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Astrobiologists say that nebular clouds contain vast volumes of sugars, organic molecules that can be used to assemble the backbone of ribonucleic acid, a compound called ribose. From this perspective, nebulae are indeed the origins of life as we know it.
A theory called panspermia suggests that the Universe itself... |
26 March 2012
14:01 GMT |
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Covering more than 3 degrees of the night sky – more than three times the size of the full Moon, the Cygnus Loop is a large supernova remnant located in the constellation Cygnus (the Swan).
This amazing image of the object – also known as W78 and Sharpless 103 – was collected by the NASA Galaxy Evo... |
26 March 2012
10:24 GMT |
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Washington University in St. Louis (WUSL) astronomers propose a new model to explain the formation of the solar system. At this point, most of the international scientific community accepts that the planets developed from a protoplanetary disk.
This feature, formed even before the Sun finished maturing, held tiny ga... |
2 March 2012
09:27 GMT |
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An impressive view of the NGC 3324 stellar nursery was just released by astronomers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO). If you look close enough, it may consider the bright-blue area to the left as the mouth of a man who keeps his head bowed, and his eyes closed.
Another face can be observed in the outline ... |
1 February 2012
10:54 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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This amazing image reveals the Barnard 3 nebula in exquisite detail, as it appears in its entirety in the night sky. The object is located about 1,000 light-years away from the band of the Milky Way, and is considered to be a stellar nursery.
Objects such as these are rather common. However, Barnard 3 is special du... |
27 December 2011
03:06 GMT |
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Astronomers at the American space agency say that they've recently used the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) aircraft to conduct a series of scientific observations on the nature of the stellar nursery W40. This is one of the largest such structures in the entire galaxy.
The massive sta... |
22 November 2011
05:36 GMT |
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A new image, released by NASA and the Hubble Heritage Team, depicts the amazing nebula NGC 3603 in exquisite detail, revealing features that were not known to astronomers until the renowned telescope came online.
What makes NGC 3603 so special is the fact that it's among the largest stellar nurseries in the Mil... |
4 November 2011
11:32 GMT |
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In this recently-published composite image, the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope reveals the amazing beauty of the Messier 78 star forming region in the constellation of Orion. The object looks as if depicting two blazing eyes, set on a distant target.
Data included in this image were snapped in infrared wavelengths,... |
12 October 2011
03:39 GMT |
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While analyzing the star cluster NGC 1929, inside the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), astronomers discovered a structure that they refer to as a massive cosmic superbubble. Such formations are fairly rare, as they need a very specific set of conditions in order to develop.
This particular one is produced by a large... |
20 July 2011
07:27 GMT |
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Astronomers with the European Southern Observatory (ESO) recently trained one of their most important telescopes on an iconic target in space, the nebula that formed around the supergiant star Betelgeuse. The structure has now been observed in greater detail than ever before. In order to capture the best available vi... |
23 June 2011
08:16 GMT |
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The University of California in Berkeley (UCB) Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL) has recently posted a new image of the Elephant's Trunk Nebula on its website. The photograph was taken with the NASA Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) satellite. The spacecraft, which launched on December 14, 2009, has been ... |
13 June 2011
03:47 GMT |
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In a series of recent observations, investigators managed to determine the existence of a flowing cloud of cosmic dust in the Omega Nebula. The cloud, dubbed M17 SWex, is currently forming stars, but has not yet began igniting massive, O-type stars, experts say.O stars are the most massive stars in the Universe, and ... |
2 May 2011
05:37 GMT |
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Using the Hubble Space Telescope, a team of experts managed to get the most detailed view to date of the insides of the Tarantula Nebula, one of the most beautiful such structures in the known Universe. This outstanding feature is located in our neighboring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, and can be seen with ama... |
15 March 2011
07:05 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 say that they may have finally found the origins of a series of interesting structural features that can be seen in NGC 2359, a formation also known as Thor's Helmet. This is an emission nebula located in the constellation Canis Major, some 15,000 light-years away from our planet. The nebul... |
15 February 2011
05:58 GMT |
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Astronomers using the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope identified a peculiar structure lurking within the M17 nebula. Called M17 SWex, the formation is a dark dust cloud, which is apparently forming new stars at a frantic pace. Still, it has not yet produced O stars, the largest of them all. Observing this cloud would ha... |
