The cosmic neighbours from hell
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Every day, somewhere in the universe, there&#39;s an explosion that puts the power of the Sun in the shade. Steve Connor investigates the riddle of gamma-ray bursts.
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Much to astronomers&#39; surprise 36 new galaxies have been discovered between two and four billion light years away. Until now astronomers had believed that 14 billion years after the Big Bang, cosmic creation
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Telescopes spy the closest asteroid flyby ever recorded. Also: European astronomers find a 'super Earth' 300 trillion light years away.... and did DOS trickery foil the Spirit rover? By Amit Asaravala.
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An international team of scientists described this week one of the most cataclysmic events in the universe, cosmic cannibalism in which one massive galaxy cluster is gobbling its smaller neighbor.
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Astronomers use the Hubble telescope to reveal the effects of unseen dark matter as it tugs on galaxies in a crowded supercluster.
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Les versions allemande, franÃ§aise et nÃ©erlandaise sont dÃ©sormais disponibles. La version italienne sera bientÃ´t accessible. Copernic et son partenaire de dÃ©veloppement Ã©conomique international Contraco
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Scientists have now officially witnessed the perfect cosmic storm. Thanks to the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton observatory, they watched a nearby head-on collision between two galaxy clusters. The clusters smashed together thousands of galaxies and trillions of stars in one of the most powerful events ever witnessed.
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By PHILP, Matt  A spectacular visitor to the heavens has more of us than usual reflecting on the mysteries of the universe. MATT PHILP joins the crowds looking skywards.   On the shores of the unknown -- or, at least, Upper Cashmere -- people are massing.
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A new space observatory has been launched to hunt down and study the most powerful explosions seen in the Universe since the Big Bang itself.
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Galactic home improvement Scientists think they have found evidence that the middle of our galaxy formed separately and at a different time to the spiralling arms in which we reside.â¦
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Astronomers have spotted two monster galactic clusters slamming together in one of the biggest collisions ever recorded. The smash-up poses no danger to Earth -- it is about 800 million light-years away, and
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Lagos - An item has appeared in the Universe Today, Space News from Around the Internet that the NASA&#39;s Galaxy Evolution Explorer has discovered baby galaxies forming in our relative neighborhood, casting doubt on the theory that only small galaxies were
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Cambridge, MA -- Astronomers are hunting an elusive target: rogue black holes that have been ejected from the centers of their home galaxies. Some doubted that the quarry could be spotted, since a black hole must be gobbling matter from an accretion disk in order for that matter to shine.
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Black holes are complex beasts. Among their mysterious traits are intense jets of matter that sometimes shoot out from the rotational poles at nearly light-speed.
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A new space observatory was rocketing into orbit yesterday preparing to scan the universe for the most violent celestial explosions since the Big Bang.
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SAN DIEGO&nbsp;-- Strange objects in faraway space known to astronomers only as Giant Galactic Blobs have, upon close inspection, become a lot&nbsp;weirder.
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An international team of astronomers has observed the perfect cosmic storm: the most powerful collision of two galactic clusters ever recorded.