On the night of May 10th, Saturn will be at its closest point to Earth for 2014 and the best it has appeared since 2007. Slooh will broadcast the event live from telescopes located off the west coast of Africa in the Canary Islands on May 10th starting at 6:30 PM PDT / 9:30 PM …
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Milky Way’s magnetic fingerprint ESA and the Planck Collaboration Our galaxy’s magnetic field is revealed in a new image from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Planck satellite. This image was compiled from the first all-sky observations of “polarized“ light emitted by interstellar dust in the Milky Way. Light is a familiar form of energy, and …
This artist’s illustration shows the hypervelocity star cluster HVGC-1 escaping from the supergiant elliptical galaxy M87. HVGC-1 is the first runaway star cluster discovered by astronomers. It is fated to drift through intergalactic space. Galaxy M87 has thrown an entire star cluster toward us at more than 2 million mph, and it’s now on a …
Artist’s impression of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) and its jets. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/S. Wiessinger An international team of scientists led by the University of Leicester has discovered for the first time that one of the most powerful events in our universe — gamma-ray bursts (GRB) — behave differently than previously thought. The study …
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