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The video game arm of LucasArts, the company that holds the Star Wars license and it implicated in all projects that use it, has announced that it has thought about making Star Wars: Galaxies a free-to-play title and has decided that the model is not suited for the MMO before taking the decision to close it down befo... |
18 July 2011
17:21 GMT |
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New investigations are proving that the evolution of galaxies is a complex and continuous process, and one that does not conclude once a galaxy reaches a certain mass or size. The phenomenon continues over billions of years, but the way in which the cosmic structures grow differ. Early on, when a galaxy is just formi... |
18 July 2011
06:00 GMT |
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One of the most enduring and difficult mysteries in astronomy today is a conundrum called the “Axis of Evil.” Recently, experts gathered in the United Kingdom to discuss it, as well as the latest measurements conducted on galaxy clusters. What this contradiction refers to is how to measure the weight of t... |
4 July 2011
08:03 GMT |
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For many years, astronomers believed that galaxies developing in the early Universe were very much like voracious tigers, growing in size by literally cannibalizing on other galaxies. But new data appear to indicate that the structures were more like grazing cows, growing in size by accreting gas. In order to reach t... |
1 July 2011
10:02 GMT |
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A group of players who have created a petition to keep the MMO Star Wars Galaxies running past its already announced end date have revealed that they are planning to launch a class action lawsuit against Sony Online Entertainment.
It seems that the group is 50 members strong at the moment and that the main reason ... |
30 June 2011
04:54 GMT |
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About six years ago, telescopes operating in visible-light wavelengths began detecting ancient, massive cosmic blobs. These structures are fuzzy galactic halos located inside galaxy superclusters. Within these blobs, experts are now discovering galaxies that are trillions of times brighter than the Sun. Cosmic blobs ... |
27 June 2011
05:03 GMT |
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An international group of astronomers is currently working towards gaining a better understanding of the types of galaxies that exist in the Universe. Their goal is to revise the Hubble Turning Fork, the basic systems used to classify galaxy types. Famous astronomer Edwin Hubble proposed the earliest model of classif... |
21 June 2011
04:25 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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According to a new scientific study, it would appear that the first black holes to develop in the early Universe – in the central regions of young galaxies – were even more difficult to spot than their more modern counterparts. They were obscured by clouds of cosmic dust and hydrogen gas. For many years, ... |
16 June 2011
04:36 GMT |
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Investigators at the Niels Bohr Institute announce the discovery of some low surface brightness galaxies, in a finding that proves these structures are more common throughout the Universe than anyone originally thought. These galaxies stand out through the fact that they are very small, but also because experts have ... |
15 June 2011
04:24 GMT |
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A new scientific investigation has revealed the presence of yet another enormous black hole, at the core of a galaxy where experts had already discovered a supermassive black hole during previous studies. The two cosmic giants apparently share the same home, experts say, inside the galaxy Markarian 739. The cosmic st... |
11 June 2011
02:29 GMT |
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A collaboration of astronomers announced the discovery of two protostars, located extremely close the the supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Way. The objects were found just outside the dark behemoth's sphere of influence.The thing that perplexes astronomers about this finding is that the objects s... |
6 June 2011
05:59 GMT |
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Using state-of-the-art computer simulations, and the latest discoveries on the nature of stars, a team of experts has recently compiled a new model of stellar birth. The work might finally solve some of the mysteries related to the development of star clusters, and to the pattern in which these stars spread.When obse... |
2 June 2011
05:05 GMT |
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Hundreds of black holes, weighing it at several thousand solar masses each, could be roaming the Milky Way, say investigators who recently conducted a new scientific study on the issue. These object are massive enough to devour entire planets whole. Seeing black holes directly is impossible, but experts know enough a... |
2 June 2011
04:10 GMT |
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A recent investigation conducted using the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed an interesting phenomenon going on inside the cores of galaxies that everyone thought were inactive. New images indicate that stellar formation is taking place at those locations still.Messier 105 was one of the elliptical galaxies that wa... |
31 May 2011
05:52 GMT |
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By combining the infrared capabilities of the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope with the shorter-wavelength infrared and visible ones from the Subaru Telescope, in Hawaii, astronomers recently managed to obtain an amazing view of a distant cluster of galaxies.
