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Bright Nova Missed by Astronomers Spotted by XMM-Newton

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
04:41 GMT

XMM-Newton Spots Massive Cosmic Filament

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
09:16 GMT

Giant Galaxy Cluster Discovered!

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
03:02 GMT




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