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 | As galaxies move through intra-cluster medium, strong winds rip through galaxies distorting their shape and even halting star formation.
Provided by ESO, Garching, Germany
Published: September 30, 2009 |
 | Astronomers made observations of the extravagantly unusual orbit of HD 80606b, a Jupiter-sized planet nearly 200 light years away.
Provided by the University of Florida, Gainesville
Published: September 29, 2009 |
 | NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft will sweep low over Mercury September 29, when it will snap more than 1,500 pictures and adjust its trajectory for entering orbit in 2011. By Richard Talcott
Published: September 28, 2009 |
 | The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite will send the upper stage Centaur rocket crashing into Cabeus A.
Provided by European Planetary Science Congress
Published: September 28, 2009 |
 | This third installment provides another breathtaking vista of an astronomical object — the Lagoon Nebula.
Provided by ESO, Garching, Germany
Published: September 28, 2009 |
 | New observations suggest 51 Ophiuchi is a protoplanetary system with a cloud of dust from comets and asteroids extremely close to its parent star.
Provided by Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
Published: September 25, 2009 |
 | This ice is a relic of a more humid climate from just several thousand years ago.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: September 25, 2009 |
 | Observations of the Moon not only confirm the presence of water on the lunar surface, but also reveal that the entire lunar surface is hydrated during at least some portions of the lunar day.
Provided by the University of Maryland, College Park
Published: September 24, 2009 |
 | The Spitzer Space Telescope offers a rare look into the early stages of planet formation.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: September 24, 2009 |
 | The joint observations, where different LOFAR stations spread over hundreds of kilometers are used, are not only a dream anymore but a practical reality.
Provided by ASTRON, Dwingeloo, Netherlands
Published: September 23, 2009 |
 | The mosaic of 88 Chandra pointings represents a freeze-frame of the spectacle of stellar evolution.
Provided by the Chandra X-ray Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Published: September 23, 2009 |
 | The image shows the region spanning the sky from the constellation of Sagittarius to Scorpius.
Provided by ESO, Garching, Germany
Published: September 22, 2009 |
 | The many places of vertical relief above and below the otherwise paper-thin rings was the biggest surprise to the scientists.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: September 22, 2009 |
 | A team of scientists has simulated some of the chemical processes that might have taken place along hot volcanic coasts during the Hadean era.
Provided by European Planetary Science Congress
Published: September 18, 2009 |
 | Provided by European Planetary Science Congress
Published: September 18, 2009 |
 | Scientists are beginning to observe light that has traveled more than 13 billion years.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: September 18, 2009 |
 | Scientists' analysis of the Hubble images has allowed them to measure accurately the size of Ganymede's auroral footprint for the first time.
Provided by European Planetary Science Congress
Published: September 17, 2009 |
 | GigaGalaxy Zoom features a web tool that allows users to dive into our Milky Way.
Provided by ESO, Garching, Germany
Published: September 17, 2009 |
 | Astronomers examined a sequence of images, and they found numerous small objects that moved away from the nucleus radially, that were too bright to simply be bare rocks.
Provided by European Planetary Science Congress
Published: September 16, 2009 |
 | CoRoT-7b has a density similar to that of Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Earth.
Provided by ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Published: September 16, 2009 |
 | The spectroscopy data allowed scientists to accurately determine the thickness of the martian ice caps over time.
Provided by the Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, Arizona
Published: September 16, 2009 |
 | The lightning storms are not only astonishing for their power and longevity, but also the radio waves they emit are useful for studying Saturn's ionosphere.
Provided by European Planetary Science Congress
Published: September 15, 2009 |
 | The new belt, named "the Dione belt," was only detected for a few weeks after each of its three appearances.
Provided by European Planetary Science Congress
Published: September 14, 2009 |
 | The capture duration of Kushida-Muramatsu, which orbited Jupiter between 1949 and 1961, is the third longest.
Provided by European Planetary Science Congress
Published: September 14, 2009 |
 | On September 17, 2009, editors will dedicate the magazine's observatory at Rancho Hidalgo, near Animas, New Mexico. By Bill Andrews
Published: September 14, 2009 |
 | Cabeus A will be the target crater for the LCROSS dual impacts scheduled for October 9, 2009.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: September 11, 2009 |
 | Since turbulence tends to churn the nebula and mix up magnetic field directions, the findings show that magnetic fields dominate turbulence in influencing star birth.
Provided by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Published: September 9, 2009 |
 | Topping the list of new views are colorful, multi-wavelength pictures of far-flung galaxies, a densely packed star cluster, an eerie "pillar of creation," and a "butterfly" nebula.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: September 9, 2009 |
 | Scientists continue to analyze the string of incidents in which the spacecraft has rebooted its computer or switched to a backup computer spontaneously.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: September 8, 2009 |
 | The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera recorded images from April through early August.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: September 8, 2009 |
 | Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope is an interactive virtual observatory that allows users to browse the results from some of the world's best telescopes.
Provided by Southern IL University Edwardsville
Published: September 4, 2009 |
 | The black hole contains at least a billion times as much matter as does our Sun.
Provided by the University of Hawaii, Manoa
Published: September 4, 2009 |
 | The mysterious object is a white dwarf, the dead heart of a star, shining X-rays into space.
Provided by ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Published: September 3, 2009 |
 | As the 2009 Station Fire threatens Mount Wilson Observatory, Astronomy magazine offers a look back at this facility's legacy. By Sallie Baliunas
Published: September 2, 2009 |
 | Using a continent-wide array of radio telescopes to calculate the bending of starlight by gravity could help merge general relativity and quantum theory.
Provided by NRAO, Socorro, New Mexico
Published: September 2, 2009 |
 | Computer simulations show that a collision between a large galaxy and its satellite would result in the satellite gradually disintegrating while its gravity tugged at the larger galaxy's edge, drawing out stars and other material.
Provided by Ohio State University, Columbus
Published: September 1, 2009 |
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