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According to the latest theoretical calculations, the dwarf planet Pluto should have a dust ring companion revolving around it. Scientists base their proposal on a computer model that analyzes the object's behavior in orbit.If such a structure is found and confirmed, then the discovery would be very important to... |
8 August 2011
04:44 GMT |
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Since the launch of the Russian Spektr-R radio telescope coincided with the retirement of the American space shuttle, numerous news outlets used this opportunity to publish articles arguing why the US space program is going downhill. Experts say that comparing the telescope to Hubble is useless.The Hubble Space Teles... |
5 August 2011
11:06 GMT |
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The Hubble Space Telescope can add another impressive achievement under its belt. Experts using the observatory to check for rings around the dwarf planet Pluto announce the discovery of a new moon orbiting the distant object, the fourth one so far. Pluto is known to have one large moon called Charon, which is around... |
20 July 2011
09:51 GMT |
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On Monday, July 4, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reached an impressive milestone in its long-duration mission, when it logged its one millionth scientific observation. The observatory has been conducting studies from Earth's orbit for more than 21 years and 2 month.
Hubble launch on April 24, 1990, at ... |
6 July 2011
02:15 GMT |
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Astronomers are really curious about the fate in store for our solar system, and so many teams have taken many approaches to finding out what the future holds. Scientists at the University of Leicester say that studying white dwarfs is one of the best methods of knowing the Sun's future.White dwarfs can be found... |
23 June 2011
08:38 GMT |
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An international collaboration of researchers says that one of the most interesting galaxy clusters in the known Universe is the result of a violent collision between four individual galaxy clusters. The merging process lasted for more than 350 million years.In order to study the structure, which is called Abell 2744... |
22 June 2011
10:57 GMT |
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A recent investigation conducted using the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed an interesting phenomenon going on inside the cores of galaxies that everyone thought were inactive. New images indicate that stellar formation is taking place at those locations still.Messier 105 was one of the elliptical galaxies that wa... |
31 May 2011
05:52 GMT |
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A recent study of the central bulge in our galaxy has revealed the presence of a large number of unusual stars called blue stragglers. These rare objects have a tendency of looking much younger than their age should be, astronomers say.Generally, as stellar objects age, they tend to experience a shift in color. When ... |
26 May 2011
04:30 GMT |
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Recent observations conducted on a dwarf galaxy is allowing astronomers a closer view into the processes and chains of events that eventually lead to the formation of a new star.
The galaxy they recently looked at is called NGC 4214, and it was found to produce new stars at a high pace. Massive hydrogen gas cloud... |
13 May 2011
02:31 GMT |
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Astronomers operating the Hubble Space Telescope believe they may have just discovered the oldest galaxy in the Universe. It appears in an ultra-deep field image taken with the powerful observatory, and initial estimates place it at a distance of about 13.2 billion light-years. This means that the light it emits bega... |
6 May 2011
09:56 GMT |
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A team of astronomers from the European Southern Observatory has just released a new image of an incredibly beautiful, lopsided cosmic structure called the Meathook Galaxy. Also known among experts as NGC 2442, the formation was the host of a recent supernova explosion.The galaxy is very interesting to astronomers be... |
4 May 2011
08:07 GMT |
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A recent series of observations has revealed more details about how black holes formed in the early Universe, when the massive galaxies we see today were not yet formed. The data were collected by analyzing Henize 2-10, a dwarf starburst galaxy. The cosmic structure is estimated to lie about 30 million light-years aw... |
3 May 2011
04:27 GMT |
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In late 2010, astronomers observed an asteroid that apparently changed its brightness over time. In a series of investigations that were concluded recently, experts manage to establish and prove that this phenomenon was caused by collisions between two or more space rocks.
