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This week, astronomers reported the brightest star explosion in our own galaxy and were all thrilled by the size and amount of light that the most spectacular supernova ever recorded had produced.Surely, they would be thrilled to see another explosion even closer to our solar system, like perhaps the star Eta Carina... |
12 May 2007
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Dark matter is a concept than has been widely discussed in the last years among astronomers. So far, most theories have been trying to explain the origins, properties and purpose of this exotic matter.Unfortunately, until now, none of the astronomers can say what this illusive matter looks like, although recently th... |
11 May 2007
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This is the roof of the world. The way the highest mountainous chain (Himalaya) and plateau (Tibet) on Earth have formed has always fascinated scientists. Cornell geologist Larry Brown is lead-researcher of an international seismic profiling team that has been working for more than 15 years in Tibet, using explosion... |
7 May 2007
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The emissions of hot jets and gas from a distant galaxy are yielding an odd interaction between radio and X-ray signals. The galaxy, known as 3C442A, sits about 390 million light-years from Earth towards the constellation Pegasus. Astronomers believe that supermassive black holes at the center of most galaxies (mill... |
10 April 2007
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Without a Bruce Willis to protect, California remained the victim of an Armageddon 35 million years ago. That's the time when a research team believes that a meteorite as big as three football fields hit the golden state. The impact could have made a giant 3.4 miles (5.5 km) wide craterlike formation buried 4,9... |
29 March 2007
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Can you imagine an ice ball as big as Pennsylvania hitting an Alaska-sized dwarf planet, spitting off material on the Sun system and delivering two brand new moons for the planet? This is what happened in the outskirts of our Sun system a few billion years ago. "It's just a spectacular story," said planetary sci... |
15 March 2007
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