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Black holes are extremely fascinating structures, and they've captured the imagination of astronomers for a wider variety of reasons. This is why a new meeting is taking place this week, where experts want to establish what is required in order for us to become able to photograph black holes directly.
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19 January 2012
02:43 GMT |
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An international group of astronomers announces the discovery of four new worlds. These extrasolar planets were confirmed in the first few days of the year, and represent a promising start for a year that shapes itself up to be excellent for such investigations.
Suffice it to say that we left 2011 with a total of 7... |
6 January 2012
10:49 GMT |
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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
10:20 GMT |
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Starting on Monday, December 26, the Moon and the planet Venus paired up in the night sky, and will remain in this position throughout the remainder of the week. This provides skywatchers with a great opportunity to observe both bodies at the same time.
Astronomers refer to such a pairing up as a conjunction. In th... |
28 December 2011
16:31 GMT |
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Each year sees about 20 meteor showers occurring all around the world, of which a select few are easily visible in the night sky. For December, the Geminid shower is the most famous, but it's not the only one. Late December always sees the peak of the Ursid meteor shower, which will occur tonight.
Astronomers a... |
22 December 2011
09:12 GMT |
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Anyone thinking that the Tegra platform wasn't going to make a name for itself anywhere outside the smartphone and tablet market would be dreadfully wrong. In fact, that would be particularly wrong to say since the technology might end up going beyond the confines of our little planet. Some may have heard of... |
6 December 2011
08:06 GMT |
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Officials with the European Southern Observatory (ESO) are extremely pleased to announce that their installations at the Paranal Observatory have recently received the visit of the Spanish crown prince and his wife. Spain was one of the latest countries to join ESO, doing so in 2006.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prin... |
25 November 2011
05:06 GMT |
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A group of astronomers argues that their field of study appears to be largely oblivious to the fact that 3D technologies are available for scientific instruments. Astronomy could be made more appealing to both scientists and the general public if 3D tools were to be introduced in its use. The necessary equipment is t... |
27 July 2011
09:21 GMT |
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Apple Design Award 2010 winner Vito Technology has announced the release of Star Walk 5.3, an updated version of the company’s popular stargazing guide for iOS device owners. This update is dedicated to the becoming-a-tradition Star Walk Month of Astronomy.
Available as a $3 download from the iTunes App Stor... |
15 July 2011
10:19 GMT |
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If astronomers will exist in the year one trillion, they will find it extremely difficult to conduct astrophysical and cosmological research, a team of experts believe. By that time, most of the guidelines we use for studying the Universe would have long-since disappeared. As current observations indicate, the Cosmos... |
24 June 2011
04:30 GMT |
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Recent investigations conducted on the massive spiral galaxy NGC 4013 is revealing an overlooked aspect of the formation, the fact that its odd shape is a direct result of the tidal interactions it's having with a close-by companion.The two galaxies are in fact almost entirely merged, with only a massive tidal s... |
20 June 2011
09:39 GMT |
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The international astronomical community is currently scrambling to analyze an impressive new supernova, that was observed taking place in the nearby galaxy Messier 51, also known as the Whirlpool Galaxy. The cosmic structure is located in one of the 88 official modern constellations, called Canes Venatici. In the ni... |
7 June 2011
10:57 GMT |
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A combination of effects produced by a dying Wolf Rayet-type star and its surrounding interstellar matter is responsible for the creation of a very interesting nebula in space, called Thor's Helmut.This object is somewhat unusual, astronomers say, because its core is powered by a giant star that is currently ver... |
9 March 2011
03:29 GMT |
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Astronomers are currently working on refining a new procedure aimed at making the search for planets outside our solar system more efficient. They are focusing their attention on detecting sun glints, which may serve as indicators that a world contains vast amounts of liquids on its surface. Recently, experts working... |
1 March 2011
07:46 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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Giovanni Battista Riccioli is a name that perhaps still holds some resonance with astronomy history buffs. Otherwise, the 17th Century Jesuit priest is relatively unknown. Still, he should be the one getting credit for discovering the Coriolis effect.The concept refers to the motion of objects in a rotating system, a... |
20 December 2010
08:44 GMT |
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In January 2005, astronomers peering into the night sky made an impressive find, a new celestial body which its discoverer first called Xena. Over the years, the finding proved critical, as it led to the creation of the dwarf planet category, and the demotion of Pluto from full-blown planet. Earlier this month, it wa... |
28 October 2010
03:05 GMT |
