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• Colliding Galaxies Switch on Black Hole

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 591
  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 ...
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• NASA’s new satellite to search for undiscovered objects

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Washington, Dec 8 (DPA) NASA’s newest “eye” to be launched Wednesday is a satellite equipped with unprecedented infrared sensitivity to scope out cosmic objects unseen by other cameras.The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, is to be launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.Over the next ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gazing into the Center of the Milky Way

  
  Environmental Graffiti — Authority: 615
  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

• Spitzer Unveils Biggest Milky Way View at Adler Planetarium

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 591
  The world’s largest image of our Milky Way galaxy, taken by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, went on display this week at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago.The new image spans a mind-boggling area measuring 120 feet long and 3 feet wide at its sides, bulging to about 6 feet wide at the center of our galaxy. [...]
  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

• Get the Big Picture of the Milky Way at the Adler Planetarium

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 651
  Astronomy is all about getting the big picture of our place in the cosmos, but some pictures are bigger than others. This one is really big. The worlds largest image of our Milky Way galaxy went on display today at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago. The image spans an area of 37 meters (120 feet) long by 1 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Adler planetarium unleashes 2.5 gigapixel image of the galaxy

  
  Bad Astronomy — Authority: 713
  If you’re in Chicago, then you might want to head over to the Adler planetarium today, when they unveil an enormous 2.5 billion pixel mosaic of the Galaxy ! It’s composed of 800,000 separate Spitzer Space Telescope images (I mean, c’mon, holy Haleakala, eight hundred thousand images!) stitched together. The ...
  2 weeks ago

• Spitzer Telescope observes baby brown dwarf

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 155
  NASAs Spitzer Space Telescope has contributed to the discovery of the youngest brown dwarf ever observed -- a finding that, if confirmed, may solve an astronomical mystery about how these cosmic misfits are formed.
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• Baby Brown Dwarfs Provide Clues to Solve Mystery

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 651
  Why – and how — do brown dwarfs form? Since these cosmic misfits fall somewhere between planets and stars in terms of their temperature and mass, astronomers havent yet been able to determine how they form: are their beginnings like planets or stars ? Now, the Spitzer Space Telescope has found what ...
  4 weeks ago

• Giant cannibal galaxy observed having its “last meal” by astronomers

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Munich, November 21 (ANI): Astronomers, using European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) 3.58-meter New Technology Telescope (NTT), are seeing through the opaque dust lanes of the giant cannibal galaxy Centaurus A, unveiling its “last meal” in unprecedented detail - a smaller spiral galaxy, currently twisted and ...
  4 weeks ago

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