Galaxy

Calling all space aliens on the new Cepheid phone
By: William Atkins

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
By: William Atkins

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?
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

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
By: William Atkins

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
By: William Atkins

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
By: William Atkins

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
By: William Atkins

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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