News tagged with cosmic objects
Herschel reveals galaxy-packed filament
(Phys.org) -- A McGill-led research team using the Herschel Space Observatory has discovered a giant, galaxy-packed filament ablaze with billions of new stars. The filament connects two clusters of galaxies ...
May 17, 2012 |
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Black hole, star collisions may illuminate universe's dark side
Scientists looking to capture evidence of dark matter -- the invisible substance thought to constitute much of the universe -- may find a helpful tool in the recent work of researchers from Princeton University ...
Sep 19, 2011 |
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'Darkest' world enlightens astronomers about mysterious light-gobbling planet
(PhysOrg.com) -- A giant Jupiter-like gas planet has been revealed to be the most light-thirsty object in the known universe -- a finding that may help astronomers better understand a mysterious characteristic ...
Sep 27, 2011 |
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'Cosmic mirages' confirm accelerated cosmic expansion
(Phys.org) -- An international team of researchers led by Masamune Oguri at Kavli IPMU and Naohisa Inada at Nara National College of Technology conduced an unprecedented survey of gravitationally lensed quasars, ...
Apr 11, 2012 |
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Researchers explain the activity of black holes at the centre of galaxy clusters
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers at the University of Bonn have clarified the connection between black holes at the centre of galaxy clusters and surrounding gas, which serves them as "food". The scientists have ...
Sep 04, 2009 |
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Unique sky survey brings new objects into focus
An innovative sky survey has begun returning images that will be used to detect unprecedented numbers of powerful cosmic explosions-called supernovae-in distant galaxies, and variable brightness stars in our ...
Jun 15, 2009 |
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Spitzer Telescope Warms Up to New Career
The primary mission of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is about to end after more than five and a half years of probing the cosmos with its keen infrared eye. Within about a week of May 12, the telescope is ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 06, 2009 |
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Herschel readies itself for the Orion Nebula (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA's Herschel observatory is back to full operation following the reactivation of its HiFi instrument. HiFi, having been offline for 160 days while engineers investigated an unexpected problem ...
Jan 20, 2010 |
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WISE Launch Scheduled for Dec. 11
(PhysOrg.com) -- Launch of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California is scheduled for Dec. 11.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 04, 2009 |
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NASA Invites Public to Choose Hubble's Next Discovery
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA is giving everyone the opportunity to use the world's most celebrated telescope to explore the heavens and boldly look where the Hubble Space Telescope has never looked before.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 28, 2009 |
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With stimulus aid, scientists hope to mimic nature's dynamos
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the cosmos, all celestial objects - planets, stars, galaxies and clusters of galaxies - have magnetic fields. On Earth, the magnetic field of our home planet is most easily observed in a compass where ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 09, 2009 |
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WISE Snug in Its Nose Cone; Launch Set for Dec. 9
NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer has been wrapped in the outer nose cone, or "fairing," that will protect it during its scheduled Dec. 9 launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 01, 2009 |
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