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Scientists are using the giant Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) to go prospecting in a rich molecular cloud in our Milky Way Galaxy. They seek to discover new, complex molecules in interstellar space that may be precursors to life.
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Tattoo buffs know what they want and how they want it. Well, this guy here, Michael seems to have taken his love a tad too seriously. Adorning a galactic tattoo on his...
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Living inside the Milky Way as we do, it\’s hard to come up with a realistic picture of what the galaxy looks like, but that hasn\’t stopped astronomers...
made popular Jun 6 2008
NASA\’s Cassini spacecraft buzzed Titan last month, coming close enough to taste the Saturnian moon\’s atmosphere.
made popular Jun 2 2008
A Dalit boy from a village in Maharashtra has been invited by the NASA as a junior research scientist to work on its Galaxy Evolution Explorer...
made popular May 17 2008
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Juan Pablo Angel scored in the 78th minute to give the New York Red Bulls a 2-1 victory over the Los Angeles Galaxy on Saturday night.
made popular May 11 2008
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David Beckham scored his first goal in a Major League Soccer game and assisted on another to help the Los Angeles Galaxy win their home opener, 2-0 over the expansion...
made popular Apr 4 2008
David Beckham’s first regular-season game for the Los Angeles Galaxy was a disaster as his side suffered a 4-0 drubbing by the Colorado Rapids and had Abel Xavier...
made popular Mar 30 2008
So you’ve lived here all your life — in fact, everyone has — but what do you really know about the Milky Way galaxy? Sure, you know it’s a spiral, and it’s...
made popular Mar 13 2008
In the end, there will not even be fragments. If nature is left to its own devices, about 7.59 billion years from now Earth will be dragged from its orbit by an...
made popular Mar 11 2008
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David Beckham scored a late goal before the Los Angeles Galaxy lost in a penalty shootout Sunday to Hong Kong club South China in the final leg of its preseason Asian...
made popular Mar 9 2008
Rocky planets, possibly with conditions suitable for life, may be more common than previously thought in our galaxy, a study has found.
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Astronomers took pictures of a far-off lumpy galaxy just forming 13 billion years ago, putting it among the earliest and most distant cosmic objects ever photographed.
made popular Feb 12 2008
Black holes have baffled scientists for a long time. The dense mass of the dead star that has is dense enough to gobble huge planets and stars. Recently astronomers...
made popular Dec 18 2007
Do you reckon Yoshie, Mario and the brothers? If you are a big fan of the weird looking go carts, flying bananas, and some cool music, here’s your chance to win a...
made popular Nov 13 2007
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Ruud Gullit, once one of the best soccer players in the world, has been hired to coach the Los Angeles Galaxy.
made popular Nov 9 2007
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David Beckham is expected to make his final appearance of the year for the Los Angeles Galaxy against a team with quite a different set of stars _ from Hollywood.
made popular Oct 29 2007
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Jozy Altidore’s header in the 16th minute gave the New York Red Bulls a 1-1 tie with Los Angeles on Thursday night, when David Beckham played for the first time...
made popular Oct 19 2007
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David Beckham aggravated his injured left ankle Wednesday, the first time the midfielder has trained on consecutive days since Oct. 2.
made popular Oct 17 2007
The new Ford Mondeo has won a five star rating for adult occupant protection in the latest round of Euro NCAP safety testing. The test result for Mondeo was one of the...
made popular Sep 26 2007
A hectic timetable lying underway could pose Beckham gruelling moments for the next three months. Psychotherapists have also cautioned former Manchester United and Real...
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This stunning image of swirls of dust surrounding the variable star V838 Monocerotis near the edge of our Milky Way Galaxy, about 20,000 light-years from our sun, was...
made popular Jun 12 2008
When Pluto was demoted from planet to dwarf planet, there was a massive outcry of support. However, the latest interstellar demotion is unlikely to gather the same...
made popular Jun 6 2008
Astronomers have found the remains of the youngest supernova, or exploded star, in the Milky Way Galaxy. The supernova occurred in 1868, but was hidden behind a thick...
made popular May 16 2008
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made popular May 7 2008
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made popular Mar 13 2008
For centuries, men have wondered whether we are alone in this universe or there are other living beings similar to us in the giant cosmos. While science fictions have...
made popular Feb 18 2008
Rocky planets, possibly with conditions suitable for life, may be more common than previously thought in our galaxy, a study has found.
made popular Feb 18 2008
When our human mind was still busy exploring the various fascinating aspects of the universe, new and more mysterious things outside it awaits our attention. The...
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How has our universe evolve? Cosmologists have through decades come up with various models that talk of the universe’s growth from a few hundred thousand years after...
made popular Nov 17 2007
We have discovered the continents on the globe, now is the time to discover some of the celestial bodies on the globe itself. This Celestial globe is a complete...
made popular Aug 10 2007
Collision or merger of two galaxies, mostly one large galaxy and several small ones is common in the Universe. Astronomers have also observed some major mergers among...
made popular Aug 7 2007
For the first time, the properties of a rare, extremely massive, and young binary star system are determined. Thanks to NASA’s Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic...
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Approximately a century ago, when a Dutch astronomer named ‘Willem de Sitter’ propounded a ‘static model of the universe’ everybody thought of...
made popular May 25 2007
According to a recent study the solar system might be thrown from the close to centre position that it currently acquires to the boondocks when our galaxy Milky Way...
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A mind-blowing finding has defied the age-old textbook information on the shape of our solar system – i.e. its being ‘elliptical’ – which...
made popular May 14 2007
Dwarf Spheroidals or dark galaxies are those small galaxies that are composed mainly of dark matter.
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made popular Feb 15 2007
All these days we knew that our Milky Way has two best-known companions — the Magellanic Clouds, which are a pair of nearby dwarf galaxies. But, a recent...
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Researchers at the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-II) have announced that they have discovered seven or perhaps eight dwarf galaxies that are orbiting the Milky Way...
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Astronomers have discovered the first known triplet of quasars, according to the European Organization for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere.
Only...
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