On August 11th this year the planet Saturn will be at its equinox with the Sun and it will remain like this for up to a year. Because of the enormous shadows of the planet falling across the ring system and particularly as they will fall on Saturn’s moons, the Cassini spacecraft, which has …
Looking almost 11 billion years into the past, astronomers have measured the motions of stars for the first time in a very distant galaxy and clocked speeds upwards of 1,6 million km/h, about twice the speed of our Sun through the Milky Way. The fast-moving stars shed new light on how these distant galaxies, which …
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This undated artist's rendering provided by the University of Cambridge, England, shows the spiral galaxy of Andromeda, center right, over a period of about three billion years as repeated, but modified views of the dwarf galaxy Triangulum, move away from it, clockwise towards Earth, then back towards it, where Triangulum will be ultimately devoured by …
30 September 2009 Speed comes at a price for the spiral galaxy NGC 4522, which is being stripped of gas as it tears through space at more than 10 million kilometres per hour. The galaxy is a member of the Virgo cluster, a clutch of about 2000 galaxies that sits some 60 million light years …
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