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Looking through Galileo's eyes
Astronomy
In 1609, exactly four centuries ago, Galileo revolutionised humankind's understanding of our position in the Universe when he used a telescope for the first time to study the heavens, which saw him sketching radical new views of the moon and discovering the satellites orbiting Jupiter.
Source: Institute of Physics
Posted on: Thursday, Jan 08, 2009, 1:09pm
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NASA balloon mission tunes in to a cosmic radio mystery
Space
Listening to the early universe just got harder. A team led by Alan Kogut of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., today announced the discovery of cosmic radio noise that booms six times louder than expected.
Source: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Posted on: Wednesday, Jan 07, 2009, 5:13pm
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Hubble Finds Stars that Go 'Ballistic'
Astronomy
Even some stars go ballistic, racing through interstellar space like bullets and tearing through clouds of gas.
Source: Newswise
Posted on: Wednesday, Jan 07, 2009, 4:21pm
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Half-baked asteroids have Earth-like crust
Space
Asteroids are hunks of rock that orbit in the outer reaches of space, and scientists have generally assumed that their small size limited the types of rock that could form in their crusts. But two newly discovered meteorites may rewrite the book on how some asteroids form and evolve.
Source: Carnegie Institution
Posted on: Wednesday, Jan 07, 2009, 4:21pm
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Black holes lead galaxy growth, new research shows
Astronomy
Astronomers may have solved a cosmic chicken-and-egg problem -- the question of which formed first in the early Universe -- galaxies or the supermassive black holes seen at their cores.
Source: National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Posted on: Wednesday, Jan 07, 2009, 9:39am
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Astronomers use gamma-ray burst to probe star formation in the early universe
Astronomy
By analyzing the spectrum of light emitted in the afterglow of a powerful gamma-ray burst, researchers are gleaning insights into an active stellar nursery in a galaxy so far away it appears as it was 10 billion years ago.
Source: University of California - Santa Cruz
Posted on: Tuesday, Jan 06, 2009, 3:19pm
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Star Light, Star Bright, Its Explanation is Out of Sight
Astronomy
A mysterious flash of light from somewhere near or far in the universe is still keeping astronomers in the dark long after it was first detected by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 2006. It might represent an entirely new class of stellar phenomena that has previously gone undetected in the universe, say researchers.
Source: Newswise
Posted on: Tuesday, Jan 06, 2009, 3:19pm
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Cassiopeia A comes alive across time and space
Astronomy
Two new efforts have taken a famous supernova remnant from the static to the dynamic. A new movie of data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory shows changes in time never seen before in this type of object. A separate team will also release a dramatic three-dimensional visualization of the same remnant.
Source: Chandra X-ray Center
Posted on: Tuesday, Jan 06, 2009, 12:36pm
Rating: Not Rated | Views: 39 | Comments: 0
Dead Stars Tell Story of Planet Birth
Astronomy
Astronomers have turned to an unexpected place to study the evolution of planets -- dead stars.
Source: NASA
Posted on: Tuesday, Jan 06, 2009, 9:21am
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Hubble Views Galactic Core in Unprecedented New Detail
Space
This composite color infrared image of the center of our Milky Way galaxy reveals a new population of massive stars and new details in complex structures in the hot ionized gas swirling around the central 300 light-years.
Source: Newswise
Posted on: Monday, Jan 05, 2009, 2:42pm
Rating: Not Rated | Views: 61 | Comments: 0
Brown Dwarfs Don't Hang Out With Stars
Astronomy
Brown dwarfs, objects that are less massive than stars but larger than planets, just got more elusive, based on a study of 233 nearby multiple-star systems by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
Source: Newswise
Posted on: Monday, Jan 05, 2009, 2:41pm
Rating: Not Rated | Views: 55 | Comments: 0
Baby Jupiters must gain weight fast
Space
The planet Jupiter gained weight in a hurry during its infancy. It had to, since the material from which it formed probably disappeared in just a few million years, according to a new study of planet formation around young stars.
Source: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Posted on: Monday, Jan 05, 2009, 2:16pm
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Stars forming just beyond black hole's grasp at galactic center
Astronomy
The center of the Milky Way presents astronomers with a paradox: it holds young stars, but no one is sure how those stars got there. The galactic center is wracked with powerful gravitational tides stirred by a 4 million solar-mass black hole.
Source: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Posted on: Monday, Jan 05, 2009, 2:16pm
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Milky Way a swifter spinner, more massive, new measurements show
Astronomy
Fasten your seat belts -- we're faster, heavier, and more likely to collide than we thought. Astronomers making high-precision measurements of the Milky Way say our home Galaxy is rotating about 100,000 miles per hour faster than previously understood.
Source: National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Posted on: Monday, Jan 05, 2009, 2:16pm
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Jupiter-like planets could form around twin suns
Astronomy
Life on a planet ruled by two suns might be a little complicated. Two sunrises, two sunsets. Twice the radiation field.
Source: Rochester Institute of Technology
Posted on: Monday, Jan 05, 2009, 11:53am
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Hubble Telescope to Get Last Tuneup
Astronomy
From troubled beginnings nearly 18 years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionized astronomy and its stunning images have stirred the imaginations of people around the globe.
Source: Newswise
Posted on: Wednesday, Dec 31, 2008, 1:56pm
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New visualization techniques yield star formation insights
Astronomy
New computer visualization technology developed by the Harvard Initiative in Innovative Computing has helped astrophysicists understand that gravity plays a larger role than previously thought in deep space's vast, star-forming molecular clouds.
