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Stories about: carbon monoxide

Failed Stars Are Born Like Real Ones The concept of brown dwarfs is somewhat cloudy to astronomers, and it describes a planet not large enough to be a star, although it shares some characteristics, it seems. Scientists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have managed to accomplish a task they t... 4 December 2008 07:17 GMT Measuring the Temperature of the Distant Universe with a Molecule With the help of the Very Large Telescope, ESO astronomers have recently obtained an ultraviolet signature of carbon monoxide molecules inside a well hidden galaxy located 11 billion light years away from Earth. The VLT used its UVES spectrograph for a period of 8 hours to study the galaxy, during which time it obtai... 13 May 2008 03:42 GMT