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Supernova stars that serve as road markers in cosmology largely arise from small stars crashing together, astronomers suggested Wednesday ... Astronomers had thought this a class of imploding star, which erupts when a "white dwarf" star reaches a set weight, largely results from such stars robbing a companion of enough gas to just reach the critical explosive mass, about 1 ... Because Type 1A supernova blasts take place at a standard weight, producing a standard-sized blast, astronomers use them... (USA Today -- Tech)
Astronomers find oldest stars outside Milky Way Feb 18, 2010
Astronomers at the facility have said they had uncovered the oldest stars in our galactic neighborhood thanks to the massive telescope. SANTIAGO (AFP) - European Southern Observatory astronomers have said they had uncovered the oldest stars in our galactic neighborhood thanks to a massive telescope installed in Chile ... But a new technique allowed the European astronomers to "uncover the primitive stars hidden among all the other, more common stars," said Else Starkenburg, lead author of the... (Yahoo! Asia News)
Fermi closes in on cosmic rays Feb 18, 2010
Amateur astronomers discover stellar outburst. Two amateur astronomers based in Florida yesterday helped set in motion a global network of ground- and space-based telescopes to point to a violent explosion of one of our Galaxy's distant stellar inhabitants ... New images from NASA s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope are helping astronomers take a step closer to uncovering the source of the Universe's most energetic particles cosmic rays. (Astronomy Now Online)
Unique images reveal Saturn's aurorae Feb 18, 2010
Amateur astronomers discover stellar outburst. Two amateur astronomers based in Florida yesterday helped set in motion a global network of ground- and space-based telescopes to point to a violent explosion of one of our Galaxy's distant stellar inhabitants ... Taking advantage of Saturn's edge-on ring orientation, astronomers have created a unique movie featuring aurorae at both poles that reveal subtleties between the northern and southern auroral regions. (Astronomy Now Online)
Gassy galaxies were perfect star factories Feb 18, 2010
Amateur astronomers discover stellar outburst. Two amateur astronomers based in Florida yesterday helped set in motion a global network of ground- and space-based telescopes to point to a violent explosion of one of our Galaxy's distant stellar inhabitants ... Astronomers have known that stars formed in far higher numbers in the early Universe, and that there was a greater abundance of massive stars in the past, but until now there has never been a satisfactory understanding of why this was the... (Astronomy Now Online)
Blast Off: Unsettled Mechanism of Supernova Detonation Gets a New Twist Feb 18, 2010
When stellar cataclysms known as type Ia supernovae flare up far across the universe, their brightness and consistency allow astronomers to use them as so-called standard candles to measure cosmological distances ... But Howell notes that the mix of supernova brightnesses changes as astronomers look farther across the universe and, by extension, further back in time ... "If we want to go from 10 percent to 1 percent [uncertainty] in measuring cosmological parameters," he says, astronomers need a... (Scientific American)
Sky-mapping probe serves up cosmic feast Feb 18, 2010
WISE will see hundreds of similar star-making regions in our galaxy, helping astronomers piece together a picture of how stars are born ... Because NGC 3603 is much closer, astronomers use it as a lab to probe the same type of action that is taking place billions of light-years away. (MSNBC -- Technology)
What makes supernovas go boom Feb 18, 2010
These are used as , and knowing what causes these stellar blow-ups is a critical key to studying the mysterious dark energy that astronomers think pervades the universe ... "This is probably not what many astronomers would expect.". (MSNBC -- Technology)
Cosmic Jets Take New Shape Feb 18, 2010
12, 2009) A galaxy located billions of light-years away is commanding the attention of NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and astronomers around the globe ... This discovery may help astronomers understand how neutron stars as well as black. (Science Daily)
Origin of Key Cosmic Explosions Revealed Feb 18, 2010
18, 2010) New findings from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have provided a major advance in understanding a type of supernova critical for studying the dark energy that astronomers think pervades the universe ... "This is probably not what many astronomers would expect." ... 23, 2005) Astronomers have found compelling evidence that a supernova shock wave has produced a large amount of cosmic rays, particles of mysterious origin that constantly bombard the Earth. (Science Daily)
