Milky Way News - Space Science News RSS FeedsSpace Science :: Milky WayMilky Way News Stories, Current Milky Way News Events, Discoveries and Articleshttp://www.brightsurf.com/rss.news.xml?search=Milky_Way Milky Way News Stories Current Milky Way News Events, Discoveries and Articles Visual assistance for cosmic blind spots A bit of imagination on the part of a measuring instrument wouldn't be a bad thing. It could help to add data from areas where the instrument is unable to measure. (2009-11-24) Rapid star formation spotted in 'stellar nurseries' of infant galaxies The Universe's infant galaxies enjoyed rapid growth spurts forming stars like our sun at a rate of up to 50 stars a year, according to scientists at Durham University. (2009-11-11) VERITAS telescopes help solve 100-year-old mystery: The origin of cosmic rays Nearly 100 years ago, scientists detected the first signs of cosmic rays - subatomic particles (mostly protons) that zip through space at nearly the speed of light. (2009-11-03) Starburst galaxy sheds light on longstanding cosmic mystery An international collaboration that includes scientists from the University of Delaware's Bartol Research Institute in the Department of Physics and Astronomy has discovered very-high-energy gamma rays in the Cigar Galaxy (M82), a bright galaxy filled with exploding stars 12 million light years from Earth. (2009-11-03) NASA's Fermi Telescope Detects Gamma-Ray From Nearby galaxies undergoing a furious pace of star formation also emit lots of gamma rays, say astronomers using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. (2009-11-03) Shedding light on the cosmic skeleton "Matter is not distributed uniformly in the Universe," says Masayuki Tanaka from ESO, who led the new study. "In our cosmic vicinity, stars form in galaxies and galaxies usually form groups and clusters of galaxies. The most widely accepted cosmological theories predict that matter also clumps on a larger scale in the so-called 'cosmic web', in which galaxies, embedded in filaments stretching between voids, create a gigantic wispy structure." (2009-11-03) Physicist makes new high-res panorama of Milky Way Cobbling together 3000 individual photographs, a physicist has made a new high-resolution panoramic image of the full night sky, with the Milky Way galaxy as its centerpiece. (2009-10-29) Gamma-ray photon race ends in dead heat; Einstein wins this round Racing across the universe for the last 7.3 billion years, two gamma-ray photons arrived at NASA's orbiting Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope within nine-tenths of a second of one another. (2009-10-29) Opening up a colorful cosmic jewel box Star clusters are among the most visually alluring and astrophysically fascinating objects in the sky. One of the most spectacular nestles deep in the southern skies near the Southern Cross in the constellation of Crux. (2009-10-29) The Milky Way's tiny but tough galactic neighbor In the new ESO image, Barnard's Galaxy glows beneath a sea of foreground stars in the direction of the constellation of Sagittarius (the Archer). (2009-10-14) |
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