Cause of Strange Cosmic Shapes Pinned Down
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Few objects in the sky have more magnetic personalities than planetary nebulas.    Astronomers have been drawn to the strange objects since early telescopes in    the 1700s revealed them as fuzzy patches of light that resembled the giant planets    of our outer solar system.
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Scientists find an enormous empty swath in space. How does it change what we know about the origins of the universe?
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The universe has a huge hole in it that dwarfs anything else of its kind. The discovery caught astronomers by surprise.
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Astronomers spot a space oddity in Earth's neighbourhood: a dead star with unusual characteristics.
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By Bill OrdinePerhaps from space, this wondrous blue orb suspended in the cosmos has such a oneness to it that the difference between Baltimore and, oh, let's say Indianapolis, doesn't appear so great.
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By Davide Castelvecchi     Stanford University -- A string of recent discoveries in astronomy has left scientists with an unsettling realization: The stuff we know and understand makes up less than 5 percent of the universe. The rest has to be yet-unknown forms of "dark matter" and "dark energy."     At a time of momentous changes in our basic understanding of the universe, a new document outlines the essential role of particle physics in deciphering the laws of nature that govern dark matter, dark energy and more...
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They have become legendary in UFO circles. Huge,  silent-running Flying Triangles have been seen by ground observers creeping  through the sky low and slow near cities and quietly cruising over  highways.
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Black holes may actually drag the fabric of space and time around them as they spin, creating waves for cosmic material to surf on, astronomers said on Monday.
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Einstein was right -- again.  Satellites that have been pulled slightly off their orbits show  that the Earth is indeed twisting the fabric of space-time as  it rotates, scientists said on Thursday.
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GARCHING, Germany, Sept. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new study of a large number of planetary nebulae has revealed that rings, such as those seen here around the Cat&#39;s Eye Nebula, are much more common that thought
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Astronomers have spotted three dozen bright, young galaxies that defy the general aging trends of the universe. The galaxies, fairly nearby and massive, are more youthful than they ought to be, based on current theory.
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Gaming goes cosmic Do you believe the Universe is really random?â¦
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A long- sought-after Holy Grail for astronomers is a complete understanding of how galaxies such as the Milky Way formed. But since scientists believe
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Cosmologists may have to reassess their understanding of the evolution of the early Universe after surprising new data from the Hubble Space Telescope.
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US scientists working with images from the Hubble Space Telescope have identified what may turn out to be some of the earliest star-forming galaxies.
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Astronomers have spotted a faint cluster of stars in or near our galaxy, but they're not sure what to call the grouping.
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Scientists are puzzled, but the phenomenon seems to fit the latest global-warming models.