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1. Into the Looking Glass

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   ... instruments optimized to detect this light. Warm objects give off infrared light, or heat. If the Webb telescope mirror is too warm, the faint infrared light from distant galaxies may be lost in the infrared ... Tuesday, 27 July 2010

2. First Quasar Gravitational Lens Discovered (w/video)

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   ... fantastic images of rings, arcs and crosses composed of massive galaxies light years away. As the light from a background object is bent by gravity around a foreground object, multiple, magnified images ... Wednesday, 21 July 2010

3. WISE Mission Completes All-sky Infrared Survey

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   ... | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Asteroids, galaxies, infrared, molecular clouds, pleiades, WISE Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh  ... Tuesday, 20 July 2010

4. Boatload of Herschel Science Papers Released

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   ... are dedicated to observations of many astronomical targets from bodies in the Solar System to distant galaxies. Herschel is the only space observatory to cover a spectral range from the far infrared to ... Friday, 16 July 2010

5. Celestial Fireworks

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   ... distant universe. Astronomers also use massive clusters to study distant starbursts that occur when galaxies collide, igniting a flurry of star formation. The proximity of NGC 3603 makes it an excellent ... Monday, 05 July 2010

6. Mysterious Giant Gas Ring Explained

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   ... © CFHT/Astron - P.A. Duc From a Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope press release: An international team unveiled the origin of the giant gas ring in the Leo group of galaxies. With the Canada-France-Hawaii ... Wednesday, 30 June 2010

7. 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

8. Radio Observations Provide New Explanation for Hanny's Voorwerp

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   ... while she was classifying galaxies for the Galaxy Zoo online citizen science project. Until now, the working hypothesis for the explanation of this unusual object was that we might be seeing the "light ... Thursday, 24 June 2010

9. Cosmologists Provide Closest Measure of Elusive Neutrino

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   Slices through the SDSS 3-dimensional map of the distribution of galaxies. Earth is at the center, and each point represents a galaxy, typically containing about 100 billion stars. Galaxies are colored ... Wednesday, 23 June 2010

10. A Matter of Perspective

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    ... whole sky -- from asteroids to stars to powerful, distant galaxies. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA ... Tuesday, 22 June 2010

11. Zoom into a New VISTA of the Sculptor Galaxy

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    ... of Zoom into a New VISTA of the Sculptor Galaxy (176 words) © nancy for Universe Today, 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: ESO, galaxies, NGC 253, VISTA Telescope  ... Thursday, 17 June 2010

12. Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast: June 4-6, 2010

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... here tonight, don't let that stop you from enjoying some of the finest galaxies you'll ever trip the light fantastic with! Find yourself a dark sky site and enjoy three of my favorites of the ... Friday, 04 June 2010

13. Menagerie of Celestial Objects in New Image of the Large Magellanic Cloud

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    ... Cloud. The field of view is about one degree across. Credit: ESO From an ESO press release: Astronomers often turn their telescopes to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), one of the closest galaxies to ... Tuesday, 01 June 2010

14. Novel Observing Mode On XMM-Newton Opens New Perspectives On Galaxy Clusters

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    ... of cosmic properties on very large scales, since they form in the densest knots of the large-scale structure, the cosmic web. Originally discovered as an excess density (or cluster) of galaxies located ... Monday, 31 May 2010

15. The Cosmic Burp Of Dying Stars

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    ... have allowed astronomers to measure the distances to galaxies at the edge of the known Universe, providing vital clues into the rate the Universe is expanding. "Clearly understanding how Type Ia supernovae ... Sunday, 30 May 2010

16. Nearby Black Hole Is Feeble And Unpredictable

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    ... has given astronomers an unprecedented view of the nearest supermassive black hole outside our own Galaxy. Astronomers think that most galaxies - including the Milky Way - contain giant black holes ... Sunday, 30 May 2010

17. 'First Light' As SOFIA Completes Observation Flight

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... Eric Becklin. Becklin led the team that wrote the original proposal to NASA for the development and operation of SOFIA, and performed some of the first infrared observations of planets and galaxies in ... Sunday, 30 May 2010

18. Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast: May 28-30, 2010

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... challenge, then try your hand at a few bright galaxies by holiday's end. Whenever you're ready, I'll see you in the backyard…. (...) Read the rest of Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast: ... Friday, 28 May 2010

19. Andromeda's Unstable Black Hole

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ...  The Andromeda galaxy, the closest spiral galaxy to our own Milky Way, has a supermassive black hole at the center of it much like other galaxies. Because of its proximity to us, Andromeda – or M31 ... Thursday, 27 May 2010

20. Black Hole in M87 Wanders using Jetpack

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... light years). This contradicts the long-held theory that supermassive black holes reside at the center of the galaxies they inhabit, and may give astronomers one way to trace the history of galaxies that ... Thursday, 27 May 2010