Bilingual Babies: The Roots of Bilingualism in Newborns Feb 18, 2010
Astronomers removed light from closer and better known galaxies and stars from pictures taken with the Spitzer Space Telescope. The remaining images. (Science Daily)
Why Today's Galaxies Don't Make as Many Stars as They Used to Feb 18, 2010
17, 2010) University of Arizona astronomers have helped solve a mystery surrounding the birth of stars in galaxies that has long puzzled scientists ... To answer such questions, astronomers have to look not only far out into space, but also far back in time ... Astronomers use this red shift to determine the speed with which a galaxy is receding from earth, allowing them to calculate its distance. (Science Daily)
The Rhythm of Our Star Feb 17, 2010
Astronomers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have recently concluded that the upcoming planet-finding mission, SIM PlanetQuest, would be able to. (Mar. (Science Daily)
Get set for possible glimpse of asteroid Feb 17, 2010
Wednesday, Feb. 17, Vesta, the second most massive object in the asteroid belt, reaches what astronomers like to call "opposition." An asteroid (or planet or comet) is said to be "in opposition" when it is opposite to the sun as seen from Earth. In other words, if you were to stand outside with the sun directly above you at high noon, Vesta would be directly below your feet some 211,980,000 kilometers (131,700,000 miles) away. (Florida Today)
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Now that telescopes can peer to ever-grater distances and thus farther back in time, astronomers are attempting to take a census of the shapes and numbers of galaxies that existed 6 to 8 billion years ago. Using observations from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and from the Hubble Space Telescope, Franois Hammer and Rodney Delgado-Serrano (Paris Observatory) to catalog 116 local galaxies and 148 distant ones, respectively. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Red Dwarf-Red Giant Binary Pair Found Feb 17, 2010
A team of stellar astronomers is engaged in an interstellar CSI (crime scene investigation) ... 28, 2009) A team of Chinese astronomers has discovered a giant planet close to the exotic binary star system QS Virginis ... 14, 2006) Using ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have discovered a rather unusual system, in which two planet-size stars, of different colors, orbit each other. (Science Daily)
Fermi Closes on Source of Cosmic Rays Feb 17, 2010
The images bring astronomers a step closer to understanding the source of some of the universe's most energetic particles -- cosmic rays ... In the decades that followed, astronomers showed that supernova remnants are the galaxy's best candidate sites for this process ... 2, 2009) 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. (Science Daily)
A New 3-D Map of the Interstellar Gas Within 300 Parsecs from the Sun Feb 16, 2010
A French-American team of astronomers presents new absorption measurements towards more than 1800 stars ... A French-American team of astronomers presents new measurements of the absorption by the interstellar gas in the Sun's local area ... Knowledge of the interstellar medium properties, including the spatial distribution, dynamics, and the chemical and physical characteristics, allow astronomers to better understand the interplay between the evolution of stars and their exchange of matter... (Science Daily)
I spy a comet...new satellite spots 1st of many comets Feb 16, 2010
The comet discovery was followed up by a combination of professional and amateur astronomers using telescopes across the United States. A teacher also teamed up with an observer to measure comet WISE using a home-built telescope next to a cornfield in Illinois. (KOLD.com, AZ)
Leading Particle for Mysterious Dark Matter? Feb 16, 2010 Stargaze Locally, Party Globally! Feb 13, 2010 Backward black holes control fate of galaxies Feb 13, 2010 Hubble catches Saturn's sky shows from space Feb 12, 2010 Saturn's Aurora Offer Stunning Double Show Feb 12, 2010 NASA Successfully Launches a New Eye on the Sun Feb 12, 2010 Star Mills: Ancient Galaxies Packed More Raw Material for Stellar Formation Feb 11, 2010 In Memoriam: John Gregory Feb 11, 2010 New image penetrates heart of Orion Nebula Feb 11, 2010 Node-3 and Cupola: European technology to complete the ISS Feb 10, 2010 'Ingredients for Life' Present on Saturn's Moon Enceladus, Say Scientists Feb 10, 2010 Hubble survey catches asteroid crash Feb 9, 2010 The Stars Behind the Curtain Feb 9, 2010 Probing Exoplanets from the Ground Feb 9, 2010 The New Face of Pluto Feb 9, 2010 Physicist Geoffrey Burbidge, Big Bang theory skeptic; 84 Feb 8, 2010 Amateurs Discover U