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The Orion nebula: Still full of surprises

(PhysOrg.com) -- This ethereal-looking image of the Orion Nebula was captured using the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory, Chile. This nebula is much more than ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 19, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Herschel spacecraft celebrates one year of spectacular science

The World's largest space telescope, ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory, is celebrating one year of spectacular science. A meeting at the Royal Astronomical Society in London is showcasing some of the latest ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 17, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Astronomers identify most distant galaxy cluster

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have uncovered a burgeoning galactic metropolis, the most distant known in the early universe. This ancient collection of galaxies presumably grew into a modern galaxy cluster ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 12, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (13) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New insights into sun's photosphere reported

NJIT Distinguished Professor Philip R. Goode and the research team at Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) have reported new insights into the small-scale dynamics of the Sun's photosphere. The observations were ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

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NASA airborne observatory's past unearthed

Fifteen years after its final flight, veterans of the Kuiper Airborne Observatory, or KAO, gathered at NASA's Ames Research Center Nov. 10, 2010 to witness the opening of a time capsule.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Antarctic IceCube observatory to hunt dark matter

An extraordinary underground observatory for subatomic particles has been completed in a huge cube of ice one kilometre on each side deep under the South Pole, researchers said.

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 23, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Preserving a piece of history, whatever the weather

The Whitworth Meteorological Observatory is a fully-automated, state of the art meteorological facility, replacing the original observatory set up and located in Whitworth Park in August 1892.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 21, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

IceCube: World's largest neutrino observatory completed at South Pole

(PhysOrg.com) -- On Saturday, December 18, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory sank the last of 86 strings of sensitive photodetectors to a depth of almost two and a half kilometers in the ice at the South Pole, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 20, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (30) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Scientist alleges religious discrimination in Ky.

(AP) -- An astronomer argues that his Christian faith and his peers' belief that he is an evolution skeptic kept him from getting a prestigious job as the director of a new student observatory at the University ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 17, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 365

Herschel looks back in time to see today's stars bursting into life

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of astronomers have presented the first conclusive evidence for a dramatic surge in star birth in a recently discovered population of massive galaxies in the early Universe.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 17, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Flying observatory achieves 1st science flight

(AP) -- A U.S.-German infrared observatory mounted in a jumbo jet has flown its inaugural science flight, a mission to better understand how stars form.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Astronomers probe 'sandbar' between islands of galaxies

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have caught sight of an unusual galaxy that has illuminated new details about a celestial "sandbar" connecting two massive islands of galaxies. The research was conducted in part ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 24, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Explorer of the 'Cool Universe'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Emory astrochemist Susanna Widicus Weaver will soon begin one of the first broad spectral surveys of small organic molecules in deep space. Her lab's research proposal - to search for the ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 18, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

SOFIA Prepares for Short Science

(PhysOrg.com) -- The SOFIA flying observatory was the subject of several nights of telescope system checkout activities in mid-October in preparation for upcoming early astronomical science flights.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 10, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

EVALSO: A new high-speed data link to Chilean observatories

Stretching 100 kilometers through Chile's harsh Atacama Desert, a newly inaugurated data cable is creating new opportunities at ESO's Paranal Observatory and the Observatorio Cerro Armazones. Connecting these ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0