NASA’s WISE Finds Only a Handful of Brown Dwarf Stars in Our Celestial Backyard
Astronomers are getting to know the neighbors better. Our sun resides within a spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy about two-thirds of the way out…
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ESA’s Asteroid Hunt Boosted by Amateur Astronomers
A partnership with the UK’s Faulkes Telescope Project promises to boost the Agency’s space hazards research while helping students to discover potentially dangerous space rocks. 2m…
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WISE Mission Sees Skies Ablaze With Blazars
Astronomers are actively hunting a class of supermassive black holes throughout the universe called blazars thanks to data collected by NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE).…
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Supernova Explosions and Black Hole Jets Scatter a Galaxy’s Star-Making Gas
Supernova explosions and the jets of a monstrous black hole are scattering a galaxy’s star-making gas like a cosmic leaf blower, a new study finds. The…
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Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have uncovered a cluster of galaxies in the initial stages of development. It is the most distant such grouping ever…
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NASA’S Hubble Captures First Images Of Aftermath Of Possible Asteroid Collision These four Hubble Space Telescope images, taken over a five-month period, show the odd-shaped debris…
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[Update: October 13: Asteroid 2010 TD54 flew within the orbit of the moon on Oct. 11 while astronomers watched to see if the encounter caused any…
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AAVSO Alert Notice 420: Nova in Sagittarius
AAVSO Alert Notice 420: Nova in Sagittarius (V5586 Sgr = Nova Sgr 2010 No. 2) April 26, 2010 Event: Nova in Sagittarius (V5586 Sgr = Nova…
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Pluto is the second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System (after Eris) and the tenth-largest body observed directly orbiting the Sun. Originally classified as a…
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