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Universe peppered with 'blue fuzzies', discover astronomers
Gama :: Colombia | 4 days ago
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The survey incorporates data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which contains more than 930 thousand galaxies and 120 thousand quasars, and extends to approximately 2.5 billion light years from Earth. Brough discovered the blue fuzzies while looking...
Tags: blue fuzzies, Dr Sarah Brough, Colombia, Gama, Galactic astronomy, Galaxy formation and evolution, Milky Way, Spiral galaxies, Galaxy, Local Group, Dwarf galaxy, Quasar
We're in a crash, fatal attraction and the tell-tale neck
Tōkyō :: Japan | 6 days ago
Credibility Michael Kesterton From Tuesday's Globe and Mail W e're in a crash “The Milky Way's neighbourhood may be teeming with invisible galaxies, one of which appears to be crashing into our own,” New Scientist magazine reports. “In 2008, a cloud of hydrogen...
Tags: ho ho, fatal attracted, Japan, Tōkyō, Web 2.0, Galaxy, Facebook, Twitter, Milky Way, Blog hosting services, Online social networking, Social media
Dark galaxy may be crashing into Milky Way
Thiruvananthapuram :: India | 7 days ago
Credibility Now, according to a report in New Scientist, it appears that the object is massive enough to be a galaxy itself. Called Smith�s cloud, it has managed to avoid disintegrating during its smash-up with our own, much bigger galaxy. What�s more, its trajectory...
Tags: dark galaxy, India, Thiruvananthapuram, Milky Way, Dwarf galaxy, Interacting galaxy, Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, Local Group, Spiral galaxies, Galaxy
Urbana University to display original images of space
Urbana :: OH :: USA | 8 days ago
Credibility An event Monday includes the unveiling of the images, to be on display permanently, and presentations by astronomers. -- Springfield News-Sun via AP Story tools
Tags: Urbana University, NASA, Urbana, Astronomy, Milky Way, Infrared imaging, Spitzer Space Telescope, Space observatory, Technology Internet, Education
High-Density Galaxy Puzzles Astronomers
Santiago :: Chile | 12 days ago
Credibility ESA, SSC, CXC, and STScI) A high-density galaxy 11 billion light-years away that has been recently discovered is found to reflect the state of galaxies in the early stage of the universe. In August this year, for the first time in history, astronomers...
Tags: billion light, Chile, Santiago, Large-scale structure of the cosmos, Peculiar galaxies, Milky Way, Galaxy formation and evolution, Astronomy, Technology Internet, Spiral galaxies, Local Group, Galaxy
Jimmy Westlake: Looking down on the universe
Steamboat Springs :: CO :: USA | 13 days ago
Credibility Steamboat Springs Have you had the opportunity to visit the Grand Canyon and stroll out onto the new Skywalk? It’s a glass bridge that is suspended out over the canyon such that visitors can literally look down under their feet and see the depths of...
Tags: Grand Canyon, NGC, Steamboat Springs, Galactic astronomy, Milky Way, Galaxy, Coma Berenices, Herschel 400 Catalogue, Spiral galaxies, Local Group, Coma Berenices constellation
It's the latest nightspot where all the stars go – the darkest place in UK
Edinburgh :: United Kingdom | 14 days ago
Credibility UK to win a prestigious international award for the darkness of its skies. Stargazers are expected to flock to Galloway Forest Park in their thousands following the decision by judges to make it the UK's first Dark Sky Park. International Dark Sky Association...
Tags: International Dark Sky Association, International Dark Skies Association, Scotland, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, Geography of Scotland, International Dark-Sky Association, Sky, Galloway cattle, Galloway, Light pollution, Dumfries and Galloway, Galloway Forest Park, Environment, Amateur astronomy, Observational astronomy, Milky Way, Cherry Springs State Park, Local Group, Spiral galaxies, Lighting, Visibility, Night sky
Scared Of Planet Nibiru? NASA Would Like To Help
Washington :: WA :: USA | 14 days ago
Credibility According to numerous sources on the Internet, in 2012 a planet called Nibiru will collide with earth, resulting in the extinction of the human race. Or the earth's magnetic poles will flip, causing the rotation of the planet to reverse, resulting in...
Tags: David Morrison, NASA, Planet Nibiru, dark rift, human race, Washington, Futurology, Risks to civilization humans and planet Earth, Milky Way, Planets beyond Neptune, Eschatology, Terrestrial planets, Earth, Human Interest
Farthest Ever Star Blast From Ancient Cosmos
Astronomers have detected a cosmic object more distant than any ever seen: a gamma ray burst about 13 billion light-years from Earth. The massive, luminous burst occurred about 600 million years after the Big Bang—that is, when the universe was...
Tags: Gamma ray, Gamma ray Burst, Star Blast, Ancient Cosmos, Earth, Galaxy, Milky Way, National Geographic, Bing Bang, Blast
Strange Shapes Seen In Milky Way's Tiny Neighbor
A stunning new image of one of the Milky Way's nearest galactic neighbors, Barnard's Galaxy, reveals rich star formation and curiously-shaped nebulas. At the relatively close distance of about 1.6 million light-years, Barnard's Galaxy is...
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