The NASA-operated Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has taken a deeper look into a very peculiar binary system, known as Cyngus X-3. It has discovered, in premiere, unambiguous evidence that high-energy gamma-rays are being produced by the structure, something that no other observatory was able to say for certain until... |
27 November 2009
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Starting yesterday, November 18, a large number of space telescopes around the world have begun to map the skies around our planet, with the express goal of creating a new reference system for future space observations. Just like the GPS reports your position depending on latitude and longitude, so too the position o... |
19 November 2009
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Between Wednesday, November 18, and Thursday, November 19, more than 35 radio telescopes around the world will take part in the largest effort ever of creating a sky grid. This system of reference will allow astronomers to better detect the position of various celestial objects, relative to the position of the Earth.... |
17 November 2009
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Millions of people use the perks of the Global Positioning System (GPS) every day, but few of us take a moment to consider how this exceptional invention works. Most people know that it establishes the position of a GPS receiver, which may be installed in a car, for example, based on the time it takes for beams o... |
30 October 2009
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Astronomers have finally discovered proof that confirms a long-held belief, namely that the shock waves generated by supernova explosions act like giant and extremely powerful particle accelerators. They came to this conclusion when they recently discovered that cosmic-ray particles, generated only when a massive sta... |
26 June 2009
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Astrophysicists investigating the latest results provided by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have discovered something truly amazing, and namely that a certain class of black holes has the ability to regulate its own growth, by simply shutting down or reducing the amount of high-speed particles they usually emi... |
26 March 2009
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The 3C 66A and 3C 66B distant galaxies seem to be harboring a very potent source of gamma-rays, an international team of scientists has recently announced, after a high-energy gamma-ray burst (GRB) was discovered by the MAGIC telescope in La Palma, the Canary Islands. The research team, which has involved several gro... |
6 March 2009
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Cosmic dust may be one of the most important barriers in our way to understanding the exact nature of the Universe, astronomers have recently said, following a new study by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-II). They have added that, regardless of an observer's position in the vastness of space, a direct view w... |
26 February 2009
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Astronomers managed to establish just recently that the Q0957+561 quasar, also called the twin quasar, doesn't owe its intermittent brightness to possible attractions from celestial bodies around. Instead, the unusual glow comes from the region itself, located approximately 9 billion light-years away from Earth,... |
30 January 2009
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As you probably already know, more than 95 percent of the matter in the universe is mostly invisible to the electromagnetic spectrum, meaning it is not emitting any form of light. However, just because an object is invisible, it does not necessarily mean it is not there. Astronomers searching for new distant galaxies... |
14 January 2008
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Even with the help of large space telescopes, we might never find the answers to some of the most intriguing mysteries of the universe. Though mankind has a number of space telescopes in the close orbit of the Earth, scientists want even more powerful tools to make detailed observations of the universe, to build bett... |
21 November 2007
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