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![]() Washington DC (SPX) Nov 21, 2011 New observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are expanding astronomers' understanding of the ways in which galaxies continuously recycle immense volumes of hydrogen gas and heavy elements. This process allows galaxies to build successive generations of stars stretching over billions of years. This ongoing recycling keeps some galaxies from emptying their "fuel tanks" and stretches their star-forming epoch to over 10 billion years. This conclusion is based on a series of Hubble Space Tel ... read more |
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![]() VLBA observations key to 'complete description' of black hole For the first time, astronomers have produced a complete description of a black hole, a concentration of mass so dense that not even light can escape its powerful gravitational pull. Their precise m ... more | .. |
![]() Scientists Find Evidence for Subsurface 'Great Lake' on Europa In a finding of significance in the search for life beyond Earth, scientists have discovered what appears to be a body of liquid water the volume of the North American Great Lakes locked inside the ... more | .. |
![]() Cosmic particle accelerators get things going ESA's Cluster satellites have discovered that cosmic particle accelerators are more efficient than previously thought. The discovery has revealed the initial stages of acceleration for the first tim ... more | .. | ||
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![]() Cosmic voyager has a layover in St. Louis Last January, two amateur meteorite hunters dropped by Randy Korotev's office at Washington University in St. Louis to show him their latest purchase, a 17-kilogram pallasite meteorite found in 2006 ... more | .. |
![]() Exo planet count tops 700 Just two decades after the search for planets outside our solar system began, scientists have found more than 700, a French astronomer says. ... more | .. |
![]() Contested 'faster-than-light' experiment yields same results A fiercely contested experiment that appears to show the accepted speed limit of the Universe can be broken has yielded the same results in a re-run, European physicists said on Friday. But co ... more | .. |
![]() NASA's Chandra adds to black hole birth announcement 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 we ... more |
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![]() LRO Camera Team Releases High Resolution Global Topographic Map of Moon The science team that oversees the imaging system on board NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has released the highest resolution near-global topographic map of the moon ever created. T ... more | .. |
![]() NASA Probe Data Show Liquid Water Evidence on Europa Data from a NASA planetary mission have provided scientists evidence of what appears to be a body of liquid water, equal in volume to the North American Great Lakes, beneath the icy surface of Jupit ... more | .. |
![]() Cluster reveals Earth's bow shock is remarkably thin A new study based on data from ESA's Cluster mission has revealed that the bow shock formed by the solar wind as it encounters Earth's magnetic field is remarkably thin: it measures only 17 kilometr ... more | .. |
![]() Magnetic Fields Set the Stage for Star Birth Stars and their planets are born when giant clouds of interstellar gas and dust collapse. You've probably seen the resulting stellar nurseries in beautiful astronomical images: Colorful nebulae, lit ... more |
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![]() 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 led by Thomas Preibisch (Universitats-Sternwart ... more | .. |
![]() In an enzyme critical for life, X-ray emission cracks mystery atom Like a shadowy character just hidden from view, a mystery atom in the middle of a complex enzyme called nitrogenase had long hindered scientists' ability to study the enzyme fully. But now an ... more | .. |
![]() Pristine Gas From The Big Bang Two clumps of primordial gas from the dawn of time have been detected in deep space by astronomers using the 10-meter telescopes at the W. M. Keck Observatory. The gas clouds are too diffuse t ... more | .. |
![]() NASA's Hubble Observes Young Dwarf Galaxies Bursting With Stars Using its near-infrared vision to peer 9 billion years back in time, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered an extraordinary population of young dwarf galaxies brimming with star formation. ... more |
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![]() Mystery of the Lunar Ionosphere How can a world without air have an ionosphere? Somehow the Moon has done it. Lunar researchers have been struggling with the mystery for years, and they may have finally found a solution. But first ... more | .. |
![]() Chinese, Chilean scientists hold seminar on astrophysics, astronomy A Chinese scientific delegation held a joint seminar on astrophysics and astronomy on Monday here with the Chilean National Commission of Scientific and Technological Investigation (CONICYT). ... more | .. |
![]() 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. Wh ... more | .. |
![]() LISA Pathfinder takes major step in hunt for gravity waves Sensors destined for ESA's LISA Pathfinder mission in 2014 have far exceeded expectations, paving the way for a mission to detect one of the most elusive forces permeating through space - gravity wa ... more |
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![]() NASA Extends Messenger Mission NASA has announced that it will extend the Messenger mission for an additional year of orbital operations at Mercury beyond the planned end of the primary mission on March 17, 2012. The Messenger pr ... more | .. |
![]() Why the solar wind is rhombic-shaped Why the temperatures in the solar wind are almost the same in certain directions, and why different energy densities are practically identical, was until now not clear. With a new approach to ... more | .. |
![]() Newly found dwarf galaxies could help reveal the nature of dark matter In work that could help advance astronomers' understanding of dark matter, University of Michigan researchers have discovered two additional dwarf galaxies that appear to be satellites of Andromeda, ... more | .. |
![]() 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 |
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![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() Was the Real Discovery of the Expanding Universe Lost in Translation? 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 him ... more |
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![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() Ballmer says "Windows Era" everlasting Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer proclaimed an everlasting "Windows Era" as the software giant's board easily won re-election at an annual meeting of shareholders on Tuesday. ... more |
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