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1. Astronomers Observe Fast Growing Primitive Black Holes

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   Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Mar 18, 2010 - Quasars are active and very powerful black holes at the centre of distant galaxies. The black holes are extremely massive weighing between 100 million and 10 ... Wednesday, 17 March 2010

2. NASA's Spitzer Unearths Primitive Black Holes

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   Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 18, 2010 - Astronomers have come across what appear to be two of the earliest and most primitive supermassive black holes known. The discovery, based largely on observations from ... Wednesday, 17 March 2010

3. New Hubble Treasury Project To Survey First Third Of Cosmic Time

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   Boston MA (SPX) Mar 17, 2010 - Astronomers will peer deep into the universe in five directions to document the early history of star formation and galaxy evolution in an ambitious new project requiring ... Tuesday, 16 March 2010

4. New Hubble Project Will Survey Beginnings of Cosmic Time

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   ...  An ambitious new project using the Hubble Space Telescope will allow astronomers to peer deep into the universe in five directions to document the early history of star formation and galaxy evolution. ... Tuesday, 16 March 2010

5. Universe Puzzle No. 5

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   ... is a puzzle on a "Universal" topic – astronomy and astronomers; space, satellites, missions, and astronauts; planets, moons, telescopes, and so on. What do the following have in common? ... Sunday, 14 March 2010

6. World-wide Campaign Sheds New Light on Nature's "LHC"

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   ... like the formation of an alliance to defeat Darth Vader's Death Star, more than a decade ago astronomers formed the Whole Earth Blazar Telescope consortium to understand Nature's Death Ray Gun ... Thursday, 11 March 2010

7. Most Extreme White Dwarf Binary System Found

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   Warwick, UK (SPX) Mar 10, 2010 - An international team of astronomers, including Professor Tom Marsh and Dr Danny Steeghs from the University of Warwick, have shown that the two stars in the binary HM ... Tuesday, 09 March 2010

8. Bully Galaxy Rules The Neighborhood

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   Paris, France (ESA) Mar 08, 2010 - Located half a billion light-years from Earth, ESO 306-17, is a large, bright elliptical galaxy in the southern sky of a type known as a fossil group. Astronomers use ... Monday, 08 March 2010

9. Universe Puzzle No. 4

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   ... is a puzzle on a "Universal" topic – astronomy and astronomers; space, satellites, missions, and astronauts; planets, moons, telescopes, and so on. What's the next number in the sequence? ... Monday, 08 March 2010

10. NASA's Fermi Probes "Dragons" Of The Gamma-Ray Sky

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    Washington DC (SPX) Mar 03, 2010 - One of the pleasures of perusing ancient maps is locating regions so poorly explored that mapmakers warned of dragons and sea monsters. Now, astronomers using NASA's ... Tuesday, 02 March 2010

11. Using Gravitational Lensing to Measure Age and Size of Universe

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    ... lensing! Astronomers have used it to measure the shape of stars, look for exoplanets, and measure dark matter in distant galaxies. Now its being used to measure the age and size of the Universe. Researchers ... Tuesday, 02 March 2010

12. Universe Puzzle No. 3

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    ... is the 'odd one out'? And why? aragonite, diamond, ice, olivine This is a puzzle on a "Universal" topic – astronomy and astronomers; space, satellites, missions, and astronauts; ... Sunday, 28 February 2010

13. Universe Puzzle No. 2

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    ... some lateral thinking. And a reminder: this is a puzzle on a "Universal" topic – astronomy and astronomers; space, satellites, missions, and astronauts; planets, moons, telescopes, and ... Sunday, 21 February 2010

14. Dark Matter in Distant Galaxy Groups Mapped for the First Time

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    ... lensing – and so the distribution of dark matter – is to use the x-ray emission from the hot intra-cluster plasma to locate the center of mass. And that's just what a team of astronomers ... Sunday, 21 February 2010

15. Massive Stars' Magnetically Controlled Diets

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    Bonn, Germany (SPX) Feb 19, 2010 - A team of astronomers, led by Dr. Wouter Vlemmings at Bonn University, has used the MERLIN radio telescope network centered on the Jodrell Bank Observatory to show ... Thursday, 18 February 2010

16. Jurassic Space: Ancient Galaxies Come Together After Billions Of Years

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    Baltimore, MD (SPX) Feb 19, 2010 - Imagine finding a living dinosaur in your backyard. Astronomers have found the astronomical equivalent of prehistoric life in our intergalactic backyard: a group of ... Thursday, 18 February 2010

17. Astronomers Find Youngest Exoplanet Yet

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    Artist's impression of BD+20 1790b, the youngest exoplanet yet discovered. Credit: M. Hernon Obispo Overcoming interference from a very active young sun-like star, a group of astronomers were able to ... Thursday, 18 February 2010

18. Astronomy Without A Telescope – Don’t Make a Meal of It

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    You should always put out the old dinner set when you have astronomers around. It all starts innocently enough with imagine this wineglass is the Earth rotating on its axis… But then someone decides that ... Thursday, 18 February 2010

19. NASA's Chandra Reveals Origin Of Key Cosmic Explosions

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    Boston MA (SPX) Feb 18, 2010 - New findings from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have provided a major advance in understanding a type of supernova critical for studying the dark energy that astronomers ... Wednesday, 17 February 2010

20. NASA's Chandra Reveals Origin Of Key Cosmic Explosions

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    Boston MA (SPX) Feb 18, 2010 - New findings from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have provided a major advance in understanding a type of supernova critical for studying the dark energy that astronomers ... Wednesday, 17 February 2010