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 | Astrophysicists discover the possiblity of a black hole near the Milky Way's center.
Provided by the University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Published: November 30, 2006 |
 | Astronomers take the first measurement of a magnetic field in a planet-hosting star.
Provided by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, Mauna Kea, Hawaii
Published: November 29, 2006 |
 | Astronomers capture a detailed image of starburst galaxy NGC 1313.
Provided by ESO, Garching, Germany
Published: November 28, 2006 |
 | Astronomers discover a gamma-ray signal from binary system LS5039.
Provided by the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, United Kingdom
Published: November 27, 2006 |
 | A supercomputer simulates the formation and evolution of the Milky Way's dark-matter halo.
Provided by the University of California, Santa Cruz
Published: November 24, 2006 |
 | The instrument atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii, improves its optics by a factor of 10.
Provided by the Subaru Telescope Facility, Hilo, Hawaii
Published: November 21, 2006 |
 | After more than 10 years of service and 240,000 images, the Mars Global Surveyor's career could be over. By Jeremy McGovern
Published: November 21, 2006 |
 | A detailed image of Cassiopeia A provides evidence that supernova remnants energize charged particles.
Provided by the Chandra X-ray Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Published: November 17, 2006 |
 | After NASA's Mars Global Surveyor cuts off communications, another of the agency's probes has joined the search party. By Jeremy McGovern
Published: November 16, 2006 |
 | Scientists determine dark energy has been present in the universe for some 9 billion years, most of the cosmos' lifetime.
Provided by STScI, Baltimore, Maryland
Published: November 16, 2006 |
 | Astronomers identify 20 new stellar systems.
Provided by NOAO, Tucson, Arizona
Published: November 15, 2006 |
 | Scientists suggest a new way to study how biomolecules and minerals combined in Earth's primordial "soup."
Provided by the Carnegie Institution, Washington, D.C.
Published: November 13, 2006 |
 | Long suspected though never observed, astronomers now have evidence that suggests that mass segregation occurs in globular clusters.
Katie Neubauer
Published: November 10, 2006 |
 | Research indicates that volcanic gas has been released from the Moon's surface within the last one to ten million years.
Provided by Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Published: November 10, 2006 |
 | Study compares organic haze on Titan and early Earth.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: November 8, 2006 |
 | Stellar flare gives scientists evidence that flares on other stars involve particle acceleration.
Provided by Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
Published: November 8, 2006 |
 | A new image created using the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes shows the Orion Nebula in an explosion of infrared, ultraviolet, and visible-light colors.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: November 7, 2006 |
 | From our neighborhood to earthlike exoplanets, these Discovery Program mission concepts want to investigate astronomy's burning questions. By Jeremy McGovern
Published: November 2, 2006 |
 | Observers across the globe — and even above it — are planning for Mercury's November 8 transit. By Francis Reddy
Published: November 2, 2006 |
 | Dust created by the deaths of small stars may have played a major role in our Sun's formation.
Provided by the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul
Published: November 1, 2006 |
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