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  New Method of Measuring the Mass of Supermassive Black Holes

  January 30, 2013 — Astronomers report the exciting discovery of a new way to measure the mass of supermassive black holes in galaxies. By measuring the speed with which carbon monoxide molecules orbit around such ... > full story
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  Hubble Finds Appearances Can Be Deceptive: Looking at the Stars in NGC 411

  January 26, 2013 — Globular clusters are roughly spherical collections of extremely old stars, and around 150 of them are scattered around our galaxy. Hubble is one of the best telescopes for studying these, as its ... > full story
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  Red Explosions: Secret Life of Binary Stars Is Revealed

  January 24, 2013 — An astrophysicist has revealed the workings of a celestial event involving binary stars that produce an explosion so powerful its luminosity ranks close to that of a supernova, an exploding ... > full story
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  NASA Officially Joins ESA's 'Dark Universe' Mission

  January 24, 2013 — NASA has joined the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Euclid mission, a space telescope designed to investigate the cosmological mysteries of dark matter and dark ... > full story
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  Revolutionary Theory of Dark Matter

  January 24, 2013 — The universe abounds with dark matter. Nobody knows what it consists of. Physicists in Norway have now come up with a mathematical explanation that could solve the mystery once and for ... > full story
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  How the Universe Has Cooled Since the Big Bang Fits Big Bang Theory

  January 23, 2013 — Astronomers have taken the universe's temperature, and have found that it has cooled down just the way the Big Bang theory ... > full story
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  Quantum States Between Order and Disorder

  January 23, 2013 — With his research on quantum states in the realm between order and disorder, one professor's work has raised quite a stir; ultra cold atom clouds with a high degree of order approach a disordered ... > full story
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  Hubble Focuses on the 'Great Attractor'

  January 22, 2013 — A busy patch of space has been captured in an image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Scattered with many nearby stars, the field also has numerous galaxies in the ... > full story
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  NASA'S Webb Telescope Team Completes Optical Milestone

  January 22, 2013 — Engineers working on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope met another milestone recently with they completed performance testing on the observatory's aft-optics subsystem at Ball Aerospace & ... > full story
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  Nearby Universe's 'Cosmic Fog' Measured

  January 19, 2013 — Researchers have carried out the first measurement of the intensity of the diffuse extragalactic background light in the nearby universe, a fog of photons that has filled the universe ever since its ... > full story

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