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Run of the mill: finding galactic building blocks in early universe
Hunters of distant galaxies, meet Joe Average. Hunters of distant galaxies, meet Joe Average. For more than 3 decades, astronomers have scoured...
Science News, 12/15/07 by R. Cowen · More from publication -
A sunlike star's early development
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This infrared portrait of an embryonic sunlike star reveals an early, crucial step in the process...
Science News, 12/08/07 by R. Cowen · More from publication -
Flare-Up: comet Holmes' surprise bloom
In less than 24 hours, a small, faint comet became 400,000 times brighter late last month, blossoming into a fuzzy, star-like apparition visible to...
Science News, 11/17/07 by R. Cowen · More from publication -
Ray tracing: energetic cosmic rays linked to giant black holes
Imagine a single proton smashing into Earth's atmosphere with as much punch as a fast-pitch baseball. For decades, scientists have suspected that...
Science News, 11/10/07 by R. Cowen · More from publication -
Odd couples: big black holes challenge star theory
The most massive stars in the universe collapse to form black holes at the end of their lives. Theory suggests that such black holes can't have...
Science News, 10/27/07 by R. Cowen · More from publication -
Portrait of a Martian crater
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Swept by wind and apparently sculpted by water, this area within the Red Planet's...
Science News, 10/20/07 by R. Cowen · More from publication -
Titan: land of lakes—and drizzle
A newly assembled mosaic of radar images of Saturn's hydrocarbon-shrouded moon Titan, taken over the past 18 months by the A newly assembled...
Science News, 10/20/07 by R. Cowen · More from publication -
Motion of two nearby galaxies clouds the picture
Astronomers may have to rewrite the textbooks on the two galaxies closest to the Milky Way. A new analysis confirms previous indications that the...
Science News, 10/20/07 by R. Cowen · More from publication -
Match made in heaven: nearby galaxies resemble faraway type
Astronomers can't send a telescope billions of light-years into space to take close-ups of the most remote galaxies, but they appear to have done...
Science News, 10/06/07 by R. Cowen · More from publication -
Muddying the water? Orbiter drains confidence from fluid story of Mars
Evidence for liquid water on some parts of Mars--now or in the past--looks leakier than researchers had supposed, according to an analysis of the...
Science News, 09/22/07 by R. Cowen · More from publication
