Astronomers ID earliest recorded supernova
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Anno Domini 185, no less Astronomers think they have identified the remains of the first ever supernova recorded by people on Earth.â¦
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A pair of miniscule meteorite grains has helped astronomers settle a long-running debate on the origins of space dust belched out by dying stars.
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Mount Wilson Observatory found the first evidence in favour of the Big Bang and this month is celebrating its 100th birthday.
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com Staff. Astronomers have produced the first truly useful image ever of something in space using gamma rays. It&#39;s a picture only an astronomer could love, but it appears to help solve a century-long mystery.
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Hollow spheres found in a primordial meteorite could yield clues to the origin of life on Earth.
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Four hundred years ago, sky watchers, including the famous astronomer Johannes Kepler, best known as the discoverer of the laws of planetary motion, were startled by the sudden appearance of a "new star" in the western sky, rivaling the brilliance of the nearby planets.
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An international team of astronomers has suceeded solving the 100 yearl old mystery about the origin of the cosmic rays by producing the first ever image of an astronomical object using high energy gamma rays.
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Astronomers have found what they believe to be several of the earliest star-forming galaxies, in a detailed analysis of Hubble Space Telescope images released earlier this year.
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The astronomers uncovered evidence about the origin of the universe and how it grew into galaxies.
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Astronomers reveal one of the clearest images obtained of Stephan's Quintet.
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The image of a blurry red ball near a failed star just might be the first picture ever snapped of a planet outside our solar system, an astronomer who helped find the object said on Monday.
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Astronomers say they have captured a stellar explosion - or supernova - unfolding in real time.
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Discoveries about the "oldest light" in the Universe earn two scientists a Nobel Prize for physics.
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A supernova spotted by the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe more than four centuries ago - which changed the course of human knowledge - has just yielded a further discovery: the companion star that triggered the great event.
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Chinese astronomers mark the beginning of Supernova 1054, heralding the birth of what will become known as the Crab Nebula.
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Scientists see a galaxy whose light would have set out some 12.8 billion years ago.
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A supernova that seems to break the laws of physics presents a challenge to our understanding of dark energy.