Scorpii's Eruption Feb 8, 2010 Latest HeadlinesThe TickerRivals Radio';var SSN21430 = 'CougZone PremiumMessage Board Index';var SSN21470 = 'Football Recruit SearchBasketball Recruit Search';var SSN21431 = ' Football Front PageScoresScheduleRoster Depth ChartStatisticsTickets';var SSN21432 = 'Football Recruiting Front PageCommitment ListRecruit Search & DatabaseRankingsVideosThe Rivals100Visit Dates';var SSN21433 = 'Basketball Front PageScoresScheduleRosterStatisticsTickets';var SSN21434 = 'Basketball Recruiting Front PageCommitment ListRecruit Search & DatabaseRankingsVideos2009 Rivals1502010 Rivals1502011 Rivals150Visit Dates';var SSN21435 = 'Contact Us';var iSSN = 21428;document.write(eval('SSN' + iSSN));Latest HeadlinesThe TickerRivals RadioCougZone PremiumMessage Board IndexFootball Recruit SearchBasketball Recruit Search Football Front PageScoresScheduleRoster Depth ChartStatisticsTicketsFootball Recruiting Front PageCommitment ListRecruit Search & DatabaseRankingsVideosThe Rivals100Visit DatesBasketball Front PageScoresScheduleRosterStatisticsTicketsBasketball Recruiting Front PageCommitment ListRecruit Search & DatabaseRankingsVideos2009 Rivals1502010 Rivals1502011 Rivals150Visit DatesContact Us DIV.mainstory { padding-left: 5px; width: 408px; } DIV.mainstory P.abyline {color:#666666;} DIV.mainstory IMG.mainphoto { border-right: black 1px solid; border-top: black 1px solid; margin-bottom: 6px; border-left: black 1px solid; border-bottom: black 1px solid; } DIV.mainstory TABLE.mainstory { width: 398px; background-color: #FFFFFF; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; } DIV.mainstory P {margin: 0px 0px 0px;} DIV.mainstory TD { padding-right: 6px; font-size: 8.5pt; vertical-align: top; } var flashHeight = 80; var sAlt = 'The Cougar Lounge - Laughter-Packed Squalor Feb 8, 2010 Recent asteroid crash creates visible debris Feb 7, 2010 Asteroid hues intrigue UH Feb 6, 2010 Dynamic Pluto revealed in images Feb 6, 2010 Object no longer thought to be a comet Feb 6, 2010 Where Did Today's Spiral Galaxies Come From? Feb 6, 2010 To questions that dogged astronomers, a Sirius solution Feb 6, 2010 "Super Earth" May Really Be New Planet Type: Super-Io Feb 6, 2010 Pluto undergoing seasonal, atmospheric changes: NASA Feb 5, 2010 New Pluto Pictures Unveiled; Hubble's Sharpest Yet Feb 5, 2010 A "Whodunit" in the Asteroid Belt Feb 5, 2010 New Hubble Maps of Pluto Show Surface Changes Feb 5, 2010 Hubble shows Pluto 'turning red' Feb 5, 2010 Astronomers Find Rare Beast by New Means Feb 4, 2010 NASA Announces News Telecon To Discuss Hubble Images Of Pluto Feb 4, 2010 Blog: Mercury Probe Searches for Vulcanoids, Spies Venus Feb 4, 2010 Giant Meteorites Slammed Earth Around A.D. 500? Feb 4, 2010 Merging Galaxies Create a Binary Quasar Feb 4, 2010 Down to Earth: Technique Lets Ground-Based Telescopes Parse Exoplanet Atmospheres Feb 4, 2010 A star is born in nearby cosmic nursery Feb 4, 2010 Space Photos This Week: Odd "Comet," Mars Rover, More Feb 3, 2010 Suspected Asteroid Collision Leaves Odd X-Pattern of Trailing Debris Feb 3, 2010 Hubble Catches End of Star-Making Party in Nearby Dwarf Galaxy Feb 3, 2010 Lowell Observatory announces layoffs Feb 2, 2010 For eye surgeon, 1981 fair had 'huge impact' Feb 2, 2010 Mysteries of How a Star is Born Feb 2, 2010 Superman Returns Feb 2, 2010 World's Largest Solar Scope Feb 2, 2010 JZ hopes for alien answer Feb 1, 2010 Look! Up in the sky! Jan 30, 2010 Extraterrestrial Life: Is there anybody out there? Jan 30, 2010 Biggest and brightest full moon of 2010 tonight Jan 30, 2010 > read more Jan 29, 2010 Astronomers spy a distant black hole with a giant companion Jan 28, 2010 Technology-Testing Proba-2 Opens New Eye on the Sun Jan 28, 2010 Star's Jets Travel Close to Speed of Light Jan 28, 2010 Year's Best Mars View Tonight Jan 28, 2010 Universe 30 Times More Run Down Than Thought Jan 27, 2010 More » Jan 27, 2010 Galaxies unlock new secrets of dark matter Jan 27, 2010 Mars Rover to Roam No More -- It's Official Jan 27, 2010 Aggie Researchers Study Far-Off Galaxies Jan 26, 2010 WISE Eye Spies Near-Earth Asteroid Jan 26, 2010 Year's Best Mars View on Wednesday Jan 26, 2010 Asteroids Pale After Close Encounters Jan 26, 2010 Detecting and Countering Near-Earth Objects That Could Threaten Earth Underfunded, According to Report Jan 26, 2010 Is there anybody out there? Quite possibly, says leading astronomer Jan 25, 2010 Victoria Beckham wins US TV deal Jan 25, 2010
19, 2009) Astronomers recently observed a mysterious flux of particles in the universe, and the hope was born that this may be the first observation of the remnants of dark matter ... The astronomers can measure that the dark matter exists. (Science Daily)
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This research is critical for studying dark energy, which astronomers believe pervades the universe. The panelists are. (NASA Watch)
