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Don't Worry, Little Planet
Your star probably won't eat you, according to a new study
Your star probably won't eat you, according to a new study
Astronomy
Source: Science
Posted on: Wednesday, Dec 14, 2011, 8:15am
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Source: Science
Posted on: Wednesday, Dec 14, 2011, 8:15am
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NASA's Voyager spacecraft that toured outer planets nearing solar system edge 
In 1977, Jimmy Carter was sworn in as president, Elvis died, Virginia park ranger Roy Sullivan was hit by lightning a record seventh time, and two NASA space probes destined to turn planetary science on its head launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla.
In 1977, Jimmy Carter was sworn in as president, Elvis died, Virginia park ranger Roy Sullivan was hit by lightning a record seventh time, and two NASA space probes destined to turn planetary science on its head launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla.
Astronomy
Source: University of Colorado at Boulder
Posted on: Wednesday, Dec 14, 2011, 8:00am
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Source: University of Colorado at Boulder
Posted on: Wednesday, Dec 14, 2011, 8:00am
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Young star rebels against its parent cloud
Despite the celestial colours of this picture, there is nothing peaceful about star forming region Sh 2-106, or S106 for short. A devilish young star, named S106 IR, lies in it and ejects material at high speed, which disrupts the gas and dust around it. The star has a mass about 15 times that of the Sun and is in the final stages of its formation. It will soon quieten down by entering the main se
Despite the celestial colours of this picture, there is nothing peaceful about star forming region Sh 2-106, or S106 for short. A devilish young star, named S106 IR, lies in it and ejects material at high speed, which disrupts the gas and dust around it. The star has a mass about 15 times that of the Sun and is in the final stages of its formation. It will soon quieten down by entering the main se
Astronomy
Source: ESA/Hubble Information Centre
Posted on: Tuesday, Dec 13, 2011, 2:45pm
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Source: ESA/Hubble Information Centre
Posted on: Tuesday, Dec 13, 2011, 2:45pm
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Early black holes grew big eating cold, fast food
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Bruce and Astrid McWilliams Center for Cosmology have discovered what caused the rapid growth of early supermassive black holes — a steady diet of cold, fast food.
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Bruce and Astrid McWilliams Center for Cosmology have discovered what caused the rapid growth of early supermassive black holes — a steady diet of cold, fast food.
Astronomy
Source: Carnegie Mellon University
Posted on: Monday, Dec 12, 2011, 2:30pm
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Source: Carnegie Mellon University
Posted on: Monday, Dec 12, 2011, 2:30pm
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A Cloaked Alien Spaceship Orbiting Mercury?
While watching a video of a coronal mass ejection travel from the sun, it would appear that a solar observatory has discovered a massive alien spacecraft docked next to Mercury.
While watching a video of a coronal mass ejection travel from the sun, it would appear that a solar observatory has discovered a massive alien spacecraft docked next to Mercury.
Astronomy
Source: Discovery Channel News
Posted on: Friday, Dec 09, 2011, 8:28am
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Source: Discovery Channel News
Posted on: Friday, Dec 09, 2011, 8:28am
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Biggest telescope starts observations
A Russian space telescope launched in July has linked up with radio dishes on the ground to observe a distant galaxy – the system acts like one huge antenna
A Russian space telescope launched in July has linked up with radio dishes on the ground to observe a distant galaxy – the system acts like one huge antenna
Astronomy
Source: New Scientist
Posted on: Friday, Dec 09, 2011, 8:28am
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Source: New Scientist
Posted on: Friday, Dec 09, 2011, 8:28am
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Vampire star reveals its secrets
"We can now combine light from four VLT telescopes and create super-sharp images much more quickly than before," says Nicolas Blind (IPAG, Grenoble, France), who is the lead author on the paper presenting the results, "The images are so sharp that we can not only watch the stars orbiting around each other, but also measure the size of the larger of the two stars."
"We can now combine light from four VLT telescopes and create super-sharp images much more quickly than before," says Nicolas Blind (IPAG, Grenoble, France), who is the lead author on the paper presenting the results, "The images are so sharp that we can not only watch the stars orbiting around each other, but also measure the size of the larger of the two stars."
SETI to Hunt for Aliens on Kepler's Worlds
With the help of NASA's Kepler space telescope, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has some new "Earth-analog" targets.
With the help of NASA's Kepler space telescope, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has some new "Earth-analog" targets.