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A fascinating discussion is currently going on among astronomers, who believe that their field of research may become the first ever to become thoroughly automated within a couple of decades. If they are right, then this will represent the first time when this singularity is reached. The rate at which machines make d... |
4 October 2010
04:47 GMT |
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According to astronomers, it would appear that the large quantities of water that have been discovered on the Moon are nothing but bad news for experts and space agencies that were hoping to construct large telescopes on the surface of Earth's natural satellite. The water amounts may be a boon for planned manned... |
21 September 2010
03:02 GMT |
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The latest in astronomy and space science will be discussed during the week of September 6-10 2010, at the Joint European and National Astronomy Meeting – JENAM, at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal.At the event are expected nearly 600 astronomers from all around the world, who will ... |
2 September 2010
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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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The international astronomical community is today holding its breath pending the release of a tremendously-important report on the future directions of development for space exploration.Produced by the National Research Council (NRC), the new document will mention the top priorities that space sciences will have all ... |
13 August 2010
09:25 GMT |
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Astronomy is a relatively new field of research. Galileo first looked at the stars using a telescope some 400 years ago, and the earliest skywatchers followed suit soon. However, until the mid-20th century, not much was known about our solar system or the planets it contained, not to mention what lies beyond it. Sinc... |
29 July 2010
05:43 GMT |
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For thousands of years, space has been a mystery. Even from ancient times, humanity has been interested in viewing, exploring and understanding the stars. But in order to do this, we had to go through a lot of scientific evolution. Nowadays, we have telescopes and other sophisticated equipment that can help us v... |
28 June 2010
12:11 GMT |
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Scientists announce the development of a new computer algorithm that is capable of classifying galaxies depending on their shape and size. The system works in a manner very similar to that of the human brain, from which it draws its inspiration. Such an accomplishment is tremendously important for the field of astron... |
2 June 2010
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The Epsilon Aurigae star system is a peculiar stellar formation, astronomers say. For many years, scientists have been pointing their instruments at it, in hopes of gaining additional insight into how the structure actually looks like. Many have hypothesized that the system is a binary, but thus far pieces of evidenc... |
8 April 2010
05:01 GMT |
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For more than 50 years, radio astronomy has benefited from the capabilities of a process called interferometry, in gaining some of the sharpest images of the Universe possible with existing technologies. But, in spite of their positive results, astronomers operating these observatories failed to inspire their colleag... |
8 April 2010
04:25 GMT |
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Scientists operating the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory are trembling with excitement. Next year, they are scheduled to receive one of the most sensitive cameras ever built, called the DECam, or the DES camera. It was developed by the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), in Batavia, Illinois, an... |
12 March 2010
06:51 GMT |
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With more than 400 exoplanets identified in just a few years, one could easily argue that this field of research is one of the most prolific in astronomy today. Indeed, researchers seem to be in the habit of finding these celestial bodies at a very high rate, in spite of the massive technological difficulties associa... |
19 February 2010
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Astronomers have recently managed to snap a new photo of the behemoth star Betelgeuse, which appears to resemble our own Sun in more ways than one. According to the recently released image, there are two very bright spots on the surface of the massive star, each of which is similar to corresponding structures on the ... |
13 January 2010
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The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has just awarded Kelly Holley-Bockelmann, an assistant professor of Physics and astronomy at the Vanderbilt University, an important grant for studying the evolution and development of black holes. The VU professor is the recipient of the largest Faculty Early Career Developme... |
18 December 2009
04:43 GMT |
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As you all know, 2009 was the International Year of Astronomy (IYA). The year is unfortunately coming to a close, but numerous discoveries were made during the past 12 months, and, more importantly, a lot of new cooperations started, or continued. Under the pretense of the IYA, many research groups joined efforts for... |
12 December 2009
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One of the things that have always fascinated astronomers about Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, is the fact that its axis of rotation is tilted sideways, to a large extent. In fact, it nearly reaches the plane of its revolution around the star, which is something unique to the ice giant. After the planet sta... |
3 December 2009
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Most of the astronomical community today is keeping its eyes focused on the goal of finding Earth-like planets on the desired orbits around their parent stars, in systems thousands of light-years away. But a new group inside the community is arguing that a habitable world may also be identified in a moon circling a J... |
2 December 2009
