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 | The Herschel Space Observatory has been able to see thousands of galaxies and identify their locations, showing for the first time that they are packed closely together in the center of large galaxy clusters.
Provided by the Science and Technology Facilities Council, United Kingdom
Published: May 28, 2010 |
 | Layers of ice record a history of accumulation, erosion, and wind transport. From that, scientists can determine a history of climate that's more detailed than anybody expected.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: May 28, 2010 |
 | Galaxy mergers appear to feed black holes, causing them to give off as much as 10 billion times the Sun's energy.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: May 27, 2010 |
 | A new observation from the Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals evidence for a bullet-shaped object being blown out of a debris field left over from an exploded star.
Published: May 27, 2010 |
 | Scientists found concentrations of these regions at the end of the galaxy's central bar and in its spiral arms.
Provided by NRAO, Socorro, New Mexico
Published: May 26, 2010 |
 | Astronomers conclude that these clouds have been blown away from the galaxy's plane by supernova explosions and the fierce winds from young stars in areas of intense star formation.
Provided by NRAO, Socorro, New Mexico
Published: May 26, 2010 |
 | Sun-grazing comets, composed of dust, rock and ice, are seldom tracked close to the Sun because their brightness is overwhelmed by the solar disk.
Provided by the University of California, Berkeley
Published: May 25, 2010 |
 | The solar-powered lander completed its 3-month mission and kept working until sunlight waned 2 months later.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: May 25, 2010 |
 | Andromeda's black hole is fainter in X-ray light than astronomers might expect given the reservoir of gas around it.
Provided by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Published: May 25, 2010 |
 | The most likely cause for M87's supermassive black hole to be off center is a previous merger between two older, less massive ones.
Provided by the Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne
Published: May 25, 2010 |
 | The stars are helium-rich white dwarfs, the compact remnants that are the end state of stars like our Sun.
Provided by the Royal Astronomical Society, United Kingdom
Published: May 24, 2010 |
 | Scientists can no longer assume planets orbit their parent star in a single plane.
Provided by STScI, Baltimore, Maryland
Published: May 24, 2010 |
 | A Jupiter-like planet's eccentric orbit could effect the orbit of an earthlike planet, possibly causing the smaller planet to cycle between habitable and uninhabitable conditions.
Provided by the University of Washington, Seattle
Published: May 24, 2010 |
 | The new image demonstrates the power of the space telescope to capture vast regions such as the Heart and Soul nebulae.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: May 24, 2010 |
 | Research deepens the puzzle as to how and why some elliptical galaxies seem to reach their full size early in the evolution of the universe while others increase in volume over time.
Provided by the Subaru Telescope Facility, Hilo, Hawaii
Published: May 21, 2010 |
 | WASP-12 is a yellow dwarf star located approximately 600 light-years away in the constellation Auriga.
Provided by STScI, Baltimore, Maryland
Published: May 21, 2010 |
 | The longevity record is remarkable considering the rovers were designed for only a 90-day mission on Mars.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: May 20, 2010 |
 | Supernova 2005cz represents a boundary between stars that end their lives with a gigantic supernova explosion and those without explosions.
Provided by the Subaru Telescope Facility, Hilo, Hawaii
Published: May 20, 2010 |
 | Scientists have identified a third type of stellar explosions arising from a helium-rich, old stellar system.
Provided by the Max Planck Institute, Garching, Germany
Published: May 19, 2010 |
 | One of the stars in the newly discovered binary is a relatively rare helium-core white dwarf with a mass of only 10 to 20 percent of the Sun.
Provided by the University of California, Santa Barbara
Published: May 19, 2010 |
 | Rassvet was attached Tuesday morning to the bottom port of the station's Zarya module.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: May 18, 2010 |
 | This Tadpole region is full of stars as young as only a million years old and masses over 10 times that of our Sun.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: May 17, 2010 |
 | The mission will deliver cargo, critical spare parts, and a Russian laboratory to the station.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: May 14, 2010 |
 | Meridiani Planum is a striking dark feature close to the martian equator.
Provided by ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Published: May 14, 2010 |
 | A familiar planet looks very strange — for now. By Michael E. Bakich
Published: May 14, 2010 |
 | Galaxy clusters are the largest gravitationally bound structures in the universe, and studying the new discovery will help researchers understand how galaxies evolve and form clusters.
Provided by the Carnegie Institution, Washington, D.C.
Published: May 13, 2010 |
 | Scientists discovered that gravitational lensing allowed them to accurately estimate, for the first time, the mass of this monster galaxy.
Provided by Gemini Observatory, Hilo, Hawaii
Published: May 13, 2010 |
 | The hole has provided astronomers with a surprising glimpse into the end of the star-forming process.
Provided by ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Published: May 12, 2010 |
 | Scientists support predictions that the missing normal matter is mostly found in a web of hot, diffuse gas known as the Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium.
Provided by the Chandra X-ray Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Published: May 12, 2010 |
 | The newly discovered object is probably the result of the merger of two smaller black holes.
Provided by the Royal Astronomical Society, United Kingdom
Published: May 11, 2010 |
 | The observations offer insights into how massive star clusters behave.
Provided by STScI, Baltimore, Maryland
Published: May 11, 2010 |
 | Scientists found a distant cluster of galaxies 9.6 billion light-years away in the constellation Cetus.
Provided by IPMU, Kashiwa, Japan
Published: May 10, 2010 |
 | NASA successfully tests Orion launch abort system.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: May 7, 2010 |
 | Observation of the star-forming cloud RCW 120 has revealed an embryonic star that looks like it is set to turn into one of the biggest and brightest stars in our galaxy.
Provided by ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Published: May 6, 2010 |
 | A new image released by the European Southern Observatory reveals thousands of galaxies crowding an area on the sky roughly as large as the Full Moon.
Provided by ESO, Garching, Germany
Published: May 5, 2010 |
 | The integrated observatory will meet all science and engineering requirements for its mission.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: May 4, 2010 |
 | A steady radio link to NASA's Deep Space Network on Earth enabled scientists to use the radio science instrument to measure the variations in the gravitational pull of Enceladus.
Published: May 3, 2010 |
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