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The Caper Universe: March 2011
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Atlas of The Universe. Windows to the Universe. Monday, March 21, 2011. The Drama of Starbirth. Saturday, March 5, 2011. QUASAR’S BELCH SOLVES LONGSTANDING MYSTERY. The groundbreaking work is a collaboration between David Rupke of Rhodes College in Tennessee and the University of Maryland’s Sylvain Veilleux. The results are to be published in the March 10 issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters and were completed with support from the U.S. National Science Foundation. Markarian 231 is located about 60...
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The Caper Universe: Herschel Finds Oceans of Water in Disk of Nearby Star
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Atlas of The Universe. Windows to the Universe. Wednesday, November 2, 2011. Herschel Finds Oceans of Water in Disk of Nearby Star. Our observations of this cold vapor indicate enough water exists in the disk to fill thousands of Earth oceans," said astronomer Michiel Hogerheijde of Leiden Observatory in The Netherlands. Hogerheijde is the lead author of a paper describing these findings in the Oct. 21 issue of the journal Science. These are the most sensitive HIFI observations to date," said Paul Goldsm...
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The Caper Universe: November 2011
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Atlas of The Universe. Windows to the Universe. Wednesday, November 2, 2011. Herschel Finds Oceans of Water in Disk of Nearby Star. Our observations of this cold vapor indicate enough water exists in the disk to fill thousands of Earth oceans," said astronomer Michiel Hogerheijde of Leiden Observatory in The Netherlands. Hogerheijde is the lead author of a paper describing these findings in the Oct. 21 issue of the journal Science. These are the most sensitive HIFI observations to date," said Paul Goldsm...
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The Caper Universe: VISTA Finds 96 Star Clusters Hidden Behind Dust
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Atlas of The Universe. Windows to the Universe. Saturday, August 13, 2011. VISTA Finds 96 Star Clusters Hidden Behind Dust. This result comes just one year after the start of the VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea programme (VVV) [1], one of the six public surveys on the new telescope. The results will appear in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics. By using carefully tuned computer software, the team was able to remove the foreground stars appearing in front of each cluster in order to count the genuin...
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The Caper Universe: NASA Telescope Helps Confirm Nature of Dark Energy
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Atlas of The Universe. Windows to the Universe. Sunday, May 22, 2011. NASA Telescope Helps Confirm Nature of Dark Energy. A five-year survey of 200,000 galaxies, stretching back seven billion years in cosmic time, has led to one of the best independent confirmations that dark energy is driving our universe apart at accelerating speeds. The survey used data from NASA's space-based Galaxy Evolution Explorer and the Anglo-Australian Telescope on Siding Spring Mountain in Australia. The new survey provides t...
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The Caper Universe: February 2012
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Atlas of The Universe. Windows to the Universe. Sunday, February 26, 2012. A New View of an Icon. The Eagle Nebula as never seen before. In 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope's 'Pillars of Creation' image of the Eagle Nebula became one of the most iconic images of the 20th century. Now, two of ESA's orbiting observatories have shed new light on this enigmatic star-forming region. The ESA Herschel Space Observatory's new image shows the pillars and the wide field of gas and dust around them. Captured in...
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The Caper Universe: January 2011
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Atlas of The Universe. Windows to the Universe. Saturday, January 29, 2011. Hubble Finds Most Distant Galaxy Candidate Ever Seen in Universe. How far is far? And, when do you know when you get there? This is not a Dr. Seuss riddle, but the ultimate "final frontier" confronting astronomers. We are on the cusp of seeing nearly as far as we ever can into the universe of stars and galaxies. The question can be better phrased: How young is young? Sunday, January 16, 2011. Hubble Zooms in on a Space Oddity.
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The Caper Universe: Most Distant Quasar Found
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Atlas of The Universe. Windows to the Universe. Saturday, July 16, 2011. Most Distant Quasar Found. A team of European astronomers has used ESO’s Very Large Telescope and a host of other telescopes to discover and study the most distant quasar found to date. This brilliant beacon, powered by a black hole with a mass two billion times that of the Sun, is by far the brightest object yet discovered in the early Universe. The results will appear in the 30 June 2011 issue of the journal Nature. Although more ...
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The Caper Universe: November 2010
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Atlas of The Universe. Windows to the Universe. Sunday, November 28, 2010. Spitzer Reveals a Buried Explosion Sparked by a Galactic Train Wreck. Spitzer Reveals a Buried Explosion Sparked by a Galactic Train Wreck. The new findings show that galaxy mergers can pack a real star-making wallop far from the respective galactic centers, where star-forming dust and gases typically pool. No matter how you slice it, this starburst is one of the most luminous objects in the local Universe," agrees Lee Armus, seco...