Now, measure universe 3 times farther using super-sharp radio ‘eye’
February 21st, 2011 - 5:44 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 21 (ANI): Scientists have managed to increase their ability to measure the cosmos three times farther thanks to the super-sharp radio 'vision' of astronomy's most precise telescope.This may have ... Read more...
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Get ready to see the elusive ‘False Dawn’ of zodiacal light next week
September 10th, 2010 - 3:24 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Sep 10 (ANI): Over the next week, sky-watchers in the Northern Hemisphere will get a rare chance to see an elusive celestial pyramid known as the zodiacal light.The triangular tower ... Read more...
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A celestial menagerie on display in the Large Magellanic Cloud
June 2nd, 2010 - 3:05 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, June 2 (ANI): In a spectacular new image from the Wide Field Imager (WFI) at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile, astronomers have discovered a celestial menagerie of vast globular clusters ... Read more...
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Supermassive black hole gets kicked out of galaxy
May 12th, 2010 - 1:45 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, May 12 (ANI): An international team of astronomers has discovered what appears to be a supermassive black hole leaving its home galaxy at high speed.For her final-year project, undergraduate student Marianne ... Read more...
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Milky Way is a gigantic, flattened cosmic beachball
January 7th, 2010 - 2:02 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, January 7 (ANI): In a new research that involved the mapping of the shape of the galactic dark matter, astronomers have determined that the halo of dark matter surrounding our Milky ... Read more...
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Physicist makes high-resolution panorama of Milky Way
October 29th, 2009 - 3:02 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, October 29 (ANI): Cobbling together 3000 individual photographs, a physicist has made a new high-resolution panoramic image of the full night sky, with the Milky Way galaxy as its centerpiece."This ... Read more...
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Mystery of Milky Way’s particle accelerators solved
June 26th, 2009 - 4:59 pm ICT by ANI
Munich, June 26 (ANI): With help of a unique "ballistic study" that combines data from ESO's Very Large Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have now solved a long-standing mystery of ... Read more...
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New project to probe Milky Way history
December 16th, 2008 - 4:40 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Dec 16 (ANI): A new project, led by a University of Virginia (U.Va.) professor, is all set to survey more than 100,000 Milky Way stars, in an attempt to know ... Read more...
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