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 | One possible explanation for the irregular pattern is the remains of an exploded supernova, such as the nearby supernova remnant Vela, whose location corresponds to one of the cosmic-ray hotspots.
Provided by University of Wisconsin-Madison
Published: July 30, 2010 |
 | Scientists have uncovered two pairs of planets so close to each other that they interact gravitationally.
Provided by the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Published: July 29, 2010 |
 | WR 22, a member of a double star system in the Carina Nebula, is shedding its atmosphere at a rate many millions times faster than our Sun.
Provided by ESO, Garching, Germany
Published: July 28, 2010 |
 | The test gauges how the mirrors change temperature and shape over a range of operational temperatures in space.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: July 27, 2010 |
 | Scientists have significantly narrowed down the possible mass range of the elusive Higgs boson particle, predicted to exist by the standard model of particle physics.
Provided by the Science and Technology Facilities Council, United Kingdom
Published: July 27, 2010 |
 | The map was constructed using almost 21,000 images from the Thermal Emission Imaging System, a multiband infrared camera.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: July 26, 2010 |
 | This is the first direct observation linking a high-flying star to a galactic center origin.
Provided by STScI, Baltimore, Maryland
Published: July 26, 2010 |
 | Buckyballs are the largest molecules known to exist in space.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: July 23, 2010 |
 | The results open the possibility that dark gamma-ray bursts may spring from high-metallicty environments.
Provided by the Subaru Telescope Facility, Hilo, Hawaii
Published: July 23, 2010 |
 | Prometheus' gravitational pull sloshes ring material around, creating wake channels that trigger the formation of objects as large as 12 miles in diameter.
Provided by the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colorado
Published: July 22, 2010 |
 | Sound waves in the early universe are thought to have left detectable imprints on the large-scale distribution of galaxies. The researchers developed a way to measure such imprints by observing the radio emission of hydrogen gas.
Provided by NRAO, Socorro, New Mexico
Published: July 21, 2010 |
 | Star R136a1 is the most massive star ever found with a current mass of about 265 solar masses and a birth mass of about 320 times that of the Sun.
Provided by the Royal Astronomical Society, United Kingdom
Published: July 21, 2010 |
 | The Cluster mission provides a 3-D picture of how the continuous solar wind of charged particles or plasma from the Sun affects our near-Earth space environment and its protective magnetosphere.
Provided by ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Published: July 20, 2010 |
 | WISE has observed more than 100,000 asteroids — most in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter, but some near-Earth objects, asteroids, and comets as well.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: July 20, 2010 |
 | Using data gathered by NASA's Cassini spacecraft over a span of 4 years, researchers have obtained two separate lines of evidence showing a roughly consistent yearly drop in the levels of lakes in Titan's southern hemisphere.
Provided by the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Published: July 19, 2010 |
 | Data from the final flyby has revealed the first observations of ion emissions in Mercury's exosphere, new information about the planet's magnetic substorms, and evidence of young volcanic activity.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: July 16, 2010 |
 | A quasar, acting as a gravitation lens, has magnified a distant galaxy.
Provided by the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Published: July 16, 2010 |
 | Observations suggest powerful stellar winds are sweeping the cast-off atmospheric material behind the scorched planet and shaping it into a comet-like tail.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: July 15, 2010 |
 | Although the Swift satellite was designed specifically to study gamma-ray bursts, the instrument was not designed to handle an X-ray blast this bright.
Provided by Penn State University, University Park
Published: July 15, 2010 |
 | The discovery of dark energy and the accelerating universe using type Ia rewrote our understanding of the cosmos. Yet the origin of these stellar explosions remains unknown.
Provided by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Published: July 14, 2010 |
 | Scientists' observations show that formation works the same for all stars, regardless of mass.
Provided by ESO, Garching, Germany
Published: July 14, 2010 |
 | The star-forming region NGC 2467 is a vast cloud of gas that serves as an incubator for new stars.
Provided by Hubble ESA, Garching, Germany
Published: July 13, 2010 |
 | Scientists have stalked a new class of moons in the rings of Saturn that create propeller-shaped gaps in ring material.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: July 12, 2010 |
 | The close-up images of the asteroid show it is probably a primitive survivor from the violent birth of the solar system.
Provided by ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Published: July 12, 2010 |
 | Scientists used transit time variation to detect an extrasolar planet.
Provided by the Royal Astronomical Society, United Kingdom
Published: July 9, 2010 |
 | The Rosetta orbiter and its Philae lander will investigate whether the asteroid has a magnetic field and an exosphere.
Provided by EJR-Quartz, Leiden, Netherlands
Published: July 9, 2010 |
 | The formation of a star hinges on hydrogen atoms coming together to form hydrogen molecules.
Provided by the National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia
Published: July 8, 2010 |
 | New findings show that some stellar black holes can release at least as much energy, and perhaps more, in the form of collimated jets of fast-moving particles as they can in the form of radiation.
Provided by ESO, Garching, Germany
Published: July 7, 2010 |
 | From the closest portions of the Milky Way to the farthest reaches of space and time, the new all-sky Planck image is an extraordinary treasure chest of new data for astronomers.
Provided by ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Published: July 6, 2010 |
 | A research group says that type Ia supernovae explode asymmetrically. The different spectral appearance is merely a consequence of the random directions from which a supernova is observed.
Provided by IPMU, Kashiwa, Japan
Published: July 2, 2010 |
 | Astronomers gain new insights into the different types of galaxies in the distant universe, which will allow them to explore part of the universe as it was some 11 billion years ago.
Provided by UK Space Agency, Swindon, England
Published: July 2, 2010 |
 | The Leo gas ring is explained as a billion-year-old collision between two galaxies.
Provided by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, Mauna Kea, Hawaii
Published: July 1, 2010 |
 | Scientists found that a major fraction of the massive stars form by collecting matter onto disks around their equatorial regions.
Provided by Joint Astronomy Center, Hilo, Hawaii
Published: July 1, 2010 |
 | Although viewers may have to go a little out of their way to see it, the total solar eclipse on July 11 promises fascinating and exotic sights. By Bill Andrews
Published: July 1, 2010 |
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