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Using data from a multitude of observatories, researchers have recently been able to collect an amazing image of the famous Pinwheel Galaxy, which is also known to astronomers as M101. Four NASA telescopes contributed data to this multi-spectral view of the wonderful object.
Located in the constellation Ursa Major,... |
26 May 2012
05:09 GMT |
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In a discovery that opens the way for infrared observatories to conduct exoplanetary studies, the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope has recently identified a super-Earth-class extrasolar planet around the bright star 55 Cancri. This world is uninhabitable, astronomers say. The object is called 55 Cancri e, and is around... |
9 May 2012
03:01 GMT |
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Using the NASA infrared Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers recently conducted a new series of observations on the Sombrero Galaxy, which is also known as M104 and NGC 4594. The study revealed that this cosmic structure does not abide by the standard classification of spiral galaxies.
The thing that puzzled expert... |
25 April 2012
04:51 GMT |
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Scientists operating the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) instrument aboard the American space agency's Spitzer Space Telescope announce the completion of an 1,000-day survey of the infrared Universe.
The endeavor produced an amazing series of images of various unusual structures, including a young star cluster, t... |
17 April 2012
03:24 GMT |
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Using the Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers at NASA captured this colorful, breathtaking view of a portion of the Orion Nebula, revealing a great deal of cosmic chaos at this location. The nebula is located around 1,500 light-years from Earth.
Scientists used Spitzer because its infrared detectors can sense the ... |
11 April 2012
05:36 GMT |
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According to officials at NASA, the science team operating the agency's Spitzer Space Telescope will be releasing more than 200 images of various galaxies throughout the year, all of them showing the structures in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
The telescope is managed by the Spitzer Sci... |
27 March 2012
11:00 GMT |
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Using the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope, which surveys the sky in infrared wavelengths, a team of astronomers was recently able to capture an amazing image of the galaxy IC342. The cosmic formation displays an extremely-beautiful structure, which closely resembles that of a spider web.
The galaxy is located relativel... |
19 March 2012
09:30 GMT |
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Using data from the European Space Agency's (ESA) Herschel Space Observatory and the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope, a team of astronomers was recently able to observe a number of blue stars in the Orion Nebula, as they were undergoing intricate transformations right in front of their eyes.
The effect was given b... |
29 February 2012
10:50 GMT |
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While investigating a binary star system located about 6,500 light-years from Earth, astronomers found tiny specs of matter which they say are made up of stacked buckyballs. These are carbon nanospheres, structures that resemble architect Buckminster Fuller's geodesic domes.
Scientists first found buckminsterf... |
23 February 2012
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A new study on the super-Earth-class extrasolar planet 55 Cancri e reveals that the alien world is not the extremely hot desert that astronomers first made it out to be. The exoplanet is apparently wetter than anyone believed, which makes it extremely weird.
The reason why experts were so surprised at the conclus... |
21 January 2012
05:44 GMT |
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Before the Sun had planets and space rocks surrounding it on all sides, it formed inside a stellar cocoon that existed in a very chaotic stellar nursery. A similar scene was recently imaged with the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope, and the image shows an area that may soon spawn a Sun-like star.
The observations were ... |
11 January 2012
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The latest observations from the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory reveal dust concentrations in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC/SMC), two dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way at close range. Knowing how cosmic dust and gas are distributed throughout a galaxy is essential towards d... |
11 January 2012
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While studying the extreme depths of the Universe, in an area located about 13 billion light-years away from Earth, astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) noticed a type of ultra-red galaxy that they had never seen before.
The objects are so far away, and so well concealed in massive c... |
2 December 2011
04:43 GMT |
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Observing the Milky Way from the outside may take a long time to become possible, astronomers say, so this is why they are conducting studies on galaxies that they say may give a clue as to our own's outwardly appearance. The latest such object to be imaged was the Pinwheel Galaxy.
In order to see the object in... |
24 November 2011
02:50 GMT |
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Astronomers using the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope were recently able to take a hard look at the extrasolar planet WASP-14b, and determine some of the most important characteristics of its atmosphere. The new findings are very important for understanding alien worlds.
One of the most interesting thing experts behind... |
15 November 2011
03:53 GMT |
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During a new scientific study of the Tarantula Nebula, astronomers using the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope were able to discover vast volumes of radiations and powerful stellar winds inside the cosmic structure.
The findings again indicate that the stellar nursery is extremely active, producing young stars at a frant... |
11 November 2011
06:03 GMT |
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Astronomers using two NASA telescopes were recently able to produce a new image of a supernova remnant that is believed to have been caused by a stellar explosion which was first seen by Chinese astronomers around 185 AD.