Astronomers Without Borders The answer, they're betting, is ... "Most of the world's amateur astronomers engage mostly in public outreach and education," observes Simmons. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
At the heart of galaxies, astronomers have routinely detected what seem to be supermassive black holes millions to billions of times the mass of our sun ... In the future, Evans said NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), a satellite planned for launch in 2011, may help astronomers solve this black hole mystery, being 10 to 50 times more sensitive that current technology. (MSNBC -- Technology)
NASA astronomers Thursday released of Saturn's northern and southern lights, seen edge-on ... Saturn's northern and southern aurorae differ, the astronomers report. (USA Today -- Tech)
The movie they created from the data, collected over several days during January and March 2009, has aided astronomers studying both Saturn's northern and southern aurorae ... However, analysing the new data in greater detail, astronomers have discovered some subtle differences between the northern and southern aurorae, which reveal important information about Saturn's magnetic field ... However, analyzing the new data in greater detail, astronomers have discovered some subtle differences... (Science Daily)
7, 2008) Astronomers who count sunspots have announced that 2008 is now the "blankest year" of the Space Age. An image taken on Sept. 27, 2008 by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) shows a solar. (Science Daily)
Across the universe, astronomers can see galaxies earlier in cosmic history, and unsurprisingly the birthrate then was much higher ... Tacconi says that the new work confirms what many cosmologists and astronomers believed but had not proved ... Astronomers had been able to spot in the early universe before, but those observations were mostly confined to extremely bright objects such as quasars. (Scientific American)
By talking, teaching, and passing on his memory and contribution, we can assure that astronomers in the future will know, and appreciate, the great works that John gave to us as part of his life. You will be missed, John. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Most of the action is deeply embedded in dust clouds and to see what is really happening astronomers need to use telescopes with detectors sensitive to the longer, infrared wavelength radiation that can penetrate the dust ... These strange features are of great interest to astronomers studying the birth and youth of stars. (MSNBC -- Technology)
The flight will deliver a major scientific instrument, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, which may help astronomers understand the origin of the universe by searching for antimatter and and measuring cosmic rays. After that, ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli's six-month mission to the ISS will begin in November 2010. (Scientific American)
The new findings add to astronomers' growing knowledge of the detailed chemistry of Enceladus' plume and Titan's atmosphere, giving new understanding of environments beyond Earth where prebiotic or life-sustaining environments might exist ... Astronomers say that Saturn's rings will disappear from view on Earth on September 4, 2009. (Science Daily)
Astronomers think crashes are shrinking asteroid belt, but none had been viewed ... Astronomers have long thought the asteroid belt is being ground down because of collisions, but such a head-on crash had never been seen before ... At first, astronomers thought what they saw might be a main belt comet, a rare case of a comet orbiting while in the asteroid belt. (CNN -- International)
Located 22 000 light-years away from the Sun, it is the closest region of this kind known in our galaxy, providing astronomers with a local test bed for studying intense star formation processes, very common in other galaxies, but hard to observe in detail because of their great distance from us ... Using another recent set of observations performed with the SINFONI instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have confirmed that one of these stars is about 120 times more massive... (Science Daily)
9, 2010) NASA astronomers have successfully demonstrated that a David of a telescope can tackle Goliath-size questions in the quest to study Earth-like planets around other stars ... Using the new technique, the astronomers successfully detected carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere of HD 189733b with a spectrograph, which splits light into its components to reveal the distinctive spectral signatures of different chemicals ... Astronomers performed the surprising feat of measuring methane... (Science Daily)
