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In a paper published in the April 12 issue of the top scientific journal Nature, experts propose a new explanation for how stars of moderate weight manage to shed more than half of their mass, as they reach the end of their burning cycle.
What researchers observed when surveying medium-weight stars was that the obje... |
12 April 2012
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A group of astronomers using one of the world's most advanced telescopes announces the completion of a comprehensive survey of the sky, which revealed the eating habits of galaxies as they grow older.
One of the main conclusions was that teenage galaxies, at a point in time between 3 and 5 billion years after ... |
15 March 2012
17:31 GMT |
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A group of astronomers operating the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), in Chile, was recently able to discover life on Earth. While that's nothing new, the method they used to do so definitely is. According to a research paper they published in the March 1 issue of the top sc... |
1 March 2012
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Every single image I've seen that was released by the awesome team behind the Very Large Telescope (VLT) has been amazing, and their latest one isn't any different. In fact, it's the most complex, detailed and precise photo taken of the Carina Nebula in infrared wavelengths.
The European Southern Obs... |
9 February 2012
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While studying a region of space located about 700 light-years from Earth, in the southern constellation Centaurus, astronomers discovered that the young star V1052 displays a unique feature around it – a very clearly-countered carbon monoxide ring.
While seeing such a ring is not unusual in itself, research... |
20 January 2012
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The European Southern Observatory (ESO), the most important intergovernmental astronomy organization in the entire world, celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Founded by five European countries on October 5, 1962, it has since grown in size and scope to its present-day level.
Belgium, France, Germany, the Net... |
6 January 2012
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Astronomers with the European Southern Observatory (ESO) recently used the Very Large Telescope (VLT) to image the Omega Nebula, an object that goes by very many names. Some of these include the Swan Nebula, the Horseshoe Nebula, the Lobster Nebula, Messier 17 (M17) and NGC 6618.
What is interesting about this parti... |
4 January 2012
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An impressive new view of the starburst spiral galaxy NGC 253 (Sculptor Galaxy or Silver Coin Galaxy) captures the splendor of the remarkable structure in a wide-field image that puts its location in space in a new context.
The dataset was compiled based on observations made by the Very Large Telescope (VLT), which... |
15 December 2011
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A collaboration of astronomers announces the discovery of the fastest-rotating star ever discovered. The team believes that VFTS 102 is rotating at a speed of at least 2 million kilometers (1.24 million miles) per hour.
The object was discovered inside the Tarantula Nebula, a part of the Large Magellanic Cloud. The... |
5 December 2011
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In a recent study, an international collaboration of astronomers was able to analyze a bright gamma-ray burst (GRB) that occurred in the distant Universe. The reason why this particular flash of light is so important is because it passes through two very old galaxies before finally making its way to Earth.
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2 November 2011
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Using the Chile-based Very Large Telescope (VLT), a group of international astronomers was able to produce the first timeline of what happened during a time in the Universe's history known as the reionization epoch. For starters, the team learned that this event occurred a lot sooner than first thought.
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12 October 2011
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Using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) instrument the European Southern Observatory (ESO) operates at La Silla, Chile, astronomers were recently able to collect the most detailed image ever snapped of a yellow hypergiant star, one of the rarest breeds of stars in the Universe.
A number of interesting aspects stem f... |
28 September 2011
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Ever since astrophysicists started analyzing black holes in more details, a number of questions popped up in their heads. Chief among them was a puzzling mystery, the inability to explain why the masses of black holes and their parent galaxies were linked. A new study seeks to clarify the issue.
