Two Of The Milky Way's Spiral Arms Go Missing
00:41 04-06-2008; source: www.sciencedaily.com
For decades, astronomers have been blind to what our galaxy, the Milky Way, really looks like. Now, new images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope are shedding light on the true structure of the Milky Way, revealing that it has just two major arms of stars instead of the four it was previously thought to possess.
NASA's Shuttle Discovery Launches With Japanese Laboratory
21:41 03-06-2008; source: www.sciencedaily.com
Space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 5:02 p.m. EDT Saturday (May 31) to deliver and install a Japanese laboratory on the International Space Station.
Finding Out What The Big Bang And Ink Jets Have In Common
18:41 03-06-2008; source: www.sciencedaily.com
It often turns out there is more to commonplace everyday events than meets the eye. The folding of paper, or fall of water droplets from a tap, are two such events, both of which involve the creation of singularities requiring sophisticated mathematical techniques to describe, analyze and predict.
New Method Developed To Weigh, Resolve Distant Black Holes
06:41 03-06-2008; source: www.sciencedaily.com
A new, simple method to learn about black holes up to eight billion light years away -- thousands of times farther away than black holes can be measured today, has been developed. Astronomers and physicists have concluded that the larger the black hole at the center of a spiral galaxy, the tighter the galaxy's arms wrap around itself. If correct, the simple relationship would give researchers an easy way to learn about black holes.
Astronomers Weigh The Coldest Brown Dwarfs With Astronomy's Sharpest Eyes
00:41 03-06-2008; source: www.sciencedaily.com
Astronomers have used ultrasharp images obtained with the Keck Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope to determine for the first time the masses of the coldest class of "failed stars," a.k.a. brown dwarfs.
Small Planet Discovered Orbiting Small Star
21:41 02-06-2008; source: www.sciencedaily.com
Astronomers have discovered an extra-solar planet of about three earth masses orbiting a star with a mass so low that its core may not be massive enough to maintain nuclear reactions. The planet, referred to as MOA-2007-BLG-192Lb, establishes a record for the lowest mass planet to orbit a normal star.
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