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A New Map Developed by Researchers From MIT and The Paris Observatory Charts The Size
Feb 8, 2014To get an idea of how the early solar system may have formed, scientists often look to asteroids. These relics of rock and dust represent what today's planets may have been before they differentiated into bodies of core, mantle, and crust. ...
Tags: solar system, Jupiter, migration, Goldilocks
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Astronomers Has Discovered a Surprising New Class of "Hypervelocity Stars"
Jan 10, 2014An international team of astronomers has discovered a surprising new class of "hypervelocity stars" – solitary stars moving fast enough to escape the gravitational grasp of the Milky Way galaxy. The discovery of this new set of ...
Tags: hypervelocity stars, Milky Way galaxy, galactic center, escape
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The First Image That Shows The Structure of a Normal Galaxy in The Early Universe
Jan 10, 2014University of Hawaii at Manoa astronomer Regina Jorgenson has obtained the first image that shows the structure of a normal galaxy in the early universe. The results were presented at the winter American Astronomical Society meeting being ...
Tags: Regina Jorgenson, structure of a normal galaxy, early universe, image
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BOSS Has Measured The Scale of The Universe to an Accuracy of One Percent
Jan 9, 2014Today the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) Collaboration announced that BOSS has measured the scale of the universe to an accuracy of one percent. This and future measures at this precision are the key to determining the ...
Tags: Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, scale of the universe
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Astronomers Have Found More Than 100 Small, Dwarf Galaxies with Characteristics
Jan 9, 2014Poring through data from a large sky survey, astronomers have found more than 100 small, dwarf galaxies with characteristics indicating that they harbor massive black holes feeding on surrounding gas. The discovery confounds a common ...
Tags: sky survey, dwarf galaxies, black holes, small galaxies
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Several Sources Confirm That The First Discovered Asteroid in 2014
Jan 7, 2014Figure 1 - This animated GIF shows Asteroid 2014 AA, discovered by the NASA-sponsored Catalina Sky Survey on Jan. 1, 2014, as it moved across the sky. Credit: CSS/LPL/UA Several sources confirm that the first discovered asteroid in 2014, ...
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Astronomers Discovered a System of Two White Dwarf Stars and a Superdense Neutron Star
Jan 6, 2014Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope (GBT) have discovered a unique stellar system of two white dwarf stars and a superdense neutron star, all packed within a space smaller than Earth's orbit around the ...
Tags: unique stellar system, nature of gravity, gravitational interactions