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Astronomers Find First Habitable Earth-like Planet (April 24, 2007) -- Astronomers have discovered the most Earth-like planet outside our Solar System to date, an exoplanet with a radius only 50 percent larger than the Earth and capable of having liquid ... > full story

Dying Sun-like Stars Leave Whirlpools In Their Wake (April 23, 2007) -- Astronomers based at Jodrell Bank Observatory have found evidence that giant whirlpools form in the wake of stars as they move through clouds in interstellar space. Scientists used the COBRA ... > full story

Astrophysicists Create The Eyes For New Gamma Ray Telescope System (April 23, 2007) -- Iowa State University researchers built the four cameras for the VERITAS telescope system in Arizona. The new million telescope system detects gamma rays and will help astrophysicists explore ... > full story

Forming Galaxies Captured In The Young Universe By Hubble, VLT & Spitzer (April 23, 2007) -- Astronomers have discovered that the majority of the most distant galaxies so far identified are very young, undergoing their first extremely vigorous bursts of star ... > full story

Mapping The Invisible: Dark Matter Charted Out To Five Billion Light Years (April 22, 2007) -- Most of the matter in the Universe is not the ordinary kind made up of protons, neutrons, and electrons, but an elusive "dark matter" detectable only from its gravity. Like a tenuous gas, dark matter ... > full story

Astronomers Make Detailed Image Of Giant Stellar Nursery (April 20, 2007) -- Astronomers have collaborated to create the most detailed image ever produced of the Rosette Nebula (NGC 2237), a giant stellar nursery. The Rosette nebula is a vast cloud of dust and gas spanning ... > full story

Hubble Space Telescope Reveals The Aftermath Of 'Star Wars' (April 20, 2007) -- Astronomers have used the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to obtain the first direct optical images of the aftermath of a recent titanic explosion that took place in a ... > full story

Molecular Oxygen Detected For The First Time In The Interstellar Medium (April 17, 2007) -- Molecular oxygen has long been considered as being potentially a substantial and abundant component of molecular clouds. Nonetheless, research carried out over the last twenty years had failed to ... > full story

Seven Sisters Of The Pleiades Pose For Spitzer Space Telescope (April 16, 2007) -- The Seven Sisters, also known as the Pleiades, seem to float on a bed of feathers in a new infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Clouds of dust sweep around the stars, swaddling them in ... > full story

Mystery Spiral Galaxy Arms Explained? (April 15, 2007) -- Astronomers may have cracked a 45-year mystery surrounding two ghostly spiral arms in the galaxy M106 by using data from a quartet of space ... > full story

Search For Extrasolar Planets And Extraterrestrial Life Improved With Darwin's Frictionless Optics (April 13, 2007) -- ESA's Darwin mission will look for extrasolar planets and signs of life. New optical components feature a frictionless mechanism that can respond to the touch of a ... > full story

Chandra Sees Remarkable Eclipse Of Black Hole (April 13, 2007) -- A remarkable eclipse of a supermassive black hole and the hot gas disk around it has been observed with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This eclipse has allowed two key predictions about the ... > full story

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