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Mini-Comets within a comet lit up 17P/Holmes during megaoutburst
Astronomers from the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Hawaii have discovered multiple fragments ejected during the largest cometary outburst ever witnessed. Images and animations ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 16, 2009 |
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Component of mothballs is present in deep-space clouds
(PhysOrg.com) -- Interstellar clouds, drifting through the unimaginable vastness of space, may be the stuff dreams are made of. But it turns out there's an unexpectedly strange component in those clouds, and it's not dreams ...
Sep 02, 2009 |
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Scientists discovers 'firework' display in Helix Nebula
(PhysOrg.com) -- A star does not die without getting noticed and may even leave the universe with "fireworks." At the end of its life cycle, a star begins to collapse in the middle and throws new material ...
Jul 20, 2009 |
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Why Are Galaxies So Smooth?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers has discovered streams of young stars flowing from their natal cocoons in distant galaxies. These distant rivers ...
May 01, 2009 |
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Glorious Orion: UKIRT helps reveal chaotic and overcrowded stellar nursery
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) in Hawaii, the IRAM Millimetre-wave Telescope in Spain, and the Spitzer Space Telescope in orbit above the Earth, have completed ...
Apr 20, 2009 |
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Atmospheric lead causes clouds to form more easily, could change pattern of rain and snow
(PhysOrg.com) -- By sampling clouds -- and making their own -- researchers have shown for the first time a direct relation between lead in the sky and the formation of ice crystals that foster clouds. The ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 19, 2009 |
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Crossing the icy unknown, hunting climate clues
(AP) -- On the 27th day of their trek, a dozen "black specks" of humanity crawling across Antarctica's vast white silence, Lou Albershardt heard a sound she'd never heard in two decades on the ice.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 21, 2009 |
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Galaxy Cores to Crash in a Few Million Years
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope offers a rare view of an imminent collision between the cores of two merging galaxies, each powered by a black hole with millions of times the ...
Mar 16, 2009 |
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Swift, Fermi probe fireworks from a flaring gamma-ray star (Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using NASA's Swift satellite and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope are seeing frequent blasts from a stellar remnant 30,000 light-years away. The high-energy fireworks arise from ...
Feb 10, 2009 |
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