The reddest galaxies with the largest central bulb show the largest bars -gigantic central columns of stars and dark matter-, according to a scientific study that used Google Maps to observe the sky. A group of volunteers ...
Astronomy
Nov 3, 2011
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An Australian scientist has created the most detailed map ever of clouds of high-velocity gas in the universe around us.
Astronomy
Dec 4, 2017
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An international team of researchers led by a Monash astronomer has created the longest consistent 3-D model of a neutrino-driven supernova explosion to date, helping scientists to better understand the violent deaths of ...
Astronomy
Sep 14, 2017
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New simulations show that the search for life on other planets may well be more difficult than previously assumed, in research published today in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. The study indicates ...
Astronomy
Nov 29, 2017
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A group of Brazilian astronomers observed a pair of celestial objects rarely seen in the Milky Way: a very low-mass white dwarf and a brown dwarf.
Astronomy
Nov 6, 2017
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Canada vowed Wednesday to keep open an observatory in eastern North America where the first dark skies reserve was created, hours after its director said budget cuts would force its closure.
Space Exploration
Feb 11, 2015
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Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) radio observatory in Chile have made the first high-resolution image of the belt of comets (a region analogous to the Kuiper belt in our own Solar ...
Astronomy
May 18, 2016
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When Venus next week eclipses Earth, an event that will not occur again for more than a century, millions of skygazers may have romantic thoughts about our closest neighbour and its twilight beauty.
Space Exploration
Jun 3, 2012
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Exploding stars lit the way for our understanding of the universe, but researchers are still in the dark about many of their features.
Astronomy
Aug 23, 2017
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An international team of astronomers has completed a benchmark study of more than 300 galaxies, producing the largest census of dust in the local Universe, the Herschel Reference Survey. Led by Dr Luca Cortese from Swinburne ...
Astronomy
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