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Sun May Have Moved Great Distance From Its Birthplace, Astronomers Say
2008-09-17 15:56:00 From CBC | Technology & Science News: Searching for other solar systems capable of supporting life may seem like looking for a needle in a haystack. But one thing astronomers have taken for granted is that a good place to look would be in areas similar to our own solar system's
Death of a star: Astronomers get grandstand view of supernova
2008-05-22 15:57:00 From Yahoo! News: Science News: Astronomers on Wednesday said they had witnessed for the first time how a dying star erupted into a supernova, one of the mightiest yet most elusive sights in the Universe. Supernovae are massive stars that run out of fuel, collapse under the weig
Astronomers start searching for ?orphan stars? using upgraded telescope
2008-05-20 09:25:00 Washington, May 20 (ANI): Astronomers from the Case Western Reserve University in the US have begin searching for the faint sea of orphan stars strewn throughout the nearby Virgo cluster of galaxies, using a newly upgraded telescope. The telescope, at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tucson, Arizona, has been upgraded by the installation of a new ...
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Astronomers discover missing matter
2008-05-12 21:13:00 Astronomers have found a piece of the universe's puzzle that's been missing for awhile: a type of extremely hot, dense matter that is all but invisible to us.
Astronomers see 'youngest planet'
2008-04-02 16:00:00 From BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition: An embryonic planet detected outside our Solar System could be less than 2,000 years old, astronomers say. The ball of dust and gas, which is in the process of turning into a Jupiter-like giant, was detected around the star HL Tau, by
Astronomers discover massive dark matter structure
2008-02-22 15:45:00 From CBC | Technology & Science News: Canadian and French astronomers have discovered the largest dark matter structures ever seen, stretching across 270 million light years. A dark matter web of that size has never been observed before, University of British Columbia astronom
Astronomers Astonished by Violence of Universe
2008-01-14 00:30:00 WASHINGTON ? The deeper astronomers gaze into the cosmos, the more they find it’s a bizarre and violent universe. The research findings from this week’s annual meeting of U.S. astronomers range from blue orphaned baby stars to menacing “rogue” black holes that roam our galaxy, devouring any planets unlucky enough to be within their limited ...
Astronomers observe rare phenomenon of black holes emitting X-rays in nearb
2008-01-10 10:16:00 Astronomers have observed a rare phenomenon of X-ray jets originating from a black hole in a star system in the Centaurus A galaxy. This source of the X-rays wasn't there during the last survey of the galaxy in 2003, but it shined throughout the time of the new observations, which were from March to May of 2007. “Normally when astronomers study Centaurus A, it's the giant X-ray jets emanating from the heart of the galaxy that steal the show,” explained Gregory Sivakoff, a postdoctoral researcher in astronomy at Ohio State University. But when Sivakoff’s team studied Centaurus A with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory starting in March 2007, they saw a new X-ray source, which was much smaller than the X-ray jets, but still glowing brightly. Because it hadn't been seen before, the astronomers classified the object as a “transient” X-ray source, meaning that the object had been there before 2007, but had only recently bright...
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Christmas Presents for Amateur Astronomers - Three Great DVD?s for Amateur
2007-12-17 16:14:00 Yes, Christmas is coming! I cannot wait that I do NOT need to wake up to drive to work. Instead I will sleep late, drink lots of coffee and read books on astronomy. Additionally I will watch some astronomy or space related DVD’s because my secrect intelligence has found out that I will receive a ...
Star Cluster's Extreme Speed Puzzles Astronomers
2007-11-27 22:12:00 From New Scientist - Latest Headlines: A ragged company of stars is rushing through the chaotic core of our galaxy, travelling faster than can easily be explained. The new measurement of its path, made with the 10-metre Keck telescope in Hawaii, US, also deepens a mystery surro
#9 Astronomers' Favorite Porn
2007-11-14 00:40:00 Yessss, one of my favorites. This was the last of the first seven original comics that I drew before creating this site as a place to put them, and of them all, this one probably garners the most... This blog consists of a series of comics primarily focused on math, science, nerd life, and the ever present penis joke. Expect updates multiple times a week, but not necessarily daily.
Astronomers find the sun?s long-lost twin
2007-11-10 01:04:00 Somewhere out there, astronomers knew the sun had another long-lost relative aimlessly drifting through the Milky Way. Now they've found it.
