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Experts with the American space agency announce that the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope has just produced a new set if images depicting a double nebula located relatively close to Earth. The murky area of stellar formation is thus brought back into the spotlight.From afar, the cosmic structure looks like a pair of weir... |
30 June 2011
05:51 GMT |
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Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have recently identified a cosmic spiral that has a nearly perfect geometric shape. The object is not a spiral galaxy, but rather a projection nebula. With the help of the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), the international research team managed to catch a glimps... |
7 September 2010
02:46 GMT |
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For more than two decades, astrophysicists have been puzzled by a very strange cosmic event. Every time a new, massive star is born – of the class whose members have several hundred times the mass of our Sun – it continues to gather material from the remnants of the clouds that collapsed to form it. This ... |
16 March 2010
20:01 GMT |
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In a newly-released picture, the Helix Nebula reveals parts of its rich galactic background, which looks amazing when compared to the eye-shaped galaxy. The European Southern Observatory (ESO)'s instrument, La Silla Observatory, based in Chile, has been used for this new picture, which has astronomers buzzing wi... |
26 February 2009
01:58 GMT |
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The Carina Nebula (NGC 3372) is one of the largest and brightest such formations in the sky, and also one of the most complex and intricate, as far as internal structures go. The 100 light-years-long formation is approximately 4 times larger than the Orion nebula, and is located in the Constellation bearing the same ... |
13 February 2009
04:49 GMT |
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The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is located approximately 160,000 light years away from our planet, in the southern constellation named Dorado, within Magellan's cloud, and it represents one of the most massive and active star forming places found in the vicinity of our galaxy. Its immense stars g... |
12 December 2008
10:53 GMT |
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The inner secrets of a pair of the most luminous stars ever discovered are finally revealed. The Hubble Space Telescope was able to take an unprecedentedly high detail picture of the stars in the Carina Nebula, lifting the veil (of gas and dust) from their faces. Much to the surprise of the team of astronomers, the b... |
26 November 2008
03:59 GMT |
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SuWt 2 is a planetary nebula located in the Centaurus constellation about 6,500 light years away from Earth. It appears as a bright ring of gas with faint lobes perpendicular to the ring, thus giving it the rough look of an hourglass shape. The gas remnant is probably material ejected from a dead star which collapsed... |
4 June 2008
05:03 GMT |
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More than eighteen years after it was launched into space, the Hubble Space Telescope is still the spearhead of our space exploration program, systematically mapping and bringing new and wondrous insight into what we call home, our universe. Recently, the Walters Art Museum has organized an exposition named "Maps: Fi... |
10 March 2008
10:17 GMT |
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In anticipation of the launch of the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy, or VISTA, expected to become operational by the middle of the current year, astronomers from the European Organization for Astronomical Research have mapped the content of a dark filament of molecular cloud named Corona Australi... |
7 March 2008
08:54 GMT |
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Take a good look at the picture of this nebula, this is how our solar system will look like in about 5 billion years or so. NGC 2371's glowing bubble of gas surrounding a white dwarf is a planetary nebula probably resulted in the explosion of an average star, relatively similar to the Sun. All that is left of th... |
4 March 2008
10:45 GMT |
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As a bit of a space freak myself, coming across this trio of iPhone web apps was a bit of a shock, but a pleasant one nonetheless. Apple's official website provides descriptions and links to iSkyGaze, Starry Night Mobile and LookUp, three spacey web apps designed to show you the stars and their exact locations, ... |
4 March 2008
08:58 GMT |
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Similarly to most gas clouds in the universe, Rho Oph is mainly composed of molecular hydrogen gas, in which new stars may form. Rho Ophiuchi is one of the closest star-forming nebula to our solar system, lying only 407 light years away, in a region of space located between the Scorpius and Ophiuchus constellations. ... |
12 February 2008
05:06 GMT |
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What seems to be a single object in the image provided by the Gemini Observatory is actually a structure formed by two separate different supernova explosions, which could have taken place about a few thousands years ago. The object located in the Large Magellanic Cloud was discovered in the early 1970 and classified... |
11 January 2008
09:25 GMT |
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Nebulae inside the Milky Way galaxy often receive high amounts of hot gas ejected by stars inside, which makes them emit radiation in the X-ray spectrum. Discovering these X-ray signatures could provide new information about young stars, which may hold secrets about the solar system and the planetary formation. The O... |
30 November 2007
06:42 GMT |
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Hubble has been observing one of the most investigated space locations for star genesis, the gigantic nebula NGC 3603, harboring one of the largest young clusters in the Milky Way. NGC 3603 is located in the Carina spiral arm of the Milky Way, around 20,000 light-years from the Sun System. Hubble Space Telescope sent... |
3 October 2007
05:15 GMT |
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A new image of the Rosette Nebula shows some remarkable cosmic dust sculptures, full of colors, testimony of the beauty of the universe in its inner working. Rosette Nebula, a nebulosity closely associated with the open cluster NGC 2244. Actually, the open cluster lies within the nebula, and it was discovered by Joh... |
6 June 2007
09:36 GMT |
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The Crab Nebula has been a real puzzle for astronomers for the past century, since the measured age didn't correspond to historical accounts. Now, a team of scientists recalculated its explosion date and finally solved the longstanding riddle.It is a supernova remnant in the constellation of Taurus, first obser... |
1 June 2007
10:44 GMT |
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The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a telescope in orbit around the Earth, named after astronomer Edwin Hubble. Its position outside the Earth's atmosphere provides significant advantages over ground based telescopes - images are not blurred by the atmosphere, there is no background light scattered from the atm... |
24 April 2007
10:05 GMT |
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Telescope imaging confirms what astronomers have theorized based on computer simulations. Dr Chris Wareing an his colleagues, based at Jodrell Bank Observatory, UK, have found evidence that giant whirlpools form in the wake of stars as they move through clouds in interstellar space.Initially, Dr Wareing and his coll... |
18 April 2007
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In nature, symmetry is the sign of beauty. Even humans find symmetrical faces to be the most beautiful. If this were to be applied to stars, then astronomers may have found the newest supermodel of the skies.Named Red Square (no connection with the famous Moscow central square), the bipolar nebula is the most symmet... |
13 April 2007
04:45 GMT |
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Eagle Nebula, also known as the Pillars of Creation, a young open cluster of stars, is like a stellar womb where astronomers have spotted a stellar embryo that could grow into a twin of our Sun. This baby star would be the earliest stage in a star's development ever detected. Hidden in a nodule of the left pill... |
6 March 2007
04:10 GMT |
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