Observatory launched by NASA to look for emerging black ho
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The fastest-swiveling space science observatory ever built rocketed into orbit yesterday to scan the universe for violent celestial explosions that astronomers say they believe represent the birth screams of black holes.
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NASA&#39;s Galaxy Evolution Explorer has discovered larger and younger than expected galaxies. The NASA craft found three dozen galaxies emitting ultraviolet light at levels that would indicate supernovas are still exploding.
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By FRANK GRIFFITHS    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico  -- The radio telescope at Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory will begin mapping the known galaxy on Friday, scientists said.    The radio telescope, the world's most sensitive listening device that is powerful enough to hear planets forming several billion lights years away, received six more radio receivers to expand its range...
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An orbiting NASA telescope that scans the heavens has found evidence of massive "baby" galaxies that runs counter to a belief that only small new galaxies are being formed by the aging universe.
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Teams of international scientists have  used observations from NASA's Swift satellite and other  telescopes to witness the evolution of a cosmic blast into a  stellar explosion or supernova.
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The radio telescope at Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory will begin mapping the known galaxy on Friday, scientists said.
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On its 11-day Hubble mission in August, NASA says engineers will install a pair of new scientific instruments and attempt to fix two older modules that produced important work before failing.
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A Nasa mission to study the phenomenon known as the northern lights blasts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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The U.S. space agency has created a new office to study more closely cosmic phenomena such as dark energy and black holes.
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Instrument to help astrophysicists learn what universe is made of, how it evolvesScientists aimed the South Pole Telescope at Jupiter on the evening of Feb. 16 and successfully collected the instrument's first test observations.
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NASA is set to launch a spacecraft carrying five satellites on a mission to unveil the secrets of the origin of the aurora borealis.
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Cambridge University -- Scientists have pieced together the journey of a bundle of doomed matter as it orbited a black hole four times, an observational first. Their technique provides a new method to measure the mass of a black hole; and this may enable the testing of Einstein's theory of gravity to a degree few thought possible...
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Two University of New Hampshire space scientists have been awarded &#36;5 million to help NASA build instruments for missions beyond the solar system.
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IndigoSkies writes &quot;NASA today successfully launched the Swift Observatory into Earth orbit for an intense two year study of GRBs (gamma-ray bursts) to determine whether there is a connection between them and the evolution of black holes.
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James Webb's eye is lookin' good After a rather difficult week, some good news for NASA: its engineers have just finished making the mirror that will be the eye of its next space observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). All that remains is for it to be ground and polished.â¦
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AUSTIN, Texas &mdash; The orbiting space telescope that just won't quit collecting gobs of celestial data well beyond its expected twilight is set for a major tune-up and upgrade, NASA scientists announced today here at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
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A new space observatory is preparing for a mid-November spaceflight despite setbacks caused by hurricanes that washed across its Florida launch pad.