News tagged with night sky
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Dark Matter in a Galaxy
(PhysOrg.com) -- Stars, the most familiar objects in the night sky, make up only a tiny percentage of the total amount of matter in the universe -- about 2%.
Oct 30, 2009 |
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World's largest 3.2 billion-pixel digital camera project passes critical milestone
A 3.2 billion-pixel digital camera designed by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is now one step closer to reality. The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope camera, which will capture the widest, fastest and ...
Apr 24, 2012 |
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Centuries-Old Star Mystery Coming to a Close
(PhysOrg.com) -- For almost two centuries, humans have looked up at a bright star called Epsilon Aurigae and watched with their own eyes as it seemed to disappear into the night sky, slowly fading before coming ...
Jan 05, 2010 |
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Cosmic census finds crowd of planets in our galaxy
(AP) -- Scientists have estimated the first cosmic census of planets in our galaxy and the numbers are astronomical: at least 50 billion planets in the Milky Way.
Feb 20, 2011 |
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Astronomers unveil an amazing, interactive, 360-degree panoramic view of the entire night sky
(PhysOrg.com) -- The first of three images of ESO's GigaGalaxy Zoom project — a new magnificent 800-million-pixel panorama of the entire sky as seen from ESO's observing sites in Chile — has just been released ...
Sep 14, 2009 |
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Researchers reveal unseen planet by its gravity
More than a 150 years ago, before Neptune was ever sighted in the night sky, French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier predicted the planet's existence based on small deviations in the motion of Uranus. In a ...
May 10, 2012 |
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How to see the best meteor showers of 2012: Tools, tips and 'save the dates'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Whether you're watching from a downtown area or the dark countryside, here are some tips to help you enjoy these celestial shows of shooting stars. Those streaks of light are really caused ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 02, 2012 |
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Jupiter making closest approach in nearly 50 years
(AP) -- Better catch Jupiter next week in the night sky. It won't be that big or bright again until 2022. Jupiter will pass 368 million miles from Earth late Monday, its closest approach since 1963. You can ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 17, 2010 |
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The Explosive Disintegration of a Young Stellar System in Orion
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Orion Nebula is one of the most beautiful sights of the winter night sky, its gas and dust glowing from the intense ultraviolet radiation of a cluster of massive young stars.
Oct 23, 2009 |
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Was that Santa up there? No, Soyuz rocket debris
A ball of light streaking across the night sky in northern Europe on Saturday at a time when many imagined that Father Christmas was doing his rounds was nothing more than Soyuz rocket debris, Belgian experts ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 25, 2011 |
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Scientists solve mystery of starlight's origins
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from the University of Toronto and the University of British Columbia have helped unveil the birthplaces of ancient stars using a two-tonne telescope carried by a balloon the size ...
Apr 08, 2009 |
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New arm discovered in outer edge of the Milky Way Galaxy
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a surprising twist, if you will, Thomas Dame and Patrick Thaddeus, both of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, have put forth in a paper to be published in an upcoming issue ...
May 23, 2011 |
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No strain for Andromeda: Galaxy is cosmic cannibal (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A huge galaxy neighbouring our own Milky Way appears to have expanded by "digesting" smaller galaxies nearby, a new study has shown.
Sep 02, 2009 |
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Meteors from obscure shower spotted by NASA cameras
Camelopardalis. It's a strange-sounding name for a constellation, coming from the Greco-Roman word for giraffe, or "camel leopard". The October Camelopardalids are a collection of faint stars that have no myt ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 11, 2010 |
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A total lunar eclipse and winter solstice coincide on Dec. 21
With frigid temperatures already blanketing much of the United States, the arrival of the winter solstice on December 21 may not be an occasion many people feel like celebrating. But a dazzling total lunar ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 20, 2010 |
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