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Hubble's Deepest View of Universe Unveils Never-Before-Seen Galaxies (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 2004, Hubble created the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), the deepest visible-light image of the Universe, and now, with its brand-new camera, Hubble is seeing even farther. This image was ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (50) | comments 33

Hubble Reaches the 'Undiscovered Country' of Primeval Galaxies

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has broken the distance limit for galaxies and uncovered a primordial population of compact and ultra-blue galaxies that have never been seen before.

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created Jan 05, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (29) | comments 24 | with audio podcast

In distance space, a water world: Hubble reveals a new class of extrasolar planet

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of astronomers led by Zachory Berta of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) made the observations of the planet GJ 1214b.

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created Feb 21, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (24) | comments 24 | with audio podcast

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 ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (23) | comments 3

Scientists capture 'terrifying' Tolkien-like eclipse (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have captured a 'terrifying' image of a giant Goliath-like star undergoing a two year eclipse. First discovered by a German astronomer 180 years ago, it is the first close-up image of an eclipse ...

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created Apr 07, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (22) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

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 ...

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created Jan 29, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (19) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New camouflage technology from BAE hides war machines

(PhysOrg.com) -- BAE Systems says it has a camouflage system that can render battle machines like tanks invisible or even seen as other objects in the immediate environment to protect against attack. The 'cloak' ...

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 07, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 15 | with audio podcast report

Astronomers unveil images of 12-billion-year-old space nursery

A University of British Columbia astronomer has produced the most detailed images of deep space from 12 billion years ago, using data from the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory.

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created Jan 06, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (15) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Imaging the planet-sized companion of a nearby star

(PhysOrg.com) -- Of the nearly 500 extra-solar planets that have been confirmed to date, only about a dozen have actually been seen in images. Because planets are so much fainter than their host stars, special ...

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created Oct 15, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Hubble pinpoints furthest protocluster of galaxies ever seen

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have uncovered a cluster of galaxies in the initial stages of development, making it the most distant such grouping ever observed in ...

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created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 42 | with audio podcast

Mysterious red galaxies

(PhysOrg.com) -- Perhaps the most astonishing and revolutionary discovery in cosmology was Edwin Hubble's observation that galaxies are moving away from us with velocities that are proportional to their distances. ...

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created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 36 | with audio podcast

Galaxy cluster hidden in plain view

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of astronomers has discovered the most distant cluster of red galaxies ever observed using FourStar, a new and powerful near-infrared camera on the 6.5m Magellan Baade Telescope. The ...

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created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Hubble Finds Hidden Exoplanet in Archival Data

(PhysOrg.com) -- A powerful, newly refined image-processing technique may allow astronomers to discover extrasolar planets that are possibly lurking in over a decade's worth of Hubble Space Telescope archival ...

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created Apr 01, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 0

New NASA dawn visuals show Vesta's 'color palette'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Vesta appears in a splendid rainbow-colored palette in new images obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft. The colors, assigned by scientists to show different rock or mineral types, reveal Vesta ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Snowflake-Shaped Galaxy From Hubble Helps Ring in the New Year

(PhysOrg.com) -- As part of its Hubble Heritage program, NASA has released an image, taken by a team led by UA astronomer Rodger Thompson, of a galaxy that resembles a snowflake.

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created Jan 18, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast