Archive for the 'Milky Way' Category

 A computer simulation shows the final stage of a starmaking cloud as it falls toward a supermassive black hole. A portion of the cloud formed a disk around the black hole, which quickly fragmented to form 198 abnormally large stars.
An August 2008 paper describing the results of the simulation suggests that such a process could […]

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Posted By: ashley | Aug 26th

 Scientists have peered through a thick shroud of interstellar dust to reveal the youngest supernova ever seen in the Milky Way.Stephen Reynolds, an astrophysicist at North Carolina State University, and his team suspected that supernova G1.9+0.3 was very young.
So they compared 2007 images of the object from NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory with radio observations from […]

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Posted By: ashley | May 16th

Images shot last summer by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft provide the strongest evidence yet that Titan, a saturnian moon and one of the most Earth-like celestial bodies in the solar system, is dotted with a multitude of liquid lakes.
“At the time we first announced it, we were like, ‘Well, we think these are probably lakes,’ […]

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Posted By: froosh | Jan 3rd

No need to hold your breath, but this does suggest what will happen when our solar system fades away:
A debris disk spied recently around a distant dead star is likely the remains of an asteroid that was vaporized when the star died, scientists say.
The discovery, detailed in the Dec. 22 issue of the journal Science, […]

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Posted By: froosh | Dec 23rd