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Probing Exoplanets from the Ground: A Little Telescope Goes a Long Way
NASA astronomers have
successfully demonstrated
that a David of a telescope
can tackle Goliath-size
questions in the quest to
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Where Did Today's Spiral Galaxies Come From?
Using data from the NASA/ESA
Hubble Space Telescope,
astronomers have created a
demographic census of galaxy
types and shapes from a time
before the Earth and the sun
... > full story
New Hubble Maps of Pluto Show Surface Changes
NASA has released the most
detailed set of images ever
taken of the distant dwarf
planet Pluto. The images
taken by NASA's Hubble Space
Telescope show an icy and
... > full story
Merging Galaxies Create a Binary Quasar
Astronomers have found the
first clear evidence of a
binary quasar within a pair
of actively merging
galaxies. Binary quasars,
like other quasars, are
thought to be the product of
... > full story
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Astronomers Find Rare Beast by New Means
February 3, 2010 — Astronomers have found an example of the rare type of supernova thought to produce Gamma Ray Bursts, but through radio, not gamma-ray, observations. The breakthrough, they say, will lead to ... > full story -
Hubble Catches End of Star-Making Party in Nearby Dwarf Galaxy
February 3, 2010 — Galaxies throughout the universe are ablaze with star birth. But for a nearby, small spiral galaxy, the star-making party is almost over. Astronomers were surprised to find that star-formation ... > full story -
Suspected Asteroid Collision Leaves Odd X-Pattern of Trailing Debris
February 2, 2010 — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has observed a mysterious X-shaped debris pattern and trailing streamers of dust that suggest a head-on collision between two asteroids. Astronomers have long thought ... > full story -
Astronomers Discover Coolest Sub-Stellar Body Outside Our Solar System
February 1, 2010 — Astronomers have discovered what may be the coolest sub-stellar body ever found outside our own solar ... > full story -
Black Hole Hunters Set New Distance Record
January 30, 2010 — Astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope have detected, in another galaxy, a stellar-mass black hole much farther away than any other previously known. With a mass above fifteen times that of the ... > full story -
NASA's WISE Eye Spies Near-Earth Asteroid
January 26, 2010 — NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has spotted its first never-before-seen near-Earth asteroid, the first of hundreds it is expected to find during its mission to map the whole sky ... > full story -
Stunning New Image of Cat's Paw Nebula
January 24, 2010 — Astronomers have just released a stunning new image of the vast cloud known as the Cat's Paw Nebula or NGC 6334. This complex region of gas and dust, where numerous massive stars are born, lies near ... > full story -
Spectacular X-Ray Tails Surprise Astronomers
January 23, 2010 — Astronomer were surprised to find two distinct "tails" found on a long tail of gas that is believed to be forming stars where few stars have been formed before. What is also unusual is the gas tail, ... > full story -
Cosmology: Weak Gravitational Lensing Improves Measurements of Distant Galaxies
January 21, 2010 — A cosmologist has extended the relationship between the x-ray luminosity and the mass of galaxy clusters as measured by gravitational lensing, improving the reliability of mass measurements of much ... > full story -
Second Smallest Exoplanet Spotted: Discovery Highlights New Potential for Eventually Finding Earth-Mass Planets
January 14, 2010 — Astronomers using the highly sensitive 10-meter Keck I telescope atop Hawaii's Mauna Kea have detected an extrasolar planet with a mass just four times that of Earth. The planet, which orbits its ... > full story
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