 'Cosmic ghost' discovered by volunteer astronomer August 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 34 vote(s)
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When Yale astrophysicist Kevin Schawinski and his colleagues at Oxford University enlisted public support in cataloguing galaxies, they never envisioned the strange object Hanny van Arkel found in archived ... | |
 Globular clusters tell tale of star formation in nearby galaxy metropolis August 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Globular star clusters, dense bunches of hundreds of thousands of stars, contain some of the oldest surviving stars in the Universe. A new international study of globular clusters outside our Milky Way Galaxy ... | |
 Dust and gas in the early universe July 31, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Researchers believe that our universe began with the Big Bang about 13 billion years ago, and that soon after that event, matter began to form as small dust grains and gases. How the first stars formed from ... | |
Caltech astronomers describe the bar scene at the beginning of the universe July 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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Bars abound in spiral galaxies today, but this was not always the case. A group of 16 astronomers, led by Kartik Sheth of NASA's Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology, has found that bars tripled ... | |
 A new era in search for 'sister Earths'? July 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 52 vote(s)
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Research presented at a recent astronomical conference is being hailed as ushering in a new era in the search for Earth-like planets by showing that they are more numerous than previously thought and that ... | |
Partial Solar Eclipse visible from the UK on the morning of 1st August July 25, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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On 1st August 2008 there will be a total eclipse of the Sun, visible from Canada, northern Greenland, Svalbard, the Barents Sea, Russia, Mongolia and China. From the whole of the British Isles observers will see a partial ... | |
The Quiet Explosion: Object intermediate between normal supernovae and gamma-ray bursts found July 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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A European-led team of astronomers are providing hints that a recent supernova may not be as normal as initially thought. Instead, the star that exploded is now understood to have collapsed into a black hole, producing a ... | |
 COROT's new find orbits Sun-like star July 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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A team of European scientists working with COROT have discovered an exoplanet orbiting a star slightly more massive than the Sun. After just 555 days in orbit, the mission has now observed more than 50 000 ... | |
Watching a 'New Star' Make the Universe Dusty July 24, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer, and its remarkable acuity, astronomers were able for the first time to witness the appearance of a shell of dusty gas around a star that had just erupted, ... | |
 Lenses galore -- Hubble finds large sample of very distant galaxies July 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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By using the gravitational magnification from six massive lensing galaxy clusters, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided scientists with the largest sample of very distant galaxies seen to date. ... | |
Ancient Galactic Magnetic Fields Stronger than Expected July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Mining the far reaches of the universe for clues about its past, a team of scientists including Philipp Kronberg of Los Alamos National Laboratory has proposed that magnetic fields of ancient galaxies like ... | |
 Polarizing filter allows astronomers to see disks surrounding black holes July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, a team of international researchers has found a way to view the accretion disks surrounding black holes and verify that their true electromagnetic spectra match what astronomers ... | |
 Spitzer Reveals 'No Organics' Zone Around Pinwheel Galaxy July 21, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Pinwheel galaxy is gussied up in infrared light in a new picture from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. | |
 The Pole star comes to life again July 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 52 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Northern Star, whose vibrations were thought to be dying away, appears to have come to life again. | |
 Three Red Spots Mix it Up on Jupiter July 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- This sequence of Hubble Space Telescope images offers an unprecedented view of a planetary game of Pac-Man among three red spots clustered together in Jupiter's atmosphere. | |
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