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There’s a new contender for the title of the Milky Way’s brightest star.
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NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has confirmed water vapor in the atmosphere of a gas giant exoplanet. The planet named HD 189733b is at a distance of 64 light...
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The European Space Agency and some U.S. astronomers might have finally solved a 45-year-old mystery regarding the ghostly spiral arms in the galaxy M106.
A team of...
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Imagine being on a planet which has two or more suns. You will see two suns setting down the horizon one after another.
Astronomers have used NASA’s Spitzer...
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Andromeda, our giant neighboring galaxy, was involved in a head on collision with the dwarf galaxy, M32, some 210 million years ago, the only witness of the flaming...
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There is a huge intergalactic shock wave, or “sonic boom” in the middle of Stephan’s Quintet, a group of galaxies which is now the scene of a gigantic...
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The environment of a typical spiral or starburst galaxy that looks almost pastoral is made fiery with this discovery. Packed together in tiny but extremely powerful...
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Two huge “hypergiant” stars are found circled by monstrous disks of what might be planet-forming dust, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has identified...
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DNA consists of organic molecules and proteins. Did you ever think from where the basic compounds necessary to build these molecules come from? If you didn’t,...
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Our Universe is rich with a bounty of young stars. And NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has uncompromisingly harvested them. Dozens of stars like the Sun, but much...
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Researchers from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland believe they have captured traces of radiation from long-extinguished stars that were...
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Thanks to the scientists. It’s now known that Charon, Pluto’s only confirmed moon so far, is no more alone. Astronomers have discovered two more moons of...
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It is said that every phenomenon leaves a clue or a mark. So did the first stars. Or you may call it the first object of the universe. To colonize the early universe,...
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Researchers from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland believe they have captured traces of radiation from long-extinguished stars that were...
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It is said that every phenomenon leaves a clue or a mark. So did the first stars. Or you may call it the first object of the universe. To colonize the early universe,...
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