The large cosmic structures appear only as tiny red dots i... |
27 May 2011
02:37 GMT |
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The collaboration of experts handling the scientific return of the NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission released a mix containing images of 9 galaxies today. The release heralds the publishing of the full WISE galactic catalog. During its stay in Earth's orbit, the spacecraft conducted one and... |
26 May 2011
05:44 GMT |
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After more than a decade of surveys, experts finally managed to wrap up work on the most complete, detailed, 3D map of the local Universe ever developed. The map covers an area extending more than 380 million light-years into space. One of the most impressive achievements of the 2MASS Redshift Survey (2MRS) is that i... |
25 May 2011
11:38 GMT |
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In a new scientific research, experts were able to figure out that black holes across the Universe are today spinning a lot faster than they used to when the Cosmos was only a fraction of its current age. The reasons why this happens remain unexplained, but investigators are proposing a series of theories that might ... |
24 May 2011
05:59 GMT |
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Astronomers at the Stanford University say that only 4 percent of all the galaxies in the Universe have neighbors, like the Milky Way does. Our galaxy has at least two dwarf galaxies as companions, but it may also feature other, yet-undetected neighbors.
Throughout the Universe, this is a fairly rare situation, i... |
21 May 2011
06:05 GMT |
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A group of astronomers has just finished carrying out a large-scale census of galaxies across the Universe, in an effort that they hope will manage to evidence the existence of dark energy. This is the force that experts say is pulling the Cosmos apart at increasing speeds.
Dark energy was proposed by researchers... |
20 May 2011
02:51 GMT |
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Experts now propose that our galaxy features 3 galactic arms, rather than 2 proposed until now. The discovery also implies that the overall shape of the Milky Way may be a bit different than calculated based on the old data. The fact that Milky Way is a spiral galaxy has been proposed – and widely accepted &nda... |
16 May 2011
09:29 GMT |
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Astrophysicists are convinced that there is something they are not seeing in the Cosmos: a source for the X-ray background that dedicated telescopes are observing. Now, they propose that black holes smothered in dust, hidden at the cores of active, but undetected galaxies, are responsible for this. This pro... |
13 May 2011
14:11 GMT |
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Using radiation emitted by a maser in the Andromeda galaxy, astronomers are now analyzing the path our neighboring galaxy is taking, in an effort to determine whether and when it will collide with the Milky Way. The new study may help improve current estimates. At this point, scientists believe that it will take abou... |
10 May 2011
04:43 GMT |
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Data collected using the most advanced space telescope in the world are indicating that some galaxies may develop storms that are so powerful that they wipe out the gas used for forming new stars. These storm-like events generate a huge outflow of hydrogen gas out of stellar nurseries, and then out of galaxies, leavi... |
9 May 2011
10:57 GMT |
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Astronomers operating the Hubble Space Telescope believe they may have just discovered the oldest galaxy in the Universe. It appears in an ultra-deep field image taken with the powerful observatory, and initial estimates place it at a distance of about 13.2 billion light-years. This means that the light it emits bega... |
6 May 2011
09:56 GMT |
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For years, experts have been trying to explain how is it that huge plumes of radiation seen coming out of black holes form. Now, new studies are beginning to clear up this mystery, while new spacecraft prepare to launch and confirm the discoveries. Each of the trillions of galaxies in the known Universe features a bl... |
6 May 2011
04:48 GMT |
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A recent series of observations has revealed more details about how black holes formed in the early Universe, when the massive galaxies we see today were not yet formed. The data were collected by analyzing Henize 2-10, a dwarf starburst galaxy. The cosmic structure is estimated to lie about 30 million light-years aw... |
3 May 2011
04:27 GMT |
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A group of astronomers has recently published a new report, indicating areas in the Universe that are very likely not to be able to support Earth-like exoplanets. Finding such an object is the holy grail of exoplanetary research, and so this list may help save researchers a lot of time.
The investigation is also ... |
2 May 2011
07:22 GMT |
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In a recent series of scientific observations of the night sky, astronomers managed to capture an amazing image of a pair of galaxies. The members in this group are locked together in a dance that will most likely lead to a merger in the distant future.The two formations are currently located fairly close to each oth... |
21 April 2011
05:40 GMT |
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Just 200 million years after the Big Bang, the Universe may have already seen the formation of the first elliptical galaxies. In a new study, astronomers propose that much more such galaxies existed in the early Cosmos than was previously estimated. Until recently, experts were convinced that the first stars appeared... |
18 April 2011
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When cosmologists looked to see what happens at the boundaries of the Universe, they noticed something that no one expected – a tendency of the most massive galaxy clusters in existence to head towards a single hot spot in space. Why this happens is still a mystery.
