Comets and asteroids preserve the building blocks of our Solar System and should help explain its origin. But there are unsolved puzzles. For example, how did icy comets obtain particles that formed at high temperatures, ...
Space Exploration
Jul 25, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- In the model astrophysicists and astronomers use to describe the history of the universe, the Big Bang is used as the ultimate starting point, which is believed to have occurred some 13.7 billion years ago. ...
Magnetic instabilities play a crucial role in the emergence of black holes and other cosmic phenomena. At the Helmholtz- Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, confirmation of such a magnetic instability - the Tayler instability - was ...
General Physics
Jun 20, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- A trio of astrophysicists is theorizing that the reason that there is not a larger variety of black hole sizes in the known universe is because those that were spawned first heated up the universe to the extent ...
(Phys.org) -- In the never ending quest to find out if there is life out there beyond our own planet, astronomers, astrophysicists and other researchers use all manner of tools to scan the sky looking for likely places; the ...
(Phys.org) -- By combining the light of three powerful infrared telescopes, an international research team has observed the active accretion phase of a supermassive black hole in the center of a galaxy tens of millions of ...
Astronomy
May 16, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- Most people take gravity for granted. But for University of Pennsylvania astrophysicist Bhuvnesh Jain, the nature of gravity is the question of a lifetime. As scientists have been able to see farther and deeper ...
Astronomy
May 11, 2012
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Seven years ago, astronomers boggled when they found the first runaway star flying out of our Galaxy at a speed of 1.5 million miles per hour. The discovery intrigued theorists, who wondered: If a star can get tossed outward ...
Astronomy
Mar 22, 2012
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A Norwegian family was flabbergasted to find that what appeared to be a piece of a meteorite had crashed through the roof of their allotment garden hut in the middle of Oslo, media reported Monday.
Space Exploration
Mar 12, 2012
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Stars with disks of debris around them might be good targets to search for Earth-like planets, researchers say.
Astronomy
Mar 9, 2012
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