telescope Focuses on Two Candidate Sites May 16, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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After completing a worldwide survey unprecedented in rigor and detail of astronomical sites for the Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT), the TMT Observatory Corporation board of directors has selected two outstanding sites, one ... | |
 Strange star stumps astronomers May 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 38 vote(s)
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An obese oddball of a star has left astronomers wondering how it could have formed. Dr David Champion and his colleagues at CSIRO’s Australia Telescope National Facility publish their findings about the star ... | |
 Eccentric pulsar system challenges theories of binary formation May 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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An ongoing sky survey using the Cornell-managed Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico has turned up a massive, fast-spinning binary pulsar with a mysterious elongated orbit, researchers say. The pulsar and ... | |
 Astronomers use new model of dust in galaxies to remeasure the total energy output of stars in the universe May 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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Anyone gazing up on a dark clear night is greeted by the spectacle of thousands of powerful fusion reactors - the stars. These balls of extremely hot gas are generating unimaginably large quantities of energy. ... | |
 Astrophysicists discover youngest known supernova in Milky Way May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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A North Carolina State University researcher has discovered the youngest known supernova in our galaxy. Estimated at a mere 140 years old, this celestial whippersnapper is at least 200 years younger than the ... | |
 A molecular thermometer for the distant universe May 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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Astronomers have made use of ESO’s Very Large Telescope to detect for the first time in the ultraviolet the carbon monoxide molecule in a galaxy located almost 11 billion light-years away, a feat that had ... | |
 The Antennae Galaxies move closer May 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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The Antennae Galaxies are among the closest known merging galaxies. The two galaxies, also known as NGC 4038 and NGC 4039, began interacting a few hundred million years ago, creating one of the most impressive ... | |
 XMM-Newton discovers part of missing matter in the universe May 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 70 vote(s)
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ESA’s orbiting X-ray observatory XMM-Newton has been used by a team of international astronomers to uncover part of the missing matter in the universe. | |
Did the solar system 'bounce' finish the dinosaurs? May 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 49 vote(s)
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The sun’s movement through the Milky Way regularly sends comets hurtling into the inner solar system – coinciding with mass life extinctions on earth, a new study claims. | |
 Argonne supercomputer to simulate extreme physics of exploding stars May 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Robert Fisher and Cal Jordan are among a team of scientists who will expend 22 million computational hours during the next year on one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, simulating an event that ... | |
 New type of pulsating white dwarf star discovered May 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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University of Texas at Austin astronomers Michael H. Montgomery and Kurtis A. Williams, along with graduate student Steven DeGennaro, have predicted and confirmed the existence of a new type of variable star, ... | |
 Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer Satellite Pins Down Timer in Stellar Ticking Time Bomb April 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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Using observations from NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE), an international team of astronomers has discovered a timing mechanism that allows them to predict exactly when a superdense star will unleash ... | |
 Oldest Known Objects Are Surprisingly Immature April 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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Some of the oldest objects in the Universe may still have a long way to go, according to a new study using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. These new results indicate that globular clusters might be surprisingly ... | |
 Compact galaxies in early universe pack a big punch April 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Imagine receiving an announcement touting the birth of a baby 50 centimetres long and weighing 80 kilograms. After reading this puzzling message, you would immediately think the baby’s weight was a misprint. | |
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 ... | |
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