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 | The Subaru Telescope will utilize a new instrument in the hunt for planets beyond our solar system.
Provided by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
Published: December 28, 2007 |
 | The Quadrantids, one of the best but least-known meteor showers, will shine in the new year. By Michael E. Bakich
Published: December 28, 2007 |
 | Astronomers have found the best evidence yet of matter spiraling in fountain-like jets from a young, still-forming star.
Provided by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Published: December 27, 2007 |
 | A space rock dubbed 2007 WD5 is taking aim on the Red Planet. By Francis Reddy
Published: December 27, 2007 |
 | Team analyzes how alien astronomers would study Earth.
Provided by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston
Published: December 26, 2007 |
 | XMM-Newton detects pulsed heartbeat of a weird new type of star.
Provided by ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Published: December 26, 2007 |
 | VLT's NACO instrument reveals a triple cosmic collision.
Provided by ESO, Garching, Germany
Published: December 21, 2007 |
 | Suzaku X-ray observatory explains some of the most energetic objects in our galaxy.
Provided by Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
Published: December 21, 2007 |
 | Astronomers have found 10,000 Earths' worth of fresh dust near a star explosion.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: December 20, 2007 |
 | A flare found on an ultrafast rotating star puzzles astronomers.
Provided by ESO, Garching, Germany
Published: December 19, 2007 |
 | A new view of a distant galaxy reveals rapid star formation.
Provided by NRAO, Socorro, New Mexico
Published: December 19, 2007 |
 | Astronomers discover an intergalactic explosion without a host galaxy.
Provided by Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
Published: December 18, 2007 |
 | The Red Planet won't appear this big and bright again until 2016. By Megan McChain
Published: December 18, 2007 |
 | The Deep Impact extended mission heads towards Comet Hartley 2.
Provided by the University of Maryland, College Park
Published: December 17, 2007 |
 | New research shows that Earth's magnetic field could help protect astronauts while working on the Moon.
Provided by the University of Washington, Seattle
Published: December 14, 2007 |
 | This weekend's Geminid meteor shower promises observers lots of "shooting stars." By Michael E. Bakich
Published: December 14, 2007 |
 | NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory will begin using new technology to gather data.
Dan Stober
Published: December 14, 2007 |
 | NASA's Cassini has imaged an invisible ring around Saturn.
Provided by Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
Published: December 14, 2007 |
 | A NASA spacecraft has made new discoveries about northern lights' substorms.
Provided by Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
Published: December 13, 2007 |
 | NASA has announced a new mission that will reveal the internal structure and evolution of the Moon.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: December 13, 2007 |
 | The Voyager 2 has uncovered revelations about the boundary marking the edge of the Sun's influence.
Provided by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston
Published: December 12, 2007 |
 | Observations with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey show that the outer Milky Way is a mix of two distinct components rotating in opposite directions.
Provided by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey II
Published: December 12, 2007 |
 | An international agreement between NRAO and MPIfR will help the technical and scientific advancement of radio astronomy.
Provided by NRAO, Socorro, New Mexico
Published: December 10, 2007 |
 | Images from telescopes aboard a Japanese satellite have shed new light about the Sun's magnetic field and the origins of solar wind.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: December 10, 2007 |
 | New images of Saturn's small moons tell the story of their origins.
Provided by the Cassini Imaging Lab, Boulder, Colorado
Published: December 7, 2007 |
 | A Texas astronomer has made the first ground-based detection of an extra-solar planet's atmosphere.
Provided by McDonald Observatory, Austin, Texas
Published: December 6, 2007 |
 | A dwarf star with a magnetic personality and a hot spot covering half its surface area is showing astronomers that life as a cool dwarf is not necessarily as simple and quiet as they once assumed.
Providedy by Gemini Observatory, Hilo, Hawaii
Published: December 6, 2007 |
 | NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is providing strong evidence that white dwarfs, the burned-out relics of stars, are given a "kick" when they form.
Provided by STScI, Baltimore, Maryland
Published: December 5, 2007 |
 | A new study suggests that dark matter in our newborn universe doused the earliest stars.
Provided by the University of Utah, Salt Lake city
Published: December 4, 2007 |
 | Faint, fleeting blue flashes of radiation emitted by particles that travel faster than the speed of light through the atmosphere may help scientists solve one of the oldest mysteries in astrophysics.
Provided by the University of Chicago
Published: December 4, 2007 |
 | One of the fasting moving stars ever seen was caught hurtling through space at 3 million miles per hour.
Provided by the Chandra X-ray Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Published: December 3, 2007 |
 | Hubble has sent back an early Christmas card with this new
NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the nearby spiral galaxy Messier 74.
Provided by Hubble ESA, Garching, Germany
Published: December 3, 2007 |
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