This is the only possible way of explain... |
29 April 2011
02:54 GMT |
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Astronomers have recently discovered a small and weird population of stars in a cluster located some 20,000 light-years away from us. They say that these objects look very much like brown dwarfs, but add that something about them doesn't quite make sense. For instance, measurements of the objects conducted in in... |
27 April 2011
05:53 GMT |
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Officials at the American space agency are currently getting ready to properly celebrate the coming of age of the Hubble Space Telescope, the most renowned observatory in the world. On April 24, the satellite will turn 21 years old in Earth's orbit. The instrument launched aboard the space shuttle Discovery, dur... |
21 April 2011
06:04 GMT |
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Using the Hubble Space Telescope, a team of experts managed to get the most detailed view to date of the insides of the Tarantula Nebula, one of the most beautiful such structures in the known Universe. This outstanding feature is located in our neighboring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, and can be seen with ama... |
15 March 2011
07:05 GMT |
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Astronomers operating the NASA Hubble Space Telescope announce that they were recently able to calculate the expansion rate of the Universe with great precision. In the process, the group was able to rule out an alternate theory on the nature of dark energy.This is the force that astrophysicists believe is responsibl... |
15 March 2011
04:59 GMT |
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Astronomers operating the NASA Hubble Space Telescope captured a new view of an interesting dying star. They were able to establish that the celestial body is producing a toxic mix of poisonous gases as it slowly dies away. According to the experts, this object is located at the core of what is called a protoplanetar... |
10 March 2011
02:59 GMT |
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Stsci has released HubbleSite, a free iOS application for astronomy fans. The app offers a glimpse of some of the most spectacular findings by the famous Hubble Space Telescope, complete with information on the discoveries, as well as on the telescope itself.As its name implies, the Hubble Space Telescope is a space ... |
15 February 2011
09:39 GMT |
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Astronomers operating the NASA Hubble Space Telescope release a new image of the auroras around the gas giant Jupiter. These flares of ultraviolet light are in some aspects similar to ones that develop here on Earth, but experts underline that the two are different in nature. At first, experts believed that auroras o... |
12 February 2011
04:46 GMT |
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A group of astronomers was puzzled to discover a number of brown dwarfs while conducting a survey of a star cluster located relatively nearby in astronomical terms. The discovery is peculiar because we shouldn't theoretically be able to see objects such as these at such distances. The team's suspicions were... |
11 February 2011
08:47 GMT |
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Officials at the American space agency are hopeful that their next space observatory will be able to exceed all existing telescopes, and peer farther and deeper into the early days of the Universe.
The instrument could for example confirm the finding of the oldest galaxy yet, which astronomers operating the NASA ... |
1 February 2011
01:49 GMT |
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Following its May 2009 general overhaul, NASA's most famous telescope has become able to peer further in space and time than ever before. This is why it recently managed to observe the oldest and most distant galaxy ever found, which formed when the Universe was very young.The earliest analysis of the images sug... |
27 January 2011
01:26 GMT |
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The Eagle Nebula is perhaps one of the most renowned structures in space. It was made famous by an image called “Pillars of Creation,” that was snapped by the Hubble Space Telescope more than a decade ago. Now, the observatory takes a new, in-depth look at the famous nebula. This cosmic formation is offic... |
5 January 2011
03:47 GMT |
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Astronomers recently discovered a cosmic structures that immediately led them to think about Christmas ornaments. The serene gas bubble looks just like a tree globe decoration, albeit several billions of times larger than the former. The impressive structure lies relatively closely-by, in the dwarf galaxy called the ... |
14 December 2010
10:52 GMT |
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Astronomers operating the Hubble Space Telescope managed to capture an impressive new image of a star that is currently dying in the constellation Cygnus. Experts estimate that it will turn into a planetary nebula once it draws its final breath.According to the new photographs, it would appear that the star, called I... |
24 November 2010
09:31 GMT |
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A new view of the Orion Nebula taken with the NASA Hubble Space Telescope is revealing the existence of a large number of newly-forming blue stars, inside massive stellar nurseries. These cosmic structures are in fact molecular clouds of gas and dust, which tend to come together in very large formations, under the in... |
27 October 2010
06:50 GMT |
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Using an advanced telescope, experts were able to determine the most distant point in the sky, which is apparently located no less than 13.1 billion light-years away from Earth. This basically means that this galaxy formed about 650 million years after the Big Bang exploded the Universe into being, even before the re... |
21 October 2010
03:13 GMT |
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Scientists operating the NASA Hubble Space Telescope managed to capture a new image of a dying star, which was observed as it was shedding atmospheric layers, and producing an asymmetric nebula.The recently-observed body is located some 6,500 light-years away, which is relatively nearby by cosmic standards. It lies i... |
19 October 2010
02:42 GMT |
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As we reported earlier, the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed that space object P/2010 A2 is most likely a pair of colliding asteroids. The same conclusions come from data collected using the Rosetta spacecraft as well.The probe, which is operated by the European Space Agency (ESA), is a comet-chaser, but it happen... |
14 October 2010
05:45 GMT |
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NASA experts believe they may have observed the first known signs of an asteroid collision taking place in space. The possible event was recorded using the Hubble Space Telescope.The observatory was used to snap a series of shots of a peculiar structure that had an X-shaped object flying at the forefront of a debris ... |
14 October 2010
03:47 GMT |
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According to officials at the JPL, one of the cameras that was on the Hubble Space Telescope has just been shipped away from the facility, and will now head for display elsewhere. This instrument is known informally among space enthusiasts as “The Camera That Saved Hubble,” and it played a hugely importan... |
