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  • Lines of Pure Mass-Energy Stretching Across the Entire Universe
    News - 18 Jan 2008
    A team of physicists and astronomers from the University of Sussex and Imperial College London have uncovered hints that there may be cosmic strings - lines of pure mass-energy - stretching across the...
  • MESSENGER Spacecraft Makes its First Flyby of Mercury
    News - 15 Jan 2008
    A University of Michigan space instrument will take the first direct measurements of the planet Mercury's wispy atmosphere and space environment on Jan. 14, when NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft...
  • Astronomers Discovers Life-Forming Amino Acids in a Galaxy Far Far Away
    News - 14 Jan 2008
    Astronomers from Arecibo Observatory radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, have detected for the first time the molecules methanimine and hydrogen cyanide – two ingredients that build...
  • A New X-Ray Source in the Galaxy
    News - 10 Jan 2008
    Astronomers studying a nearby galaxy have spied a rare type of star system -- one that contains a black hole that suddenly began glowing brightly with X-rays. Though this type of star system is...
  • Hubble Reveals Never-Before-Seen Optical Alignment in Space
    News - 10 Jan 2008
    The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a never-before-seen optical alignment in space: a pair of glowing rings, one nestled inside the other like a bull's-eye pattern. The double-ring...
  • Using Hubble Space Telescope to Understand Violent Lives of Galaxies
    News - 10 Jan 2008
    Astronomers are using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to dissect one of the largest structures in the universe as part of a quest to understand the violent lives of galaxies. Hubble is providing...
  • The Infrared Sky
    News - 9 Jan 2008
    The infrared sky is expanding significantly for the world astronomical community with the first world release of data (DR1) from the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS). UKIDSS DR1 has mapped a...
  • Carnegie Mellon Joins Collaboration in Constructing Most Powerful Survey Telescope
    News - 9 Jan 2008
    Carnegie Mellon University joined the collaboration building the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) and is now among the 23 universities, national laboratories and corporations involved in...
  • Astronomers Detects Exoplanet Reflected Light for the First Time
    News - 27 Dec 2007
    An international team of astronomers, led by Professor Svetlana Berdyugina of ETH Zurich’s Institute of Astronomy, has for the first time ever been able to de-tect and monitor the visible light...
  • LIGO Sheds Light on Cosmic Event
    News - 24 Dec 2007
    An analysis by the international LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) Scientific Collaboration has excluded one previously leading explanation for the origin of an intense...

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