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Astronomy News and Research - September 2008 Archives
 | The Pantheon Fossae, a radiating web of troughs located in the giant Caloris Basin of Mercury, is directly linked to an impact crater at the centre of the web. ...> Full Article |
 | Collaborative project may lead to revolutionary changes ...> Full Article |
 | Chemical clues from a comet's halo are challenging common views about the history and evolution of the solar system and showing it may be more mixed-up than previously thought. ...> Full Article |
 | Solar physicists announce that the solar wind is losing power ...> Full Article |
 | Astronomers may have discovered the relative of a freakishly behaving exploding star once thought to be the only one of its kind. ...> Full Article |
 | First Optically Active Magnetar-Candidate Discovered ...> Full Article |
 | Scientists have identified an unexpected motion in distant galaxy clusters ...> Full Article |
 | Two terrestrial planets orbiting a mature sun-like star some 300 light-years from Earth recently suffered a violent collision ...> Full Article |
 | NASA's Swift satellite has found the most distant gamma-ray burst ever detected ...> Full Article |
 | Pulsating stars enable a new precise determination of the rotation of our Galaxy ...> Full Article |
Theoretical models of stellar formation propose the existence of very massive stars that can attain up to 150 times the mass of our Sun.
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 | Water is being blasted to pieces by a young star's laser-like jets ...> Full Article |
 | An astronomer has discovered the least luminous, most dark matter-filled galaxy known to exist ...> Full Article |
 | Warning: Material contained in this story may make you wish to become a solar physicist. ...> Full Article |
 | Scientists have found the 'missing link' between small and super-massive black holes ...> Full Article |
 | New simulations show that, at least in galaxies similar to our own Milky Way, stars such as the sun can migrate great distances. ...> Full Article |
 | There appears to be an upper limit to how big the universe’s most massive black holes can get ...> Full Article |
 | The Phoenix team also plans to fill the final four of TEGA's eight ovens. ...> Full Article |
 | A new picture of the composition of comets is emerging with the help of 21st century technology available at Diamond, the UK's national synchrotron light source, in Oxfordshire. ...> Full Article |
According to new simulations, water was stable at the surface of Mars for prolonged periods in the past
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March 19 gamma-ray burst was first with optical component visible to naked eye
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 | Tardigrades or 'water-bears'- are able to do away with space suits and can survive exposure to open-space vacuum, cold and radiation. ...> Full Article |
 | Unparalleled data from satellites and observatories around the globe show that the jet from a powerful stellar explosion was aimed almost directly at Earth. The event, called a gamma-ray burst, became bright enough for human eyes to see ...> Full Article |
 | Supermassive stars may undergo periodic explosions before their final supernova ...> Full Article |
 | VLT instrument hints at the presence of planets in young gas discs ...> Full Article |
An international team of scientists has found an unusual object whose backward and tilted orbit around the Sun may clarify the origins of certain comets.
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 | Rosetta, has flown by a small body in the main asteroid belt, asteroid Steins, collecting a wealth of information about this rare type of minor Solar System body. ...> Full Article |
 | Cameras on NASA's Cassini spacecraft in orbit around Saturn have detected faint arcs of material in the orbits of the small Saturnian moons Anthe and Methone, providing further evidence that most of the planet's small, inner moons orbit within partial or complete rings. ...> Full Article |
 | Scientists have begun to analyze a sample of soil delivered to NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's wet chemistry experiment from the deepest trench dug so far in the Martian arctic plains. ...> Full Article |
The Rosetta control room at ESA’s European Space Operations Centre, ESOC, received the first radio signal after closest approach to asteroid (2867) Steins at 22:14 CEST, confirming a smooth fly-by.
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 | X-ray observatory XMM-Newton has discovered the most massive cluster of galaxies seen in the distant Universe until now. The galaxy cluster is so big that there can only be a handful of them at that distance, making this a rare catch indeed. The discovery confirms the existence of dark energy. ...> Full Article |
 | Results critical to interpretation of GENESIS spacecraft samples of the sun ...> Full Article |
 | A prodigious pinwheel shines in the darkness ...> Full Article |
Astronomers have taken the closest look ever at the giant black hole in the center of the Milky Way
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 | The origin of the microscopic meteorites that make up cosmic dust has been revealed for the first time ...> Full Article |
 | Scientists have been able to locate where particles in the vicinity of the rotating neutron-star in the Crab Nebula are accelerated to immense energies ...> Full Article |
 | Researchers examining images of gullies on the flanks of craters on Mars say they formed as recently as a few hundred thousand years ago and in sites once occupied by glaciers ...> Full Article |
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