 |  Elusive Planet Reshapes a Ring Around Neighboring Star
NASA Hubble Space Telescope's most detailed visible-light image ever taken of a narrow, dusty ring around the nearby star Fomalhaut (HD 216956), offers the strongest evidence yet that an unruly and unseen planet may be gravitationally tugging on the ring. ...  |
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06-28-2005
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| | SMA Confirms Proto-Planetary Systems are Common in the Galaxy
Meeting this week in Cambridge, Mass., astronomers using the Submillimeter Array (SMA) on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, confirmed, for the first time, that many of the objects termed "proplyds" found in the Orion Nebula do have sufficient material to form new planetary systems like our own. ... |
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06-14-2005
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| | Astronomers discover most Earth-like extrasolar planet yet
The world's preeminent planet hunters have discovered the most Earth-like extrasolar planet yet: a possibly rocky world about 7.5 times as massive as the Earth.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/planets_thumb.jpgThis hot "super-Earth," just 15 light years away, travels in a... |
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06-13-2005
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06-13-2005
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| | Astronomers, amateur skywatchers find new planet 15,000 light years away
An international collaboration featuring Ohio State University astronomers has detected a planet in a solar system that, at roughly 15,000 light years from Earth, is one of the most distant ever discovered.
In a time when technology is starting to make such finds almost commonplace, this... |
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06-12-2005
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06-12-2005
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| | Cassiopeia A Dead But Not Quiet
An enormous light echo etched in the sky by a fitful dead star was spotted by the infrared eyes of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/cassiopeia_sm_thumb.jpgThe surprising finding indicates Cassiopeia A, the remnant of a star that died in a... |
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06-09-2005
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06-07-2005
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| | Ancient floods on Mars: where Iani Chaos opens into Ares Vallis
This images, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) aboard ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, show a large depression called Iani Chaos and the upper reaches of a large outflow channel called Ares Vallis.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/Iani_Chaos_thumb.jpgImage strips... |
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06-02-2005
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| | Spitzer Captures Fruits of Massive Stars' Labors
The saga of how a few monstrous stars spawned a diverse community of additional stars is told in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/carina_thumb.jpgThe striking picture reveals an eclectic mix of embryonic stars living in the... |
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06-01-2005
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05-30-2005
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| | Naked carbon/oxygen stars linked to gamma-ray bursts
Observations by two of the world's largest telescopes provide strong evidence that a peculiar type of exploding star may be the origin of elusive gamma-ray bursts that have puzzled scientists for more than 30 years.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/grb_thumb.jpgA team of... |
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05-30-2005
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05-11-2005
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| | Hats off to Space Day
NASA salutes Space Day, observed this year on May 5, with a new dramatic image of the Sombrero galaxy. Space Day, held the first Thursday each May, is designed to inspire the next generation of explorers.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/ssc2005-11a1_200_thumb.jpgThe galaxy,... |
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05-05-2005
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| | X-rays Signal Presence of Elusive Intermediate-Mass Black Hole
For the first time an X-ray image of a pair of interacting stars has been made by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/mira_comp_thumb.jpgThe ability to distinguish between the interacting stars – one a highly evolved giant star and the other likely... |
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04-28-2005
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| | Epimetheus: Up-Close and Colorful
With this false-color view, Cassini presents the closest look yet at Saturn's small moon Epimetheus (epp-ee-MEE-thee-uss).
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/PIA06226_thumb.jpgThe color of Epimetheus in this view appears to vary in a non-uniform way across the different facets of... |
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04-27-2005
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| | Sky survey detects cosmic magnification
An international team of scientists associated with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), including an astronomer at Penn State, will report on April 26 the detection of the long-sought "Cosmic Magnification," which is predicted by Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. ... |
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04-26-2005
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| | Organic Materials Spotted High Above Titan's Surface
During its closest flyby of Saturn's moon Titan on April 16, the Cassini spacecraft came within 1,027 kilometers (638 miles) of the moon's surface and found that the outer layer of the thick, hazy atmosphere is brimming with complex hydrocarbons. ... |
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04-26-2005
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| | Hubble Celebrates 15th Anniversary with Spectacular New Images
When NASA's Hubble Space Telescope was launched in 1990, astronomers anticipated great discoveries, ranging from finding black holes to looking back billions of years toward the beginning of time. Now, 15 years later, the versatile telescope continues to deliver exciting new science,... |
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04-25-2005
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| | Signs Of Alien Asteroid Belt
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has spotted what may be the dusty spray of asteroids banging together in a belt that orbits a star like our Sun. The discovery offers astronomers a rare glimpse at a distant star system that resembles our home, and may represent a significant step toward learning... |
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04-20-2005
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