Their decision was immediately opposed in a formal petition by hundreds of professional astronomers led by Dr. Alan Stern, Principal Investigator of NASAs New Horizons mission to Pluto ... These reasons are why many astronomers, lay people, and educators are either ignoring the demotion entirely or working to get it overturned. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
As the director of Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, Dr. Burbidge pushed to open big telescopes to a larger community of astronomers ... By then astronomers had been riveted by the discovery of quasars: bright, pointlike objects that were pouring out radio waves and whose visible light was severely shifted toward longer, redder wavelengths, like the sound of a siren going away, indicating that they were moving away at high velocity ... Dr. Burbidge was one of the first astronomers to... (Boston Globe)
On the morning of January 28th, two amateur astronomers discovered the much-awaited outburst of the recurrent nova U Scorpii, as ... That image had helped astronomers determine that U Sco had not blown up while it was out of sight in conjunction with the Sun ... The hope among astronomers is that, with all the advance preparation and fast notice, this will be the most thoroughly studied nova explosion in history. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
that was dissed by the worldwide astronomers a few years ago and reduced to so-called dwarf planet status, is now exhibiting distinct signs of atmospheric changes - proving that Pluto is not merely a ball of frozen rock and ice or a giant asteroid - but rather an actual planet with actual planet-like aspects. In this case, images from the Hubble Space Telescope have shown that Pluto has been undergoing seasonal atmospheric changes which have produced several colorful changes to its atmosphere -... (Washington State Sports -- Rivals.com)
The object, called P/2010 A2, was first observed Jan. 6 by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research program, and astronomers thought it was a comet. But images taken by Hubble on Jan. 25 and 29 show something far different. (AZCentral -- News)
University of Hawaii astronomers and colleagues are trying to understand the changing colors of asteroids, knowledge they say might help come up with methods to avoid catastrophic collisions with Earth ... " University of Hawaii astronomers and colleagues are trying to understand the changing colors of asteroids, knowledge they say might help come up with methods to avoid catastrophic collisions with Earth. COURTESY IMAGE The asteroid Itokawa, above, was shot by the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa.... (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
When Hubble pictures taken in 1994 are compared with a new set of images taken in 2002 to 2003, astronomers see evidence that Pluto's northern polar region has become brighter. Referring to the striking changes on Pluto, Professor Brown commented: "Imagine the Moon changing by that much. We're used to looking at the Moon and it being the same night after night. This thing has changed dramatically in that time. "If you look around the entire Solar System, the only things that change their... (BBC News -- Science)
A puzzling object that seemed to be a comet flying inside the solar system's asteroid belt is no comet at all, but the remains of a violent collision between two fossil rocks that populate the belt, astronomers say ... The object was first sighted in early January by astronomers at the Air Force LINEAR project telescope in New Mexico, who reported it as a comet that must have flown into the asteroid belt from the solar system's outer reaches, as all comets do ... The main asteroid belt lies... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Science)
A team of European astronomers led by Fran;ois Hammer of the Observatoire de Paris has, for the first time, completed a demographic census of galaxy types at two different points in the Universe's history -- in effect, creating two Hubble sequences -- that help explain how galaxies form ... Contrary to previous thought, the astronomers showed that the Hubble sequence six billion years ago was very different from the one that astronomers see today ... The astronomers think that these peculiar... (Science Daily)
Astronomers worked through all the possibilities they could think of. None turned out to be remotely plausible. (Boston Globe)
Based on previous observations, astronomers know that CoRoT-7b's surface is between 1,832 and 2,732 degrees Fahrenheit (1,000 and 1,500 degrees Celsius) ... When CoRoT-7b's discovery was announced in February 2009, astronomers hailed the world as the smallest exoplanet yet found orbiting a sunlike star ... From CoRoT-7b's transits, astronomers could tell that the planet is about twice the size of Earth, which is approximately 7,920 miles (12,760 kilometers) wide. (National Geographic)
