 |  Radiation flashes may help crack cosmic mystery
Faint, fleeting blue flashes of radiation emitted by particles that travel faster than the speed of light through the atmosphere may help scientists solve one of the oldest mysteries in astrophysics.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/2/5/2/6/071203_wakely_thumb.jpgFor nearly a...  |
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12-04-2007
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| | Were the first stars dark?
Perhaps the first stars in the newborn universe did not shine, but instead were invisible "dark stars" 400 to 200,000 times wider than the sun and powered by the annihilation of mysterious dark matter, a University of Utah study concludes. ... |
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12-03-2007
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| | Embryonic Star Captured with Jets Flaring
A developing star wrapped in a black cocoon of dust is seen sprouting giant jets in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/protostar_thumb.jpgThe stellar portrait, captured in infrared light, offers the first glimpse at a very early... |
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11-29-2007
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| | Astronomers Say Moons Like Ours Are Uncommon
The next time you take a moonlit stroll, or admire a full, bright-white moon looming in the night sky, you might count yourself lucky. New observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope suggest that moons like Earth's - that formed out of tremendous collisions - are uncommon in the... |
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11-23-2007
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11-16-2007
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11-15-2007
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| | Spitzer Spies a Stellar Bubble Blower
A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a baby star 1,140 light-years away from Earth blowing two massive "bubbles." But instead of bubble gum, this youngster, called HH 46/47, is using powerful jets of gas to make bubbles in outer space. ... |
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11-09-2007
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| | Record 5th planet found around nearby star
A team of American astronomers announced today (Tuesday, Nov. 6) the discovery of a record-breaking fifth planet around the nearby star 55 Cancri, making it the only star aside from the sun known to have five planets.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/cancri_thumb.jpgThe... |
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11-07-2007
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| | Missing Black Hole Report: Hundreds Found!
The massive, growing black holes, discovered by NASA's Spitzer and Chandra space telescopes, represent a large fraction of a long-sought missing population. Their discovery implies there were hundreds of millions of additional black holes growing in our young universe, more than doubling... |
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10-31-2007
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| | Hubble sees the graceful dance of two interacting galaxies
Two galaxies perform an intricate dance in this new Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxies, containing a vast number of stars, swing past each other in a graceful performance choreographed by gravity.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/2/5/2/6/5690_web_thumb.jpgA pair of galaxies,... |
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10-30-2007
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| | Hubble spies shells of sparkling stars around quasar
New images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope - part of a research project led by UC Riverside's Gabriela Canalizo - have revealed the wild side of an elliptical galaxy, nearly two billion light-years away, that previously had been considered mild-mannered. ... |
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10-28-2007
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| | Stellar Forensics With Striking New Chandra Image
A spectacular new image shows how complex a star's afterlife can be. By studying the details of this image made from a long observation by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers can better understand how some stars die and disperse elements like oxygen into the next generation of stars... |
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10-24-2007
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| | Heaviest Stellar Black Hole Discovered in Nearby Galaxy
Astronomers have located an exceptionally massive black hole in orbit around a huge companion star. This result has intriguing implications for the evolution and ultimate fate of massive stars.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/m33x7_thumb.jpgThe black hole is part of a binary... |
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10-18-2007
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| | Smallest Galaxies Solve a Big Problem
An unusual population of the darkest, most lightweight galaxies known has shed new light on a cosmic conundrum. Astronomers used the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii to show that the recently uncovered dwarf galaxies each contain 99 percent of a mysterious type of matter known as dark... |
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10-11-2007
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| | Astronomers Find Dust in the Wind of Black Holes
The hit song that proclaimed, "All we are is dust in the wind," may have some cosmic truth to it. New findings from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope suggest that space dust -- the same stuff that makes up living creatures and planets -- was manufactured in large quantities in the winds of... |
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10-10-2007
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| | Star System 'Just Right' for Building an Earth
An Earth-like planet is likely forming 424 light-years away in a star system called HD 113766, say astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/sig07-019_thumb.jpgScientists have discovered a huge belt of warm dust -- enough to build a... |
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10-04-2007
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| | Extreme star cluster in new Hubble images
The gigantic nebula NGC 3603 hosts one of the most prominent, massive, young clusters in the Milky Way. Hubble has been observing this prime location for star formation studies.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/ngc3603_thumb.jpgNGC 3603 is located in the Carina spiral arm of... |
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10-03-2007
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| | Magnetic Trilobite
"We've never seen anything quite like it," says solar physicist Lika Guhathakurta from NASA headquarters.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/trilobyte_strip_thumb.jpgLast week she sat in an audience of nearly two hundred colleagues at the "Living with a Star"... |
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10-02-2007
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09-26-2007
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| | NASA Maps the Moon With Google
New higher-resolution lunar imagery and maps that include NASA multimedia content now are available on the Google Moon Web site.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/apollo-11-patch.jpgUpdates include new content from the Apollo missions, including dozens of embedded panoramic... |
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09-19-2007
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