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Galaxy's 'Arms' Determine Black Holes Weight

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 - 14:36:39 - Ehud Rattner

How does one weigh a supermassive black hole that is anywhere between a million and a billion times the mass of the Sun? The answer could be as easy...

Exploding Star in Nearby Galaxy

Sunday, April 6th, 2008 - 12:21:41 - Ehud Rattner

The latest image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals a sharp view of the spiral galaxy NGC 2397. It shows a rare Hubble view of the...

Smaller Stars Help Bigger Stars Form
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 - Ehud Rattner
According to a new theory proposed by astrophysicists from Princeton University and the University of California, Berkeley...

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Giant Ropes of Dark Matter Found in Space

Friday, February 22nd, 2008 - 14:13:12 - Iddo Genuth

Huge filaments of dark matter have been detected in a survey of thousands of distant galaxies. The discovery supports the idea that dark matter drove...

Potentially Habitable Planets Are Common?

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 - 12:58:15 - Sarah Gingichashvili

More than half of the sunlike stars in the galaxy could have terrestrial planets with the potential to harbor life, a new study suggests. The...

The Most Distant Galaxy Found?

Thursday, February 14th, 2008 - 14:52:53 - Iddo Genuth

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, with a boost from a gravitational lens, has found the strongest evidence so far for a galaxy with a redshift...

Google Goes to Space
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007 - Iddo Genuth
The recently released version of the popular software Google Earth includes a new unique feature – a look not down towards...