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Fermi's Latest Gamma-Ray Census Highlights Cosmic Mysteries
September 9, 2011 — Every three hours, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope scans the entire sky and deepens its portrait of the high-energy universe. Every year, the satellite's scientists reanalyze all of the data ... > full story -
Young Stars Take a Turn in the Spotlight
September 7, 2011 — The European Southern Observatory's New Technology Telescope has captured a striking image of the open cluster NGC 2100. This brilliant star cluster is around 15 million years old, and located in the ... > full story -
Hubble Movies Reveal Solar-System-Sized Traffic Jams: Giant Jets Spewing from Newborn Stars Revealed in Telescope's Images
September 1, 2011 — Using Hubble Space Telescope images, astronomers have created time-lapse movies that offer astronomers their first glimpse of the dynamic behavior of stellar jets, huge torrents of gas and particles ... > full story -
Hubble Movies Provide Unprecedented View of Supersonic Jets from Young Stars
August 31, 2011 — Astronomers have combined two decades of Hubble observations to make unprecedented movies revealing never-before-seen details of the birth pangs of new stars. This sheds new light on how stars like ... > full story -
Atlas of the Milky Way Leads to Discovery of Two Supernova Remnants
August 30, 2011 — It may not be much use to hitchhikers through the galaxy, but it is extremely valuable to astronomers: the new radio atlas of the Milky Way. After almost ten years of work, researchers have completed ... > full story -
Hubble Offers Dazzling Necklace Nebula
August 12, 2011 — A giant cosmic necklace glows brightly in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. The object, aptly named the Necklace Nebula, is a recently discovered planetary nebula, the glowing remains of an ... > full story -
A Cosmic Inkblot Test: Spitzer Captures View of Dumbbell Nebula
August 12, 2011 — If this were an inkblot test, you might see a bow tie or a butterfly depending on your personality. An astronomer would likely see the remains of a dying star scattered about space -- precisely what ... > full story -
Cosmic Superbubble Carved by Stellar Winds from Bright Young Stars and Supernova Shockwaves
July 20, 2011 — ESO's Very Large Telescope captured a striking view of the nebula around the star cluster NGC 1929 within the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way. A colossal example of ... > full story -
Sun's 'DNA' Revealed
July 6, 2011 — Solar nitrogen is very different from that of meteorites or the Earth. Scientists reached this conclusion after analyzing samples of solar wind collected by the Genesis space mission launched by NASA ... > full story -
Making a Spectacle of Star Formation in Orion
June 30, 2011 — Looking like a pair of eyeglasses only a rock star would wear, a new nebula view brings into focus a murky region of star formation. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope exposes the depths of this dusty ... > full story
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