Space Challenger : Astronomers Simulate Life And Death In The Universe
2007-10-29 22:00:00 Stars always evolve in the universe in large groups, known as clusters. Astronomers distinguish these formations by their age and size. The question of how star clusters are created from interstellar gas clouds and why they then develop in different ways has now been answered by researchers at the Argelander Institute for Astronomy at the University of Bonn with the aid of computer simulations.
Astronomers provide new insight into universe formation following Big Bang
2007-10-26 11:45:00 An international team of astronomers from Spain and the UK have discovered what they claim is a texture – remnant from the Big Bang – ...
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Huge stellar black hole bewilders astronomers
2007-10-20 16:51:00 Huge stellar black hole bewilders astronomersComputer models say it's not possible, so astronomers are scratching their heads in bewilderment over a newly discovered stellar black hole that weighs in at 16 solar masses, about six solar masses larger than theory predicts.
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Astronomers See Second Earth in the Making
2007-10-06 04:32:00 Astronomers have spotted evidence of a second Earth being built around a distant star 424 light-years away. Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted a huge belt of warm dust swirling around a young star called HD 113766 that is just slightly larger than our sun. The dust belt, which scientists ...
Astronomers see ’second Earth’ in the making
2007-10-05 16:30:00 Astronomers have spotted evidence of a second Earth being built around a distant star 424 light-years away. Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted a huge belt of warm dust swirling around a young star called HD 113766 that is just slightly larger than our sun. The dust belt, which scientists suspect is clumping together to form planets, is located in the middle of the star system’s terrestrial habitable zone where temperatures are moderate enough to sustain liquid water. Scientists estimate there is enough material in the belt to form a Mars-sized world or larger. At approximately 10 million years old, the star is just the right age for forming rocky planets, the researchers say. Their finding will be detailed in an upcoming issue of Astrophysical Journal. “The timing for this system to be building an Earth is very good,” said study team member Carey Lisse, of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Baltimore, Md. ...
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Radio burst from space mystifies astronomers
2007-09-28 16:24:00 reuters.com: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers who stumbled upon a powerful burst of radio waves said on Thursday they had never seen anything like it before, and it could offer a new way to search for colliding stars or dying black holes. | view source | Share This
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Redshift Periodicity and astronomers blind spots
2007-09-13 06:43:00 As early as the 1970s, astronomers such as William Tifft, Halton Arp and Geoffrey Burbidge began to report a very strange phenomena. Pairs of galaxies and small groups or galaxies had redshifts that tended to differ from each other by whole multiples of 72 km/s which implied that galaxies could only travel at certain quantized velocities. This made absolutely no sense because we look at the galaxies presumed orbital motions about each other from a variety of angles, so such quantized velocity differences would be destroyed by our perspective. Therefore most astronomers ignored the results as statistical flukes that would soon go away. First of all it is best to look at what is a redshift and what it is taken to mean. When the light from stars and galaxies is split into different colours there are many lines present at certain wavelength which are due to the composition of those stars or galaxies. Each element produces a unique pattern of lines that depends on how hot it is and whet...
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Astronomers Find a large Hole in the Universe
2007-08-25 15:13:00 Astronomers have recently found a large hole in the Universe. The hole is estimated to be a billion light years wide and is void of any matter such as stars, galaxies, gasses, and dark matter. Astronomers have known for years from previous studies that the Universe holds voids empty of any substance or matter. ...
Astronomers Find a large Hole in the Universe
2007-08-25 15:13:00 Astronomers have recently found a large hole in the Universe. The hole is estimated to be a billion light years wide and is void of any matter such as stars, galaxies, gasses, and dark matter. Astronomers have known for years from previous studies that the Universe holds voids empty of any substance or matter. ...
Cosmic Blank Spot Puzzles Astronomers
2007-08-25 02:37:00 Share on StumbleUpon: Astronomers have stumbled upon a tremendous hole in the universe. That's got them scratching their heads about what's just not there.The cosmic blank spot has no stray stars, no galaxies, no sucking black holes, not even mysterious dark matter. It is 1 billion light years across of nothing. That's an expanse of nearly 6 billion trillion miles of emptiness, a University of Minnesota team announced Thursday.Astronomers have known for many years that there are patches in the universe where nobody's home. In fact, one such place is practically a neighbor, a mere 2 million light years away. But what the Minnesota team discovered, using two different types of astronomical observations, is a void that's far bigger than scientists ever imagined.
