 A Star That Bursts, Blinks and Disappears September 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 43 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- "Twinkle, twinkle little star" goes the nursery rhyme. Now, astronomers are reporting on a strange case where one of the littlest of stars "twinkled" with gamma rays, X-rays, and light -- ... | |
 First detection of magnetic field in distant galaxy produces a surprise October 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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Using a powerful radio telescope to peer into the early universe, a team of California astronomers has obtained the first direct measurement of a nascent galaxy's magnetic field as it appeared 6.5 billion ... | |
 Astronomers find gaping hole in the Universe August 23, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 243 vote(s)
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University of Minnesota astronomers have found an enormous hole in the Universe, nearly a billion light-years across, empty of both normal matter such as stars, galaxies and gas, as well as the mysterious, ... | |
 Scientists discover minimum mass for galaxies August 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- By analyzing light from small, faint galaxies that orbit the Milky Way, UC Irvine scientists believe they have discovered the minimum mass for galaxies in the universe – 10 million times the ... | |
Outer Solar System Not as Crowded as Astronomers Thought October 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When a treasure hunt comes up empty-handed, the hunters are understandably disappointed. But when astronomers don't find what they are looking for, the defeat can provide as much information as a successful ... | |
 Astronomers get best view yet of infant stars at feeding time October 10, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Astronomers have used ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer to conduct the first high resolution survey that combines spectroscopy and interferometry on intermediate-mass infant stars. They obtained a ... | |
 When It Comes to Galaxies, Diversity Is Everywhere September 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- There's an old saying in astronomy: "Galaxies are like people. They're only normal until you get to know them." That view is supported by a group of astronomers after using NASA's Hubble Space ... | |
 'Little bang' triggered solar system formation October 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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For several decades, scientists have thought that the Solar System formed as a result of a shock wave from an exploding star—a supernova—that triggered the collapse of a dense, dusty gas cloud that contracted ... | |
 Worlds in collision September 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 59 vote(s)
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Two terrestrial planets orbiting a mature sun-like star some 300 light-years from Earth recently suffered a violent collision, astronomers at UCLA, Tennessee State University and the California Institute of ... | |
 Most Black Holes Might Come in Only Small and Large August 20, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Black holes are sometimes huge cosmic beasts, billions of times the mass of our sun, and sometimes petite with just a few times the sun's mass. But do black holes also come in size medium? ... | |
 Scientists detect cosmic 'dark flow' across billions of light years September 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 72 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using data from NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), scientists have identified an unexpected motion in distant galaxy clusters. The cause, they suggest, is the gravitational ... | |
 The Oddball Hosts of Gamma-ray Bursts October 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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There's a universal tendency to heed Dylan Thomas's exhortation and go out with a bang instead of a whimper. Nowhere is this more evident than deep in the cosmos. | |
Galaxy Clusters Have a Mysterious Motion September 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 36 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The stars are in motion, and on a much larger scale than can be explained with current theories, according to astronomers at NASA, the University of Hawaii and UC Davis. The finding could improve our understanding ... | |
 Voyager 2 proves solar system is squashed December 10, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 122 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 ... | |
 Infrared echoes give NASA's Spitzer a supernova flashback October 01, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Hot spots near the shattered remains of an exploded star are echoing the blast's first moments, say scientists using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. | |
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