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• Awesome New Milky Way Image from NASAs Space Telescopes

  
  Little Green Footballs — Authority: 611
  Phil Plait has a great description of what you see in this stunning new picture of the center of the Milky Way galaxy, a mosaic comprised of images from the Hubble (visible light), Chandra (X-rays), and Spitzer (infrared) space telescopes. There is so much going on in this image it’s hard to know where to start. ...
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• Newsflash: Parlotones go Gold in first week

  
  Off The Charts — Authority: 131
  One of South Africa’s most favourite bands, The Parlotones have just released their third studio album called “Stardust Galaxies”. The first single off the album, Push Me To The Floor is already on high rotation across many TV and radio stations and it seems the response to the new material has been astounding. ...
  23 hours ago

• Dropouts Pinpoint Earliest Galaxies

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 154
  Astronomers, conducting the broadest survey to date of galaxies from about 800 million years after the Big Bang, have found 22 early galaxies and confirmed the age of one by its characteristic hydrogen signature at 787 million years post Big Bang. The finding is the first age-confirmation of a so-called dropout galaxy ...
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• Colliding White Dwarfs May Mimic Supernovae Used to Gauge Astronomical Distances

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 149
  Stellar explosions known as type Ia supernovae have proved invaluable to astrophysicists as markers of cosmic distance. Their brightness and consistency in observed properties allow astronomers to use them as "standard candles" to determine distances to objects in the sky. Just a decade ago type Ia supernovae took ...
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• Carbon Atmosphere Discovered On Neutron Star

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 539
  New evidence from Chandra suggests that the neutron star at the center of the Cas A supernova remnant has an ultra-thin carbon atmosphere.Evidence for a thin veil of carbon has been found on the neutron star in the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant. This discovery, made with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, resolves a ...
  4 days ago

• ESO Discovers New Cluster of Galaxies in Images

  
  Astrocast.TV — Authority: 132
  The European Southern Observatory (ESO) released images earlier this week of a newly discovered cluster of galaxies estimated to be roughly seven billion light years distant. The discovery was made possible by combining data from ESO’s Very Large Telescope and the Subaru Telescope, operated by the National ...
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• New class of supernova explosion discovered by scientists

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Washington, November 6 (ANI): Scientists at Berkeley University have discovered a new class of supernova, which may be the first example of a new type of exploding star.Earlier, a team of astrophysicists at UC (University of California) Santa Barbara had predicted this kind of explosion in their theoretical work. Lars ...
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• Hubble: Birthplace of Stars

  
  Little Green Footballs — Authority: 611
  A spectacular image from the Hubble Space Telescope’s newly-installed Wide Field Camera 3, showing a birthplace of stars in the nearby galaxy M83: Hubble Image Showcases Star Birth in M83, the Southern Pinwheel . (Hat tip: Phil Plait , who has interesting commentary on how this image was generated, and what ...
  5 days ago

• Hubble’s back, and spying on wailing baby stars

  
  Bad Astronomy — Authority: 695
  Ever since the Hubble upgrade a few months ago I’ve been waiting to see the results of it getting back to routine science observations… especially for the new Wide Field Camera 3, which promised to return gorgeous imagery. Well, the wait’s over. The first image is out, and it’s a nice one: star formation in ...
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• Cosmic Web of Galaxies Holds Universe Together

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 731
  Astronomers have for the first time seen part of the "cosmic web" of galaxies that holds together the known universe, some seven billion light-years from Earth.
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• Color-Challenged Astronomers Are Lost in a Latte Universe

  
  Discovery Space: Cosmic Ray — Authority: 410
  God was sitting up late one night designing the universe. Hetook care of simple things first. Gravity would construct stars, galaxies andplanets. Biological evolution would ensure a robust diversity of life forms. But what color to make the universe?  God looked down into his foamy cup of latte and decided that the ...
  6 days ago

• Hints of More Extra-Galactic Planets

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 663
  M 51. Credit: NOAO We regularly report on the discovery of extrasolar planets in our galaxy , but earlier this year came news of possibly the first planet discovered outside of the Milky Way. Now comes news of the potential discovery of dozens of extragalactic planetary systems. Erin Mentuch and her ...
  1 week ago

• Go Stargazing! November Edition

  
  BEYONDbones — Authority: 124
  Jupiter is the brightest planet or star in the evening sky this month.  Face south and look for the brightest point of light there.  If you’re looking in the right direction, you can’t miss it. Venus begins to wrap up its stint as morning star this month, as it’s now much lower in the pre-dawn sky.  Look ...
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• NASA’s Fermi Telescope Detects Gamma Rays From ‘Star Factories’ In Other Galaxies

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 539
  Fermi’s Large Area Telescope (LAT) shows that an intense star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud named 30 Doradus is also a source of diffuse gamma rays.Nearby galaxies undergoing a furious pace of star formation also emit lots of gamma rays, say astronomers using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. ...
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• Emission Impossible?: Is Dark Matter Behind the Hazy Radiation at the Milky Ways Center?

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 149
  A haze of radiation at the heart of the Milky Way Galaxy that appears in sky maps taken by two spacecraft at two different wavelengths likely results from a population of high-energy electrons, according to a new analysis of gamma rays in the galaxy. Curiously, some researchers maintain, those electrons are not ...
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• Do "Skeleton" Filaments Give Structure to the Universe?

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 663
  This 3D illustration shows the position of the galaxies and reveals the extent of this gigantic structure. The galaxies located in the newly discovered structure are shown in red. Galaxies that are either in front or behind the structure are shown in blue. Credit: ESO Are there "skeletons"out in the Universe ...
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• Shedding Light on the Cosmic Skeleton

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 590
  Astronomers have tracked down a gigantic, previously unknown assembly of galaxies located almost seven billion light-years away from us. The discovery, made possible by combining two of the most powerful ground-based telescopes in the world, is the first observation of such a prominent galaxy structure in the distant ...
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• Gamma rays from “star factories” in galaxies other than Milky Way detected

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Washington, November 3 (ANI): NASA’s Fermi telescope has detected gamma rays from “star factories” in other galaxies.Two so-called “starburst” galaxies, plus a satellite of our own Milky Way galaxy, represent a new category of gamma-ray-emitting objects detected both by Fermi and ground-based ...
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• Cosmic rays likely powered by exploding stars and stellar “winds”

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Washington, November 3 (ANI): In a new research, astronomers have solved a 100-year old mystery of the origin of cosmic rays, by finding evidence which indicates that cosmic rays are likely powered by exploding stars and stellar “winds”.Astronomers came across the evidence using the VERITAS telescope array.VERITAS ...
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• NASAs Fermi Telescope Detects Gamma Rays From Star Factories ...

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 154
  Nearby galaxies undergoing a furious pace of star formation also emit lots of gamma rays, say astronomers using NASAs Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Two so-called "starburst" galaxies, plus a satellite of our own Milky Way galaxy, represent a new category of gamma-ray-emitting objects detected both by Fermi and ...
  1 week ago

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