Hubble Space Telescope View Of Turbulent Star-Making Region In The Tarantula Nebula

May 14, 2012
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Several million stars are vying for attention in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of a raucous stellar breeding ground in 30 Doradus, located in the heart of the Tarantula nebula.

30 Doradus is the brightest star-forming region in our galactic neighbourhood and home to the most massive stars ever seen. The nebula resides 170 000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small, satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. No known star-forming region in our galaxy is as large or as prolific as 30 Doradus. The image comprises one of the largest mosaics ever assembled from Hubble photos and consists of observations taken by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys, combined with observations from the European Southern Observatory’s MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope that trace the...

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SETI Searchs Kepler Telescopes Top Earth-Like Planet Discoveries

September 29, 2011
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The Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, the largest steerable radio telescope in the world, is observing 86 planetary systems that may contain Earth-like planets in hopes of detecting signals from intelligent civilizations.

Astronomers at the University of California, Berkeley, are aiming a radio telescope at the most Earth-like worlds discovered by NASA’s Kepler space telescope. Kepler has recently identified 1,235 possible planets around stars in our galaxy. The search began on Saturday, May 8, when the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope – the largest steerable radio telescope in the world – dedicated an hour to eight stars with possible planets. Once UC Berkeley astronomers acquire 24 hours of data on a total of 86 Earth-like planets, they’ll initiate a coarse analysis and then, in about two months, ask an estimated...

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University Of Massachusetts Astronomers Prove: We’re Not From Here!

September 13, 2011
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We are from another galaxy in the process of joining with the Milky Way. The Milky Way is actually not our parent galaxy. The mystery of why the Milky Way has always been sideways in the night sky has never been answered -- until now.

Imagine the shock of growing up in a loving family with people you call “Mum” and “Dad” and then, suddenly, learning that you are actually adopted! This same sense of shock came as scientists announced that the Sun, the Moon, our planet and its siblings, were not born into the familiar band of stars known as the Milky Way galaxy, but we actually belong to a strange formation with the unfamiliar name of the Sagittarius Dwarf galaxy! How can this be? Using volumes of data from the Two-Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), a major project to survey the sky...

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Massive Black Hole in Messier 87 Weighs The Equivalent of 6.6 Billion of Our Suns

January 31, 2011
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Massive Black Hole in Messier 87 Weighs The Equivalent of 6.6 Billion of Our Suns

A black hole lurking inside a neighboring galaxy, known as M87, weighs in at the equivalent of 6.6 billion of our suns. This black hole is the largest so far detected within our cosmic neighborhood. This enormous mass is the heaviest ever measured for a black hole using a direct technique, researchers said. The super-massive black hole is about 54 million light-years from Earth. While that seems far, it’s actually the closest black hole of its weight class to our planet. “It’s almost on top of us, relatively speaking. Fifty million light-years — that’s our backyard effectively. To have...

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