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![]() Paris, France (ESA) Jul 25, 2011 The Andromeda Galaxy is revealed in unprecedented detail in four archive observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. They show stars and structure in the galaxy's disc, the halo of stars that surrounds it, and a stream of stars left by a companion galaxy as it was torn apart and pulled in by the galaxy's gravitational forces. These four observations made by Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys give a close up view of the Andromeda Galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31). Observations of ... read more |
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![]() Caltech-Led Astronomers Discover the Largest and Most Distant Reservoir of Water Yet Water really is everywhere. Two teams of astronomers, each led by scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), have discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever det ... more | .. |
![]() Moon Express Announces Dr. Alan Stern as Chief Scientist Moon Express, a Google Lunar X PRIZE contender, has revealed that internationally recognized planetary scientist Dr. Alan Stern will be the Chief Scientist and Mission Architect for the company. ... more | .. |
![]() Neighbor Galaxy Caught Stealing Stars Astronomers from the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) and their collaborators have found that hundreds of the stars found in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) were stolen from another ne ... more | .. | ||
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![]() Elliptical galaxies much younger than previously thought The standard model for elliptical galaxies formation is challenged by a new result uncovered by an international team of astronomers from the Atlas3D collaboration. Team members from CNRS, CEA ... more | .. |
![]() Fermilab discovers new particle Particle physicists at Fermilab outside Chicago say they've found a new particle, a heavy relative of the neutron, and dubbed it the neutral Xi-sub-b. ... more | .. |
![]() Distant planet aurorae modeled Earth's aurorae, or Northern and Southern Lights, are spectacular, but on a distant "hot Jupiter" they could be 1,000 times brighter, U.S. astronomers say. ... more | .. |
![]() Elliptical galaxies much younger than previously thought The standard model for elliptical galaxies formation is challenged by a new result uncovered by an international team of astronomers from the Atlas3D collaboration. Team members from CNRS, CEA ... more |
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![]() Exoplanet Aurora: An Out-of-this-World Sight Earth's aurorae, or Northern and Southern Lights, provide a dazzling light show to people living in the polar regions. Shimmering curtains of green and red undulate across the sky like a living thin ... more | .. |
![]() Dawn Spacecraft Beams Back New Photo Dawn took this image during its current orbit of Vesta, traveling from the day side to the night side. The large structure near the south pole that showed up so prominently in previous images ... more | .. |
![]() Off to a Rocky Start Today was the first day of "sub ops" in the Pavilion Lake Research Project's (PLRP's) exploration of Kelly Lake. For the past couple of days, engineers and technicians worked to put in place the bar ... more | .. |
![]() Northrop Grumman Honored by IEEE for Development of Lunar Module On the 42nd anniversary of Apollo 11 Commander Neil A. Armstrong's first steps on the moon's surface, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world's largest technical professi ... more |
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![]() Movement of black holes powers the universe's brightest lights Whether on their own or orbiting as a pair, black holes don't typically sit still. Not only do they spin, they can also move laterally across their host galaxy. And according to astrophysicists at B ... more | .. |
![]() A cosmic superbubble The Large Magellanic Cloud is a small neighbouring galaxy to the Milky Way. It contains many regions where clouds of gas and dust are forming new stars. One such region, surrounding the star cluster ... more | .. |
![]() Dawn spacecraft enters orbit around Vesta After almost four years traveling through space, the NASA Dawn spacecraft reached its destination and entered orbit around the asteroid Vesta on 16 July 2011. On board Dawn, among other instruments, ... more | .. |
![]() NASA's Hubble Discovers Another Moon Around Pluto Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered a fourth moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. The tiny, new satellite - temporarily designated P4 - was uncovered in a Hubble survey sear ... more |
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![]() Two NASA Probes Tackle New Mission: Studying The Moon Two small NASA probes that had been used to study space weather now are orbiting the moon to study its interior and surface composition. The spacecraft, called Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence ... more | .. |
![]() Twisted Tale of our Galaxy's Ring New observations from the Herschel Space Observatory show a bizarre, twisted ring of dense gas at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Only a few portions of the ring, which stretches across more tha ... more | .. |
![]() Juno Processing Continues in Florida Processing on NASA's Juno spacecraft continues with the spacecraft being inserted into its payload fairing. The payload fairing acts as a protective cocoon that will shield Juno from the elements du ... more | .. |
![]() Dawn arrives after four year journey After covering 2.8 billion kilometers (1.7 billion miles) on its own, after traveling for nearly four years through the lonely emptiness of interplanetary space, after being bound by the gravity onl ... more |
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![]() Dawn Spacecraft Returns Close-Up Image of Asteroid Vesta NASA's Dawn spacecraft has returned the first close-up image after beginning its orbit around the giant asteroid Vesta. On Friday, July 15, Dawn became the first probe to enter orbit around an objec ... more | .. |
![]() Earnings-outlook spry at 100-year-old IBM Technology stalwart IBM started its second-century in business with a rise in quarterly earnings and an improved outlook for the year. ... more | .. |
![]() Dawn Spacecraft Enters Orbit Around Asteroid Vesta NASA's Dawn spacecraft on Saturday became the first probe ever to enter orbit around an object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Dawn will study the asteroid, named Vesta, fo ... more | .. |
![]() When minor planets Ceres and Vesta rock the Earth into chaos Astronomy and Astrophysics is publishing a new study of the orbital evolution of minor planets Ceres and Vesta, a few days before the flyby of Vesta by the Dawn spacecraft. A team of astronomers fou ... more |
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![]() NASA Spacecraft to Enter Asteroid's Orbit on July 15 On July 15, NASA's Dawn spacecraft will begin a prolonged encounter with the asteroid Vesta, making the mission the first to enter orbit around a main-belt asteroid. The main asteroid belt lie ... more | .. |
![]() Evolved Stars Locked in Fatalistic Dance White dwarfs are the burned-out cores of stars like our Sun. Astronomers have discovered a pair of white dwarfs spiraling into one another at breakneck speeds. Today, these white dwarfs are so near ... more | .. |
![]() Comet Hartley 2 Leaves a Bumpy Trail New findings from NEOWISE, the asteroid- and comet-hunting portion of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission, show that comet Hartley 2 leaves a pebbly trail as it laps the sun, dotted w ... more | .. |
![]() New Ways to Measure Magnetism Around the Sun Those who study the sun face an unavoidable hurdle in their research - their observations must be done from afar. Relying on images and data collected from 90 million miles away, however, makes it t ... more |
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![]() Mapping Microbialites The Pavilion Lake Research Project (PLRP) is moving its base of operations. For the past several years, PLRP has used DeepWorker submersible vehicles to explore the unusual carbonate structures, kno ... more | .. |
![]() Galaxy sized twist in time pulls violating particles back into line A University of Warwick physicist has produced a galaxy sized solution which explains one of the outstanding puzzles of particle physics, while leaving the door open to the related conundrum of why ... more | .. |
![]() UA Teams Selected for Zero Gravity Flights Two undergraduate student teams from the University of Arizona will conduct experiments in zero gravity this week as part of NASA's Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program. The teams ar ... more | .. |
![]() What Activates a Supermassive Black Hole? A new study combining data from ESO's Very Large Telescope and ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray space observatory has turned up a surprise. Most of the huge black holes in the centres of galaxies in the past ... more |
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