Astronomy
04.04.2010 10:57
Russian spacecraft docks at orbiting station - The Associated PressMOSCOW -- A Russian space official says a Soyuz craft carrying an American and two Russian astronauts has docked succes
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SpaceShots: The Best New Photos of Our Universe - X-ray (NASA/CXC/MIT/C.Canizares, D.Evans et al), Optical (NASA/STScI), Radio (NSF/NRAO/VLA)March 3: A composite image of NGC 1068, one of
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Spitzer Helps Locate Primitive Quasars - RedOrbitUp to now, primitive black holes, which occupy the cores of active galaxies and were around as far back as the early days of the un
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Distant 'teenage' galaxy grew fast - Images from the Hubble Space Telescope (left) and two far-infrared telescopes show the location of galaxy SMM J2135-0102. (Durham Universiry/NASA/E..[MORE] 03.22.2010 16:07
Moon Contains Three Kinds of Water - Scientists shift through complex datasets of the MoonFor many years, scientists have believed that the Moon was a very dry and desolate pla
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Big Bang TheoryMysteries still remainSince the Big Bang theory was first formulated, astronomers and other scientists have been hard at work to either con
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Equinox Sky ShowWhen the sun sets on Saturday, March 20th, a special kind of night will fall across the Earth. It's an equal night.Or as an astronomer woul
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Cosmic Rosebud Blossoms With New StarsScienceDaily (Mar. 19, 2010)The rosebud-like red glow surrounding the hot, young stars is warm dust heated by the stars. Green leafy nebulo
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Saturn to make its best appearance of the yearSaturn's opposition, March 21, marks the best time of year to view the ringed planet because it lies closest to Earth and thus appears its biggest ..[MORE] 03.19.2010 01:19
NASA - The Multiplying Mystery of MoonwaterMoonwater. Look it up. You won't find it. It's not in the dictionary.That's because we thought, until recently, that the Moon was just abou
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Spitzer Finds Primitive Black HolesQuasars are active and very powerful black holes at the centre of distant galaxies. The black holes are extremely massive weighing between 100 mill..[MORE] 03.18.2010 16:17
Astronauts return to Earth on Russian spacecraftA Russian Soyuz space capsule carrying a U.S. astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut from the International Space Station landed safely in Kazakhstan on..[MORE] 03.18.2010 13:16
CoRoT-9b, a temperate exoplanetThe curve shows the change in the luminosity of the star as CoRoT-9b transits it. The Y-axis shows the intensity and the X-axis shows time. The dip..[MORE] 03.18.2010 11:16
Extrasolar Planet COROT-9bCredit: Instituto de Astrofísica de CanariasThe extrasolar planet COROT-9b is shown with its sunlike parent star in the background of this
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Corot-9b - First exoplanet that resembles planets in our own solar system.Corot-9b is the first exoplanet that resembles planets in our own solar system.Combining observations from the CoRoT satellite and the Euro
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Scientists probe Jupiter's raging stormThe thermal image at left charts temperature variations in three storms on JupiterThermal images have charted the temperature of Jupiter's
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New Hubble treasury project to survey first third of cosmic timeBy imaging more than 250,000 distant galaxies, the project will provide the first comprehensive view of the structure and assembly of galaxies over..[MORE] 03.17.2010 00:08
New Supernova Data Could Change the WorldThey could modify how astronomers understand cosmic expansionSupernovae are arguably among the most important structures in the known Unive
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Solar Eclipse Coronaredit & Copyright: Miloslav Druckmüller (Brno University of Technology), Martin Dietzel, Peter Aniol, Vojtech RušinOnly in the fleeting dar
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Saturn's Rings and the History of the Solar SystemThe two are apparently connected, experts sayNew studies appear to demonstrate that the intricate patterns carved up in the rings of the ga
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Ancient Galaxies by HubbleHickson Compact Group 31: Interacting Galaxies Aglow with Millions of Young StarsThese four dwarf galaxies waited billions of years to come
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What in the world is the sun up to now?In today's issue of Science, NASA solar physicist David Hathaway reports that the top of the sun's Great Conveyor Belt has been running at record-h..[MORE] 03.14.2010 22:43
NASA - Spirit's Rear View After Parking for Fourth WinterImage Credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechNASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit recorded this fisheye view with its rear hazard-avoidance camera after c
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Shocking recipe for making killer electronsKiller electrons are highly energetic particles trapped in Earth's outer radiation belt.Take a bunch of fast-moving electrons, place them i
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Veil NebulaMatts SporreThe Veil Nebula, also known as the Cygnus Loop, is a supernova remnant which that lies about 1,400 away in the constellation Cy
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Solar wind pulses help blow away martian atmosphereScientists found that Mars' atmosphere does not drift away at a steady pace, instead, atmospheric escape occurs in bursts.Mars is constantl
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Our Solar System Will Be Struck by an Orange Dwarf But we still have a lot of time aheadAssuming we find a way of mitigating the damage we are currently doing on our planet, our children liv
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A Rogue Star May Be Roaming Our SystemAccording to a new investigationExperts believe that the possibility of another star existing within our solar system may not be as remote
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'Dragons' of the Gamma-Ray SkyNASA's Fermi Probes 'Dragons' of the Gamma-Ray SkyOne of the pleasures of perusing ancient maps is locating regions so poorly explored that
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Horsehead NebulaKfir SimonThe Horsehead Nebula, also known as Barnard 33, lies approximately 1,500 light-years away in the constellation Orion.
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