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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.
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Smallest Galaxies Solve a Big Problem

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Astronomy news // 10 October, 2007 08:10:51
 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 matter. Dark matter has gravitational effects on ordinary atoms but does not produce any light. It accounts for the majority of the mass in the universe.

Astronomers Find Dust in the Wind of Black Holes

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Astronomy news // 09 October, 2007 07:10:54
 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 black holes that populated our early universe.

Star System 'Just Right' for Building an Earth

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Astronomy news // 03 October, 2007 08:10:24
 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.

Extreme star cluster in new Hubble images

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Astronomy news // 02 October, 2007 08:10:42
 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.

Palomar Observatory's Sky Survey is the Cosmic Canvas in the New Google Sky

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Astronomy news // 25 September, 2007 08:09:24
 Panoramic images of the sky obtained at Palomar Observatory are a major part of "Sky in Google Earth," a new product released today by Google Inc. Sky in Google Earth contains images of the entire celestial sphere, showing hundreds of millions of stars, galaxies, and other cosmic wonders.

NASA Orbiter Finds Possible Cave Skylights on Mars

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Astronomy news // 24 September, 2007 08:09:11
 NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft has discovered entrances to seven possible caves on the slopes of a Martian volcano. The find is fueling interest in potential underground habitats and sparking searches for caverns elsewhere on the Red Planet.

Lucky Cam

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Astronomy news // 20 September, 2007 07:09:43
 Astronomers from the California Institute of Technology and the University of Cambridge have developed a new camera that produces much more detailed pictures of stars and nebulae than even the Hubble Space Telescope, and it does all this from here on Earth.

Magnetic Trilobite

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Astronomy news // 19 September, 2007 08:09:11
 "We've never seen anything quite like it," says solar physicist Lika Guhathakurta from NASA headquarters.

The Universe Through the Looking Glass

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Astronomy news // 12 September, 2007 12:09:52
 A whole new world came to life for Alice when she passed through the looking glass - beetles with bad attitudes, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, smiling cats, talking tiger lilies and much more.

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