In fact, this ques... |
6 September 2011
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As telescopes become increasingly advanced, astronomers are beginning to discover weird structures at the core of our galaxy, which indicate a rough past for the Milky Way. Recently, a team of experts studied the Terzan 5 globular cluster, gaining new knowledge of how the galaxy formed.Astrophysicists refer to many o... |
6 September 2011
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Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope, at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Cerro Paranal facility in Chile, announce that they were recently able to capture a remarkable new image of a galactic duo called The Eyes.Another reason why this image is very important is that it's the first-ever to b... |
24 August 2011
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A team of astronomers was recently able to determine the origins of light emanating from the Lyman-alpha blob LAB-1. The cosmic structure has been puzzling astronomers for many years, and the new study is the first to propose a reasonable explanation for why the cosmic structure glows. In order to investigate the obj... |
18 August 2011
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Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) recently captured an amazing view of the spiral galaxy NGC 3521. The massive cosmic structure is located about 35,000 light-years away, in the direction of the constellation Leo. For this investigation, experts used the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT), at the Cerr... |
10 August 2011
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A short while ago, researchers figured out that the dwarf planet Haumea is in fact covered with crystalline ice. Its two moons are covered by the same material, and astronomers now believe that interplays between gravity and radioactivity may be to blame.
In a paper published in the April issue of the journal Astr... |
26 July 2011
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By combining data from two advanced telescopes, a team of astronomers was recently able to get a better understanding of how supermassive black holes were turned on in the early days of the Universe.The research covered the last 11 billion years of the Universe' 13.75 billion years. The first dark behemoths bega... |
13 July 2011
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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
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The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is proud to announce the inauguration of the latest addition to its Chile-based Paranal Observatory. The Very Large Telescope (VLT) Survey Telescope (VST) is one of the most advanced astronomical units ever created. Just a few days ago, the new instrument released its first ima... |
8 June 2011
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An international astronomical collaboration managed to discover one of the brightest, most luminous stars in the entire Universe. The object, dubbed VFTS 682, lies in the dwarf galaxy Large Magellanic Cloud, and is around 300 million times brighter than our Sun.While finding super-bright stars is nothing new for astr... |
25 May 2011
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A group of astronomers working in Chile believes it may have discovered the coolest brown dwarf star yet. Located in a a binary system, the star has a surface temperature of no more than100 degrees Celsius, which is the boiling point of water.While this may seem hot enough in human terms, it's nothing compared t... |
23 March 2011
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Astronomers may have discovered a mystery the Universe has been hiding since the Big Bang. New studies demonstrate that the fine-structure constant (FSC), one of the most important measures in Cosmos, was not, and is not, constant throughout time and space. The FSC, which is also known as α, is a fundamental co... |
18 March 2011
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An international collaboration of astronomers announces that it has been able to collect a new series of images depicting the most distant and mature galaxy cluster ever observed in the Universe. The study provided an interesting insight into structures of this type, considering that the target cluster apparently dev... |
9 March 2011
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An international collaboration of astronomers joined forces recently to gain a deeper understanding of a nearby star system, called beta Pictoris. The investigators were able to collect new, high-angular resolution photos of the giant extrasolar planet circling the stellar object. The system is located an estimated 6... |
4 March 2011
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According to a recent investigation conducted with an impressive telescope, it would appear that Albert Einstein's equivalence principle – which states that all laws of physics are constant throughout the Universe – is wrong. The data indicates that some constants may not be constant after all. Scien... |
28 December 2010
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Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) obtained six new beautiful images of galaxies recently, when they trained the HAWK-I camera on their Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the cosmic structures. The result was a series of photographs that depicted the very essence of the six galaxies, say experts with t... |
27 October 2010
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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
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A team of astronomers has been able to demonstrate for the first time that young galaxies can accumulate nearby cosmic gas in order to fuel their growth over time. This is done by using cool hydrogen gas to produce new, blue stars in specialized regions called stellar nurseries. There areas can be found throughout ga... |
14 October 2010
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A team of researchers in the United Kingdom believes it may have discovered a new type of black holes, after they were able to confirm the presence of an ultra-bright object in a nearby galaxy.The group, which was led by experts based at the University of Leicester, also included scientists from the United State... |
15 September 2010
