Nasa launches cosmic blast hunter
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Nasa launches the Swift observatory to study gamma-ray bursts - the biggest explosions since the Big Bang.
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Black hole death ray caught on camera NASA has identified a rather unfriendly galaxy which is blasting its neighbour with a black-hole generated jet in what the agency calls "never-before witnessed galactic violence".â¦
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COMET BUSTER: Deep Impact is a copper-fortified spacecraft designed to blast a hole in Comet Tempel 1 so scientists can learn more about the solar system preserved inside.
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named Swift for its fast pivoting and pointing -- launched this weekend will detect and analyze gamma ray bursts, which astronomers believe represent the birth cries of black holes.
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A rocket has been launched carrying a satellite to track and study the most powerful explosions seen in the universe since the Big Bang.
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Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have discovered one of the fastest stars ever seen--a &quot;cosmic cannonball&quot; that is challenging theories to explain its blistering speed.
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NASA sets a rocket in motion toward a comet, hoping to gain knowledge of the comet's makeup.
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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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Nasa&#39;s fastest-swivelling space probe ever built -- Swift -- roared into the orbit aiming to explore the violent celestial explosions which may bestow black holes the birth cries.
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Billions of years after a galactic &quot;baby boom,&quot; a NASA (news - web sites) spacecraft has detected dozens of newborn galaxies in Earth&#39;s part of the universe.
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THE fastest-swivelling space science observatory rocketed into orbit yesterday to scan the universe for violent celestial explosions, which astronomers believe represent the birth screams of black holes.
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For the first time astronomers have witnessed a supermassive black hole blasting its galactic neighbor with a deadly beam of energy.
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The US space agency NASA on Thursday launched the space probe Dawn on an eight-year mission to unlock the secrets of the solar system and how it was born.
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A NASA satellite catches the action as a massive star smashes to smithereens. It open up a whole new universe to astronomers. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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New proposals to defend Earth from cataclysmic impacts range from a tugboat-like spaceship to arrays of giant scopes that can better scan the skies, scientists said today.
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NASA, recovering from the four hurricanes that halted work at its Florida spaceport, said on Friday it has set a launch target in May, 2005, for the first
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The space shuttle  Discovery soared into space on Saturday on a column of fire  that briefly dispelled the darkness over the Kennedy Space  Center in NASA's first night launch since the Columbia  disaster.