Principal investigator Marc Buie of Southwest Research Institute in Colorado, said the images allowed astronomers to better interpret more than three decades of Pluto observations from other telescopes. "The Hubble observations are the key to showing how it all makes sense by providing a context based on weather and seasonal changes which open other new lines of investigation," he said. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
The pictures reveal that Pluto is a much more dynamic body than commonly thought, and they offer astronomers ideas of what to focus on when the spacecraft reaches the dwarf planet in 2015 ... And by comparing the new pictures to previous images, astronomers can tell that some parts of Pluto, including the southern hemisphere, became significantly darker and redder between 2000 and 2002, while the northern hemisphere got brighter. (National Geographic)
The mystery of a comet-like object circling among the main-belt asteroids has deepened, now that astronomers have slewed the Hubble Space Telescope over for a close-up look. At first astronomers though the object designated P/2010 A2 was a comet, but this Hubble Space Telescope image, taken January 29th with the Wide Field Camera 3, suggests that it's not behaving like a normal comet. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
When Hubble pictures taken in 1994 are compared with a new set of images taken in 2002 to 2003, astronomers see evidence that the northern polar region has gotten brighter, while the southern hemisphere has gotten darker ... The images are allowing planetary astronomers to better interpret more than three decades of Pluto observations from other telescopes, says principal investigator Marc Buie of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo ... The new Hubble images from 2002 to 2003 are... (Science Daily)
But some astronomers have expressed shock at the changes ... In 2006, astronomers stripped Pluto of its status as a full planet, downgrading it to a dwarf planet. (BBC News)
3, 2010) For the first time, astronomers have found a supernova explosion with properties similiar to a gamma-ray burst, but without seeing any gamma rays from it ... For the past decade or so, astronomers have identified one particular type of such a "core-collapse supernova" as the cause of one kind of gamma-ray burst ... The superfast speeds in these rare blasts, astronomers say, are caused by an "engine" in the center of the supernova explosion that resembles a scaled-down version of a... (Science Daily)
These detailed images will help astronomers better interpret more than three decades of Pluto observations from other. The panelists are. (NASA Watch)
The concept of vulcanoids arose from research done in the late 1800s, when astronomers trying to use the classical rules of to chart Mercury's orbit kept finding things wrong with their calculations. French mathematician Urbain Jean Joseph le Verrier took the challenge to heart, and in 1860 he announced that discrepancies in Mercury's orbit were due to an unseen planet, which he named. (National Geographic)
In addition, he said, Abbott and other members of an informal association called the are finding evidence for more impact events than astronomers calculate should be possible ... "We have a pretty good idea about how many there are and what the frequency of impact should be, and the abundances based on [the working group's claimed crater count] are orders of magnitude greater than what astronomers observe," Boslough said ... "It's pretty hard to imagine where these things could be coming from so... (National Geographic)
4, 2010) Astronomers have found the first clear evidence of a binary quasar within a pair of actively merging galaxies ... Because galaxies regularly interact and merge, astronomers have assumed that binary super-massive black holes have been common in the Universe, especially during its early history ... 10, 2007) New cosmological computer simulations produced by a team of astronomers from Northwestern University, Harvard University and the University of Michigan show for the first time that... (Science Daily)
In the 15 years outside our solar system was conclusively discovered, astronomers have compiled a vast and diverse menagerie of such so-called exoplanets ... Someday, detailed observations of exoplanet atmospheres might allow astronomers to pinpoint worlds where life seems to have taken hold, producing, for instance, otherwise unexplainable cocktails of oxygen and methane ... But although many planets are first discovered using telescopes on the ground, most of the spectroscopic measurements... (Scientific American)
