 |  Mars May Be Cozy Place for Hardy Microbes
A class of especially hardy microbes that live in some of the harshest Earthly environments could flourish on cold Mars and other chilly planets, according to a research team of astronomers and microbiologists.
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10-20-2006
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| | The Antennae Galaxies
This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of galaxies. During the course of the collision, billions of stars will be formed. The brightest and most compact of these star birth regions are called super star clusters. ... |
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10-18-2006
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| | Mars Express and the story of water on Mars
For a number of decades now, astronomers have wondered about water on Mars. Thanks to ESA's Mars Express, much of the speculation has been replaced with facts. Launched on 2 June 2003, Mars Express has changed the way we think of Mars. ... |
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10-17-2006
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| | NASA Says: 'Build It and Infrared Surprises Will Come'
Engineers are rolling up their sleeves in preparation for building a telescope that will find the nearest star-like objects and the brightest galaxies. NASA has approved the start of construction on a new mission called the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, which will scan the entire sky... |
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10-14-2006
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| | NASA's Spitzer Sees Day and Night on Exotic World
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has made the first measurements of the day and night temperatures of a planet outside our solar system. The infrared observatory revealed that the Jupiter-like gas giant planet circling very close to its sun is always as hot as fire on one side, and potentially... |
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10-14-2006
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| | Hubble Captures Galaxy in the Making
Images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have provided a dramatic glimpse of a large and massive galaxy under assembly by the merging of smaller, lighter galaxies.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/1/1/0/1/web_print_721731_thumb.jpgAstrophysicists believe that this is the way... |
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10-12-2006
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| | Hubble Zeroes in on Nearest Exoplanet
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, in collaboration with ground-based observatories, has provided definitive evidence for the existence of the nearest extrasolar planet to our solar system.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/5/large_web_620764_thumb.jpgThe Jupiter-sized world orbits... |
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| | Chandra Reviews Black Hole Musical: Epic But Off-Key
A gigantic sonic boom generated by a supermassive black hole has been found with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, along with evidence for a cacophony of deep sound.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/m87_thumb.jpgThis discovery was made by using data from the longest... |
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10-08-2006
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| | Astronomers get first look inside quasars
For the first time, astronomers have looked inside quasars -- the brightest objects in the universe -- and have seen evidence of black holes.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/5/Quasar_Xray1_thumb.jpgThe study lends further confirmation to what scientists have long suspected --... |
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10-07-2006
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| | Hubble Finds Extrasolar Planets Far Across Galaxy
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered 16 extrasolar planet candidates orbiting a variety of distant stars in the central region of our Milky Way galaxy.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/1/1/0/1/web_print_914860_thumb.jpgThe planet bonanza was uncovered during a Hubble... |
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10-04-2006
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| | Astronomers Gain Important Insight on How Massive Stars Form
Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope have discovered key evidence that may help them figure out how very massive stars can form.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/star_flow_thumb.jpg"We think we know how stars like the Sun... |
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10-03-2006
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| | Stellar birth control in the early universe
An international team of astronomers based at Yale and Leiden University in The Netherlands found that "old stars" dominated many large galaxies in the early universe, raising the new question of why these galaxies progressed into "adulthood" so early in the life of the... |
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10-02-2006
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| | NASA's New Mars Camera Gives Dramatic View of Planet
Mars is ready for its close-up. The highest-resolution camera ever to orbit Mars is returning low-altitude images to Earth from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/pia08789_thumb.jpgRocks and surface features as small as armchairs are revealed in... |
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09-30-2006
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| | Hubble Discovers Dark Cloud in the Atmosphere of Uranus
Just as we near the end of the hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean, winds whirl and clouds churn 2 billion miles away in the atmosphere of Uranus, forming a dark vortex large enough to engulf two-thirds of the United States. ... |
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09-28-2006
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| | NASA's Hubble Finds Hundreds of Young Galaxies in Early Universe
Astronomers analyzing two of the deepest views of the cosmos made with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered a gold mine of galaxies, more than 500 that existed less than a billion years after the Big Bang. These galaxies thrived when the cosmos was less than 7 percent of its present... |
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09-24-2006
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| | IAU names dwarf planet Eris
The dwarf planet formerly known as 2003 UB 313 received the official designation (136199) Eris, or Eris in short, from the International Astronomical Union on 13 September 2006. The name was accepted almost unanimously by the Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN) and... |
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09-18-2006
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| | Tracing the Evolution of the First Galaxies in the Universe
A systematic search for the first bright galaxies to form in the early universe has revealed a dramatic jump in the number of such galaxies around 13 billion years ago.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/1/1/0/1/web_931910_thumb.jpgThese observations of the earliest stages in the... |
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09-13-2006
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| | A "Genetic Study" of the Galaxy
Looking in detail at the composition of stars with ESO's VLT, astronomers are providing a fresh look at the history of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. They reveal that the central part of our Galaxy formed not only very quickly but also independently of the rest. ... |
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09-12-2006
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09-11-2006
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| | Dark matter 'proof' called into doubt
When Douglas Clowe of the University of Arizona in Tucson announced on 21 August that his team had "direct proof of dark matter's existence", it seemed the issue had been settled. Now proponents of the so-called modified theories of gravity, who explain the motion of stars and galaxies... |
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09-08-2006
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