18 January 2011
14:01 GMT |
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The Eagle Nebula is perhaps one of the most renowned structures in space. It was made famous by an image called “Pillars of Creation,” that was snapped by the Hubble Space Telescope more than a decade ago. Now, the observatory takes a new, in-depth look at the famous nebula. This cosmic formation is offic... |
5 January 2011
03:47 GMT |
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A team of astronomers analyzing our neighboring irregular galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), were recently able to determine that a structure located within its farthest reaches contains a heat source that is several thousand times more luminous than our Sun.The star at the core of our solar system is not a sm... |
30 December 2010
09:59 GMT |
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Just two weeks after celebrating its one-year anniversary in orbit, a NASA telescope has just beamed back some amazing images of massive cosmic dust and hydrogen gas clouds called nebulae. A little bit of processing done by experts at the space agency really brings out the details in these structures. Nebulae are the... |
27 December 2010
03:20 GMT |
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Most famously, the Cepheus constellation is home to the Bubble Nebula, and this is a widely known fact. However, it also contains a second nebula too, which lies right next to its more famous sibling. The emission and reflection nebula, called NGC 7538, was the object of a new study done recently.What makes this part... |
3 December 2010
04:16 GMT |
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One of the last great standing mysteries in astronomy is galaxy and star formation. Experts are disassembling the issue in its components, and are currently focusing on what controls the formation of new stars. This work has recently made important progress.The rate at which new, blue stars form in essential for the ... |
27 November 2010
07:09 GMT |
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A team of astronomers managed to obtain an impressive new view of a distant cosmic structure, which features two stars locked in a deadly dance. The two bodies are surrounded by a massive cloud of gas and dust, which makes it resemble a cosmic jellyfish.The experts used the NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (W... |
18 November 2010
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A group of astronomers announces that it has managed to demonstrate the existence of nanoscale carbon structures known as buckyballs in three planetary nebulae inside the Milky Way. This means that the cage-like molecules may indeed permeate the Universe, as proposed in several past scientific studies, which means th... |
28 October 2010
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A new view of the Orion Nebula taken with the NASA Hubble Space Telescope is revealing the existence of a large number of newly-forming blue stars, inside massive stellar nurseries. These cosmic structures are in fact molecular clouds of gas and dust, which tend to come together in very large formations, under the in... |
27 October 2010
06:50 GMT |
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Experts operating the Hubble Space Telescope have recently snapped a series of new images of the impressive nebula IRAS 05437+2502, which looks more like a cosmic ghost than a stellar nursery.The object is very faint, and also very distant, all while covering an area of the sky equal to roughly one eighteenth of the ... |
19 August 2010
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A group of investigators recently announced the discovery of the coolest known group of brown dwarfs. This is a very special class of stellar objects, experts say, given that they are produced just like stars, but fail to ignite completely. For many years, the international astronomical community has been struggling ... |
25 June 2010
07:14 GMT |
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Like all the segments of the IT industry, supercomputers have come a long way over the years. They have reached computational power beyond what people dared to dream a couple of decades ago. Additionally, those that create such clusters have begun experimenting with different approaches, such as GPU computing, while ... |
31 May 2010
05:58 GMT |
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In a finding that could help scientists get new insight into how our galaxy is made up, and what chemicals form its basis, researchers recently managed to identify new stellar nurseries in the Milky Way. These are regions of intense stellar formation, which churn up young, blue stars at regular intervals. These celes... |
27 May 2010
04:03 GMT |
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In spite of having been launched only a few months ago, the WISE Space Telescope is already proving its worth in the eye of astronomers. Its goal is to survey the entire Universe one and a half times over, but in the meantime, it's providing some spectacular vistas of nebulae, stars, near-Earth objects (NEO), as... |
24 May 2010
11:43 GMT |
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It's no longer a secret to anyone that our solar system is filled to the brink with all sorts of space rocks, ranging from comets and asteroids to meteorites. These objects continuously fly around the Sun, getting shot either towards the inner solar system, or back on the fringes, way beyond the orbit of Pluto. ... |
14 May 2010
04:33 GMT |
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Recently, a group of investigations identified a very interesting nebula in the sky, which they say contains an area that is in the process of giving birth to a new star. In other words, the massive clouds of cosmic dust and hydrogen gas that are generally credited for producing the celestial fireballs are currently ... |
11 May 2010
08:48 GMT |
