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1. NASA's Spitzer Unearths Primitive Black Holes

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   ... NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, will provide a better understanding of the roots of our universe, and how the very first black holes, galaxies and stars came to be. ... Wednesday, 17 March 2010

2. WISE Captures A Cosmic Rose

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   Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 17, 2010 - A new infrared image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, shows a cosmic rosebud blossoming with new stars. The stars, called the Berkeley 59 ... Tuesday, 16 March 2010

3. Simulations Solve A 20-Year-Old Riddle

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   New York NY (SPX) Mar 17, 2010 - The birth of the most massive stars - those ten to a hundred times the mass of the Sun - has posed an astrophysical riddle for decades. Massive stars are dense enough to ... Tuesday, 16 March 2010

4. Beautiful Cosmic Barbeque Pit

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   ... where combustion has occurred. The "coals," or the glowing red is warm dust heated by hot young stars within the nebula. Red sources within the green nebula indicate a second generation of stars ... Tuesday, 16 March 2010

5. The Wizard Nebula

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   ... is located in the constellation Cepheus about 7,000 light-years from Earth within the Milky Way Galaxy. The star cluster is embedded in a nebula, which spans some 110 light-years. The stars of NGC 7380 ... Monday, 15 March 2010

6. Gemini – Twins Everywhere!

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   ... zodiac which means the imaginary path the Sun, Moon and planets follow across the sky passes through the stars of this constellation. But what happens when you don't have these solar systems objects ... Sunday, 14 March 2010

7. Astronomy for Kids: Gemini – Twins Everywhere!

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   ... zodiac which means the imaginary path the Sun, Moon and planets follow across the sky passes through the stars of this constellation. But what happens when you don't have these solar systems objects ... Sunday, 14 March 2010

8. Catastrophic Event Halted Star Birth In Early Galaxy

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   London, UK (SPX) Mar 11, 2010 - Scientists have found evidence of a catastrophic event they believe was responsible for halting the birth of stars in a galaxy in the early Universe. They report their ... Wednesday, 10 March 2010

9. Massive Repeated Explosions Halted Star Formation in Early Universe

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   ... responsible for halting the birth of stars in a galaxy in the early Universe. According to their findings, just 3 billion years after the Big Bang, a massive galaxy exploded in a series of blasts trillions ... Tuesday, 09 March 2010

10. 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

11. A Mosaic of Cassiopeia

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    ... these galaxies are hidden by dust in IC 1805 and were unknown until 1968 when Paolo Maffei found them using infrared observations. Both galaxies contain billions of stars and are located some 10 million ... Monday, 08 March 2010

12. Taking The Pulse Of A Supernova – NGC 4490

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... to as "The Cocoon". These two mis-shaped blobs of star stuff have already made their closest approach to each other and are now parting ways. Between them stretches a trail of stars that spans ... Sunday, 07 March 2010

13. A New Edition of This Week In Space

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    Florida's Space Coast braces for layoffs, Buzz Aldrin muses on the next steps for NASA and his upcoming stint on "Dancing with the Stars," plus other headlines from This Week In Space. ... Sunday, 07 March 2010

14. An Island Of Stars In The Making On The Outskirts Of Orion

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... Although this ghostly cloud is rather isolated from Orion's bright stars, the latter's powerful winds and light have had a strong impact on the nebula, forging its shape and making it home to a multitude ... Wednesday, 03 March 2010

15. Second-Generation Star Supports Cannibal Theory of Milky Way

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    A newly discovered red giant star is a relic from the early universe — a star that may have been among the second generation of stars to form after the Big Bang. Located in the dwarf galaxy Sculptor ... Wednesday, 03 March 2010

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

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... 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

17. The Possibility of a Brand New World

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... Hickson Compact Group 31 will pass through and destroy each other, millions of stars will form and explode, and thousands of nebula will form and dissipate before the dust settles and the final galaxy ... Wednesday, 24 February 2010

18. Elements of the Universe Shown in New Image

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... a surrounding wispy nebular structure that looks like a cobweb. As yet more stars form from lose matter in the area, they will ignite, scattering leftover dust and gas, carving out great ripples and altering ... Wednesday, 24 February 2010

19. Alien Star Clusters Are Invading the Milky Way

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    A Hubble Space Telescope image of the typical globular cluster Messier 80, an object made up of hundreds of thousands of stars and located in the direction of the constellation of Scorpius. The Milky Way ... Tuesday, 23 February 2010

20. ESA Chooses Three Scientific Missions For Further Study

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    Paris, France (ESA) Feb 22, 2010 - Dark energy, habitable planets around other stars, and the mysterious nature of our own Sun, have been chosen by ESA as candidates for two medium-class missions to ... Monday, 22 February 2010