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Scientists have shown in a newly-published paper that the rare Earth theory, stating that life only exists on our planet, is narrowly-focused, misleading, and ignorant of a number of facts. The experts add that, in all likelihood, life abounds in the Cosmos. Howard Alan Smith, PhD, a senior astrophysicist at the Harv... |
26 January 2011
08:10 GMT |
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Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) and the University Observatory Munich now have every reason to be proud – their new spectrograph was successfully installed on an American telescope, where it has already produced its “first light” study.The VIRUS-W instrument... |
25 January 2011
17:01 GMT |
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The Cosmic X-ray Background (CXRB) permeates the Universe, and some of its sources have been known for years. But it's only know that astrophysicists manage to confirm an older theory, showing that hidden black holes are partially responsible for the background's existence.Investigators say that supermassiv... |
21 January 2011
08:13 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking new study, a group of investigators has established from astronomical studies that the fine-structure constant (FSC) of the Universe is not the same now as it was a short while after the Big Band. This implies that not all laws of nature are the same over a lot of time and space.These conclusions ... |
13 January 2011
10:54 GMT |
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The most recent observations conducted with NASA's planet-hunting telescope, Kepler, have revealed the existence of a triple star system whose members are orbiting each other in a type of stellar ballet. According to the team that conducted the investigation, the stars sometimes align, as seen from Kepler's... |
13 January 2011
04:05 GMT |
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A couple of days ago, astronomers announced that the American space agency's planet-hunting telescope mission, Kepler, managed to identify its first rocky exoplanet. The finding now appears to hold, experts say. The star hosting the planet is one of the most well-analyzed in the world.
While we have no way o... |
12 January 2011
02:49 GMT |
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At a press conference held in Paris, France today, January 11, officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) presented the first scientific results of the Plank mission, which observes the Universe and its microwave background at very high resolution.Most of the announcements that were made today had to do with some o... |
11 January 2011
11:01 GMT |
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Astronomers operating the powerful Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) telescope recently got the visit of scientists from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), who calibrated their photo sensors for asteroid observations.This particular observatory, which is locate... |
10 January 2011
10:05 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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According to officials at the American space agency, an instrument aboard one of the latests telescopes to be launched in Earth's orbit is currently allowing solar physicists to keep the solar corona under 24/7 monitoring. This was never possible before.The achievement is made possible by the Atmospheric Imaging... |
4 January 2011
11:05 GMT |
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Astronomers announced that a 10-year-old Canadian girl has just discovered a new supernova of an yet-unknown type, in an image snapped on December 31, 2010. The finding itself was made on January 2, 2011, on Sunday. This discovery sets the record for the youngest ever astronomer to discover a new celestial body. Kath... |
4 January 2011
05:09 GMT |
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Representatives from the American space agency announce that an ambitious project to construct a telescope capable of detecting dark energy will need to be postponed for about a decade, due to cost overruns and mismanagement of another NASA project. According to the officials, construction on the James Webb Space Tel... |
4 January 2011
03:30 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, it could be that many nova explosions are slipping under astronomers' radar, depriving them of the chance to study events that could lead to a better understanding of this intricate phenomenon. In the research, the authors suggest that even novae that are very bright may be e... |
27 December 2010
10:32 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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Officials at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) announce that the impressively large IceCube Neutrino Observatory has been completed today, December 18, as the last components were buried beneath Antarctic ices.
