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Watching a Cannibal Galaxy Dine
A new technique using
near-infrared images,
obtained with ESO's
3.58-metre New Technology
Telescope (NTT), allows
astronomers to see through
the opaque dust lanes of the
... > full story
'Vampire Star': Ticking Stellar Time Bomb Identified
Using ESO's Very Large
Telescope and its ability to
obtain images as sharp as if
taken from space,
astronomers have made the
first time-lapse movie of a
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Close-Up Movie Shows Hidden Details in the Birth of Super-Suns
A new high-resolution
time-lapse movie reveals the
process of massive star
formation with radio images
a thousand times sharper and
more detailed than any
... > full story
Lightning Strike in Africa Helps Take Pulse of Sun
Scientists have developed a
more definitive and reliable
tool for measuring the Sun's
rotation when sunspots
aren't visible ---- and even
when they are -- based on
... > full story
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Bubbling Ball of Gas: SUNRISE Telescope Delivers Spectacular Pictures of Sun's Surface
November 14, 2009 — The Sun is a bubbling mass. Packages of gas rise and sink, lending the sun its grainy surface structure, its granulation. Dark spots appear and disappear, clouds of matter dart up -- and behind the ... > full story -
Rosetta Bound for Outer Solar System After Final Earth Swingby
November 13, 2009 — This morning, mission controllers confirmed that ESA's comet chaser Rosetta had swung by Earth at 8:45 CET as planned, skimming past our planet to pick up a gravitational boost for an epic journey to ... > full story -
LCROSS Impact Analysis Indicates Water on Moon
November 13, 2009 — The argument that the moon is a dry, desolate place no longer holds water. Preliminary data from the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, indicates that the mission successfully ... > full story -
Nanotech in Space: New Experiment to Weather the Trials of Orbit
November 13, 2009 — Novel nanomaterials are scheduled to blast off into orbit on November 16 aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis. The project seeks to test the performance of the new nanocomposites in orbit. The materials ... > full story -
Professor to Predict Weather on Mars
November 13, 2009 — Is there such a thing as "weather" on Mars? There are some doubts, considering the planet's atmosphere is only 1 percent as dense as that of the Earth. Mars, however, definitely has clouds, ... > full story -
ESA Spacecraft May Help Unravel Cosmic Mystery
November 13, 2009 — When Europe's comet chaser Rosetta swings by Earth on Nov. 13 for a critical gravity assist, tracking data will be collected to precisely measure the satellite's change in orbital energy. The results ... > full story -
Rapid Star Formation Spotted in 'Stellar Nurseries' of Infant Galaxies
November 12, 2009 — The Universe's infant galaxies enjoyed rapid growth spurts forming stars like our Sun at a rate of up to 50 stars a year, according to ... > full story -
Butterfly Payload to Launch Nov. 16 on Space Shuttle
November 12, 2009 — When NASA's space shuttle Atlantis launches for the International Space Station on Nov. 16 it will carry a butterfly experiment that will be monitored by thousands of K-12 students across the ... > full story -
Exoplanets Clue To Sun's Curious Chemistry
November 12, 2009 — A ground-breaking census of 500 stars, 70 of which are known to host planets, has successfully linked the long-standing "lithium mystery" observed in the Sun to the presence of planetary systems. ... > full story -
Are Earth's Oceans Made Of Extraterrestrial Material?
November 11, 2009 — Contrary to preconceived notions, the atmosphere and the oceans were perhaps not formed from vapors emitted during intense volcanism at the dawning of our planet. Scientists now suggest that water ... > full story
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