Exploring the boundaries of the known Cosm... |
16 April 2011
05:16 GMT |
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The results of a new scientific study suggest that the earliest galaxies ever to develop within the Universe appeared about 200 million years after the Big Bang exploded everything into being. If this is true, then these findings are in direct violation of established cosmological models, which show that the earliest... |
14 April 2011
08:37 GMT |
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Astronomers with the European Space Observatory (ESO) have recently identified a dwarf galaxy that lies within one of the massive voids that forms between large-scale structures in the Universe. At the macroscale, the Cosmos is very different than astronomers took it to be in theoretical research. Galaxies have a ten... |
2 April 2011
02:30 GMT |
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In 2005, astronomers using visible-light telescopes to analyze the night sky identified a new class of cosmic objects, that they called blobs. They resembled spherical patches of light, usually found inside large-scale structures such as galactic filaments and clusters. The closest such blob that astronomers were abl... |
31 March 2011
05:23 GMT |
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Analysis of the large-scale flow of galaxies, clusters and superclusters are setting the grounds for new scientific theories that may have been cataloged as “heresies” just a few years back. Researchers are shedding serious doubts on the currently-accepted astronomical model explaining the Universe. One t... |
28 March 2011
03:48 GMT |
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Astronomers recently managed to snap a new view of the Perseus Galaxy, one of the most beautiful in the known Universe. The crystal-clear image was snapped using the Suzaku space telescope, which conducts survey in X-ray wavelengths. The observatory is operated by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). It was... |
25 March 2011
05:21 GMT |
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Skywatchers and amateur astronomers in the Northern Hemisphere will soon be able to see components of the Coma/Virgo supercluster, one of the largest structures in the observable Universe. The objects will start to become visible throughout this spring.Also called the “Realm of Galaxies,” the supercluster... |
21 March 2011
04:09 GMT |
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A group of investigators has just released a new version of a standard image depicting the core of our galaxy. The new view places an emphasis on determining the number and type of stars that exist near the center of the Milky Way.
Even at a brief glance, it becomes apparent that the central regions of the 100,00... |
19 March 2011
07:25 GMT |
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Over the past few years, more and more experts have begun wondering whether the Big Bang model is indeed the most efficient one at explaining how the Universe came to be. Data are beginning to pile up showing evidence to contrary, and increasing numbers of astronomers are starting to listen. This theory holds that th... |
17 March 2011
10:01 GMT |
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An international collaboration of astronomers announces that it has been able to collect a new series of images depicting the most distant and mature galaxy cluster ever observed in the Universe. The study provided an interesting insight into structures of this type, considering that the target cluster apparently dev... |
9 March 2011
05:01 GMT |
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After a series of new observations, astronomers have finally been able to identify the origins of the galactic windstorms developing in the galaxy Messier 82. Apparently, the phenomena originate in a large number of young star clusters, and not in just a single source. Experts even released a new set of images, showi... |
8 March 2011
03:45 GMT |
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Astronomers have discovered a light signature in a nearby galaxy that appears to have been produced by a white dwarf in the process of being ripped apart by tidal and gravitational forces. In a new study, a team of experts proposes that the stellar remnant fell victim to a supermassive black hole that was about 1,000... |
3 March 2011
04:43 GMT |
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Astronomers were recently able to catch a new view of a beautiful galaxy located relatively close to Earth, in the direction of the Sculptor Group. The object is called NGC 247, and it is inclined at a steep angle as viewed from our vantage point. The image was collected by experts with the European Southern Observat... |
2 March 2011
08:17 GMT |
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According to astronomers, Centaurus A, one of the nearest galaxies to the Milky Way, is the brightest source of radio waves as seen from Earth. They say that, if humans could see these wavelengths, then the galaxy would occupy an area of the sky equal to 20 times the apparent size of the full Moon.One of the things t... |
14 February 2011
10:41 GMT |
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American investigators have just been granted approval to construct a telescope that will be able to peer back as much as 10 billion years into the history of the Universe, and determine how dark energy shaped it. The findings could help explain how the Cosmos is set up.There are numerous researchers who believe that... |
3 February 2011
16:01 GMT |
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Following new observations of distant elliptical galaxies that unusually bright and massive, experts are beginning to recreate a new image of the early Universe, when it was about a quarter of its current age.
The studies reveal a place that seemingly contained numerous contradictions, as well as many extremes. Ma... |
3 February 2011
01:58 GMT |
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Scientists operating one of the most sensitive telescopes in Earth's orbit announced recently that they were able to discover the existence of free-floating magnetic fields around galaxies, and even galactic clusters. The experts say these structures resemble the magnetic field around our planet.This is a very i... |
2 February 2011
10:34 GMT |
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Astronomers working in South America were recently able to capture a new set of images of a bright spiral galaxy, located relatively close in astronomical terms. The object appears crystal-clear in the new view, which is one of the most beautiful produced by this telescope.The observations were conducted by experts a... |
2 February 2011
08:48 GMT |
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The central region of our galaxy is most definitely inhabited by a black hole, says a team of researchers that analyzed the orbits of stars at the core of our galaxy, as they were spinning around its very center. In-depth analysis of the stellar trajectories revealed that they must all be influenced by a single gravi... |
1 February 2011
06:30 GMT |
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