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Behemoth Black Hole Found in an Unlikely Place (Goddard Space Flight Center)

Edit Public Technologies 06 Apr 2016
(Source. Goddard Space Flight Center). Editor's note, Feb. 17, 2016. ASTRO-H launched successfully on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2016, at 3.45 a.m. EST. The satellite subsequently deployed its solar arrays and is currently functioning normally ... Editor's note, Feb. 16, 2016. The launch date for ASTRO-H has been updated to Feb ... EST) ... EST) ... The detector's field of view is approximately three arcminutes, or one-tenth the apparent diameter of the full moon....

Webb Telescope Instruments Removed From Ultra-Cold Chamber (Goddard Space Flight Center)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Mar 2016
(Source. Goddard Space Flight Center). Editor's note, Feb. 17, 2016. ASTRO-H launched successfully on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2016, at 3.45 a.m. EST. The satellite subsequently deployed its solar arrays and is currently functioning normally ... Editor's note, Feb. 16, 2016. The launch date for ASTRO-H has been updated to Feb ... EST) ... EST) ... The detector's field of view is approximately three arcminutes, or one-tenth the apparent diameter of the full moon....

Space Observatory to Study Black Holes and Galaxy Clusters (Goddard Space Flight Center)

Edit Public Technologies 17 Feb 2016
(Source. Goddard Space Flight Center). Editor's note, Feb. 17, 2016. ASTRO-H launched successfully on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2016, at 3.45 a.m. EST. The satellite subsequently deployed its solar arrays and is currently functioning normally ... Editor's note, Feb. 16, 2016. The launch date for ASTRO-H has been updated to Feb ... EST) ... EST) ... The detector's field of view is approximately three arcminutes, or one-tenth the apparent diameter of the full moon....

Exploring The Solar System: The Best Of What You Can Look Out For In 2016

Edit IFL Science 10 Jan 2016
This year is shaping up to be another exciting one for space after a bonanza of discoveries and celestial events in 2015 ... 1. ExoMars. One of the next big missions to Mars will be the European Space Agency’s ExoMars programme, a two-stage mission ... They reach their closest point (a conjunction) just after sunset in the western sky (just seven arcminutes apart, or less than the nail of your little finger held at arm’s length) on August 27 ... ....

How a galaxy bigger than the Milky Way can be built up in a shorter ...

Edit Public Technologies 21 Dec 2015
(Source. IAC - Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias). The first day of the conference 'Science with the GTC' which is held in Puebla (Mexico) was focused on the scientific results obtained with OSIRIS, an optical instrument for imaging and spectroscopy ... They have used 120 hours of observing time on the GTC to observe emission lines in clusters at different distances, and the field of 8 arcminutes gives very good coverage ... Annia Domènech....

How to escape a black hole (University of Cambridge)

Edit Public Technologies 26 Nov 2015
(Source. University of Cambridge). The results, published in the journal Science, are based on new radio observations tracking a star as it gets torn apart by a black hole. Such violent events yield a burst of light which is produced as the bits and pieces of the star fall into the black hole ... The radio data was taken by the by the 4 PI SKY team at Oxford, using the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager Large Array located in Cambridge ... et. al ... DOI....

NASA Selects Proposals to Study Neutron Stars, Black Holes and More (NASA - The National ...

Edit Public Technologies 31 Jul 2015
(Source. NASA - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration) The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), launched in 2012, is an Explorer mission that allows astronomers to study the universe in high energy X-rays. Credits. NASA/JPL-Caltech ... The selected proposals are.. SPHEREx ... The selected proposals are.. GUSTO ... U.S ... -end- ... Pyle ... The image is 17 arcminutes across, or slightly more than half the apparent diameter of a full moon....

Archaeologists Discover Skeleton With ‘Alien Skull’ At Russia’s Stonehenge [Video]

Edit The Inquisitr 28 Jul 2015
The Arkaim site is often referred to as “Russia’s Stonehenge.” ... Many UFO enthusiasts noted that the high forehead of the skull is similar to that of an alien race known as the “Greys.” ... Bystrushkin suggested that the builders of Stonehenge might have been able to achieve astronomical observation accuracy of about 10 arcminutes while Arkaim astronomers were able to achieve an accuracy of one arcminute ... ....

Monster black hole wakes up after 26 years

Edit European Space Agency 25 Jun 2015
X-rays and gamma rays point to some of the most extreme phenomena in the Universe, such as stellar explosions, powerful outbursts and black holes feasting on their surroundings ... The first detection at these long wavelengths was made shortly after the first Swift alert on 15 June with the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager from the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory near Cambridge, in the UK, thanks to the robotic mode of this telescope ... ....

NASA Spacecraft Capture Rare, Early Moments of Baby Supernovae (Ames Research Center)

Edit noodls 20 May 2015
(Source. Ames Research Center). Astronomers are going gaga over newborn supernova measurements taken by NASA's Kepler and Swift spacecraft, poring over them in hopes of better understanding what sparks these world-shattering stellar explosions ... To determine the distance, the team turned to the powerful telescopes at the Gemini and the W. M ... The image is 17 arcminutes across, or slightly more than half the apparent diameter of a full moon....

Spring Skywatching: Constellation Leo Comes in Like a Lion

Edit Yahoo Daily News 17 Apr 2015
One of the surest signs of spring for stargazers is the constellation Leo high in the evening sky. This is a very special constellation for me, as it was the very first one I identified on my first night as an amateur astronomer decades ago ... [Best Night Sky Events of April 2015 (Stargazing Maps)] ... The primary star is bright blue-white in color, while the much fainter secondary star, 3 arcminutes away, is pale yellow in comparison ... ....

Universe expanding slower than thought: Astronomers

Edit Press TV 13 Apr 2015
The universe may not be expanding since the Big Bang as fast as it was previously thought, astronomers say. The discovery was made by a group of scientists at the University of Arizona and recently published via two papers in the Astrophysical Journal. The team, headed by UA astronomer Peter A ... The image is 17 arcminutes across, or slightly more than half the apparent diameter of a full moon. (Credit. NASA/Swift/P. Brown, TAMU) ... ....

Welcome to the neighbourhood: new dwarf galaxies discovered in orbit around the Milky Way (University of Cambridge)

Edit noodls 10 Mar 2015
(Source. University of Cambridge). A team of astronomers from the University of Cambridge have identified nine new dwarf satellites orbiting the Milky Way, the largest number ever discovered at once ... "I could not believe my eyes." ... The insets show images of the three most visible objects (Eridanus 1, Horologium 1 and Pictoris 1) and are 13x13 arcminutes on the sky (or 3000x3000 DECam pixels). Credit. V. Belokurov, S ... Photo. Y ... (noodl....
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