14 October 2010
03:33 GMT |
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In a bid to gain more insight into asteroid Vesta ahead of the Dawn spacecraft's visit, scientists used the NASA Hubble Space Telescope to observe the giant space rock in great detail. This study is very important for mission planners in charge of managing the NASA Dawn space probe, which needs to rendezvous wit... |
9 October 2010
03:53 GMT |
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Astronomers operating the Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a new view of the renowned Carina Nebula, one that shows the cosmic structures in a way no one has seen before. The formation, which is located an estimated 7,500 light-years away from our solar system, reveals impressive pillars of cosmic dust and hy... |
17 September 2010
08:21 GMT |
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Data collected via a space telescope recently revealed that a star is brighter than an entire galaxy. The cosmic fireball is naturally located closer to Earth, but it lies right in the line of sight. Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope were originally aiming for the galaxy known as PGC 39058, which is locate... |
14 September 2010
10:08 GMT |
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A team of astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope announce the discovery of a large cache of massive trans-Neptunian objects, space rocks that exist beyond the orbit of the gas giant. The 14 space rocks were found as scientists were peering through archival observations that the famous telescope made over the tw... |
14 September 2010
01:56 GMT |
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Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have recently identified a cosmic spiral that has a nearly perfect geometric shape. The object is not a spiral galaxy, but rather a projection nebula. With the help of the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), the international research team managed to catch a glimps... |
7 September 2010
02:46 GMT |
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For more than 10 years, astronomers have been observing the remnants of a supernova explosion, that took place nearby. Now, these studies are changing the way they understand the evolution of galaxies.Supernova blasts are some of the most powerful events in the entire Universe. When they occur, they can briefly outsh... |
3 September 2010
01:40 GMT |
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Experts operating the Hubble Space Telescope have recently snapped a series of new images of the impressive nebula IRAS 05437+2502, which looks more like a cosmic ghost than a stellar nursery.The object is very faint, and also very distant, all while covering an area of the sky equal to roughly one eighteenth of the ... |
19 August 2010
06:00 GMT |
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In a new series of observations, a team of investigators has recently shed new light on a galaxy located in the large Coma Cluster. The cosmic structure looks stunning in a new photo. The new observations were conducted using the Hubble Space Telescope, which was last year revamped, and outfitted with new cameras a... |
13 August 2010
08:56 GMT |
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Astronomers have been debating whether the body known as TMR-1C is an exoplanet or a star for many years, but now two new studies appear to have finally ended the controversy. Back in 1998, experts snapped an interesting picture of this mysterious cosmic object, and a group of experts proposed that this was the first... |
13 August 2010
06:44 GMT |
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Astronomers recently snapped an interesting picture of a very peculiar galaxy, called NGC 4696. The structure contains numerous outstanding features, and experts have a lot to go on in their studies.The team that conducted the observations used the Hubble Space Telescope to capture the image. It was obtained by combi... |
12 August 2010
16:01 GMT |
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Experts at the American space agency announce that recent data from the Hubble Space Telescope seem to indicate that a runaway star has been ejected from the Milky Way. The celestial object moves at speeds up to three times that of the Sun, which makes it a part of the hypervelocity star class. Observing such a pheno... |
22 July 2010
10:54 GMT |
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Officials at the University of Chicago (UC) decided to involve the institution more actively in the construction of the amazing Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT). The instrument, scheduled to be completed in Chile in about 7 years, will be one of the largest observatories in the world, and will have the capability to re... |
22 July 2010
03:07 GMT |
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Newly released photo taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, caught an accumulation of stars in what looked like a dazzling fireworks show. It shows a nebula 20,000 light-years away in the Carina constellation, containing a central cluster of enormous hot stars called NGC 3603. It is surrounded by clouds of interstellar... |
7 July 2010
10:18 GMT |
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The Hubble space telescope has been in Earth's orbit for more than 20 years. Over the years, it captured impressive views of the Universe that were later to become iconic images, present in classrooms throughout the world. After five service missions to repair it, the observatory is currently working at peak cap... |
23 June 2010
13:01 GMT |
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Scientists operating the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT), on Mount Graham in Arizona, announce that their instrument has collected the most sharp and detailed image of the deep space ever taken from the surface of the planet. This is saying a lot, considering the location of the observatory, as well as the fact that ... |
17 June 2010
15:41 GMT |
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Phil Plait, the creator of Bad Astronomy, astronomer, lecturer, and author, has decided to step up to the task of defending Steve Jobs’ claims that the average Joe will not distinguish the pixels on the iPhone 4’s Retina Display 12 inches away. After doing a bit of research (more like pure math), some ... |
11 June 2010
09:56 GMT |
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Until now, astronomers thought they had a fairly clear comprehension of how stars moved across the sky. They believed that studies had evidenced most of the traits associated with this section of celestial mechanics, and this is precisely why the conclusions of a new study, only recently published, puzzled them consi... |
2 June 2010
11:00 GMT |
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Researchers looking at the renowned exoplanet WASP-12b have recently determined that the celestial body doesn't have much to live. Its parent star, a Sun-class yellow dwarf, is currently engulfing matter from its atmosphere, and is also deforming the overall shape of the planet. The celestial object already look... |
21 May 2010
02:38 GMT |
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