The Planet In Front Of The Sun, A Once-In-A-Lifetime Event!

By Alton Parrish III on  From nanopatentsandinnovations.blogspot.com
On June 5th, 2012, the planet Venus will pass in front of the Sun as seen from Earth in what for many will be a once-in-a-lifetime event: a transit of Venus. The transit will be visible across Canada and in other parts of the world, and is already garnering global attention.But should you care? The next transit of Venus will be in 2117  Image courtesy of Antonio Cerezo, Pablo Alexandre, Jesus Merchan and David Marsan “The last transit of Venus occurred in 2004. If you missed it, this...Read Full Story

Black Hole Unmasked

By Alton Parrish III on  From nanopatentsandinnovations.blogspot.com
A study of X-rays emitted a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away has unmasked a stellar mass black hole in Andromeda, a spiral galaxy about 2.6 million light-years from Earth.Two Clemson University researchers joined an an international team of astronomers, including scientists at Germany's Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, in publishing their findings in a pair of scientific journals this week. Scientists had suspected the black hole was possible since late 2009 when an X...Read Full Story

Planck’s New View Of The Cosmic Theatre

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The first scientific results from ESA’s Planck mission were released at a press briefing January 11th in Paris. The findings focus on the coldest objects in the Universe, from within our Galaxy to the distant reaches of space. This animation illustrates the position on the sky of all compact sources detected by Planck during its first all-sky survey and listed in the Early Release Compact Source Catalogue (ERCSC). It shows how they compare to the microwave view of the sky, also seen by...Read Full Story

Cosmic Weight Watching Reveals Black Hole-Galaxy History

By Alton Parrish III on  From nanopatentsandinnovations.blogspot.com
Using state-of-the-art technology and sophisticated data analysis tools, a team of astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy has developed a new and powerful technique to directly determine the mass of an active galaxy at a distance of nearly 9 billion light-years from Earth. Now, a team of astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, led by Dr Katherine Inskip, has, for the first time, succeeded in directly "weighing" both a galaxy and its central black hole at...Read Full Story

Ultra-Compact Dwarf Galaxies Are Bright Star Clusters

By Alton Parrish III on  From nanopatentsandinnovations.blogspot.com
Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing a new statistical study of the so-called 'ultra-compact dwarf galaxies' (UCDs), which are still mysterious objects. A team of astronomers has investigated how many of these UCDs exist in nearby galaxy clusters and groups. They show that the properties of UCDs match those of bright star clusters.Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing the results of a detailed investigation of how many 'ultra-compact dwarf galaxies' (UCDs) can be found in nearby galaxy...Read Full Story
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Astronomy for Africa – the SKA will lead to ‘brain gain’
Founding and Strategic Partners are CSIRO, Melbourne, Monash, RMIT ... get the SKA up and running. Construction is scheduled to begin in 2016 with the first science to get underway in 2020. For these deadlines to be reached, sufficient manpower will ...  
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S Africa to host most of world's biggest astronomy project
SOUTH AFRICA has won the right to host the vast majority of the world’s biggest astronomy project, a development local scientists hope will put Africa on the map in terms of scientific research and development. The nations belonging to the Square ...  
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UW Physics and Astronomy associate prof builds infrared camera to study...
LARAMIE, Wyo. — University of Wyoming associate professor Mike Pierce is interested in the history of the universe, and an infrared camera he spent seven years building will help him study its oldest and most distant formations. Pierce, who ...  
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Astronomers Detect Coolest Radio Star
Columbia, MD (SPX) Apr 25, 2012 Astronomers using the world's largest radio telescope, at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, have discovered flaring radio emission from an ultra-cool star, not much warmer than the planet Jupiter, shattering the previous record for the lowest stellar temperature at which radio waves were detected. The team from Penn State University's Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics and the Center for Exoplan  
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Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy Completes First Instrument For James Webb...
After more than ten years of work by more than 200 scientists and engineers, the MIRI instrument, which will fly on the James Webb Space Telescope (successor to the Hubble Space Telescope) is ready to be shipped to NASA. MIRI, a pioneering ...  
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