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![]() Baltimore MD (SPX) Nov 15, 2011 The greatest astronomical discovery of the 20th century may have been credited to the wrong person. But it turns out to have been nobody's fault except for that of the actual original discoverer himself. Writing in the November 10th issue of the journal Nature, astrophysicist Mario Livio of the Space Telescope Science Institute has put to bed a growing conspiracy theory about who was fairly credited for discovering the expanding universe. For nearly a century, American astronomer Edwin P. Hu ... read more |
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![]() 2012: Killer Solar Flares Are a Physical Impossibility Given a legitimate need to protect Earth from the most intense forms of space weather - great bursts of electromagnetic energy and particles that can sometimes stream from the sun - some people worr ... more | .. |
![]() 30 Doradus: The Growing Tarantula Within The star-forming region, 30 Doradus, is one of the largest located close to the Milky Way and is found in the neighboring galaxy Large Magellanic Cloud. About 2,400 massive stars in the center ... more | .. |
![]() Lutetia: a Rare Survivor from the Birth of the Earth New observations indicate that the asteroid Lutetia is a leftover fragment of the same original material that formed the Earth, Venus and Mercury. Astronomers have combined data from ESA's Rosetta s ... more | .. | ||
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![]() 2 Types of Neutron Stars Point to 2 Types of Supernovae Astronomers at the universities of Southampton and Oxford have found evidence that neutron stars, which are produced when massive stars explode as supernovae, actually come in two distinct varieties ... more | .. |
![]() Astronomers find clouds of primordial gas from the early universe For the first time, astronomers have found pristine clouds of the primordial gas that formed in the first few minutes after the Big Bang. The composition of the gas matches theoretical predictions, ... more | .. |
![]() New Study Shows Very First Stars Not Monstrous The very first stars in our universe were not the behemoths scientists had once thought, according to new simulations performed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Astronomer ... more | .. |
![]() Voyager 2 Completes Switch to Backup Thruster Set NASA's Voyager 2 has successfully switched to the backup set of thrusters that controls the roll of the spacecraft. Deep Space Network personnel sent commands to the spacecraft to make the cha ... more |
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![]() Russia Mars probe may fall to Earth in January: official A Russian probe that was to visit a moon of Mars but is stuck in orbit around the Earth could burn up in the Earth's atmosphere in January, the head of the Russian space agency said Monday. ... more | .. |
![]() Giant planet ejected from the solar system Just as an expert chess player sacrifices a piece to protect the queen, the solar system may have given up a giant planet and spared the Earth, according to an article recently published in The Astr ... more | .. |
![]() NASA Releases Radar Movie of Asteroid 2005 YU55 Scientists working with the 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., have generated a short movie clip of asteroid 2005 YU55. The images were generated from da ... more | .. |
![]() NIST physicists chip away at mystery of antimatter imbalance Why there is stuff in the universe-more properly, why there is an imbalance between matter and antimatter-is one of the long-standing mysteries of cosmology. A team of researchers working at the Nat ... more |
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![]() Potential New NASA Mission Would Reveal the Hearts of Undead Stars Neutron stars have been called the zombies of the cosmos, shining on even though they're technically dead, and occasionally feeding on a neighboring star if it gets too close. They are born wh ... more | .. |
![]() Discovery of 2 types of neutron stars points to 2 different classes of supernovae Astronomers at the universities of Southampton and Oxford have found evidence that neutron stars, which are produced when massive stars explode as supernovae, actually come in two distinct varieties ... more | .. |
![]() Ancient Lunar Dynamo May Explain Magnetized Moon Rocks The presence of magnetized rocks on the surface of the Moon, which has no global magnetic field, has been a mystery since the days of the Apollo program. Now a team of scientists has proposed a nove ... more | .. |
![]() NASA Releases Radar Movie of Asteroid 2005 YU55 Scientists working with the 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., have generated a short movie clip of asteroid 2005 YU55. The images were generated from da ... more |
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![]() Hubble directly observes the disc around a black hole A team of scientists has used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to observe a quasar accretion disc - a brightly glowing disc of matter that is slowly being sucked into its galaxy's central black h ... more | .. |
![]() Swift Observatory Catches Asteroid Flyby As asteroid 2005 YU55 swept past Earth in the early morning hours of Wednesday, Nov. 9, telescopes aboard NASA's Swift satellite joined professional and amateur astronomers around the globe in monit ... more | .. |
![]() Giant star explosion casts light on distant galaxies An international team of astronomers including members from the Niels Bohr Institute have used a short but intense light from a distant gamma-ray burst to investigate the composition of matter in ve ... more | .. |
![]() Oldest Recorded Supernova This image combines data from four different space telescopes to create a multi-wavelength view of all that remains of the oldest documented example of a supernova, called RCW 86. The Chinese witnes ... more |
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![]() The Methane Habitable Zone The search for life is largely limited to the search for water - we look for exoplanets at the correct distance from their stars for liquid water to splash and flow freely on their surfaces, we 'fol ... more | .. |
![]() Ancient Lunar Dynamo May Explain Magnetized Moon Rocks The presence of magnetized rocks on the surface of the Moon, which has no global magnetic field, has been a mystery since the days of the Apollo program. Now a team of scientists has proposed a nove ... more | .. |
![]() Whitehouse Says No Contact With ET The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race. In addition, there is no cred ... more | .. |
![]() Stellar Extremophiles Back in the 1970s, biologists were amazed to discover a form of life they never expected. Tiny microorganisms with ancient DNA were living in the hot springs of Yellowstone National Park. Instead of ... more |
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![]() Studying Biology's Dark Matter Astrobiologists have long been interested in microorganisms that can survive in the harshest environments that Earth has to offer, from deep sea vents to geothermal hot springs. Unfortunately, these ... more | .. |
![]() Large asteroid makes rare fly-by of Earth A big asteroid made its closest fly-by of Earth in 200 years on Tuesday, but there was never a chance of a crash landing as it zipped past our planet, NASA said. ... more | .. |
![]() Astronomy: Hubble 'whodunnit' is resolved at last Accusations that a giant of astronomy, Edwin Hubble, quashed a Belgian cleric who beat him to making one of the greatest discoveries of modern times are unfounded, Nature said on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
![]() Giant solar flare detected A giant sunspot that erupted last week has been ranked as one of the largest solar flares seen in years, U.S. scientists said. ... more |
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![]() White House: No contact yet from E.T. In a galaxy, far, far away, there is a mathematical chance that alien life exists - but the White House says it has no evidence that extraterrestrials have ever tried to contact humans. ... more | .. |
![]() NASA Captures New Images Of Large Asteroid Passing Earth NASA's Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, Calif., has captured new radar images of asteroid 2005 YU55 passing close to Earth. The asteroid safely will fly past our planet slightly closer ... more | .. |
![]() Nonterrestrial artifacts hard to pin down Two Pioneer probes left our solar system carrying plaques about humankind, and two Voyager probes will soon join them to gather information about places far out in our galaxy. We can and will send m ... more | .. |
![]() Astrobiologists Discover Sweet Spots For Formation of Complex Organic Molecules Scientists within the New York Center for Astrobiology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have compiled years of research to help locate areas in outer space that have extreme potential for complex ... more |
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