Astronomy
Source: Discovery Channel News
Posted on: Tuesday, Dec 06, 2011, 8:00am
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Source: Discovery Channel News
Posted on: Tuesday, Dec 06, 2011, 8:00am
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First habitable-zone super-Earth discovered in orbit around a Sun-like star
NASA's Kepler Mission has discovered the first super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a star similar to the Sun. A team of researchers, including Carnegie's Alan Boss, has discovered what could be a large, rocky planet with a surface temperature of about 72 degrees Fahrenheit, comparable to a comfortable spring day on Earth. This landmark finding will be published in the
NASA's Kepler Mission has discovered the first super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a star similar to the Sun. A team of researchers, including Carnegie's Alan Boss, has discovered what could be a large, rocky planet with a surface temperature of about 72 degrees Fahrenheit, comparable to a comfortable spring day on Earth. This landmark finding will be published in the
Astronomy
Source: Carnegie Institution
Posted on: Monday, Dec 05, 2011, 4:30pm
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Source: Carnegie Institution
Posted on: Monday, Dec 05, 2011, 4:30pm
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Record-breaking black holes discovered
An international team of astronomers has discovered two gigantic black holes with masses about 10 billion times the mass of our sun. These black holes have a mass more than 50 per cent greater than any other previously measured.
An international team of astronomers has discovered two gigantic black holes with masses about 10 billion times the mass of our sun. These black holes have a mass more than 50 per cent greater than any other previously measured.
Astronomy
Source: University of Toronto
Posted on: Monday, Dec 05, 2011, 2:30pm
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Source: University of Toronto
Posted on: Monday, Dec 05, 2011, 2:30pm
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VLT finds fastest rotating star
An international team of astronomers has been using ESO's Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile, to make a survey of the heaviest and brightest stars in the Tarantula Nebula, in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
An international team of astronomers has been using ESO's Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile, to make a survey of the heaviest and brightest stars in the Tarantula Nebula, in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
The Habitable Exoplanets Catalog, a new online database of habitable worlds
Scientists are now starting to identify potential habitable exoplanets after nearly twenty years of the detection of the first planets around other stars. Over 700 exoplanets have been detected and confirmed with thousands more still waiting further confirmation by missions such as NASA Kepler. Most of these are gas giants, similar to Jupiter and Neptune, but orbiting very dangerously close to the
Scientists are now starting to identify potential habitable exoplanets after nearly twenty years of the detection of the first planets around other stars. Over 700 exoplanets have been detected and confirmed with thousands more still waiting further confirmation by missions such as NASA Kepler. Most of these are gas giants, similar to Jupiter and Neptune, but orbiting very dangerously close to the
Astronomy
Source: University of Puerto Rico, Arecibo Campus
Posted on: Monday, Dec 05, 2011, 11:30am
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Source: University of Puerto Rico, Arecibo Campus
Posted on: Monday, Dec 05, 2011, 11:30am
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Team of astronomers finds 18 new planets
Discoveries of new planets just keep coming and coming. Take, for instance, the 18 recently found by a team of astronomers led by scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
Discoveries of new planets just keep coming and coming. Take, for instance, the 18 recently found by a team of astronomers led by scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
Astronomy
Source: California Institute of Technology
Posted on: Friday, Dec 02, 2011, 2:15pm
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Source: California Institute of Technology
Posted on: Friday, Dec 02, 2011, 2:15pm
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Voyager Probes Give Us ET's View
The spacecraft are so far away that they can now measure previously obscured radiation from the Milky Way.
The spacecraft are so far away that they can now measure previously obscured radiation from the Milky Way.
Astronomy
Source: Discovery Channel News
Posted on: Friday, Dec 02, 2011, 8:44am
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Source: Discovery Channel News
Posted on: Friday, Dec 02, 2011, 8:44am
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Strange new 'species' of ultra-red galaxy discovered
In the distant reaches of the universe, almost 13 billion light-years from Earth, a strange species of galaxy lay hidden. Cloaked in dust and dimmed by the intervening distance, even the Hubble Space Telescope couldn't spy it. It took the revealing power of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to uncover not one, but four remarkably red galaxies. And while astronomers can describe the members of this ne
In the distant reaches of the universe, almost 13 billion light-years from Earth, a strange species of galaxy lay hidden. Cloaked in dust and dimmed by the intervening distance, even the Hubble Space Telescope couldn't spy it. It took the revealing power of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to uncover not one, but four remarkably red galaxies. And while astronomers can describe the members of this ne
Astronomy
Source: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Posted on: Thursday, Dec 01, 2011, 4:45pm
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Source: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Posted on: Thursday, Dec 01, 2011, 4:45pm
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NASA's Swift finds a gamma-ray burst with a dual personality
A peculiar cosmic explosion first detected by NASA's Swift observatory on Christmas Day 2010 was caused either by a novel type of supernova located billions of light-years away or an unusual collision much closer to home, within our own galaxy. Papers describing both interpretations appear in the Dec. 1 issue of the journal Nature.