The Spitzer Space Telescope and the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), both of which ... |
27 October 2011
02:50 GMT |
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Astronomers operating the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope announce the discovery of the coldest known brown dwarf companion. The failed star can compare in temperature to other, similar cosmic bodies, which are floating freely through space, unbound to other objects.
Known as WD 0806-661, the new cosmic body is in fa... |
20 October 2011
03:39 GMT |
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A team of astronomers using the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope recently managed to identify a rain of comets striking the inner sections of a nearby solar system. According to experts, the event is reminiscent of the Late Heavy Bombardment, a similar event that affected our own solar system.
The event was discovered... |
20 October 2011
03:27 GMT |
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When viewed in visible-light wavelengths, the North American Nebula looks somewhat like that famous continent. However, in this new image from the Spitzer Space Telescope, the shape disappears due to the fact that the observations were made in infrared wavelengths. The shape resembling North America is caused by mass... |
19 October 2011
03:57 GMT |
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NASA has just released a new image depicting the Sword in the Orion's Nebula. The exquisite image shows an area of intense stellar formation known as a stellar nursery, which features thousands of stars. The gas around the structure is glowing because it's ionized by stellar winds all around. In addition to... |
18 October 2011
15:01 GMT |
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The vast majority of new stars is born inside nebulae, massive formations that hide their creation from outside observers by shrouding the blue stars in massive volumes of billowing gas and dust. Now, experts manage to get a glimpse inside one such structure, without using infrared telescopes.
The latter are gener... |
29 September 2011
02:24 GMT |
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During a recent study it conducted on the extrasolar super-Earth-class planet 55 Cancri e, the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope was able to produce a detailed view of the object that revealed several new details astronomers did not know before.
This particular exoplanet is a super-sized and superheated version of our ... |
27 September 2011
05:46 GMT |
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Astronomers recently managed to capture a detailed view of the Dumbbell Nebula, a planetary nebula located about 1,360 light-years away, in the constellation Vulpecula. The object was seen in infrared wavelengths, which revealed details that were previously unknown. For this research, experts used the NASA Spitzer Sp... |
11 August 2011
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Experts managing the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope are now analyzing the possibility of switching the large observatory to a redundant set of gyroscopes. The team says that the unit currently in use is beginning to show small signs of degradation.They are quick to point out that these irregularities to do not yet affe... |
10 August 2011
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A team of astronomers announce the discovery of a massive sonic boom, a huge intergalactic shock wave, in the group of galaxies known as Stephan's Quintet. At this point, this agglomeration of 5 galaxies is on the verge of producing one of the most impressive cosmic cataclysms. The five structures are colliding ... |
13 July 2011
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For many years, astronomers believed that galaxies developing in the early Universe were very much like voracious tigers, growing in size by literally cannibalizing on other galaxies. But new data appear to indicate that the structures were more like grazing cows, growing in size by accreting gas. In order to reach t... |
1 July 2011
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Experts with the American space agency announce that the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope has just produced a new set if images depicting a double nebula located relatively close to Earth. The murky area of stellar formation is thus brought back into the spotlight.From afar, the cosmic structure looks like a pair of weir... |
30 June 2011
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Over the past few years, carbon molecules called buckyballs have been detected throughout the Universe, in dying stars, nearby galaxy, in the space separating galactic clusters, and so on. Now, experts propose that these molecules are what brought the seeds of life here on Earth. Thus far, scientists have widely beli... |
16 June 2011
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By combining the infrared capabilities of the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope with the shorter-wavelength infrared and visible ones from the Subaru Telescope, in Hawaii, astronomers recently managed to obtain an amazing view of a distant cluster of galaxies.
The large cosmic structures appear only as tiny red dots i... |
27 May 2011
02:37 GMT |
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Scientists operating the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope announce that they recently discovered large amounts of tiny crystals falling into a growing star. The crystals are in fact the green mineral olivine, which can be found deep in Earth's crust as well.
This phenomenon was observed in large gas clouds that t... |
27 May 2011
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Astronomers are now convinced that the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies will collide with each other in about 5 billion years. In order to understand what the result of this event will look like, experts now investigate the processes that take place during galactic mergers elsewhere in space. Given the massive sizes ... |
26 May 2011
05:58 GMT |
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A team of astronomers announced today that a new extrasolar planet has been discovered in the known star system called Kepler-10. The object has been dubbed Kepler-10c, which means that it's the second exoplanet in the system, classified by the distance it orbits its parent star from.The object was discovered by... |
24 May 2011
08:49 GMT |
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In a recent series of observations, experts took a closer look at the central regions of the galaxy NGC 1097, and managed to gain a better understanding of the supermassive black hole that lies within.
