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Why Won't the Supernova ExplodeHuntsville AL (SPX) Jan 08, 2010 A massive old star is about to die a spectacular death. As its nuclear fuel runs out, it begins to collapse under its own tremendous weight. The crushing pressure inside the star skyrockets, triggering new nuclear reactions, setting the stage for a terrifying blast. And then... nothing happens. At least that's what supercomputers have been telling astrophysicists for decades. Many of the b ... read more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Jan 08, 2010An international team of astronomers has identified two new tidal streams in the Andromeda galaxy, the remnants of dwarf galaxies consumed by our large galactic neighbor. Analysis of the stars in Andromeda's tidal streams and other components of its extended halo is yielding new insights into the processes involved in the formation and evolution of massive galaxies, said Puragra Guhathakur ... more 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 07, 2010Using the Gemini South telescope in Chile, astronomers at UCLA have found dusty evidence for the formation of young, rocky planets around a star some 500 light-years distant. But these potential extrasolar worlds are alien in an even more intriguing way: In the aftermath of collisions between planetary embryos around this star the researchers discovered that the dusty debris bears no resemblance to the planetary building blocks of our own Solar System. "Until now, warm dust found around other stars has been very similar in composition to asteroidal or cometary material in our Solar System," ... more 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 07, 2010The halo of dark matter surrounding our Milky Way Galaxy is shaped something like a gigantic, flattened cosmic beachball, astronomers has announced. The report is being presented to the meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington, DC, by Dr. David R. Law (Hubble Fellow at UCLA) and co-authors Drs. Steven Majewski (University of Virginia) and Kathryn Johnston (Columbia University). ... more |
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Palo Alto, CA (SPX) Jan 07, 2010Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space and Communications (Nasdaq:LORL) and the leading provider of commercial satellites, has announced that it has been selected to provide a propulsion system to NASA Ames Research Center for the Lunar Atmosphere Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft. The contract demonstrates NASA's success in leveraging the capability of commerci ... more 
Garching, Germany (SPX) Jan 07, 2010A team of astronomers led by Niv Drory of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany), Kevin Bundy (University of California, Berkeley), and Alexie Leauthaud (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics, Berkeley) used data from the COSMOS project to explore the connections between the growth of dark matter halos and the growth of ... more 
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 07, 2010Most searches for planets around other stars, also known as exoplanets, focus on Sun-like stars. Those searches have proven successful, turning up more than 400 alien worlds. However, Sun-like stars aren't the only potential homes for planets. New research by astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) confirms ... more |
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