News tagged with distant galaxy
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A cluster and a sea of galaxies (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new wide-field image released today by ESO displays many thousands of distant galaxies, and more particularly a large group belonging to the massive galaxy cluster known as Abell 315. As ...
May 05, 2010 |
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Making the invisible visible: New workhorse for the world's largest optical telescope
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) partners in Germany, the U.S.A. and Italy are pleased to announce that the first of two new innovative near-infrared cameras/spectrographs for the LBT is ...
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Apr 21, 2010 |
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The Most Luminous Stellar Nurseries in the Universe
(PhysOrg.com) -- Although many of the details about star formation are vigorously debated, the general principles are reasonably well understood.
Apr 16, 2010 |
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Intense Star Formation in the Early Universe
(PhysOrg.com) -- Distant galaxies are not only far away in space. Because it takes time for their light to reach us, they are also very far away in time -- snapshots from the distant past.
Apr 02, 2010 |
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New Hubble treasury project to survey first third of cosmic time, study dark energy
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers will peer deep into the universe in five directions to document the early history of star formation and galaxy evolution in an ambitious new project requiring an unprecedented ...
Mar 15, 2010 |
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The Cosmic Distance Scale
(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1908, Harvard astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt discovered that a class of stars called Cepheids have brightnesses that vary regularly with periods that are directly related to their intrinsic ...
Jan 29, 2010 |
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Astronomers Find Hyperactive Galaxies in the Early Universe
(PhysOrg.com) -- Looking almost 11 billion years into the past, astronomers have measured the motions of stars for the first time in a very distant galaxy and clocked speeds upwards of one million miles per ...
Aug 05, 2009 |
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Keeping a 'trained eye' on the James Webb Space Telescope
NASA and Northrop Grumman are keeping a "trained eye" on the James Webb Space Telescope, by training their engineers on how to handle and assemble the telescope's Optical Telescope Element (OTE), also known ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 20, 2009 |
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Herschel first images promise bright future
Herschel has carried out the first test observations with all its instruments, with spectacular results. Galaxies, star-forming regions and dying stars comprised the telescope's first targets. The instruments ...
Jul 10, 2009 |
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The Camera That Saved Hubble... Twice: JPL's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2
(PhysOrg.com) -- First motion is almost always a big event in the world of space exploration. Whether the first motion is of a wheel beginning to rotate or a rocket lifting off the pad, first motion means ...
May 11, 2009 |
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Hubble: From cosmic joke to cherished eye in space
(AP) -- Using the power of pictures, the Hubble Space Telescope has snapped away at the mystery of the universe.
May 10, 2009 |
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Servicing Mission 4 -- the fifth and final visit to Hubble
(PhysOrg.com) -- The combination of Hubble's powerful suite of instruments and its position far above the effects of Earth's atmosphere has consistently produced outstanding scientific results for nineteen ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 01, 2009 |
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Physicists see the cosmos in a coffee cup
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Duke University professor and his graduate student have discovered a universal principle that unites the curious interplay of light and shadow on the surface of your morning coffee with ...
Apr 14, 2009 |
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Fermi telescope reveals best-ever view of the gamma-ray sky
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new map combining nearly three months of data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is giving astronomers an unprecedented look at the high-energy cosmos. To Fermi's eyes, the universe ...
Mar 11, 2009 |
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A 3-D view of remote galaxies
For decades, distant galaxies that emitted their light six billion years ago were no more than small specks of light on the sky. With the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope in the early 1990s, astronomers ...
Mar 10, 2009 |
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