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• Supernova Explosions Stay In Shape

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 590
  At a very early age, children learn how to classify objects according to their shape. Now, new research suggests studying the shape of the aftermath of supernovas may allow astronomers to do the same.A new study of images from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory on supernova remnants – the debris from exploded stars ...
  6 days ago

• Indian Scientists Detect Signs Of Life On The Moon

  
  JustGetThere — Authority: 138
  Dont you just love it NASA have been venturing into space for 40 plus years and it takes a country in its space infancy to come out with some fairly remarkable scientific claims? Granted that technology and detecting equipment today is light years ahead of instruments used in the past, but during their first space ...
  1 week ago

• Colliding Galaxies Switch on Black Hole

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 590
  This composite image of data from three different telescopes shows an ongoing collision between two galaxies, NGC 6872 and IC 4970. X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory is shown in purple, while Spitzer Space Telescope’s infrared data is red and optical data from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) is ...
  1 week ago

• Gazing into the Center of the Milky Way

  
  Environmental Graffiti — Authority: 616
  Not too many years ago, astronomers despaired over whether they would ever get a clear, sharp, informative picture of the galactic center. The giant clouds of dense gas that dominate the center of the Milky Way seemed to be an impenetrable barrier. Nonetheless, persistence paid off and a few years... This is just a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dissecting the Crab Nebula : Big Pic

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 154
  A thousand years after a supernova lit up the sky, three of our most powerful space telescopes have revisited the cloud that remains. This remnant is called the Crab Nebula, arguably the most beautiful astronomical object youll ever see.
  2 weeks ago

• The Beautiful Universe

  
  Red Tory v.3.0 — Authority: 433
  Wonderful images of our local galaxy courtesy of NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory at the Smithsonian’s Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, MA. The Chandra Observatory is a telescope linked to an orbiting space satellite that’s specially designed to detect X-ray emissions from very “hot” regions of the ...
  4 weeks ago

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