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Star Clusters of Unimaginable Size Exist in the Universe

Posted by Warren Wong on Thursday, September 19, 2013, In : Star Astronomy

Understanding how large star clusters form could tell us more about star formation when the universe was young

Tonight we’ll journey to the truly titanic 30 Doradus nebula (also called the Tarantula nebula), 170 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, aboard the Hubble Space Telescope. The Large Magellanic Cloud is a smaller satellite galaxy to the Milky Way, where astronomers recently discovered something they suspected about the formation of larger star clusters.

The spider legs see...
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Astronomers View Lighthouse GRB 110328A for the First Time

Posted by Warren Wong on Sunday, July 3, 2011, In : black holes

NASA scientists are eagerly awaiting more Hubble Space Telescope images of a unusual galaxy in the constellation Draco that currently has the attention of astronomers around the world. The Burst Alert Telescope on NASA's Swift satellite came to life on March 28^th as it detected distant explosions over 3.8 billion light-years away in the constellation Draco. Explosions thousands or possibly millions of times more intense than any in the history of the human journey to the beginning of space an...
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Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter on Last Mission for Mankind

Posted by Warren Wong on Tuesday, April 26, 2011, In : the Moon

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

Mankind has studied the moon more than the bottom of the oceans of Earth and while to many this maybe in doubt, the facts speak for themselves. NASA and star gazers around the Earth have taken millions of images of the moon during the past fifty years, while we are just starting to dive into the deepest depths of Earth's oceans.

Apollo 11 landing site of the Eagle

NASA has also just released a new batch of images and measurements of the moon, wondrous new views...

You Think Life on Earth is Tough!

Posted by Warren Wong on Wednesday, November 10, 2010, In : exo-planets

: Journey to this system to see what life would be like

Take a journey to the beginning of the universe and view exo-planets that might be more like death-planets for humans

: You might find life to be a little harder here

Planets circling twin stars close in proximity could be a real tough place for life to begin, according to the conclusions of a study conducted using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Space scientists using NASA's infrared observatory recently found what ...

The Biggest Bang of Them All?

Posted by Warren Wong on Saturday, November 6, 2010, In : Star Astronomy

: Television and the universe will never be the same

: Did the universe begin in the biggest bang of them all?

The "Big Bang Theory" Hits Home

Ever heard of the "Big Bang Theory", the television show starring Johnny Galecki and Jim Parsons as two nerdy physicists being taught the meaning of a big bang by the sexy and memorable Kaley Cuoco as Penny. We'll astronomers have a theory about the biggest bang of them all, they call the "Big Bang". A theory about the beginning of space and...

Something Unusual, Something New

Posted by Warren Wong on Monday, November 1, 2010, In : Star Astronomy

NASA photo
Supernovas are some of the most powerful and visually striking events observed during the human voyage to the beginning of the universe. Releasing more energy in a single moment than Sol will over its entire lifetime, a supernova is luminous enough to shine brighter in the night sky than entire galaxies during one moment in space and time, before slowly fading from view over several weeks or months. The force of a supernova expels a large percentage of a star's mass into the darknes...