A team of investigators announces the discovery of a massive, ring-like structure surrounding the large galaxy supercluster Abell 3376. The formation provides additional insights into how such large space objects form and keep themselves together.In order to peer deep into the Universe – and get as much resolut... |
25 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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Astronomers with the European Space Agency say that recent data provided by the ESA XMM-Newton space telescope indicate the existence of an unusual cosmic phenomenon. The readings show that a neutron star tried to gobble up a large chunk of matter, but failed to do so. Usually, when viewed in the X-ray wavelengths at... |
28 June 2011
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Astronomers looking for massive stars in the Milky Way believe they may have finally found a population of these immense objects near the galactic plane. Experts have been looking for them using a large number of X-ray and infrared observatories.
The thing about such a population of stars is that they release mas... |
16 April 2011
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Recent observations carried out with the XMM-Newton X-ray telescope managed to image very distant galaxy clusters in detail, providing additional evidence that dark energy, the force believed to drive the ever-accelerating universal expansion, actually exists.The X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission – Newton mission is e... |
20 January 2011
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Experts with the European Space Agency (ESA) produced one of the most interesting images of our neighboring galaxy, Andromeda, ever taken. Two space telescopes, the Herschel Space Observatory and the XMM Newton, were used to piece together this amazing view. Herschel, which launched in 2009 aboard the same Ariane 5 h... |
5 January 2011
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British scientists managing the XMM-Newton space telescope are getting ready to celebrate the observatory's tenth birthday tomorrow. The European Space Agency (ESA) will organize a special event in Madrid, Spain, in order to celebrate the event. Over the course of its mission, the small bus-sized instrument has ... |
9 December 2009
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Yet another exploding star was discovered in the Milky Way galaxy by Europe's X-ray space observatory, XMM-Newton, during a slew survey. It should have been spotted several days before the actual discovery by the thousands of astronomers throughout the world. According to estimations, the event should have been ... |
19 July 2008
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From our understanding of the universe as we see it we can safely say that ordinary matter all things we know are made of can account for only 5 percent of the total mass of the universe. The rest of 95 percent is made of dark energy and dark matter, elusive forms of energy and matter that haven't been yet direc... |
6 May 2008
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Galaxy clusters are the biggest structures observed in the visible universe and while most of the times they are easy to spot and classify, apparently, some can evade detection by hiding behind other such huge clusters. This was the case of the galaxy cluster Abell 3128 that, when observed in the X-ray light spectrum... |
17 December 2007
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