News articles tagged with 'telescope' (Page 4)
Study says solar systems like ours may be common
— 29 Oct 2010 14:00 | AstronomyNearly one in four stars like the sun could have Earth-size planets, according to a University of California, Berkeley, study of nearby solar-mass stars…
NASA's Kepler Mission changing how astronomers study distant stars
— 27 Oct 2010 11:51 | AstronomyThe quantity and quality of data coming back from NASA's Kepler Mission is changing how astronomers study stars, said Iowa State University's Steve Kawaler…
Hubble data used to look 10,000 years into the future
— 27 Oct 2010 10:44 | AstronomyThe globular star cluster Omega Centauri has caught the attention of sky watchers ever since the ancient astronomer Ptolemy first catalogued it 2,000 years ago. Ptolemy, however, thought…
Space telescopes reveal previously unknown brilliant X-ray explosion in our Milky Way galaxy
— 23 Oct 2010 16:42 | AstronomyAstronomers in Japan, using an X-ray detector on the International Space Station, and at Penn State University, using NASA's Swift space observatory, are announcing the discovery of…
Clearing the cosmic fog
— 22 Oct 2010 20:07 | AstronomyA European team of astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) has measured the distance to the most remote galaxy so far. By carefully analysing the very faint glow of the galaxy…
Astronomers find weird, warm spot on an exoplanet
— 22 Oct 2010 19:32 | AstronomyObservations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveal a distant planet with a warm spot in the wrong place. The gas-giant planet, named upsilon Andromedae b, orbits tightly around…
Planet hunters no longer blinded by the light
— 16 Oct 2010 10:33 | AstronomyUsing new optics technology developed at the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory, an international team of astronomers has obtained images of a planet on a much closer orbit…
Asteroid collision forensics
— 15 Oct 2010 12:05 | AstronomyIn the first half of February 2009, two asteroids collided in a region of space beyond the orbit of Mars, as scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS)…
Small asteroid to pass within Earth-Moon system Tuesday
— 12 Oct 2010 09:22 | AstronomyA small asteroid will fly past Earth early Tuesday within the Earth-moon system. The asteroid, 2010 TD54, will have its closest approach to Earth's surface at an altitude of about 45,000…
VISTA reveals the secret of the unicorn
— 7 Oct 2010 16:00 | AstronomyAn active stellar nursery lies hidden inside a massive dark cloud rich in molecules and dust in the constellation of Monoceros. Although it appears close in the sky to the more familiar…