January 28th, 2011 
Malvika Sampat 
An international team of astronomers appointed to do research on the space has found the oldest galaxy which seems to exist before 13.2 billion years ago. They discovered this galaxy with the help of Hubble Space Telescope.
They marked the existed galaxy and enlarged it to obtain a clear view. Astronomers found that the galaxy would have existed before 480 million years.…
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Tags: Astronomers, Big Bang, California Institute Of Technology, California Santa Cruz, Formation Of Stars, French Team, Galaxy, Garth Illingworth, Hubble Space Telescope, Inconvenience, Institute Of Technology, Light Years, Million Years, Mistake, Nasa, Nasa International, New Galaxies, Richard Ellis, University Of California, University Of California Santa Cruz 
Comments Off August 8th, 2009 Malvika Sampat 
An international team of astronomers has made the most high-resolution images of a dying giant star to date.
Led by Keiichi Ohnaka at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn, the astronomers, for the first time showed how the gas is moving in different areas over the surface of a distant star known as Betelgeuse. …
Posted in News Tags: Astronomers, Betelgeuse, Bubbles, Convection Cell, Distant Star, Dying Star, Gas Motion, Giant Star, High Resolution Images, Max Planck, Max Planck Institute, Metre Telescope, Million Years, Radio Astronomy, Red Supergiant, Resolving Power, Stars And Planets, Supergiant Star, Supergiant Stars, Vlt Interferometer Comments Off June 24th, 2009 Tushar Mathur Footage showing the dramatic descent of a probe minutes before it crashes into the surface of the Moon has been released by the Japanese space agency.
The final moments of the Kaguya lunar probe were caught by its on-board high-definition camera as it hurtled downwards on June 11 and as it fell the images were beamed back to Earth
As it sinks lower and lower the desolate and pockmarked landscape is seen looming ever larger as the spacecraft tumbles toward its final resting place.…
Posted in Tech Stuff Tags: Astronomers, Australian Telescope, Disappearance, Fades, Final Resting Place, Gravitational Forces, High Definition, Interesting, Japanese Space Agency, Jeremy Bailey, Launch, Left Image, Long Shadows, Lunar Probe, Magnetic Field, Moon Observation, New South Wales, New South Wales Australia, Observation Mission, South Wales Australia, Surface Of The Moon Comments Off February 12th, 2009 Malvika Sampat 
‘Dark’ comets happen when the water on their surface has evaporated,From The Telegraph:
Unseen “dark” comets could pose a deadly threat to earth, astronomers have warned.
The comets, of which there could be thousands, are not currently monitored by observatories and space agencies.…
Posted in Science News Tags: Astronomers, Bill Napier, Cardiff University, Comets And Asteroids, Deadly Threat, Earth, Getty, Light Photo, Observatories, Scientists, Solar System, Space Agencies, Telegraph, Travel, Unseen Hazard Comments Off February 7th, 2009 Malvika Sampat 
From Wired Science:
Searching for planets beyond our solar system is a bit like playing Goldilocks — we keep looking for that one that will be just right to host life. While astronomers haven’t found a perfect fit yet, they have found plenty that are too big, too hot, too cold, too dense, too close to their star, or too distant.…
Posted in Science News Tags: Astronomers, Discovery, Exoplanet, Exoplanets, Extrasolar Planets, Extreme Science, Gravitational Pull, Indirect Methods, Perfect Fit, Solar System, Wobble Comments Off January 22nd, 2009 Malvika Sampat 
This artist’s conception reveals the newly discovered Super-Neptune planet orbiting a star 120 light years away from Earth. Normally blue in color, its red hue is caused by the illumination from the nearby Red Dwarf star. Credit: David A. Aguilar (CfA)
Astronomers have discovered a planet somewhat larger and more massive than Neptune orbiting a star 120 light-years from Earth. …
Posted in Tech News Tags: Astronomers, Earth Diameter, Earth Masses, Extrasolar Planet, Extrasolar Planets, Harvard Smithsonian Center, Harvard Smithsonian Center For Astrophysics, Keck, Light Years, Neptune Planet, Orbits, Parent Star, Precise Determination, Radial Velocity, Red Dwarf Star, Red Hue, Search Projects, Transit Data, Velocity Data, Wobble Comments Off November 25th, 2008 Tushar Mathur 
From E! Science News:
The image shows a pair of colossal stars, WR 25 and Tr16-244, located within the open cluster Trumpler 16. This cluster is embedded within the Carina Nebula, an immense cauldron of gas and dust that lies approximately 7500 light-years from Earth. The Carina Nebula contains several ultra-hot stars, including these two star systems and the famous blue star Eta Carinae, which has the highest luminosity yet confirmed.…
Posted in Science News Tags: Astronomers, Blue Star, Carina Nebula, Cauldron, Evolution, Fuel Source, Galaxies, Hubble, Hydrogen Fuel, Light Years, Low Mass, Luminosity, Mass Star, Nebulae, Neighbouring, Open Cluster, Radiation, Science News, Star Eta Carinae, Star Systems Comments Off
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