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1. This Week in Space — Apollo-Soyuz Anniversary Edition

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   ... and more. There's also a look at Virgin Galactic's latest test flight and a look at the latest of what's going in Congress with NASA's budget. © nancy for Universe Today, 2010. ... Wednesday, 28 July 2010

2. Virgin's Spaceship Enterprise Makes First Crewed Flight

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   For the first time, Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo, named the Enterprise, flew with crew on board. While it stayed attached to the "Eve" mothership for the duration of the July 15 flight, ... Monday, 19 July 2010

3. Pluto Goes into the Dark

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   ... wonderful astronomical images, check out John's website, Galactic Images. © nancy for Universe Today, 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Astrophotos, Pluto Feed ... Wednesday, 14 July 2010

4. Mysterious Giant Gas Ring Explained

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   ... Telescope, the scientists were able to detect an optical signature of the ring corresponding to star forming regions. This observation rules out the primordial nature of the gas, which is of galactic origin. ... Wednesday, 30 June 2010

5. Finding the Origin of Milky Way's Ancient Stars

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   ... Society Many of the Milky Way’s ancient stars are remnants of other smaller galaxies torn apart by violent galactic collisions around five billion years ago, according to researchers at Durham University, ... Tuesday, 29 June 2010

6. Bursting 'Bubbles' - The Origin Of Galactic Gas Clouds

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   ... Galaxy, sitting 400 to 10 000 light-years outside the Galactic disk. They are big: an average-sized cloud contains hydrogen gas 700 times the mass of the Sun and is about 200 light-years across. "We're ... Monday, 31 May 2010

7. Astronomers Discover Clue To Origin Of Milky Way Gas Clouds

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   ... been uncertain," Lockman explained. The research team used data from the Galactic All-Sky Survey, made with CSIRO's Parkes radio telescope in Australia. When the astronomers compared the observations ... Wednesday, 26 May 2010

8. Swift Survey Finds Smoking Gun Of Black Hole Activation

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   ... near a supermassive black hole containing between a million and a billion times the sun's mass. Giving off as much as 10 billion times the sun's energy, some of these active galactic nuclei (AGN) are the ... Wednesday, 26 May 2010

9. Bright Galaxies Like To Stick Together

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   ... something to chew over". This work, conducted as part of the Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey (HerMES) Key Project of the Herschel mission, will be published in the international science journal ... Wednesday, 26 May 2010

10. NASA's Airborne Observatory Prepares For Debut Flight

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    ... engineers and technicians from the United States and Germany. Once SOFIA is in regular operation, FORCAST will collect high-resolution infrared images of the galactic center, regions around forming stars ... Tuesday, 25 May 2010

11. Supermassive Black Holes May Frequently Roam Galaxy Centers

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    ... So searching for displacements is an effective way to constrain the merger history of galaxies." Jets, such as the one in M87, are commonly found in a class of objects called Active Galactic Nuclei. ... Tuesday, 25 May 2010

12. Taking A Narrow View Of A Lopsided Galaxy

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    ... to capture the colorful galactic lightscape. The unprecedented detail and clarity of the image reveals myriad bubbles, shock fronts, star clusters, and sites where massive stars are being born. Located ... Tuesday, 25 May 2010

13. SETI Redux: Joining The Galactic Club

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    ... the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has only found silence. He also outlines what we need to do for planet Earth to be initiated into the Galactic Club. The Great Silence, the failure ... Monday, 24 May 2010

14. New Cause For Supernova Explosion Identified

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    ... II. As the light curves of Type Ia supernovae are very characteristic and uniform, astronomers use them as "standard" candles in extragalactic astronomy to determine the distance to their host galaxies. These ... Wednesday, 19 May 2010

15. Mars Contamination Dust-Up

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    ... in addition to the five potentially lethal or "biocidal" factors the researchers tested. These other biocidal factors include galactic cosmic rays, solar particles such as protons or neutrons, or high ... Tuesday, 18 May 2010

16. Texas A And M-Led Research Finds Ancient City Of Modern Galaxies

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    ... moons, the largest extragalactic survey of space ever made - the Spitzer Wide-area InfraRed Extragalctic (SWIRE) survey. The team focused on a cosmic region of the survey that previously had been observed ... Saturday, 15 May 2010

17. Black Holes Are The Gas Blowers Of The Universe

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    ... dramatic effect on the surroundings: they eject sufficient energy to blow the intergalactic gas out of the gravitational well of the galaxy group. The mystery of the missing gas in galaxy groups is ... Tuesday, 11 May 2010

18. Ancient City of Galaxies Looks Surprisingly Modern

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    ... a population of about a million residents - a figure not again matched until the early 1800s in London - so too was this galactic grouping an advanced civilization for so early an era in the developing ... Tuesday, 11 May 2010

19. X-ray Discovery Points To Location Of Missing Matter

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    Boston MA (SPX) May 12, 2010 - Using observations with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton, astronomers have announced a robust detection of a vast reservoir of intergalactic gas about ... Tuesday, 11 May 2010

20. X-Ray Observations Find Evidence for "Missing Matter" in the Universe

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    This artist's illustration (left) shows a close-up view of the Sculptor Wall, which is comprised of galaxies along with the warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM). Credit: Illustration: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss; ... Tuesday, 11 May 2010