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 | The world record energy was broken when beam 1 was accelerated from 450 GeV, reaching 1050 GeV (1.05 TeV).
Provided by the Science and Technology Facilities Council, United Kingdom
Published: November 30, 2009 |
 | Cygnus X-3 is the first microquasar for which scientists can prove high-energy gamma-ray emission.
Provided by Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
Published: November 30, 2009 |
 | Because of the tremendous amount of matter consumed by supermassive stars, subsequent seed black holes that formed in their centers may have started out much bigger than ordinary black holes.
Provided by the University of Colorado, Boulder
Published: November 25, 2009 |
 | This could be the start of a fantastic era of physics and discoveries after 20 years' work by the international community to build a machine and detectors of unprecedented complexity and performance.
Provided by the Science and Technology Facilities Council, United Kingdom
Published: November 24, 2009 |
 | The T2K project will move us one step closer to understanding the role of the neutrino in the early universe.
Provided by the Science and Technology Facilities Council, United Kingdom
Published: November 24, 2009 |
 | Galaxy collisions could be the key to finding out why the universe contains the mix of galaxies it does.
Provided by Oxford Univeristy, United Kindgtom
Published: November 24, 2009 |
 | Young brown dwarfs rapid evolution makes it difficult to catch them when they are first born.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: November 23, 2009 |
 | Astronauts brought back the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 and the Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement after more than 15 years in space.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: November 18, 2009 |
 | This is the first mission of NASA's Living With a Star program, which seeks to reveal how solar activity is generated and to understand the causes of solar variability and its impact on Earth.
Provided by Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
Published: November 18, 2009 |
 | Telescopes on seven continents will observe 243 distant quasars.
Provided by NRAO, Socorro, New Mexico
Published: November 17, 2009 |
 | Massive stars form like their smaller siblings, with disk accretion and magnetic fields playing crucial roles.
Provided by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Published: November 16, 2009 |
 | Retrograde or spin-orbit misaligned planets are important for understanding the diversity of planetary systems, and they provide important evidence for assessing current planetary migration models.
Provided by the Subaru Telescope Facility, Hilo, Hawaii
Published: November 16, 2009 |
 | Atlantis is carrying about 30,000 pounds of replacement parts for systems that provide power to the station, keep it from overheating, and maintain a proper orientation in space.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: November 16, 2009 |
Published: November 13, 2009 |
 | Twin impacts in the Cabeus crater created a plume of material from the bottom of a crater that has not seen sunlight in billions of years.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: November 13, 2009 |
 | Rosetta is now departing Earth to meet asteroid (21) Lutetia in July 2010.
Provided by ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Published: November 13, 2009 |
 | Researchers expect the extraction process to be long and the outcome uncertain.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: November 12, 2009 |
 | Astronomers find that an X-ray source in galaxy NGC 5408 represents one of the best cases for a middleweight black hole to date.
Provided by Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
Published: November 11, 2009 |
 | NASA released images of the galactic center region to more than 150 planetariums, museums, nature centers, libraries, and schools across the country.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: November 10, 2009 |
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This year's viewing conditions are close to ideal, allowing the luckiest observers to see hundreds of meteors.
By Bill Andrews
Published: November 9, 2009 |
 | Although time will be short, several science observations are planned around the swing-by.
Provided by ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Published: November 9, 2009 |
 | Senior NASA and contractor managers assessed the risks associated with the mission and determined the shuttle's equipment, support systems, and procedures are ready.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: November 6, 2009 |
 | The HiRISE team targeted their camera at the known location of the lander to get the new images and compared them to a HiRISE image of the frost-free lander taken June 2008.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: November 5, 2009 |
 | The rapid drop in brightness, coupled with the supernova's faintness, the strong signature of helium in the spectrum of the explosion, the absence of hydrogen, and the possible presence of vanadium points toward helium detonation on a white dwarf.
Provided by the University of California, Berkeley
Published: November 5, 2009 |
 | Many new features were revealed during the third flyby, including a region with a bright area surrounding an irregular depression that is suspected to be volcanic in origin.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: November 4, 2009 |
 | Scientists determined that the neutron star in Cassiopeia A has an ultra-thin coating of carbon.
Provided by the Chandra X-ray Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Published: November 4, 2009 |
 | Astronomers were able to make a real demographic study of a massive filamentary structure, and they have identified several groups of galaxies surrounding the main galaxy cluster.
Provided by ESO, Garching, Germany
Published: November 3, 2009 |
 | Observations show that exploding stars and stellar "winds" power cosmic rays.
Provided by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Published: November 2, 2009 |
 | The biggest surprise about the dust is the abundance of tiny dust particles that formed in previous generations of stars and in supernova explosions before the formation of the solar system.
Provided by the Carnegie Institution, Washington, D.C.
Published: November 2, 2009 |
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