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. …
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Comments Off July 7th, 2009 Tushar Mathur 
The center of the Milky Way harbors a supermassive black hole more than four million times the mass of our sun, about 25,000 light-years from Earth. Sagittarius B2 (Sgr B2) is one of the largest clouds of molecular gas in the Milky Way, shown here as the bright orange-red region at left and center (submillimeter-wavelength ATLASGAL data).…
Posted in News Tags: Cold Dust, Composite Image, Cosmic Dust, Doozie, Electromagnetic Spectrum, European Southern Observatory, Infrared Data, Inner Regions, Massive Stars, Max Planck, Max Planck Institute, Midcourse Space Experiment, Milky Way Galaxy, Optical Telescopes, Radio Astronomy, Radio Waves, Sgr B2, Sky Maps, Supermassive Black Hole, Wavelength Light Comments Off February 7th, 2009 Malvika Sampat 
Image: Neanderthals are the closest hominid relatives of modern humans. The two species co-existed in Europe and western Asia as late as 30,000 years ago. (American Museum of Natural History). (Image from Berkley Lab)
From Nature:
Draft sequence opens window on human relatives.
The entire genome of a 38,000-year-old Neanderthal has been sequenced by a team of scientists in Germany.…
Posted in Science News Tags: 5 Million, American Association For The Advancement Of Science, American Museum Of Natural History, Annual Meeting, Association For The Advancement Of Science, Chicago Illinois, Draft Sequence, Extracting Dna, Genomes, Genomic Analysis, Max Planck, Max Planck Institute, Max Planck Institute For Evolutionary Anthropology, Museum Of Natural History, Neanderthal Bones, Neanderthal Genome, Neanderthals, Project Leader, Relatives, Western Asia Comments Off February 5th, 2009 Malvika Sampat 
View through one of the tubes of GEO600.From Science Daily:
ScienceDaily (Feb. 4, 2009) — Cardiff University researchers, who are part of a British-German team searching the depths of space to study gravitational waves, may have stumbled on one of the most important discoveries in physics, according to an American physicist.…
Posted in Science News Tags: American Physicist, Cardiff University, Craig Hogan, Discoveries In Physics, Fundamental Physics, German Team, Gravitational Physics, Gravitational Wave Detector, Gravitational Waves, Holographic Universe, Max Planck, Max Planck Institute, Mysterious Noise, New Era, New Physics, Particle Astrophysics, Science Daily, Sciencedaily, University Researchers, UniversitäT Hannover Comments Off February 4th, 2009 Malvika Sampat 
Two giant elliptical galaxies, NGC 4621 and NGC 4472, look similar from a distance, as seen on the right in images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. But zooming into these galaxies’ cores with Hubble Space Telescope reveals their differences (left, black and white images). NGC 4621 shows a bright core, while NGC 4472 is much dimmer.… Posted in Science News Tags: Astrophysical Journal, Astrophysical Journal Letters, Bright Core, Core Credit, Digital Sky Survey, Extraterrestrial Physics, Galaxy Formation, Giant Elliptical Galaxies, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Telescope, Ludwig Maximilians University, Massive Galaxies, Max Planck, Max Planck Institute, Mcdonald Observatory, Sciencedaily, Sloan Digital, Supermassive Black Holes, University Observatory, University Of Texas At Austin Comments Off January 6th, 2009 Tushar Mathur 
This artist’s concept shows young, blue stars encircling a supermassive black hole at the core of a spiral galaxy like the Milky Way. The background stars are the typical older, redder population of stars that inhabit the cores of most galaxies (including our own). CfA astronomers caught two stars in the act of forming within a few light-years of the Milky Way’s center.…
Posted in Tech News Tags: American Astronomical Society, Background Stars, Center Of The Galaxy, Center Scientists, Embryonic Stars, Gas Clouds, Harvard Smithsonian Center, Harvard Smithsonian Center For Astrophysics, Max Planck, Max Planck Institute, New Discovery, Radio Astronomy, Radio Telescopes, Radio Wavelengths, S Center, Spiral Galaxy, Stellar Nurseries, Supermassive Black Hole, Surprise Star, Very Large Array Comments Off December 10th, 2008 Malvika Sampat 
This is the central parts of our galaxy, the Milky Way, as observed in the near-infrared with the NACO instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope. By following the motions of the most central stars over more than 16 years, astronomers were able to determine the mass of the supermassive black hole that lurks there.… Posted in Science News Tags: Central Stars, Extraterrestrial Physics, Fundamental Processes, Galactic Nuclei, Galaxy, Garching, Gravity, Level Of Detail, Max Planck, Max Planck Institute, Milky Way, Motions, Munich, Orbits, Reinhard Genzel, Science Daily, Sciencedaily, Star Formation, Stellar Dynamics, Supermassive Black Hole Comments Off December 4th, 2008 Tushar Mathur 
Multi-band image of the remnant of Tycho’s Supernova, composed from images taken with the 3.5 m telescope of Calar Alto and the camera Omega 2000 (infrared), the Spitzer space telescope (infrared) and the Chandra space telescope (X-rays). (Credit: Image courtesy of Calar Alto Observatory)From Science Daily:
ScienceDaily (Dec. 4, 2008) — Astronomers have used light echoes as a time machine to unearth secrets of one of the most influential events in the history of astronomy –a stellar explosion witnessed on Earth more than 400 years ago.…
Posted in Science News Tags: 16th Century, Band Image, Calar Alto Observatory, Chandra Space Telescope, Credit Image, Exact Type, Galactic Cloud, History Of Astronomy, Journal Nature, Max Planck, Max Planck Institute, Oliver Krause, Remnant, Science Daily, Sciencedaily, Spitzer Space Telescope, Stellar Explosion, Time Machine, Tycho, X Rays Comments Off November 23rd, 2008 Malvika Sampat 
Store room for future learning: nerve cells retain many of their newly created connections and if necessary, inactivate only transmission of the information. This makes relearning easier. (Credit: Image: Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology / Hofer)From Science Daily:
ScienceDaily (Nov. 22, 2008) — Thanks to our ability to learn and to remember, we can perform tasks that other living things can not even dream of.…
Posted in Science News Tags: Brain, Contacts, Credit Image, Gist, Hofer, Max Planck, Max Planck Institute, Nerve Cells, Phenomenon, Science Daily, Sciencedaily Comments Off
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