Epic Discovery - Spiral Arm at Fringe of the Milky Way -- A Vast, Star-forming Outer Extension & 5 new Items...
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A major new discovery of a vast section of a spiral, star-forming arm at the Milky Way’s outskirts about 49,000 light-years from the galactic center, shows the galaxy to have a rare, beautiful symmetry -- one half of the Milky... |
The NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has been focused in the image above on a single variable star that in 1923 altered the course of modern astronomy. V1 is a special class of pulsating star called a Cepheid variable that can... |
Within just the first four months of data delivered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have found evidence for more than 1,200 planetary candidates, of which 408 orbit in systems containing two or more planets. The experts have discovered that... |
British astronomers have found that the giant black holes in the centers of galaxies are on average spinning faster than at any time in the history of the Universe. Dr. Alejo Martinez-Sansigre of the University of Portsmouth and Prof. Steve... |
European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) scientists look at computer screens showing traces on the Atlas experiment of the first protons injected in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) during its switch-on operation in 2008 near Geneva. It set a new... |
Iceland's Grímsvötn volcano erupted on Saturday with an explosion that trumped last summer's Eyjafjallajökull eruption whose ash cloud shut down the airports of Europe. Dave McGarvie, a volcanologist at the Open University in Milton Keynes, UK, says that although Grímsvötn... Provided by The Daily Galaxy  |
