items tagged with Galaxy
When galaxies collide: bright, bizarre NGC 2623
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2009-10-14 07:59:41
The Hubble Space Telescope has just revealed a gigantic collision of two spiral galaxies about 250 million light-years away from our own Milky Way galaxy. Check out the images of the resulting "bright and bizarre" galaxy that astronomers are calling NGC 2623.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2009-10-14 07:59:41
The Hubble Space Telescope has just revealed a gigantic collision of two spiral galaxies about 250 million light-years away from our own Milky Way galaxy. Check out the images of the resulting "bright and bizarre" galaxy that astronomers are calling NGC 2623.
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Security claimed to help online business bottom-line
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-08-19 23:42:12
Many of Australia’s online enterprises are predicting their business will grow by around 10 percent over the coming year, and a large number of those businesses are looking at security to help drive bottom-line success.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-08-19 23:42:12
Many of Australia’s online enterprises are predicting their business will grow by around 10 percent over the coming year, and a large number of those businesses are looking at security to help drive bottom-line success.
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How do you hide a blue whale? Ask Australian astronomers!
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2009-07-07 08:31:28
Australian astronomers have found an image of a blue whale hiding inside massive galaxy Centaurus A. You can’t see the galaxy in the night sky because it is invisible to your naked eyes, but take a look at it on their CSIRO website.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2009-07-07 08:31:28
Australian astronomers have found an image of a blue whale hiding inside massive galaxy Centaurus A. You can’t see the galaxy in the night sky because it is invisible to your naked eyes, but take a look at it on their CSIRO website.
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Most detailed map of Universe charts 125,071 galaxies
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2009-04-04 08:57:41
Australian, American, and English astronomers have completed the most detailed survey of galaxies from as far out as two thousand million light-years from Earth—that’s two billion light-years away!
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2009-04-04 08:57:41
Australian, American, and English astronomers have completed the most detailed survey of galaxies from as far out as two thousand million light-years from Earth—that’s two billion light-years away!
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Calling all space aliens on the new Cepheid phone
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-09-29 13:07:03
Hawaii-California astronomers propose that an advanced civilization could have used Cepheid variable stars as a way to communicate to (what they call “tickling”) other neighbors in the galaxy.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-09-29 13:07:03
Hawaii-California astronomers propose that an advanced civilization could have used Cepheid variable stars as a way to communicate to (what they call “tickling”) other neighbors in the galaxy.
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Largest galactic cluster discovered: explained with dark energy
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-08-25 21:49:24
European astronomers state that 2XMM J083026+524133 has been located about 7.7 billion light-years from our solar system. They contend that its existence can only be explained through dark energy.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-08-25 21:49:24
European astronomers state that 2XMM J083026+524133 has been located about 7.7 billion light-years from our solar system. They contend that its existence can only be explained through dark energy.
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ABC NewsRadio axes StarStuff program – why?
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-06-26 09:14:48
ABC NewsRadio, Australia’s only 24 hour continuous news service, has axed one of its longest running programs because it wants to divert funding elsewhere. The program? StarStuff, the only space, science, astronomy and cosmology show on Australian radio. What a shame!
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-06-26 09:14:48
ABC NewsRadio, Australia’s only 24 hour continuous news service, has axed one of its longest running programs because it wants to divert funding elsewhere. The program? StarStuff, the only space, science, astronomy and cosmology show on Australian radio. What a shame!
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Galaxies could be twice as bright if not for a lot of dust
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-05-15 21:18:10
According to U.K., German, and Australian astronomers, the brightness of galaxies is really twice as bright as they appear at Earth because of extra-large amounts of interstellar dust blocking the light between them and us.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-05-15 21:18:10
According to U.K., German, and Australian astronomers, the brightness of galaxies is really twice as bright as they appear at Earth because of extra-large amounts of interstellar dust blocking the light between them and us.
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NASA's supernova hunt in Milky Way ends with discovery of G1.9+0.3
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-05-14 19:12:44
Using data from the space-based NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory and the ground-based NRAO Very Large Array, astronomers just found a supernova within our Milky Way galaxy that exploded about 140 years ago. NASA scientists took fifty years to find it.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-05-14 19:12:44
Using data from the space-based NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory and the ground-based NRAO Very Large Array, astronomers just found a supernova within our Milky Way galaxy that exploded about 140 years ago. NASA scientists took fifty years to find it.
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First look: Black hole ejects plasma jet
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-04-24 14:44:49
An international group of astronomers used a series of radio telescopes to look at—for the first time—a supermassive black hole ejecting a high-speed jet of plasma particles, what is called a blazar.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-04-24 14:44:49
An international group of astronomers used a series of radio telescopes to look at—for the first time—a supermassive black hole ejecting a high-speed jet of plasma particles, what is called a blazar.
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18-year-old Hubble takes 59 images of colliding galaxies
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-04-24 10:11:23
NASA/ESA just released fifty-nine images of colliding galaxies taken from the Hubble Space Telescope. The images are now available, as of April 24, 2008, the eighteen-year anniversary of the launching of the Hubble by NASA’s space shuttle Discovery.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-04-24 10:11:23
NASA/ESA just released fifty-nine images of colliding galaxies taken from the Hubble Space Telescope. The images are now available, as of April 24, 2008, the eighteen-year anniversary of the launching of the Hubble by NASA’s space shuttle Discovery.
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