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The most amazing thing I have ever seen in space
Space Station Commander Captures Unprecedented View of Comet Ιnternational Space Station Commander Dan Burbank captured spectacular imagery of Comet Lovejoy as seen from about 240 miles above the Earth’s horizon on Wednesday, Dec. 21. Today Burbank described seeing the comet two nights ago as “the most amazing thing I have ever seen in space,” in […]
NASA Snow Cover Maps
December 22, 2011
NASA has released a video that highlights where snow graced the Earth every month for over the past ten years. http://youtu.be/WfHvujaE2hI Read more: dailygalaxy.com
A Horseshoe Einstein Ring from Hubble
December 22, 2011
Explanation: What’s large and blue and can wrap itself around an entire galaxy? A gravitational lens mirage. Pictured above, the gravity of a luminous red galaxy (LRG) has gravitationally distorted the light from a much more distant blue galaxy. More typically, such light bending results in two discernible images of the distant galaxy, but here […]
Distant Galaxy Bursts with Stars
December 22, 2011
This image shows one of the most distant galaxies known, called GN-108036, dating back to 750 million years after the Big Bang that created our universe. The galaxy’s light took 12.9 billion years to reach us. The galaxy was discovered and confirmed using the Subaru telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory, respectively, both located atop […]
LHC reports discovery of its first new particle
December 22, 2011
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on the Franco-Swiss border has made its first clear observation of a new particle since opening in 2009. Known as Chi-b (3P), it is a boson – the label given to particles that can carry the forces of nature. The as-yet unpublished discovery isreported on the Arxiv pre-print server. The […]
December 22, 2011
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