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The Milky Way is a large place, and getting all the stars together, even from just the inner galaxy, for a family photo requires a big canvas. The imaging team from the Spitzer Space Telescope today unveiled the largest, highest resolution infrared picture ever taken of the Milky Way.
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Interacting galaxies are found throughout the Universe, sometimes as dramatic collisions that trigger bursts of star formation, on other occasions as stealthy mergers that result in new galaxies. A series of 59 new images of colliding galaxies has been released from the several terabytes of archived raw images from the NASA/ESA Hubble […]
Water water everywhere … so where the hell is it?
Astronomers are looking to identify Earth-like watery worlds circling distant stars from a glint of light seen through an optical space telescope and a mathematical method developed by researchers at Penn State and the University of Hawaii.
“We are looking for Earth-like planets in the habitable zone […]
Go outside now if it’s night time and you’re in the Northern Hemisphere.
Look to the west, see the pulsar? To the left of Orion’s Belt?
Amazing, huh? Thanks Magmuzzle.
Worldpeace,
Ben
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