A peculiar cosmic explosion first detected by NASA's Swift observatory on Christmas Day 2010 was caused either by a novel type of supernova located billions of light-years away or an unusual collision much closer to home, within our own galaxy. Papers describing both interpretations appear in the Dec. 1 issue of the journal Nature.
Astronomy
Source: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Posted on: Thursday, Dec 01, 2011, 10:15am
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Source: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Posted on: Thursday, Dec 01, 2011, 10:15am
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In a star's final days, astronomers hunt 'signal of impending doom'
An otherwise nondescript binary star system in the Whirlpool Galaxy has brought astronomers tantalizingly close to their goal of observing a star just before it goes supernova.
An otherwise nondescript binary star system in the Whirlpool Galaxy has brought astronomers tantalizingly close to their goal of observing a star just before it goes supernova.
Astronomy
Source: Ohio State University
Posted on: Wednesday, Nov 30, 2011, 5:45pm
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Source: Ohio State University
Posted on: Wednesday, Nov 30, 2011, 5:45pm
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Astronomers look to neighboring galaxy for star formation insight
An international team of astronomers has mapped in detail the star-birthing regions of the nearest star-forming galaxy to our own, a step toward understanding the conditions surrounding star creation.
An international team of astronomers has mapped in detail the star-birthing regions of the nearest star-forming galaxy to our own, a step toward understanding the conditions surrounding star creation.
Astronomy
Source: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Posted on: Wednesday, Nov 30, 2011, 5:15pm
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Source: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Posted on: Wednesday, Nov 30, 2011, 5:15pm
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Video: Milky Way galaxy...a beast with 4 tails
The Milky Way galaxy continues to devour its small neighbouring dwarf galaxies and the evidence is spread out across the sky.
The Milky Way galaxy continues to devour its small neighbouring dwarf galaxies and the evidence is spread out across the sky.
Astronomy
Source: University of Cambridge
Posted on: Wednesday, Nov 30, 2011, 11:45am
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Source: University of Cambridge
Posted on: Wednesday, Nov 30, 2011, 11:45am
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In the heart of Cygnus, NASA's Fermi reveals a cosmic-ray cocoon
The constellation Cygnus, now visible in the western sky as twilight deepens after sunset, hosts one of our galaxy's richest-known stellar construction zones. Astronomers viewing the region at visible wavelengths see only hints of this spectacular activity thanks to a veil of nearby dust clouds forming the Great Rift, a dark lane that splits the Milky Way, a faint band of light marking our galaxy'
The constellation Cygnus, now visible in the western sky as twilight deepens after sunset, hosts one of our galaxy's richest-known stellar construction zones. Astronomers viewing the region at visible wavelengths see only hints of this spectacular activity thanks to a veil of nearby dust clouds forming the Great Rift, a dark lane that splits the Milky Way, a faint band of light marking our galaxy'
Astronomy
Source: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Posted on: Tuesday, Nov 29, 2011, 12:15pm
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Source: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Posted on: Tuesday, Nov 29, 2011, 12:15pm
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Gold-Flecked Stars Give Hint to Past Lives
Ancient stars inherited their gold from an earlier generation.
Ancient stars inherited their gold from an earlier generation.
Astronomy
Source: Discovery Channel News
Posted on: Tuesday, Nov 29, 2011, 7:58am
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Source: Discovery Channel News
Posted on: Tuesday, Nov 29, 2011, 7:58am
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Research group proposes first system for assessing the odds of life on other worlds
Within the next few years, the number of planets discovered in orbits around distant stars will likely reach several thousand or more. But even as our list of these newly discovered "exoplanets" grows ever-longer, the search for life beyond our solar system will likely focus much more narrowly on the relatively few of these new worlds which exhibit the most Earth-like of condition
Within the next few years, the number of planets discovered in orbits around distant stars will likely reach several thousand or more. But even as our list of these newly discovered "exoplanets" grows ever-longer, the search for life beyond our solar system will likely focus much more narrowly on the relatively few of these new worlds which exhibit the most Earth-like of condition
Astronomy
Source: Washington State University
Posted on: Monday, Nov 21, 2011, 4:30pm
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Source: Washington State University
Posted on: Monday, Nov 21, 2011, 4:30pm
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NASA's Chandra helps describe the birth of a black hole
New details about the birth of a famous black hole that took place millions of years ago have been uncovered, thanks to a team of scientists who used data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory as well as from radio, optical and other X-ray telescopes.
New details about the birth of a famous black hole that took place millions of years ago have been uncovered, thanks to a team of scientists who used data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory as well as from radio, optical and other X-ray telescopes.
