News tagged with distant stars
Birth of a baby planet
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Sydney astronomer, Professor Peter Tuthill, is one of an international team of astronomers who have announced a major step forward in the quest to find planets in orbit around ...
Mar 02, 2011 |
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Scientists investigate the possibility of wormholes between stars
(PhysOrg.com) -- Wormholes are one of the stranger objects that arise in general relativity. Although no experimental evidence for wormholes exists, scientists predict that they would appear to serve as shortcuts ...
Feb 25, 2011 |
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Qatar-led international team finds its first alien world
In an exciting example of international collaboration, a Qatar astronomer teamed with scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and other institutions to discover a new alien world. ...
Dec 14, 2010 |
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Light bending by a black hole may offer proof of extra dimensions
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania report that a new test for measuring the ability of gravity to bend light seen from distant stars around large objects like black holes may offer proof of the ...
Nov 18, 2010 |
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Neutron stars may be too weak to power some gamma-ray bursts
A gamma-ray burst is an immensely powerful blast of high-energy light thought to be generated by a collapsing star in a distant galaxy, but what this collapse leaves behind has been a matter of debate.
Nov 03, 2010 |
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Growing galaxies gently
The first galaxies formed before the Universe was less than one billion years old and were much smaller than the giant systems -- including the Milky Way -- that we see today. So somehow the average galaxy ...
Oct 13, 2010 |
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'Teenage'-galaxies booming with star births
Scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute have been studying distant galaxies, which are among the most active star-forming galaxies in the Universe. They form around 1,000 new stars a year – a 1,000 times ...
Oct 12, 2010 |
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Harvard astronomers search for life's answers
If you gaze at the night sky and sometimes wonder, “What’s out there?” you’re not alone. Harvard scientists have asked the same question for centuries.
Sep 16, 2010 |
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Image: Galaxy at the edge
Spiral galaxy NGC 4921 presently is estimated to be 320 million light years distant.
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Aug 30, 2010 |
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NASA telescope made in Utah set to finish survey
(AP) -- A telescope made by Utah State University's Space Dynamics Lab for NASA is on track to complete its first sky survey.
Jul 19, 2010 |
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A New Way to Find Earths
Astronomers have used a completely new technique to find an exotic extrasolar planet. The same approach might even be sensitive enough to find planets as small as the Earth in orbit around distant stars.
Jul 09, 2010 |
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Brightest galaxies tend to cluster in busiest parts of universe, study finds
For more than a decade, astronomers have been puzzled by bright galaxies in the distant universe that appear to be forming stars at phenomenal rates. What prompted the prolific star creation, they wondered. And what kind ...
May 20, 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 ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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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The Eerie Silence
Why have we not made contact with aliens after so many years searching the depths of space? The Eerie Silence, a new book by SETI researcher Paul Davies, provides a fresh and thoughtful look at this question.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 15, 2010 |
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