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In spite of their massive observation capacities, today's telescopes are still limited in the amount of data they can observe. There are structures obscured or partially out of sight and analyzing them is just as important to our knowledge of the Universe as looking at the way the Sun works. But the process can ... |
24 November 2009
04:37 GMT |
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Central Michigan University professor Axel Mellinger has recently compiled a new groundbreaking image of the night sky, with the Milky Way at its center, by stitching up more than 3,000 individual photographs. The high-resolution panoramic view, presented in an interactive manner here, can be used by professional and... |
28 October 2009
12:22 GMT |
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Over the next decade, as new-generation telescopes will be built around the world, scientists will need to keep an eye on all datasets that come out of these machines, interpret them, analyze them, and then draw conclusions based on them. But everyone agrees that this is a fantasy, something that will be impossible t... |
27 October 2009
07:20 GMT |
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A new, high-detail telescope image has recently revealed one of our galactic neighbors, situated relatively nearby, which mimics the Milky Way in more ways than one. The spiraled giant has been dubbed NGC 4945, following astronomers' habit of terming all cosmic objects with catchy names. In the recent photograph... |
2 September 2009
09:48 GMT |
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Ever since the beginning of time, people wanted to see more and more, find out what secrets their planet held, and when they finally realized that there were virtually no other major discoveries to be made, they went on exploring the heavens. Since then, many dedicated their lives to uncovering the mysteries of the U... |
16 April 2009
12:41 GMT |
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This evening, people in several countries will be treated to the largest astronomical event in the 400 years of the discipline. A grass-root movement will be spread around the world, in a 100-hour marathon that will hopefully involve more than 1 million individuals. Basically, amateur and professional astronomy assoc... |
2 April 2009
09:58 GMT |
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EXAFS, standing for Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structures, are signatures in the spectra of X-ray astronomical sources that astrophysicists have been looking to identify for a very long time. Thus far, noticing and recording these signatures has been a very painstaking job, which has almost never ended in success... |
1 April 2009
06:26 GMT |
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The Deep Sky Project is an ambitious initiative, conducted by astronomers, engineers and computer scientists from the National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center, with the purpose of making an incredibly large astronomical database available to researchers around the world. After more than a decade o... |
1 April 2009
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Astronomical theories have thus far held that a massive star's life cycle is something that is clearly determined ever since its birth, and that there is nothing that can go amiss in the fairly simple process. Talking about celestial bodies some 100 times bigger and up to a million times brighter than the Sun, a... |
23 March 2009
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According to a recent announcement made by the American National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), astrophysicists at Washington University in St. Louis are the proud beneficiaries of a $3,225,740 research grant, which has been awarded to them so that they can speed up the designing and building stages of ... |
24 February 2009
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Researchers from Italy and the UK are currently engaged in actions meant to grant them the possibility of harvesting DNA samples from the body of the father of modern astronomy, Galileo Galilei. It's historically known that the great scientist suffered from intermittent eye problems over the second half of his l... |
23 January 2009
05:24 GMT |
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Although generally credited as the father of astronomy, and one of the earliest observers of celestial bodies outside our planet, Galileo was not the first to observe and sketch a map of the Moon, as many believe. Rather, an Englishman, Thomas Harriot, drew the first map of portions of our natural satellite as far ba... |
15 January 2009
04:35 GMT |
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The International Year of Astronomy is well underway, and one of the initiatives meant to celebrate the 4 centuries that passed since Galileo first studied the skies, using nothing more than a basic telescope, is to attempt to rebuild that device, and to get a glimpse of how the world could be seen through the scient... |
9 January 2009
04:40 GMT |
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The Antikythera mechanism, believed to be the world's oldest computer, has finally been replicated by a British museum curator, more than 100 years after it was first discovered. The original design, intricate and precise as a Swiss clock, was used to calculate dates, motions of the planets throughout our solar ... |
23 December 2008
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Some 400 years after Galileo Galilei made his work on the movement of planets public, the Catholic Church, through the words of Pope Benedict XVI, apologized for its mistake, namely accusing the scientist of heresy and sentencing him to house arrest for the rest of his life, in light of the fact that the Earth indeed... |
22 December 2008
08:51 GMT |
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Undoubtedly, the number one spot for this year's Top Scientific achievement is the discovering of cellular reprogramming techniques, which offer experts an invaluable tool in studying, understanding, and, potentially, curing such diseases as Parkinson's and diabetes. Sick cells can now be programmed into vi... |
19 December 2008
06:26 GMT |
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