Possible Breakthrough Study of Material from Beyond Our Galaxy
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SAN DIEGO - For decades, astronomers have sought to pin down a source for ultra high-energy cosmic rays. The distant sources must be among the more powerful events in the universe, perhaps the creation of black holes or the mergers of galaxies.
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Scientists have obtained their best measurement yet of the size and contents of a neutron star, an ultra-dense object containing the strangest and rarest matter in the Universe.
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The outer solar system may not be a cemetery full of dead, frozen bodies, suggest new observations of a large object called Quaoar.
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It may take much longer than scientists have thought for violent turbulence to turn grains of space dust into new planets. A NASA telescope recently discovered
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The world's leading center for research into the origins of matter on Wednesday took a giant step toward the launch of a 15-year experiment which scientists hope will unlock many secrets of the universe.
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A bizarre scenario takes theories of modern cosmology to the limit.
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MIAMIÂ -- Professor Stephen Haggerty retrieves a 730-carat black diamond _ the size of an apple _ from his desk. It's nearly impossible to cut, potentially billions of years old and, he believes, a product of outer space.
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[World News]: Washington, Nov 4 : 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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Recent observations have uncovered evidence that helps to confirm the identification of the remains of one of the earliest stellar explosions recorded by humans. The new study shows that the supernova remnant RCW 86 is much younger than previously thought.
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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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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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Astronomers find the evidence that ties the structure of the present Universe with ripples in the density of matter just after the Big Bang.
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Scientists have gotten their best look ever at the composition of planets outside our solar system, but were more surprised by what they didn't see than what they did see.
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A University of Colorado study has embarked on demonstrating that new planets can be found with the help of an orbiting starshade. The method has been compared to building a giant pinhole camera in space.
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Research work could mean data gets in and out of computer chips at speed of light.
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An international team of astronomers believe they have solved a mystery that has been perplexing scientists for 100 years -- the origin of cosmic rays.
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US astronomers have discovered massive new galaxies evolving in our corner of the universe. This means that galaxy-forming processes thought to have ended eons ago continue relatively nearby