INO is arguably the most sensitive telescope... |
18 December 2010
06:04 GMT |
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At an altitude of over 18,400 feet (more than 5,600 meters) above sea level, in the Chilean Andes, a new telescope is taking on form, one that will focus its upcoming investigations on scanning the Universe for signs of galaxy and forming, young stars.The facility is being built in northern Chile, and has been dubbed... |
17 December 2010
10:45 GMT |
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In a new image meant to reveal the huge number of flavors galaxies come in throughout the Universe, scientists used data collected by the WISE telescope, which celebrated it's one year anniversary a couple of days ago.The NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer spacecraft was launched on December 14, 2009, from... |
17 December 2010
03:18 GMT |
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Officials at the American space agency announce that the Kepler Mission experienced a glitch earlier this week, when the orbital telescope switched to the wrong guidance system while attempting to conduct its trademark investigations of distant stars. The observatory was supposed to switch to its finepoint guidance s... |
16 December 2010
02:51 GMT |
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According to experts, we may soon become able to detect the presence of things such as forests on other planets outside our solar system. All that is needed for this to happen is for the next generation of astronomical observatories to be installed. This may take as little as a couple of decades. When these advanced ... |
11 December 2010
07:05 GMT |
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The international astronomical community is current in doubts whether a recently-found extrasolar planet actually exists, or whether it is simply a fluke in long-term calculations. If the body is indeed real, then many of our theories on how planets form around stars may need revising. The peculiar object was discove... |
9 December 2010
02:52 GMT |
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The international astronomical community is trying to make sense of a peculiar star experts recently discovered some 2,000 light-years away from Earth, in the direction of the constellations Capricornus and Aquarius.According to scientists, this particular space body features the largest amount of zirconium ever dis... |
8 December 2010
04:18 GMT |
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Astronomers operating the new Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer (LBTI) are pleased to announce that the observatory has conducted its first astronomical observations, targeting the star Beta Peg in the constellation Pictor as its first observations target.After some 8 years of development, the tool is now read... |
7 December 2010
04:43 GMT |
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Proponents of a new early asteroid detection system say that, at a cost of just $1 million per observatory, the world could learn a week in advance whether a space rock is on a collision place. With such a preemptive measure in place, an asteroid, airburster or meteorite threatening to destroy an entire metropolis co... |
3 December 2010
10:54 GMT |
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This week saw the first science flight being performed with the airborne SOFIA telescope, which is an infrared observatory mounted at the back of a heavily modified airplane. Researchers are currently browsing through the data to derive new knowledge on the targeted objects. During the inaugural flight, SOFIA kept an... |
2 December 2010
04:46 GMT |
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Researchers operating the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) in the Netherlands are pioneering a new approach to conducting space observations in radio wavelengths. They are outfitting some of their antenna dishes with detector plates that boost the observatory's field of view.The WSRT contains a total ... |
30 November 2010
05:27 GMT |
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A group of astronomers says that the planet Jupiter is finally looking like itself again, after having lost one of its dark brown stripe of clouds, called the South Equatorial Belt (SEB).The atmospheric system is one of the two stripes of this nature the gas giant has, but it disappeared earlier this year under ... |
25 November 2010
03:56 GMT |
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We finally managed to reach the threshold! After 20 years of non-stop space studies, astronomers were able to move past the 500th exoplanet mark, as of November 19. Hundreds of other “candidate planets” are currently being investigated. The list of known planets inside the Milky Way has been growing at an... |
23 November 2010
05:37 GMT |
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A newly-signed contract designated experts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM) as the main operators of an impressive neutrino telescope, which is buried deep underneath Antarctic ices, near the South Pole. The group will be managing the impressive IceCube Neutrino Observatory (INO) under a $34.5 million con... |
23 November 2010
04:30 GMT |
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According to a recent cost analysis, it would appear that the next-generation space telescope that the American space agency is building will cost some $1.5 billion more than originally estimated. The panel that conducted the study says that the planned launch date will also slip further away, by 15 months minimum.Th... |
11 November 2010
02:35 GMT |
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Astronomers recently managed to snap an impressive photo of the galaxy NGC 7252, which is also known as Atoms-for-Peace. The view was taken by experts at the European Southern Observatory (ESO), using one of the organization's Chile-based telescopes. In addition to looking really nice, this particular galaxy is ... |
10 November 2010
06:36 GMT |
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According to a new astronomical study, it may be that the long-held belief that Eris is larger than Pluto is false. Data would now appear to suggest that Pluto is indeed larger than its Kuiper Belt “colleague.” For many years, astronomers have believed that the dwarf planet Eris was the largest body beyon... |
10 November 2010
04:34 GMT |
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Scientists at the American space agency are thrilled to announce that one of their telescopes managed to discover signs of the existence of an ultra-cold star, called a brown dwarf. These objects cannot be readily classified as either stars or enormous gas giants. NASA used the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WI... |
10 November 2010
03:10 GMT |