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The European Space Agency's (ESA) Herschel Space Observatory is the largest telescope ever flown to space, and arguably the most advanced of its class. It surveys the sky in infrared wavelengths, with the express purpose of gaining more data on how the Universe appeared, and how the first stars began forming. It... |
6 May 2010
08:43 GMT |
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When it comes to answering questions related to how stars are formed, astronomers don't yet have the full answer. Naturally, they do know how things go generally, but the details of these remarkably-intricate processes still elude them. Now, thanks to a new set of observations conducted using an advanced Austral... |
5 May 2010
10:42 GMT |
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Like all other stars before it, and all those that will come after it, the Sun was born in a nebula, surrounded by thick, massive clouds of cosmic dust and hydrogen gas. It first ignited some 5 billion years ago, alongside tens to thousands of other stars, all of which must be of similar age and chemical makeup. Now,... |
28 April 2010
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Launched together with the Herschel Space Observatory, the Planck Telescope is one of the European Space Agency's (ESA) most prized possessions, and the most advanced and sensitive scientific instrument of its type. It was deployed to study the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the remnant radiation that was le... |
26 April 2010
12:37 GMT |
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Researchers at the European Space Agency (ESA) recently released one of the most amazing new images snapped by their Herschel Space Telescope. The instrument, which is the most advanced currently in orbit around Earth, managed to capture an impressive view of the Rosetta Nebula, a formation associated with a large ma... |
13 April 2010
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Today, March 31, astronomers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) release a new and highly-detailed map of a little-known region of space called Gum 19. This particular structure is basically a nebula, but it has a catch. When viewed in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, it reveals two very d... |
31 March 2010
15:01 GMT |
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Astronomers and astrophysicists were finally able to find the answer to a question that has been around for quite some time, namely why older galaxies appear to have been producing more stars than their modern counterparts. According to experts at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), this is largely... |
11 February 2010
06:28 GMT |
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The Herschel Space Observatory, the European Space Agency's new, advanced telescope, has recently started observing the Universe with unbelievable accuracy. As part of the first observations, it was pointed in the direction of the constellation Aquila, the Eagle. The structure is located some 1,000 light-years a... |
16 December 2009
10:47 GMT |
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Astronomers operating the Hubble Space Telescope have recently released a number of 30 new images of what they name cosmic “blobs and smudges,” all inside the famous Orion Nebula. All the structures, the team says, are planetary systems in the making, and they will come to resemble our own solar system ov... |
15 December 2009
02:55 GMT |
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The Bug Nebula is one of our galaxy's space structures that has been observed by scientists on several separate occasions, with the express purpose of imaging the star at its core. In spite of their best efforts, the research groups failed to do so until just recently. Using an advanced observatory, experts at t... |
10 December 2009
19:01 GMT |
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Using its impressive Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), the Hubble Space Telescope has recently managed to snap a series of impressive photos of the Iris Nebula, a structure also known as NGC 7023. The nebula actually hides a stellar nursery, a region of intense stellar formation that produces new, blue stars at an i... |
1 December 2009
10:49 GMT |
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The International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009) saw the launch of numerous projects related to cosmic exploration. One of the most useful is the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) GIGAGALAXY ZOOM project, which aims at creating three amazing, ultra-high-resolution images of the night sky that online starga... |
15 September 2009
03:46 GMT |
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Planetary nebulae have been first discovered some three centuries ago, but the astronomers of the time, being unable to clearly identify them, named nebulae by attributing them the name of "planetary", mostly because they seemed to have some resemblance to the planet Uranus. In the middle of the 19th century astronom... |
11 March 2008
04:52 GMT |
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The Milky Way, our home galaxy, a collection of more than 200 billion stars emitting light in all directions, is now being probed, in the hope that we will find more stars in their early stages of life, which would reveal how our own sun formed, and stars in the dawn of their lives that might share their secrets rela... |
11 December 2007
06:43 GMT |
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We've all seen our share of pictures from outer space and it's undeniable the images are simply breathtaking. For one, if I had the money, I'd be the first to join those space trips the Russians are offering. Sure, Madrid or the Grand Canyon are great sights, but destinations such as the Moon or Mars s... |
28 March 2007
11:31 GMT |
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