Astronomy
Source: Chandra X-ray Center
Posted on: Friday, Nov 18, 2011, 2:45pm
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Source: Chandra X-ray Center
Posted on: Friday, Nov 18, 2011, 2:45pm
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Astronomers use advanced equipment aboard Hubble to reveal galaxies' most elusive secrets
New, high-precision equipment orbiting Earth aboard the Hubble Space Telescope is now sending such rich data back to astronomers, some feel they are crossing the final frontier toward understanding galaxy evolution, says Todd Tripp, leader of the team at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
New, high-precision equipment orbiting Earth aboard the Hubble Space Telescope is now sending such rich data back to astronomers, some feel they are crossing the final frontier toward understanding galaxy evolution, says Todd Tripp, leader of the team at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Astronomy
Source: University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Posted on: Friday, Nov 18, 2011, 1:00pm
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Source: University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Posted on: Friday, Nov 18, 2011, 1:00pm
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Scientists find evidence for 'great lake' on Europa and potential new habitat for life
In a significant finding in the search for life beyond Earth, scientists from The University of Texas at Austin and elsewhere have discovered what appears to be a body of liquid water the volume of the North American Great Lakes locked inside the icy shell of Jupiter's moon Europa.
In a significant finding in the search for life beyond Earth, scientists from The University of Texas at Austin and elsewhere have discovered what appears to be a body of liquid water the volume of the North American Great Lakes locked inside the icy shell of Jupiter's moon Europa.
Astronomy
Source: University of Texas at Austin
Posted on: Wednesday, Nov 16, 2011, 5:15pm
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Source: University of Texas at Austin
Posted on: Wednesday, Nov 16, 2011, 5:15pm
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The cool clouds of Carina -- APEX gives us a new view of star formation in the Carina Nebula
Using the LABOCA camera on the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope on the plateau of Chajnantor in the Chilean Andes, a team of astronomers imaged the region in submillimetre light. At this wavelength, most of the light seen is the weak heat glow from cosmic dust grains.
Using the LABOCA camera on the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope on the plateau of Chajnantor in the Chilean Andes, a team of astronomers imaged the region in submillimetre light. At this wavelength, most of the light seen is the weak heat glow from cosmic dust grains.
Ancient stars shed light on the prehistory of the Milky Way
Some of the oldest stars in the Milky Way – a kind of stellar fossils in the outer reaches of our galaxy, contain abnormally large amounts of heavy elements like gold, platinum and uranium. Where these large amounts came from has been a mystery for researchers, since they are usually seen in much later generations of stars.
Some of the oldest stars in the Milky Way – a kind of stellar fossils in the outer reaches of our galaxy, contain abnormally large amounts of heavy elements like gold, platinum and uranium. Where these large amounts came from has been a mystery for researchers, since they are usually seen in much later generations of stars.
Astronomy
Source: University of Copenhagen
Posted on: Wednesday, Nov 16, 2011, 11:30am
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Source: University of Copenhagen
Posted on: Wednesday, Nov 16, 2011, 11:30am
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Congress to Keep Funding NASA's Webb Telescope
Congress appears to have preserved funding for the James Webb Space Telescope. Last night lawmakers from both the House of Representatives and the Senate issued a final spending bill for NASA and several other federal agencies that "accommodates cost growth" for the $8.7 billion telescope
Congress appears to have preserved funding for the James Webb Space Telescope. Last night lawmakers from both the House of Representatives and the Senate issued a final spending bill for NASA and several other federal agencies that "accommodates cost growth" for the $8.7 billion telescope
Astronomy
Source: Science
Posted on: Wednesday, Nov 16, 2011, 5:47am
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Source: Science
Posted on: Wednesday, Nov 16, 2011, 5:47am
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Exploring Supernovae Leads To Physics Nobel Prize
Astrophysicist Saul Perlmutter is part of the team that was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery that the expansion of the universe is not slowing down but is accelerating. The results of that research suggest the universe is filled with dark energy.
Astrophysicist Saul Perlmutter is part of the team that was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery that the expansion of the universe is not slowing down but is accelerating. The results of that research suggest the universe is filled with dark energy.
New FASTSAT discoveries paint detailed view of region near Earth
Space around Earth is anything but a barren vacuum. The area seethes with electric and magnetic fields that change constantly. Charged particles flow through, moving energy around, creating electric currents, and producing the aurora. Many of these particles stream in from the solar wind, starting out 93 million miles away on the surface of the sun. But some areas are dominated by particles of a m
Space around Earth is anything but a barren vacuum. The area seethes with electric and magnetic fields that change constantly. Charged particles flow through, moving energy around, creating electric currents, and producing the aurora. Many of these particles stream in from the solar wind, starting out 93 million miles away on the surface of the sun. But some areas are dominated by particles of a m
Astronomy
Source: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Posted on: Monday, Nov 14, 2011, 2:15pm
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Source: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Posted on: Monday, Nov 14, 2011, 2:15pm
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