Unexpected Beat in Heart of Milky Way
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The center of our galaxy is approximately    27,000 light-years away in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius. At    its core, as scientist have known for some time, lies a supermassive black hole    surrounded by millions of stars, all huddled far more closely than in the galactic    outskirts where our Sun resides.
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A small new found object, temporarily designated S/2004 S 3, has been seen orbiting Saturn&#39;s outer F ring. The tiny object, seen in this movie centered in a green box, orbits the planet at a distance of approximately
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Take a walk on a clear, dark night far from city lights and be prepared to be awed by a sky blanketed with stars of various magnitudes, the Milky Way's wispy arm and brilliant planets.
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has set its infrared sight on a major galactic collision and witnessed not death, but a teeming nest of life. The colliding galaxies, called the Antennae galaxies, are in the process of merging together.
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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
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The Universe is not as violent a place as we thought, an Australian astronomer has found. &quot;Galactically speaking, things seem to be a little bit safer out there,&quot; said Graham, whose research supports the idea
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Astronomers have found the first signature of complex organic molecules in the dust cloud around a distant star, suggesting that these building blocks of life may be a common feature of planetary systems.
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A group of European-led    astronomers has made a photograph of what appears to be a planet orbiting another    star. If so, it would be the first confirmed picture of a world beyond our solar    system.
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European astronomers reported Thursday the discovery of a rocky &quot;super Earth-like object&quot; orbiting a nearby star much like our own sun.
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MAUNA KEA, Hawaii -- The sharpest image ever taken of a dust disk around another star has revealed structures in the disk which are signs of unseen planets.     Dr...
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A recent article in New Scientist magazine, entitled â Mysterious signals from 1000 light years away,â implies that the UC Berkeley SETI@home project has uncovered a very convincing candidate
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It sounds like something out of Star Trek. Austrian researchers have teleported photons (particles of light) across the Danube River in Vienna using technology that calls to mind Scotty beaming up Captain Kirk ...
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Sept. 2, 2004 - An enigmatic radio signal picked up three times from the same area of the sky is a candidate for a call from intelligent alien life, according to New Scientist magazine.
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The first precise measurement of a failed star known as a brown dwarf finds the object is much more massive than theorists expected. The result challenges what astronomers&nbsp;assumed about these strange things, which straddle the mass range between huge planets and normal stars.
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Scientists see a galaxy whose light would have set out some 12.8 billion years ago.
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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 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