The Ancient Red Dot --The Oldest Most Distant Object in the Universe Discovered & 5 new Items:
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A surprisingly large collections of galaxies (red dots in center) stands out at a remarkably large distance in this composite image combining infrared and visible-light observations. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope contributed to the infrared component of the observations, while shorter-wavelength... |
A gamma-ray burst known as GRB 090429B for the 29 April 2009 date when it was detected by NASA's Swift satellite has been found to be a candidate for the most distant object in the Universe at an estimated distance... |
In five billion years the Milky Way galaxy will collide with the Andromeda galaxy. The two galaxies will lose their separate identities as they merge into one. At the same time, the building blocks of life in the Universe --... |
A super massive, isolated star has been discovered in the Large Magellanic Cloud, adjacent to the Milky Way. The star, VFTS 682, is one of the more massive stars ever known -- about 150 times the mass of the Sun.... |
A lightning researcher at the University of Bath has discovered that during thunderstorms, giant natural particle accelerators can form 40 kilometers above the surface of the Earth -- a fascinating example of the interaction between the Earth and the Universe.... |
NASA has selected the University of Arizona to lead a sample-return mission to an asteroid. The team is led by Michael Drake, director of the the UA's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. OSIRIS-REx will rendezvous with asteroid 1999 RQ36, extend a... |
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