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Unraveling the Secrets of Type Ia Supernovae: a New Two-Minute Thesis

November 27, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter The folks over at PHD Comics have put together a new video in their Two-Minute Thesis series, this one featuring Ph.D candidate Or Graur of the University of Tel Aviv and the American Museum of Natural History discussing the secret lives [...]

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Here There Be Planets: Stellar Disk Gap May Reveal Newborn Worlds

November 12, 2012

HiCIAO near-infrared image of the protoplanetary disk around PDS 70. The circular mask hides the star itself, as well as a smaller internal disk structure. (Credit: NAOJ) Over the past couple of decades astronomers have figured out several methods for finding planets around other stars in our galaxy. Some have revealed their presence by the [...]

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Rare Rectangle Galaxy Discovered

March 20, 2012

It’s being called the “emerald-cut galaxy” — recently discovered by an international team of astronomers with the Swinburne University of Technology in Australia, LEDA 074886 is a dwarf galaxy located 70 million light-years (21 Mpc) away, within a group of about 250 other galaxies. “It’s an exciting find,” Dr. Alister Graham, lead author and associate [...]

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