The galaxy, which is located some 50 million light-years away, is protected from visible view by clouds of hydro... |
9 May 2011
02:22 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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Investigations of the Herbig-Haro 34 jet system have revealed the existence of a time lag between two jets shooting out of the same star. The phenomenon takes place even if the two jet are symmetrical. Experts say that the time delay spans about 4 and a half years. The two jets are both made up of gas and dust knots,... |
5 April 2011
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A group of investigators has just released a new version of a standard image depicting the core of our galaxy. The new view places an emphasis on determining the number and type of stars that exist near the center of the Milky Way.
Even at a brief glance, it becomes apparent that the central regions of the 100,00... |
19 March 2011
07:25 GMT |
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Experts with the American space agency just published a new image of the North American Nebula, which shows a very large number of stars living together as one big, happy family. Most stellar types are present in the view, which was captured using the infrared NASA Spitzer Space Telescope.The stellar nursery got its ... |
11 February 2011
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Astronomers using the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope identified a peculiar structure lurking within the M17 nebula. Called M17 SWex, the formation is a dark dust cloud, which is apparently forming new stars at a frantic pace. Still, it has not yet produced O stars, the largest of them all. Observing this cloud would ha... |
18 January 2011
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Astronomers in the United States focused a recent investigation on a very peculiar space body, that is not at all remarkable in the visible light portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, but which shines incredibly bright in the mid-infrared spectrum. This unusual star is located in the Triangulum Galaxy (M33), and i... |
20 December 2010
02:55 GMT |
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Some galactic clusters in the Universe appear to be connected to each other via sandbar-like structures called filaments which are made out of gas and dust. In a new study, researchers were able to gain more insight into these formations, by studying a peculiar galaxy.The unusual cosmic object allowed astronomers to ... |
25 November 2010
02:26 GMT |
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Scientists operating the Spitzer Space Telescope announce that they recently managed to capture an impressive new view of an area of intense stellar formation in the system II Zw 096, which is made up of two colliding galaxies. This type of mergers is known for producing spectacular vistas. As two galaxies cannibaliz... |
24 November 2010
06:32 GMT |
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A team of astronomers has determined that a hot Jupiter-class exoplanet is featuring an impressively hot spot on its surface, but not where scientists expected to find based on the common laws of physics.Studies of the planer Upsilon Andromedae b have shown that the gas giant orbits its parent star at such close rang... |
20 October 2010
02:37 GMT |
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A group of astronomers believes it may have discovered a new and interesting cosmic event, in which massive stars go supernova not in a massive bang, but rather by fizzling out inside a dust cocoon. The cosmic dust is apparently capable of smothering the star to death, investigators believe, adding that this type of ... |
13 October 2010
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Astronomers estimate that a near-Earth object (NEO) could pass close to our planet this week, but say that there is very little chance that an impact will take place following the event. Tracking stations estimate that the object is less than 10 meters in diameter, although no clear data on its actual size are availa... |
11 October 2010
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Scientists using an advanced telescope for infrared studies have recently determined the existence of the coreshine effect, a phenomenon that may yield fresh insight into how stars and exoplanets form. These cosmic structures are now known to develop inside very cold clouds of cosmic gas and dust, right at the core o... |
24 September 2010
02:08 GMT |
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Planetary scientists are currently puzzled at the fact that a hot exoplanet that was recently discovered appears to be mission the chemical methane from its atmosphere.Researchers are at a loss in explaining why the gas giant, who is larger than Jupiter, fails to show traces of the hydrocarbon, which is extremely com... |
16 September 2010
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A team of astronomers announces that they have discovered many types of asteroids, meteors and other space rocks around our planet. These objects are part of the near-Earth Object (NEO) class.They were identified following a new asteroid survey, which was carried out using the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope. This is on... |
3 September 2010
01:23 GMT |
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The two Iowa State University astronomers are using data from the Spitzer Space Telescope, that is now observing the outer reaches of the Milky Way, to progress in their star studies.One of the two lucky scientists is Massimo Marengo, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy, that uses the information from Spi... |
30 August 2010
05:03 GMT |
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In a series of new studies, researchers determined that dual star system are surrounded entirely by cosmic dust envelopes, which may be the remnants of planets that once existed around the celestial bodies. If that is the case, the group says, then it could be that potential alien lifeforms would have a very difficul... |
24 August 2010
02:11 GMT |
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