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A team of physicists proposes that the measure known as the fine structure constant is not constant after all, basing their statement on a recent series of scientific studies. The new data appear to indicate that the constant is in fact influenced by the orientation of space, a phenomenon that produces small spatial ... |
26 August 2010
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When massive stars reach the end of their burning cycle, they explode in violent cosmic events known as supernovae. According to the latest computer models, just before the stars violently expel their atmospheres, they become very turbulent, which makes the explosion spread out matter unevenly in the former star'... |
4 August 2010
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Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have just released an amazing new view of one of the most beautiful and brightest galaxies in our galactic vicinity. Called Messier 83, the cosmic structure is visible on a dark night to amateur astronomers using nothing more than binoculars. Its position in the ... |
19 May 2010
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Using data collected with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO VLT), researchers were recently able to discover two protoplanetary disks. Both of the structures caught the eyes of astronomers because they were orbiting their respective parent stars at about the same distance that Earth c... |
14 April 2010
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Scientists using the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), in Chile, managed to discover some of the most elusive stars around the Milky Way. These particular suns are very important, because they represent the primitive remnants of a far older Universe. Finding them proved to be extr... |
17 February 2010
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In a series of recent observations, astronomers were able to observe the direct light emanating from an exoplanet. The celestial body is in orbit around its parent star, called HR 8799, about 130 light-years away from our planet. The young, Sun-like star has until now revealed three companions, all of which are very ... |
13 January 2010
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Ever since scientists first attempted to combine quantum mechanics with the theory of general relativity, there were those among them who argued that space and time (spacetime) was quantized at the Planck scale. As far back as the 1960s, expert John Wheeler devised a new word to explain the quantization of the struct... |
9 December 2009
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Scientists from the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have recently revealed the second image of the Milky Way, taken as part of the ongoing GigaGalaxy Zoom project. The first image was released less than a week ago, as we were telling you at the time. While the last photo was an i... |
21 September 2009
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Betelgeuse is one of the most massive stars observed from the Earth, but scientists have lately been astounded by the fact that it seems to be losing some of its mass and brightness to an unexplained phenomenon. Scientists wielding the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT), in Chile, have re... |
29 July 2009
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In an attempt to innovate the field of modern adaptive optics instruments, French researchers have managed to create the most advanced and sensitive astronomical camera to date, which holds the promise to be able to very accurately compensate for the “atmospheric turbulences” that annoy astronomers so muc... |
19 June 2009
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The largest facility for celestial observations owned by Europe – the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) – has recently received the first of its new upgrades, with the installation of the X-Shooter spectrograph, one of the many second-generation devices to be installed ... |
26 May 2009
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The Very Large Telescope has just photographed one of the most impressive galactic collisions in astronomy history, while at the same time capturing the explosion of a supernova, all in the same image. The two colliding galaxies, known collectively as Arp 261, are located in the Libra constellation and are more than ... |
17 March 2009
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Obtaining 3D views of galaxies has been something that even early astronomers wanted, as this type of images would give scientists large amounts of information to work with. They could identify trends in the motion of gases inside the formations, and could figure out exactly how the supermassive black holes at their ... |
11 March 2009
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In the traditional way of marking such events, the European Organization for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere has published two images of nebulae inside the Carina constellation. The Eta Carinae star with the Homunculus surrounding it is one of the nebulae featured in the pictures.Eta Carinae is a hyp... |
28 May 2008
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Ideal atmospheric conditions are often required during astronomical observations, since Earth's atmosphere has a distorting effect on the light traveling through it. In fact, the air in the atmosphere acts as a giant prism thus dispersing and decomposing light into its basic wavelengths, also known as 'colo... |
5 May 2008
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European Organization for Astronomical Research's Very Large Telescope is located on a 2,600-meter high mountain in the Atacama Desert in Chile, Cerro Paranal. The same location will be used to film some scenes of the next James Bond movie, 'Quantum of Solace'. The eerie environment with its red sand a... |
25 March 2008
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Brown dwarfs are not fully understood stars and the latest observations confirmed this by photographing such a star throwing jets of matter, a process characteristic of young stars. So, it would seem that these dwarfs follow a similar formation pattern to the one of normal stars, but outflows are driven out by these... |
24 May 2007
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