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Three ancient crocodile species found ... Instruments from the Hubble telescope sent to a museum ... Dung spores suggest how the mastodon went extinct ... Why ancestry is attractive ... How a proton's neighbors can alter its (Read More)
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We're building a billion dollar telescope and it isn't just aimed at the stars: it's looking for the first ones. The new Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) proves that sometimes bigger really is better and will be elements in the (Read More)
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Two instruments that helped save the Hubble Space Telescope from failure in 1993 were recently returned to Earth and are going on display at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum .
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SPACE.com - The world's largest collection of radio telescopes is being
tied together for 24 hours starting today to observe more than two hundred
energetic galaxies known as quasars. (Read More)
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This photo from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals a strange, faint “X” shape extending from the center of the spiral galaxy NGC 4710.Spiral galaxies are named for the arms curling outward from a central core of stars and gas (Read More)
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Get larger image formatsThe magnificent galaxy NGC 4710 is tilted nearly edge-on to our view from Earth. This perspective allows astronomers to easily distinguish the central bulge of stars from its pancake-flat disk of stars (Read More)
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ESO’s Very Large Telescope has captured the first time-lapse movie of a rare shell ejected by a “vampire star." The gas-sucking star is part of a double star system known as V445 in the constellation of Puppis ("the Stern") (Read More)
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Cosmic Variance:
This is rather “inside baseball”, but back when Cycle 17 Hubble Space Telescope (HST) proposals were being written, I plotted up the number of proposals as a function of time until deadline. Right now, a signficant fraction (Read More)
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di Sabrina Masiero, Dipartimento di Astronomia dell’Università degli Studi di Padova /INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova Questa immagine d’archivio, presa dall’Hubble Space Telescope, mostra la posizione della sorgente (Read More)
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Titanic Thirty Meter Telescope Will See Deep Space More ClearlyThe 30 Meter Telescope, with a primary mirror the size of a blue whale, is part of a new generation of super powerful ground-based telescopes. Scheduled for comp (Read More)
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SANTA CRUZ, California — Four hundred years after Galileo’s telescope revolutionized humanity’s view of the universe, a gigantic telescope is in the works that could take us to a new, deeper level of understanding.The enormou (Read More)
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Crediti: NASA/JPL-Caltech.di Sabrina Masiero, Dipartimento di Astronomia dell’Università degli Studi di Padova /INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di PadovaQuesta immagine artistica vuole dare un’idea della posizione del più grand (Read More)
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Polymath and the origin of life « Gowers’s WeblogTim Gowers has some very interesting ideas for an open science project to come up with a simple theoretical model where self-replication organisms are likely to spontaneously a (Read More)
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Spettacolare immagine ottenuta dalle osservazioni combinate in luce infrarossa ed X. La radiazione, in parte oscurata dalla polvere, rivela un’intensa attività molto vicino al “core” galattico.Crediti: NASA, ESA,SSC, CXC, STS (Read More)
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A telescope carried by balloon to the edge of Earth’s stratosphere has returned the most detailed video of the sun’s surface to date.Released Wednesday by an international research team led by astronomers from Germany’s Max P (Read More)
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Scientists are using the giant Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) to prospect in Sagittarius B2(N), a giant molecular cloud near the center of our Galaxy, some 25,000 light-years from Earth for new, complex molecules (Read More)
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A new multi-telescope image has revealed the beauty of the center of the Milky Way across the electromagnetic spectrum.The Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes teamed up with the Chandra X-ray Observatory to provide a glimpse (Read More)
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NASA has used its entire fleet of Great Observatories, to bring the center of our Galaxy to you. Pictured above, are the combined images of the Hubble Space Telescope in optical light, the Spitzer Space Telescope in infrared (Read More)
Cosmic Variance:
Galileo Galilei pointed a telescope at the heavens, and revolutionized our conception of Earth’s place in the Universe. Now you can do the same thing! In conjunction with the International Year of Astronomy, replicas of Galil (Read More)
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SPACE.com - A young star observed by the Spitzer Space Telescope appearsto be home to a wild – and young – planetary system that shares some of thefrenetic dynamics thought to have shaped the early years of our own solarsyste (Read More)
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