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10/01/2012 |
The amazing Omega Nebula
Sharpest ever view of one of the Milky Way’s youngest and most active stellar nurseries for massive stars.
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09/01/2012 |
Strange new type of Ultra-Red Galaxy Discovered
In the distant reaches of the universe,
almost 13 billion light-years from Earth, a strange species of
galaxy lay hidden. Cloaked in dust and dimmed by the intervening
distance, even the Hubble Space Telescope couldn't spy it. It
took the revealing power of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to
uncover not one, but four remarkably red galaxies.
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26/12/2011 |
Christmas Comet Captured at Paranal
Recently discovered Comet Lovejoy has been
captured in stunning photos and time-lapse video taken from
ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. The comet graced the
southern sky after it had unexpectedly survived a close
encounter with the Sun.
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03/12/2011 |
Australian dish charts where stars are born
Using an Australian radio telescope, an international team of astronomers has mapped in detail the star-forming regions of the nearest star-forming galaxy to our own, in a step toward understanding the conditions surrounding star formation.
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29/11/2011 |
Australia’s night sky – amazing time-lapse film
An incredible new time-lapse video has captured the beauty of the night sky above the Anglo-Australian Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory in eastern Australia.
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13/11/2011 |
Take a tour of the Moon
Using images and data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a new video takes you on a virtual tour of some of the Moon's most interesting places.
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07/11/2011 |
VISTA Finds New Globular Star Clusters and sees right
through the heart of the Milky Way
Two newly discovered globular clusters have been added to the
total of just 158 known globular clusters in our Milky Way. They
were found in new images from ESO’s VISTA survey telescope
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24/10/2011 |
GSTAR-EX2 captures the Silver
Coin
Yet another amazing testament for amateur astronomers as to
the power of simple frame accumulation highly sensitive video
CCD technology for capturing far distant galaxies. Taken from a
home backyard with a 12-inch telescope, the GSTAR-EX2 camera
shows wonderful detail.
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02/10/2011 |
Fried Egg nebula home to hypergiant
Astronomers have unveiled a new image of a colossal star that belongs to one of the most rare classes of stars in the Universe…the yellow hypergiants. The star and its shells resemble an egg white around a yolky centre, leading the astronomers to nickname the object the Fried Egg Nebula.
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27/09/2011 |
Hubble's replacement put to the test
James Webb Space Telescope gets a taste of space in NASA's vacuum test chamber.
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06/09/2011 |
Journey to the Centre of the Galaxy
HIDING BEHIND DUST in the direction of the constellations Sagittarius and Scorpius is the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy, over 25,000 light years away. The infrared vision of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory sees through the dust showing us this strange and tumultuous region.
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26/08/2011 |
'The Dish' finds a 'diamond planet'
ASTRONOMERS USING ‘THE DISH’—CSIRO’s radio telescope near Parkes, NSW—believe they’ve found a small planet made of diamond, orbiting an unusual star.
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17/08/2011 |
Alien world is blacker than coal
A super-hot, almost-pitch black planet orbits a star 750 light-years from Earth.
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12/08/2011 |
New
picture from ESO’s Very Large Telescope shows
NGC 3521, a spiral galaxy located about 35 million light
years away in the constellation of Leo. Spanning about 50 000
light-years, this spectacular object has a bright and compact
nucleus, surrounded by richly detailed spiral structure.
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04/08/2011 |
Sun Spot AR1261 flares up
Using a DayStar 0.5A Ha solar scope, Aussie amateur Derek Klepp
captures an excellent sequence of a flare eruption within the
region.
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28/07/2011 |
We are not alone
Earth has a new neighbour, a “Trojan” asteroid that shares our orbit.
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22/07/2011 |
Pluto has a new moon
Hubble Telescope spots a previously unknown moon orbiting the dwarf planet Pluto, bringing the total to four.
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15/07/2011 |
NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image of the giant
asteroid Vesta with its framing camera on July 9, 2011. It was
taken from a distance of about 26,000 miles (41,000 kilometres)
away from Vesta, which is also considered a proto-planet because
it is a large body that almost became a planet. Each pixel in
the image corresponds to roughly 3.8 kilometres.
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07/07/2011 |
Hubble's one-millionth observation
Orbiting observatory racks up milestone in study of planet 1,000 light-years away.
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18/06/2011 |
HST awesome high resolution image of NGC5128
Resembling looming
rain clouds on a stormy day, dark lanes of dust crisscross the
giant elliptical galaxy Centaurus A. Hubble's panchromatic
vision, stretching from ultraviolet through near-infrared
wavelengths, reveals the vibrant glow of young, blue star
clusters and a glimpse into regions normally obscured by the
dust. This image was taken in July 2010 with Hubble's Wide Field
Camera 3.
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10/06/2011 |
VST and 268 megapixel OmegaCAM start work
Latest addition to Paranal
Observatory (VST) has made its first release of impressive
images of the southern sky. The VST is a state-of-the-art
2.6-metre telescope.
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01/06/2011 |
NGC 6744 spiral galaxy in Pavo
ESO astronomers have used the Wide Field Imager with 2.2-metre
telescope to capture an image of NGC 6744. This impressive
spiral galaxy lies about 30 million light-years away in the
southern constellation of Pavo (The Peacock). But this view
could almost be a picture postcard of our own Milky Way, taken
and sent by an extragalactic friend, as this galaxy closely
resembles our own.
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15/05/2011 |
Endeavour's final voyage
Second-last space shuttle mission, carrying an antimatter detector to the Space Station.
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29/04/2011 |
Latest Hubble video report
Hubble is working on three huge new discovery projects, as this video explains…
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16/04/2011 |
Astronomy 1 trillion years from now
Far-future astronomers will see a very different cosmos. Will they still know about the Big Bang?
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23/03/2011 |
Really cool stars
Move over Hollywood, astronomers have spotted what could be the coldest star yet found.
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12/02/2011 |
The Case of the Missing Sunspots has finally been solved.
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12/02/2011 |
Star spangled nebula
NASA telescope gives new view of stellar family life in the North American Nebula.
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22/01/2011 |
The Orion Neb still full of Surprises
This nebula is much
more than just a pretty face, offering astronomers a close-up
view of a massive star-forming region to help advance our
understanding of stellar birth and evolution.
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05/12/2010 |
Do aliens eat arsenic for breakfast?
Astrobiologists ‘follow the elements’ to discover ‘weird life’ right here on Earth.
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27/11/2010 |
Cosmic eyes staring back at us
Called planetary nebulae, they’re the death throes of stars. We present Hubble’s Top 10…
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06/11/2010 |
The search for alien civilisations celebrates 50 years with new telescope campaign.
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24/10/2010 |
How to weigh a star using a moon
Astronomers have new way to accurately determine the size and mass of stars and planets.
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03/10/2010 |
“Goldilocks” planet discovered
Planet found in a star’s “habitable zone”. Is this the one we’ve been waiting for?
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05/09/2010 |
Mission to the Sun!
A NASA mission to the Sun will go where no spacecraft has gone before, having to survive temperatures of 1,400 degrees!
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26/08/2010 |
Twin stars could doom planets
Tight double-star systems might not be the best places for life to spring up.
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24/07/2010 |
Where is the antimatter?
Space station experiment will search for weird forms of matter. Watch the video...
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06/07/2010 |
Cosmic baby photo
A satellite image of the Big Bang afterglow image shows the universe in its infant state.
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24/06/2010 |
Stormy Sun
A solar explosion sends a billion-tonne cloud of particles heading straight for Earth.
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