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Astronomers have detected a cosmic object more distant than any ever seen: a gamma ray burst about 13 billion light-years from Earth. The massive, luminous burst occurred about 600 million years after the Big Bang—that is, when the universe was...
Tags: Gamma ray, Gamma ray Burst, Star Blast, Ancient Cosmos, Earth, Galaxy, Milky Way, National Geographic, Bing Bang, Blast
A stunning new image of one of the Milky Way's nearest galactic neighbors, Barnard's Galaxy, reveals rich star formation and curiously-shaped nebulas. At the relatively close distance of about 1.6 million light-years, Barnard's Galaxy is...
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Tonight, with colors lighting the sky, we sang of organic gardens to save the future generations of this Earth from further torment. We promoted vegetables like broccolli, eggplant, bean sprouts, and celery. We sang of children digging in the dirt, knowing...
Tags: melody, eggplant, rainbows, joy, courage, Milky Way, bridge
An intresting discussion on plantet x If we know enough to say the solar system is a filigree construction, we might reasonably assume we know where all its bits are. But lurking in the solar system's dark recesses, rumour has it, is an unsighted world...
Tags: planet, space, planet x, astronomy, astronaut, galaxy, solar system, milky way, black hole, planets, moon
A sharp-eyed instrument on the Very Large Telescope has given astronomers a peek at the heart of a nearby galaxy, revealing a host of young, massive and dusty stellar nurseries and a possible twin of our own Milky Way's supermassive black hole. The...
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The center of our galaxy is wracked with powerful gravitational tides that are stirred by a 4 million solar-mass black hole. Those tides should rip apart molecular clouds that act as stellar nurseries, preventing stars from forming in place. But, using...
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In a potentially habitable region of our galaxy, a sugar molecule linked to origin of life is recently discovered. This sugar molecule called, Glycolaldehyde was spotted in a large star-forming area of space around 26,000 light years away from Earth....
Tags: IRAM telescope, Galaxy, Universe, Milky Way, RNA, molecule, Glycolaldehyde, Earth
In search of planets and the summer Milky Way, astronomer Tunç Tezel took an evening road trip. Last Saturday, after driving the winding road up Uludag, a mountain near Bursa, Turkey, he was rewarded by this beautiful skyview to the south. Near...
A baby supernova, just over a century old, has been found in the middle of our own Milky Way galaxy and provides an unprecedented opportunity to watch a star dying, astronomers said on Wednesday. The supernova, known as G1.9+0.3, would have made a bright...
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