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The 'supernova of a generation' shows its stuffPasadena CA (SPX) Dec 22, 2011 It was the brightest and closest stellar explosion seen from Earth in 25 years, dazzling professional and backyard astronomers alike. Now, thanks to this rare discovery-which some have called the "supernova of a generation"-astronomers have the most detailed picture yet of how this kind of explosion happens. Known as a Type Ia supernova, this type of blast is an essential tool that allows scientists to measure the expansion of the universe and understand the very nature of the cosmos. "What ... read more |
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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 a ... more | .. |
  Dawn Obtains First Low Altitude Images of Vesta NASA's Dawn spacecraft has sent back the first images of the giant asteroid Vesta from its low-altitude mapping orbit. The images, obtained by the framing camera, show the stippled and lumpy s ... more | .. |
 New Findings About the Supernova of a Generation An international team of scientists, including astrophysicists from UC Santa Barbara, has discovered that a supernova that exploded in August - dubbed the supernova of a generation - was a "white dw ... more | .. |
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 Strangely slow pulsar discovered nestled in young supernova remnant Astronomers have discovered a very slowly rotating X-ray pulsar still embedded in the remnant of the supernova that created it. This unusual object was detected on the outskirts of the Small Magella ... more | .. |
  Exo planets that survived red giant stage found Astronomers have discovered two Earth-sized planets that survived getting caught in the red-giant expansion of their host star. Steve Kawaler, an Iowa State University professor of physics and astro ... more | .. |
 NASA Discovers First Earth-Size Planets Beyond Our Solar System NASA's Kepler mission has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system. The planets, called Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f, are too close to their star to be ... more | .. |
 Picking large pieces of supernova grit out of meteorites Ernst K. Zinner, PhD, research professor of physics and of earth and planetary sciences, both in Arts and Sciences, has received a three-year, $1,380,000 grant from the National Aeronautics and Spac ... more |
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 NASA Discovers First Earth-size Planets Beyond Our Solar System NASA's Kepler mission has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system. The planets, called Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f, are too close to their star to be ... more | .. |
 First Earth-sized planets found Astronomers using NASA's Kepler mission have detected two Earth-sized planets orbiting a distant star. This discovery marks a milestone in the hunt for alien worlds, since it brings scientists one s ... more | .. |
  A Look below the Surface At Laguna Negra A team of scientists has traveled to remote Laguna Negra in the central Andes of Chile to test technologies that could one day be used to explore the lakes of Titan. The Planetary Lake Lander (PLL) ... more | .. |
 Earth-sized worlds spotted in new advance for exoplanets Astronomers on Tuesday said that for the first time they had spotted two Earth-sized worlds orbiting a Sun-like star, in another big advance in the search for so-called exoplanets. ... more |
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  A 50-year quest to isolate the thermoelectric effect is now over: Magnon drag unveiled As electrons move past atoms in a solid, their charge distorts the nearby lattice and can create a wave. Reciprocally, a wave in the lattice affects the electrons motion, in analogy to a wave in the ... more | .. |
 RXTE Detects Heartbeat of Smallest Black Hole Candidate An international team of astronomers has identified a candidate for the smallest-known black hole using data from NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE). The evidence comes from a specific type o ... more | .. |
 New Insight into the centre of the Milky Way It sounds like the start of a bad joke: do you know about the bar in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy? Astronomers first recognized almost 80 years ago that the Milky Way Galaxy, around which the ... more | .. |
 Supernova Caught in the Act On August 24, 2011, astronomers discovered a nearby Type Ia supernova - the earliest detection ever - with help from a machine-based real-time classification system. The early detection and close pr ... more |
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ICJ to deliver landmark climate ruling
'No life without water': settler attacks threaten West Bank communities
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 Ultra-compact dwarf galaxies are bright star clusters Astronomy and Astrophysics is publishing the results of a detailed investigation of how many 'ultra-compact dwarf galaxies' (UCDs) can be found in nearby galaxy clusters. UCDs were recognized as a p ... more | .. |
 Seeking a Pot of Geological Gold Mass extinctions are a relatively common theme in the history and evolution of life on Earth,the most famous of which is the extinction of the dinosaurs. A plethora of research has been conducted to ... more | .. |
 First low-mass star detected in globular cluster Even the most powerful high-tech telescopes are barely able to record remote low-mass and thus faint stars. Together with researchers from Poland and Chile, an astrophysicist from the University of ... more | .. |
  Can science predict a hit song Most people remember listening to the official UK top 40 singles chart and watching the countdown on Top of the Pops, but can science work out which songs are more likely to 'make it' in the chart? ... more |
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 Quantum cats are hard to see Are there parallel universes? And how will we know? This is one of many fascinations people hold about quantum physics. Researchers from the universities of Calgary and Waterloo in Canada and the Un ... more | .. |
 Tool enables scientists to uncover patterns in vast data sets With support from the National Science Foundation, researchers from the Broad Institute and Harvard University recently developed a tool that can uncover patterns in large data sets in a way that no ... more | .. |
 Hubble Images Help Pin Down ID of Supernova Companion In August, as amateurs and professionals alike turned their telescopes on the nearest Type Ia supernova discovered in decades, University of California, Berkeley, research astronomer Weidong Li focu ... more | .. |
 Comet Lovejoy Plunges into the Sun and Survives This morning, an armada of spacecraft witnessed something that many experts thought impossible. Comet Lovejoy flew through the hot atmosphere of the sun and emerged intact. "It's absolutely as ... more |
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US environment agency axes nearly a quarter of workforce
Japan sees bright future for ultra-thin, flexible solar panels
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 Fear Not A Supernova 2012 Given the incredible amounts of energy in a supernova explosion - as much as the Sun creates during its entire lifetime - another erroneous doomsday theory is that such an explosion could happen in ... more | .. |
 A black hole's dinner is fast approaching During a 20-year programme using ESO telescopes to monitor the movement of stars around the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy, a team of astronomers led by Reinhard Genzel at the M ... more | .. |
 Using many instruments to track a comet In 16 years of data observations, the Solar Heliophysics Observatory (SOHO) - a joint European Space Agency and NASA mission - made an unexpected claim for fame: the sighting of new comets at an ala ... more | .. |
 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, f ... more |
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 Disaster Looms for Gas Cloud Falling into Black Hole The normally quiet neighborhood around the massive black hole at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy is being invaded by a gas cloud that is destined in just a few years to be ripped, shredded and la ... more | .. |
 NASA at work on 'spearfishing' for comets The US space agency is developing a high-tech harpoon that could one day pierce a comet and grab samples for scientists on Earth to study for hints about how the universe formed. ... more | .. |
Experiment to Reveal How Key Elements Were Forged Ernst K. Zinner, PhD, research professor of physics and Earth and planetary sciences in Arts and Sciences has received a three-year, $1,380,000 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administ ... more | .. |
  Portraits of Saturn Moons Captured by Cassini NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully completed its closest-ever pass over Saturn's moon Dione on Monday, Dec. 12, slaloming its way through the Saturn system on its way to tomorrow's close flyby o ... more |
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