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Closely-Orbiting Stellar Companions Surrounded by “Mystery Dust”

November 14, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Artist’s concept showing a dust disk around a binary system containing a white dwarf and a less-massive M (red) dwarf companion. (P. Marenfeld and NOAO/AURA/NSF) Even though NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer spacecraft — aka WISE — ran out of coolant in [...]

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How Many Asteroids Are Out There?

September 25, 2012

Answer: a LOT. And there’s new ones being discovered all the time, as this fascinating animation by Scott Manley shows. Remove this ad

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WISE Spies a Hunter’s Flame

July 5, 2012

A vast star-forming cloud of gas and dust in the constellation Orion shines brightly in this image from NASA’s WISE space telescope, where infrared light is represented in visible wavelengths. It’s part of a recent data release from WISE, a trove of infrared images acquired during the telescope’s second sky scan from August to September [...]

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The Heavens are Ablaze With Blazars

April 12, 2012

From a JPL press release: Astronomers are actively hunting a class of supermassive black holes throughout the universe called blazars thanks to data collected by NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). The mission has revealed more than 200 blazars and has the potential to find thousands more. Remove this ad

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PacMan Nebula Takes A “Bite” Out Of Space

October 29, 2011

If you have a large telescope and an appetite for nebulae, then you’ve probably seen the Pac Man Nebula. Located 9,200 light years away in the constellation Cassiopeia, NGC 281 (RA 00 52 59.3 – Dec +56 37 19) is a seasonal favorite… and in this new image it’s showing a real “Halloween” face! Remove [...]

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