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Hypernovas The Most Violent Object in the Universe Confirmed
dailygalaxy.com — Most astronomers today believe that one of the most plausible reasons we have yet to detect intelligent life in the universe is due to the deadly effects of local supernova explosions that wipe out all life in a given region... (Submitted by wjappe) More…
APOD: 2009 December 1 - NGC 6992: Filaments of the Veil Nebu view!
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Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Getting Ready For Test Flight
telegraph.co.uk — For a mere $200,000 (£120,000), wealthy funseekers will be able to enjoy a few minutes' weightlessness, staring out at the curve of the Earth from under a black sky. Book your seats now .......................... (Submitted by FI5HERMAN) More…
Massive "Dark Halo" Discovered Beyond Edge of the Milky Way
dailygalaxy.com — The biggest things in the universe just got bigger - or rather, they've always been bigger and we somehow missed it up to now. Supercomputer simulations of galactic core black holes indicate that instead of being a mere two billion... (Submitted by DigSomeMore) More…
Naked Black Hole Builds Future Galactic Dream Home
wired.com — Astronomers have captured a distant black hole creating the galaxy that will eventually become its home. By sending a jet of gas and highly energetic particles into a neighboring galaxy, the black hole has touched off star formation at a rate 100 times the galactic average. (Submitted by Shiner76) More…
'Cosmic fruit machine' matches galactic collisions
sciencedaily.com — A new website will give everyone the chance to contribute to science by playing a 'cosmic fruit machine' and compare images of colliding galaxies with millions of simulated images of galactic pile-ups. (Submitted by mustafa78alkan) More…
APOD - Bright Sun and Crescent Earth from the Space Station view!
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Scientists explain puzzling lake asymmetry on Titan
physorg.com — Researchers at Caltech suggest that the eccentricity of Saturn's orbit around the sun may be responsible for the unusually uneven distribution of methane and ethane lakes over the northern and southern polar regions of the planet's largest moon, Titan. On Earth, similar "astronomical forcing" of climate drives ice-age cycles. (Submitted by benb24) More…
Large Hadron Collider Sets New World Record
wired.com — CERN announced early Monday that the Large Hadron Collider has become the world’s highest-energy particle accelerator. The LHC pushed protons to 1.18 TeV (trillion electron volts), surpassing the previous record of 0.98 TeV held by Fermilab’s Tevatron. (Submitted by msaleem) More…
Shrink-to-fit spacesuit eases astronauts' workload
newscientist.com — Forget the complex choreography involved in putting on a spacesuit: astronauts will one day be able to get suited and booted in seconds by stepping through the neck of an overlarge, part-robotic spacesuit. (Submitted by geopiscean) More…
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