Space
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Milky Way’s black hole seen in new detail
New radio wave observations are giving astronomers their closest look yet at the supermassive black hole believed to be lurking at the center of our galaxy.
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Cosmic heavyweight
Astronomers discover the heftiest, most distant galaxy cluster, suggesting evidence for dark energy’s existence.
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Clashing clusters
Two space telescopes capture the titanic collision of galaxy clusters in an image that shows dark matter separating from normal matter.
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Little middle ground for black holes
Black holes may not come in mid-sized versions. Astronomers expecting to find one in a galaxy cluster found a tiny black hole there instead.
- Astronomy
Preserving digital data for the future of eScience
From the August 30, 2008 issue of Science News.
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Tiny object points to remote solar system reservoir
Possible comet may be distant visitor from the innermost region of the Oort Cloud, the proposed comet reservoir of the outermost solar system.
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The great planet debate
New suggestions for defining a planet would put Pluto back on the list. Scientists discuss the International Astronomical Union’s definition during the Great Planet Debate Conference.
- Physics
Stars ablaze in other skies
A new study suggests that a surprising number of universes, even those with laws of physics different from those in our universe, can still support stars.
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Sharpshooting Enceladus
Swooping within 49 kilometers of Saturn’s tiny, geologically active moon Enceladus, the Cassini spacecraft has pinpointed the locations of the icy geysers that erupt from the southern hemisphere of this wrinkled moon’s surface.
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Magellanic firestorm
To celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope’s 100,000th orbit about Earth, astronomers aimed the observatory at a firestorm of stellar activity in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.