Source: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Posted on: Wednesday, Dec 31, 2008, 1:40pm
Rating: Not Rated | Views: 120 | Comments: 0
Mars Rovers Near Five Years of Science and Discovery
Space
NASA rovers Spirit and Opportunity may still have big achievements ahead as they approach the fifth anniversaries of their memorable landings on Mars.
Source: NASA
Posted on: Tuesday, Dec 30, 2008, 12:14pm
Rating: Not Rated | Views: 80 | Comments: 0
PS3s Help Astrophysicists Solve Black Hole Mystery
Astronomy
Using only the computing power of 16 Sony Playstation 3 gaming consoles, scientists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville and the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, have solved a mystery about the speed at which vibrating black holes stop vibrating.
Source: Newswise
Posted on: Monday, Dec 22, 2008, 9:40am
Rating: 5/5 | Views: 92701 | Comments: 7
Hubble Catches Jupiter's Largest Moon Going to the 'Dark Side'
Space
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has caught Jupiter's moon Ganymede playing a game of "peek-a-boo." In this crisp Hubble image, Ganymede is shown just before it ducks behind the giant planet.
Source: Newswise
Posted on: Thursday, Dec 18, 2008, 11:08pm
Rating: 4/5 | Views: 174 | Comments: 0
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Articles From the Web
Space
Fastest Wind Tunnel to Put NASA's Orion to the Test
A new wind tunnel generates wind speeds up to 30 times the speed of sound.
Source: Discovery Channel
Posted on: Tuesday, Jan 06, 2009, 3:19pm
Rating: Not Rated | Views: 16 | Comments: 0
Astronomy
Shhh! Gadget racket threatens pulsar research
Of all the threats to scientific research Wesley Sizemore has stymied over the years, satellites and cellphone towers don't stick in his memory quite like the possessive old hound and its treasured heating pad.
Source: USA Today
Posted on: Monday, Jan 05, 2009, 2:16pm
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Space
Where do space shuttles go to retire?
If your museum, school or organization has the right stuff, it could display one of the U.S. shuttles that NASA plans to retire from service in 2010.
Source: CNN.com
Posted on: Friday, Dec 19, 2008, 9:35am
Rating: Not Rated | Views: 43 | Comments: 0
Space
NASA's spending is under scrutiny
Obama's transition team wants to know about the agency's basic money management, including cost overruns.
Source: LA Times
Posted on: Friday, Dec 19, 2008, 9:16am
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Space
To the Heavens From the Jungle’s Edge
In French Guiana, a space base where the United States is the also-ran.
Source: NYT
Posted on: Monday, Dec 15, 2008, 11:19am
Rating: Not Rated | Views: 40 | Comments: 0
Astronomy
Giant Virtual Telescope to Study Starbirth
A new virtual telescope is the most powerful tool scientists have ever had.
Source: Space.com
Posted on: Wednesday, Dec 10, 2008, 10:01am
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Space
Inspiration for 'Contact' still listening
Probing the cosmos: Is anybody out there?
Source: CNN.com
Posted on: Monday, Dec 08, 2008, 1:09pm
Rating: Not Rated | Views: 41 | Comments: 0
Astronomy
Explore Moon Mountains from Your Backyard
The best time to observe the moon with a telescope may be a surprise.
Source: Space.com
Posted on: Friday, Dec 05, 2008, 10:08am
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China, Russia to send probes to Mars next year
China will team up with Russia to launch two satellite probes to take pictures of Mars and one of its small moons in October next year as it seeks to cement its place in the select ranks of global space powers.
Source: Reuters
Posted on: Friday, Dec 05, 2008, 9:34am
Rating: Not Rated | Views: 59 | Comments: 0
Space
Russians track wayward U.S. spy satellite
A Russian space analyst says his organization has been monitoring what appears to be a malfunctioning Pentagon spy satellite.
Source: MSNBC
Posted on: Wednesday, Dec 03, 2008, 9:45am
Rating: Not Rated | Views: 80 | Comments: 0
Astronomy
Backyard Skywatchers Find Tool Bag Lost in Space
A tool bag lost in space is making appearances above North America and Europe.
Source: LiveScience
Posted on: Wednesday, Nov 26, 2008, 12:13pm
Rating: Not Rated | Views: 87 | Comments: 0
Astronomy
Copernicus' Tomb Found After 200-Year Hunt
DNA studies end a centuries-old hunt for the tomb of astronomer Nicolas Copernicus.
Source: Discovery Channel
Posted on: Sunday, Nov 23, 2008, 3:33pm
Rating: Not Rated | Views: 48 | Comments: 0
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Why the universe may be teeming with aliens
Hunting for a planet that can support life? There's more to it than looking for Earth's distant twin, says
Source: New Scientist
Posted on: Thursday, Nov 20, 2008, 12:24pm
Rating: Not Rated | Views: 62 | Comments: 0
Space
Obama's NASA Dilemma
The fate of the U.S. space program hangs in the balance.
Source: Technology Review
Posted on: Thursday, Nov 20, 2008, 11:48am
Rating: Not Rated | Views: 53 | Comments: 0
Space
Did an Asteroid Kill Mars' Magnetic Field?
A mega-asteroid impact may have extinguished the Red Planet's magnetic field.
Source: Discovery Channel
Posted on: Thursday, Nov 20, 2008, 11:48am
Rating: Not Rated | Views: 47 | Comments: 0
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