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Experts at NASA carried out a series of tests and verifications aboard the SOFIA aircraft last month, in preparation of early astronomical science flights, which mission controllers plan to start soon. During the tests, the heavily-modified 747SP was taken out of its hangar, and its telescope made to look at the star... |
9 November 2010
10:52 GMT |
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Nearly 50 years ago, a stellar explosion captured by telescopes posed a serious dilemma to astronomers trying to determine what type of cosmic event this was. Even now, so many years after the star disappeared, experts cannot agree on what it was. Two main camps were formed to explain the cosmic event, with one of th... |
6 November 2010
06:28 GMT |
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Astronomers believe they may have just discovered a new way of identifying Earth-like planets around distant stars, by looking for the type of light these celestial bodies reflect. The new technique is based on recent data that the NASA EPOXI mission collected of the planets in our solar system as it was chasing down... |
5 November 2010
03:36 GMT |
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Work on the James Webb Space Telescope, the successor of the renowned Hubble telescope, are progressing smoothly in the United States, but NASA experts wanted to know what sights the observatory will be able to see. A new series of simulations shows that.When completed, in a couple of years, the telescope will be the... |
4 November 2010
07:50 GMT |
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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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By browsing large survey databases from the Virtual Observatory, a group of experts managed to discover a new cataclysmic variable (CV), a class of cosmic events that are also called “novae.”Astronomers Ivan Zolotukhin and Igor Chilingarian, the leader of the research effort, explain that novae are in fac... |
22 October 2010
11:00 GMT |
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In the latest issue of the esteemed journal Science, six new studies show that the Moon actually contains an abundance of water, especially at ground zero, where the LCROSS spacecraft slammed into the lunar surface last year. That was the first instance in which a space agency carried out such a mission. A spent rock... |
22 October 2010
02:40 GMT |
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New data appear to indicate that it may become possible to use the interactions of exoplanetary gravitational forces to determine the existence of space bodies that would otherwise remain hidden from sight. Recently, the international astronomical community entered a frenzy when a team announced that it had potential... |
21 October 2010
06:31 GMT |
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When completed, the James Webb Space Telescope will be the most complex space observatory ever built, and ensuring that this will happen on time is a new Mission Systems Engineering team.The group is made up of experts at Northrop Grumman, the main contractor the American space agency selected for this project, and t... |
19 October 2010
09:20 GMT |
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NASA experts believe they may have observed the first known signs of an asteroid collision taking place in space. The possible event was recorded using the Hubble Space Telescope.The observatory was used to snap a series of shots of a peculiar structure that had an X-shaped object flying at the forefront of a debris ... |
14 October 2010
03:47 GMT |
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According to investigators, it could be that the month of October 2010 will mark a historic moment in exoplanetary research, when the 500th extrasolar planet is discovered orbiting its parent star. The first such planet was discovered less than two decades ago, but the past few years have been especially prolific in ... |
13 October 2010
02:33 GMT |
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Astronomers operating the VISTA survey telescope have recently snapped an incredibly-beautiful image of the star-forming region Monoceros R2, which is located within the constellation of Monoceros (the Unicorn).The new photograph was snapped in infrared wavelengths, which ensured that the maximum amount of detail was... |
6 October 2010
14:01 GMT |
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Astronomers now believe that the world should be more concerned about small asteroids than larger space rocks. The potential for destruction these so-called airbursters have is staggering. Hollywood and years of scientific consensus on the issue have made the public aware of the fact that large, Armageddon-style spac... |
5 October 2010
10:38 GMT |
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A group of engineers in the United Kingdom, at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), have begun subjecting one of the instruments that will go on the JWST to space-like conditions. The Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) is one of the critical components of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which is touted as th... |
4 October 2010
10:09 GMT |
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A fascinating discussion is currently going on among astronomers, who believe that their field of research may become the first ever to become thoroughly automated within a couple of decades. If they are right, then this will represent the first time when this singularity is reached. The rate at which machines make d... |
4 October 2010
04:47 GMT |
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Though further studies may be needed to validate the discovery, astronomers are convinced that they have discovered the Holy Grail of exoplanetary research – an Earth like planet revolving around another star. The existence of such cosmic bodies has been hypothesized ever since the first exoplanets were discove... |
1 October 2010
05:47 GMT |
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Physicists around the world are now hoping that a new generation of neutrino telescopes being built at the South Pole may help them determine which way antimatter will fall when released.That is to say, particle physicists are still unsure as to whether releasing a hypothetical piece of antimatter above Earth's ... |
21 September 2010
08:33 GMT |
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Taking advantage of the fact that the European Space Agency launched the most complex and powerful space telescope in the world last year, an expert team has conducted a series of new investigations on the Martian atmosphere, that are likely to clear up some long-standing mysteries.The Herschel Space Observatory was ... |
21 September 2010
06:35 GMT |
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