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Starwatch: Clusters to sweep up in Perseus
London :: United Kingdom | 6 months ago
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Starwatch Jupiter , conspicuous at magnitude -2.8, rises in the NE as darkness falls tonight and stands 30° high in the E by 21:00 as Orion rises below it. Located between the horns of Taurus, and 6° to the upper-left of Aldebaran, the giant planet
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Angsaka: No cosmic blackout on Dec 23-25
Kuala Lumpur :: Malaysia | 6 months ago
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The Malaysian National Space Agency (Angkasa) has refuted a rumour circulating via social media claiming that the world will be in darkness for three days from Dec 23 during the alignment of the universe. The report stated that during the cosmic
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Star formation in universe has declined by 97%
Leiden :: Netherlands | 7 months ago
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Cosmic GDP crashes! Astronomers have discovered that the rate of formation of new stars in the Universe has drastically reduced to only 1/30th of its peak and that this decline is set to continue. In the largest-of-its-kind study ever, scientists
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How to take pictures of the Milky Way without leaving the galaxy
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 7 months ago
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On planet Earth, we sit at the edge of the Milky Way Galaxy, nestled thousands of light years from the black hole at its center, in the OrionCygnus Arm. In our textbooks we see beautiful images of our own celestial neighborhood, a spiral of stars
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17 Things To Do When Life-Extension Technology Makes You Immortal
Venice :: Italy | 7 months ago
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Things To Do When Life-Extension Technology Makes You Immortal If we're to believe the predictions of futurists like Ray Kurzweil and Aubrey de Grey , we may be as little as a half-century away from halting the aging process and achieving
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Bubble-forming super-massive black hole found
Noida :: India | 7 months ago
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Bubbles in space! Astronomers have discovered giant bubbles in the Universe powered by a massive black hole, with a mass six billion times that of the Sun. Astronomers used a brand-new radio telescope to produce one of the best images ever made at
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Separated at Birth: The Milky Way Galaxy and ShadyLady Eyeshadow
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 7 months ago
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October 25 2012 The Guardian has some fascinating astronomical news ! An international team of astronomers has created a vast, zoomable image of some nine billion pixels showing more than 84 million stars in the central bulge' of our home galaxy, the
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Spectacular Milky Way Photo Shows 84 Million Stars
Santiago :: Chile | 7 months ago
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Astronomers from the European Southern Observatory's Paranal Observatory in Chile captured the extraordinary image of the Milky Way featuring 173 million objects, 84 million of which are stars, reports Agence France-Presse. According to the ESO, This
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The Milky Way as you've never seen it before: New pictures from nine GIGAPIXEL camera reveal our galaxy in unprecedented detail
London :: United Kingdom | 7 months ago
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This treasure trove of information about the structure and content of the Milky Way is one of the biggest astronomical images ever produced and provides an incredible, zoomable view of the central part of our galaxy and is so large that, if printed
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More Than 84 Million Stars Cataloged in Milky Way's Bulge
Santiago :: Chile | 7 months ago
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Variables in the Via Lactea programme (VVV), a team of astronomers generated the color image with almost 9 billion pixels, and put together the largest ever catalog of the Milky Way's bulge or center...Most spiral galaxies have a large grouping of
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