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Astronomy News and Research - October 2008 Archives
 | The Hubble Space Telescope is back in business with a snapshot of the fascinating galaxy pair Arp 147. ...> Full Article |
The Russian authorities responsible for the Rockot launcher that shall carry ESA's GOCE Earth Explorer satellite into orbit have completed the investigation of a failure in the guidance and navigation system of the launcher's Upper Stage.
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Chandrayaan-1, India's first mission to the Moon, was successfully launched earlier this morning from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, India. The PSLV-C11 rocket, an upgraded version of the Indian Space Research Organization's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, lifted off at 02:52 Central European Summer Time and, about 20 minutes later, injected the spacecraft into a highly elongated orbit around the Earth.
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 | Astronomers have discovered that the nearby star Epsilon Eridani has two rocky asteroid belts and an outer icy ring, making it a triple-ring system. ...> Full Article |
 | Meteor may have crashed near Guelph, Ontario ...> Full Article |
 | Comet Holmes explosion gave astronomers a rare glimpse at the inside of a comet nucleus ...> Full Article |
 | Scientists are anxious to analyze samples while there's still power ...> Full Article |
The scientific community considers that there is a higher probability that organic molecules precursors to life could form in those planets or satellites which have an atmosphere with electric storms.
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 | By cleverly unraveling the workings of a natural cosmic lens, astronomers have gained a rare glimpse of the violent assembly of a young galaxy in the early Universe. Their new picture suggests that the galaxy has collided with another, feeding a supermassive black hole and triggering a tremendous burst of star formation. ...> Full Article |
 | A new image released by ESO shows the amazing intricacies of a vast stellar nursery, which goes by the name of Gum 29. In the center, a small cluster of stars - called Westerlund 2 - has been found to be the home of one of the most massive double star systems known to astronomers. ...> Full Article |
A team of cosmologists are searching for the model that best explains the evolution of the Universe.
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Astronomers will have a much clearer picture of distant galaxies thanks to a cutting edge technology which was developed by a talented young astronomer at the University of Sydney.
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 | A bit of serendipity has given astronomers a surprise view of a never-before-observed event in the birth of a galaxy. ...> Full Article |
 | Research describes a bubbly universe in earth's backyard ...> Full Article |
 | observatory has observed several low-luminosity gamma-ray bursts, confirming the existence of an entire population of weaker bursts hardly noticed so far. ...> Full Article |
A team of researchers in Canada have made a bold stride in the struggle to detect dark matter. The PICASSO collaboration has documented the discovery of a significant difference between the acoustic signals induced by neutrons and alpha particles in a detector based on superheated liquids.
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 | A team of scientists have detected long wavelength radio emission from a colliding, massive galaxy cluster which, surprisingly, is not detected at the shorter wavelengths typically seen in these objects. ...> Full Article |
 | Pulsar is the first one known to 'blink' only in gamma rays ...> Full Article |
 | Astronomer was looking for an asteroid, but ended up finding a comet. ...> Full Article |
 | Study shows newborn Earth-like planets could be easier to find ...> Full Article |
 | New observations with the Submillimeter Array now suggest that colossal black holes were common even 12 billion years ago, when the universe was only 1.7 billion years old and galaxies were just beginning to form ...> Full Article |
 | Tidal heating can cook some planets, thaw others, and drive plate tectonics needed for life. ...> Full Article |
 | The Great World Wide Star Count, now in its second year, helps scientists map light pollution globally while educating participants about the stars. ...> Full Article |
 | VLT and Rossi XTE satellite probe violently variable black holes ...> Full Article |
 | Using new information from Hinode, an international mission to study the sun, scientists have found that the dim areas at the edges of active regions may hold the key to understanding how the sun converts vast amounts of energy from its surface into the solar wind ...> Full Article |
 | New images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal a giant cyclone at Saturn's north pole, and show that a similarly monstrous cyclone churning at Saturn's south pole is powered by Earth-like storm patterns. ...> Full Article |
 | In 2007, Uranus reached equinox, the point in time where the sun is directly over the planet's equator and what little sunlight the planet gets is distributed evenly over its northern and southern hemispheres, giving scientists their best opportunity to probe the seasonal dynamics of the ringed planet. ...> Full Article |
 | Supercomputer simulations of dusty disks around sunlike stars show that planets nearly as small as Mars can create patterns that future telescopes may be able to detect. The research points to a new avenue in the search for habitable planets. ...> Full Article |
 | Tracing gas emission close to young stellar objects ...> Full Article |
 | As fall approaches Mars' northern plains, NASA's Phoenix Lander is busy digging into the Red Planet's soil and scooping it into its onboard science laboratories for analysis. ...> Full Article |
 | Scientists using ESA's Venus Express are trying to observe whether Earth is habitable. Silly, you might think, when we know that Earth is richly stocked with life. In fact, far from being a pointless exercise, Venus Express is paving the way for an exciting new era in astronomy. ...> Full Article |
New technique to probe the most mysterious component of the universe: dark energy
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 | A Cosmic Eye has given scientists a unique insight into galaxy formation in the very early Universe. ...> Full Article |
 | Astronomers studying new images of a nearby galaxy cluster have found evidence that high-speed collisions between large elliptical galaxies may prevent new stars from forming ...> Full Article |
 | The CoRoT satellite has discovered a planet-sized object so exotic that astronomers are unsure whether to call it a planet. ...> Full Article |
 | Telescopes on the ground and in space have teamed up to compose a colourful image that offers a fresh look at the history of the star-studded region NGC 346 ...> Full Article |
 | The first NASA spacecraft to image and map the dynamic interactions taking place where the hot solar wind slams into the cold expanse of space is ready for launch ...> Full Article |
 | NASA's Cassini spacecraft is scheduled to fly within 16 miles of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Oct. 9 and measure molecules in its space environment that could give insight into the history of the solar system ...> Full Article |
 | A satellite about the size of a loaf of bread will be designed and built and deployed to study space weather ...> Full Article |
 | Researcher has calculated that about 160 metallic asteroids of about 20 kilometres in diameter would be sufficient to provide the concentrations of some of the world's rarest and most precious metals ...> Full Article |
Scientists studying the Kuiper Belt, find much less than expected.
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 | Using a powerful radio telescope to peer into the early universe, a team of California astronomers has obtained the first direct measurement of a nascent galaxy's magnetic field as it appeared 6.5 billion years ago. ...> Full Article |
The deep interior of Neptune, Uranus and Earth may contain some solid ice.
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 | Scientists using NASA's RHESSI spacecraft have measured the roundness of the sun with unprecedented precision, and they find that it is not a perfect sphere. During years of high solar activity the sun develops a thin "cantaloupe skin" that significantly increases its apparent oblateness. ...> Full Article |
 | Astronomers have shown for the first time that a supernova could indeed have triggered the Solar System's formation under the more likely conditions of rapid heating and cooling. ...> Full Article |
 | A two-hour observation of Jupiter using an improved technique to remove atmospheric blur has produced the sharpest whole-planet picture ever taken from the ground ...> Full Article |
Research explains the discrepancy
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 | Hot spots near the shattered remains of an exploded star are echoing the blast's first moments ...> Full Article |
 | Dark energy is at the heart of one of the greatest mysteries of modern physics, but it may be nothing more than an illusion ...> Full Article |
 | NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity is setting its sights on a crater more than 20 times larger than its home for the past two years. ...> Full Article |
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