This near view offers astronomers a relatively local test bed for studying intense star formation processes that are usually hard to observe in detail because of their great distance from us. The was captured by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in the Atacama desert of Chile. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Although the object looks like a comet, astronomers think the tail is actually debris from a recent asteroid collision ... This strengthens the case that the object is not a comet, since astronomers have never seen a comet with its core outside its halo ... Using an infrared instrument on the in Hawaii, astronomers peered through the dense natal cloud surrounding W33A to see if stars much more massive than our sun form any differently than their less massive counterparts. (National Geographic)
Astronomers have long thought the asteroid belt is being ground down through collisions, but such a smashup has never been seen before ... Astronomers have long thought that the asteroid belt is being ground down through collisions, but such a smashup has never before been seen ... (July 14, 2008) When observing with the GEMINI telescopes, two astronomers discovered for the first time asteroids that are similar to "ordinary chondrites" -- the most common meteorites found on Earth. (Science Daily)
Astronomers were surprised to find that star-formation activities in the outer regions of NGC 2976 have been virtually asleep because they shut down millions of years ago ... The explanation, astronomers say, is that a raucous interaction with a neighboring group of hefty galaxies ignited star birth in NGC 2976 ... "Astronomers thought that grazing encounters between galaxies can cause the funneling of gas into a galaxy's core, but these Hubble observations provide the clearest view of this... (Science Daily)
Astronomers will use its wide lens for comprehensive surveys of near-Earth objects, and the Discovery Channel has plans to feature it in its worldwide programming ... Currently, Lowell has 19 astronomers on staff, along with postdoctoral fellows, all of whom conduct a wide range of internationally recognized astronomical research. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Atebara was a junior at Waiakea when he was accepted into a science program sponsored by the National Science Foundation and was allowed to join British astronomers studying a planetary nebula called NGC6369 through Britain's infrared telescope atop Mauna Kea on the Big Island ... The astronomers were trying to identify different elements of NGC6369, a precursor to what eventually will happen to Earth's own sun before its demise. (Honolulu Advertiser)
Although astronomers theory of star formation has advanced substantially in recent years, it still has serious holes ... Astronomers are making progress on filling in these gaps ... If there is anything you think astronomers would have figured out by now, it is how stars form. (Scientific American)
He had left Earth because astronomers thought they'd discovered remnants of Krypton. So he went to investigate, but found nothing. (Suite101.com)
Tom Kekona / K. C. Environmental In Hawaiian culture, Haleakal is also revered as the sacred So it's seemingly fitting that later this year astronomers hope to being construction of the world's largest and most powerful observatory dedicated to the study of our star: the ... Such amazing specs should allow astronomers to make never-before-possible measurements of turbulence and magnetic fields in the photosphere, chromosphere, and even incredibly faint corona. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
"Because this high-tech facility is about 50 to 100 times more sensitive than any other radio telescope on Earth, the Square Kilometre Array will be able to probe the edges of our universe. "It will help us to answer fundamental questions in the fields of astronomy, physics and cosmology, and may even detect intelligent life elsewhere in the universe," Zuma said in a speech prepared for delivery at a session of the African Union Heads of State and Government Assembly being held in Addis Ababa.... (iAfrica.com)
When night falls, astronomers take over. Clear, starry skies blanket southern Arizona, making it a dream destination for stargazers. (AZCentral -- Travel)
Astronomers have already discovered about 300 planets beyond our solar system, and some suggest it is only a matter of time before more Earth-like planets are identified. That suggests there should be "lots of extraterrestrial civilisations around, but where are they?", asks Conway Morris. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
Astronomers and psychologists agree the moon illusion is just that, but they don't agree on how to explain it. 2010 Space. (MSNBC -- Technology)
