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Millions of Light-Years and Infinity Inbetween

Posted by Warren Wong on Friday, November 5, 2010, In : star astronomy

One small cog of a vast wheel of the Virgo supercluster

: Our Local Group of galaxies

Look upward at the night sky and you're viewing the stars of the Milky Way galaxy as they were hundreds and even thousands of light-years in the past. The time it takes the starlight from these celestial bodies to travel the distance between these stars and Earth is very long in human terms, despite the speed of light. If astronomers indicate that a particular galaxy is sixty-million light-years awa...

Astronomers Bring Another Strange Creature to the Pulsar Zoo

Posted by Warren Wong on Friday, November 5, 2010, In : neutron stars

This is an artists conception of a slowly rotating neutron star. NASA photos

Neutron star SGR 0418+5729 shows off

The human journey to the beginning of the universe discovered another neutron star on June 5, 2009 that's currently keeping astronomers and space scientists busy looking into the unusual properties of this newest member of the pulsar zoo. Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra, Swift and Rossi X-ray observatories, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and ESA’s XMM-Newton te...

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Millions of Light-Years and Infinity Inbetween

Astronomers Bring Another Strange Creature to the Pulsar Zoo

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