Astronomers Find Huge Hole in UniverseSearch Slashdot
2007-08-25 01:02:00 realwx writes “Astronomers are surprised by a recent discovery of a space hole that is nearly a billion light years across. “Not only has no one ever found a void this big, but we never even expected to find one this size,” said researcher Lawrence Rudnick of the University of Minnesota. Rudnick’s colleague Liliya R. ...
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Google Sky: Amateur astronomers can view the stars from their PC
2007-08-22 14:09:00 If you are an amateur astronomer then you are going to love Goggle?s new toy, what they are calling Google Sky. This toy, well its more than a toy in the eye?s of Google, you will get the chance to see what the night sky looks like from where you are. What you have to do ...
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Astronomers claim galaxy record
2007-07-12 21:07:00 Astronomers claim galaxy recordBy Jonathan AmosScience reporter, BBC NewsKeck twins (WM Keck Observatory)The detections were made at the Keck ObservatoryAstronomers say they may have detected the light from some of the earliest stars to form in the Universe.They have pictures of what appear to be very faint galaxies that shone more than 13 billion years ago, a mere 500 million years after the Big Bang.The remarkable claim dramatically exceeds the current, broadly accepted record for the most distant detection.The Caltech-led team behind the work recognises there will be sceptics but says it believes its data is strong.It has published details in The Astrophysical Journal; and the group leader, Professor Richard Ellis, has been arguing the case at a conference in London, UK."We've had these galaxies for over a year and we have gone back to the telescope and revisited them, to prove their signals are robust," he explained."We feel confident now that we have done all that is humanly p...
Hubble Repair Crew Meets with Astronomers
2007-05-10 17:20:00 From CBC | Technology & Science News: The astronauts who will service the Hubble Space Telescope got a warm greeting from astron...
Astronomers Discover Earth-like Planet Outside Solar System
2007-04-26 12:07:00 By Jessica Berman Washington 25 April 2007 European astronomers have discovered what they believe to be the first potentially habitable planet outside our solar system. The researchers say the planet could contain water, which is needed to support life as we know it. VOA’s Jessica Berman reports. Gliese 581 C, as astrophysicists have named it, is about five times ...
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Astronomers Believe They May Have Found Earth-Like Planet
2007-04-25 11:16:00 Honey, pack your bags, we're gonna move! Astronomers Believe They May Have Found Earth-Like Planet Does Earth have a habitable neighbor? Astronomers from Switzerland, France and Portugal report they've discovered the most Earth-like planet outside our Solar System to date, according to a report in ZeeNews.com. Click here to read complete story at ZeeNews.com. Scientists say the planet has a radius only 50 percent larger than Earth, and is very likely to contain liquid water on its surface. The research team used the European Southern Observatory?s (ESO?s) 3.6-m telescope to discover the planet, which orbits a red dwarf already known to harbour a Neptune-mass planet.
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Astronomers find rich globular cluster in Milky Way
2007-03-14 11:29:00 Munich, Mar 14 : The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) New Technology Telescope at La Silla, Chile, has revealed a rich circular cluster of stars in the inner parts of the Milky Way Galaxy.
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Astronomers find the elusive pulse of the 'Magnificent Seven's' ringleade
2007-03-11 15:21:00 Paris, Mar 11 : The European Space Agency's (ESA's) XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has found the brightest member of the 'magnificent seven' to pulsate with a period of seven seconds.
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Astronomers report on dying star
2007-03-09 18:52:01 GODDARD, Md., March 9: U.S. astronomers say data from a NASA satellite gave them groundbreaking information about gamma-ray bursts, or the deaths of large stars in the universe.
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Astronomers discuss opportunities from planned return to moo
2006-11-29 18:48:04 From USATODAY.com Tech - Top Stories: The moon has very little atmosphere, and lots of dust. Those are some of the things being...
Gay Astronomers.
0000-00-00 00:00:00 A friend of mine asked me why all the Astronomers he knows are gay. I had to break it to him that i’ve seen the way that they look at Uranus.
Gay Astronomers.
0000-00-00 00:00:00 A friend of mine asked me why all the Astronomers he knows are gay. I had to break it to him that i've seen the way that they look at Uranus.
Have Astronomers Observed the Aftermath of a Distant Planetary Collision?
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Astronomers have announced that a mystery object orbiting a star 170 light-years from Earth might have formed from the collision... |
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