diagram A lot of astronomers, professional and amateur, have been waiting ... "The two astronomers, Dr. Barbara Harris, MD, of New Smyrna Beach, and Shawn Dvorak of Clermont, were active participants in a global research campaign to monitor activity of U Scorpii. Both Harris and Dvorak had been conducting long-term monitoring as part of a campaign run by the AAVSO. This campaign, organized by Dr. Bradley Schaefer (Louisiana State University), involved professional and amateur observers from... (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Astronomers have spied a star-sized black hole much further away than any such object previously known ... Astronomers have now found three black holes with masses more than 15 times that of the Sun, all of which are in galaxies outside our own ... This was all confirmed when astronomers then followed up the Swift-XMM data with observations using the FORS2 instrument mounted on the 8. (BBC News -- Science)
23, 2007) For the first time, astronomers have a side-on view as giant clouds of solar material leave the Sun and slam into the magnetic field of the. (Mar. (Science Daily)
Never before have astronomers observed two of these powerful stellar explosions occurring. (June 26, 2009) Astronomers have now solved a long-standing mystery of the Milky Way's particle accelerators ... 27, 2010) Astronomers have found an example of the rare type of supernova thought to produce Gamma Ray Bursts, but through radio, not gamma-ray, observations. (Science Daily)
is zooming in for a close approach to Earth tonight, offering backyard astronomers their best views of the red planet until 2014 ... That event created spectacular views for astronomers but also seems to have spawned the recurring. (National Geographic)
Universe Is 30 Times More Run Down Than Thought, Astronomers Find ... Universe Is 30 Times More Run Down Than Thought, Astronomers Find ... 16, 2008) Astronomers think that many -- perhaps all -- galaxies in the universe contain massive black holes at their centers. (Science Daily)
The x-rays allowed astronomers to figure out which galaxy lies at the center of a cluster. The team could then look at how the cluster's light is bent by gravity to determine its mass, including the mass of its dark matter. (National Geographic)
The findings could help astronomers understand more about dark matter, as well as its even stranger sibling dark energy ... Astronomers measure how much lies in galaxies by a fluke of physics called gravitational lensing ... Comparing these two calculations the total matter to just the regular matter gives a ratio astronomers call the mass-luminosity relation. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Tracking the rover's radio signal from its fixed position, for example, will allow astronomers to finely calculate the way Mars wobbles as it spins on its axis. Like a raw egg versus a hard-boiled one, the planet should wobble differently on its axis if its metal core is solid than if it's molten. (National Geographic)
COLLEGE STATION (January 25, 2010)--Two Texas Aersity astronomers were part of a team that has spent months studying the characteristics of some of the most distant galaxies ever recorded ... Astronomers Steven Finkelstein and Casey Papovich relied on images and data from the camera, which are available to the public through NASA.. (KWTX.com, TX)
A community of professional and amateur astronomers will provide follow-up observations, establishing firm orbits for the previously unseen objects ... Its data will serve as a cosmic treasure map, pointing astronomers and telescopes, such as NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope, to the most interesting finds. (Science Daily)
is zooming in for a close approach to Earth this week, offering backyard astronomers their best views of the red planet until 2014 ... That event created spectacular views for astronomers but also seems to have spawned the recurring. (National Geographic)
For decades, planetary astronomers have classified asteroids by the spectral characteristics of their surfaces. "S types" are found throughout the asteroid belt and also comprise most NEAs. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
19, 2005) Astronomers led by an MIT professor have revised the scale used to assess the threat of asteroids and comets colliding with Earth to better communicate those risks with the public ... 21, 2007) Astronomers funded by NASA are monitoring the trajectory of an asteroid estimated to be 50 meters (164 feet) wide that is expected to cross Mars' orbital path early next year. (Science Daily)
BBC News - Astronomers hopeful of detecting extra-terrestrial life ... Astronomers hopeful of detecting extra-terrestrial life ... Astronomers hopeful of alien find. (BBC News -- Science)
Astronomers hopeful of alien find. In pictures: Negative images of Uzbekistan. (Yahoo News -- Reality TV)
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