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There could be one hundred billion Earth-like planets in our galaxy, a US conference has heard. Dr Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institution of Science said many of these worlds could be inhabited by simple life forms.
2009-02-15
Milky Way galaxy extraterrestrial lifeAn online initiative which asks members of the public to classify galaxies recorded unprecedented traffic in its first 48 hours.
2009-02-20
Internet search galaxy spotting crowdsourcing collaborativeThe Galaxy Zoo files contain almost a quarter of a million galaxies which have been imaged with a camera attached to a robotic telescope (the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, no less). In order to understand how these galaxies — and our own — formed, we need your help to classify them according to their shapes — a task at which your brain is better than even the fastest computer.
It might not look like much, but this image represents one of the most distant objects astronomers have ever seen, 12.9 billion light years away. It is a "Lyman-alpha blob" and is 55,000 light years across - as large as present-day galaxies.
2009-04-22
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Spiral galaxy M51. ... It is a composite of images taken by Europe's Herschel space observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope.
2009-07-01
galaxy Herschel Hubble Space Telescope astronomyMany skeptics tout an idea called the anthropic argument that claims extraterrestrial intelligence must be very rare because the time it takes for intelligent life to evolve is, on the average, much longer than the portion of a star's existence that is conducive to such life. But now astrobiologist Milan M. Cirkovic and colleagues say they've found a flaw in that reasoning.
2009-08-13
extraterrestrial life galaxy evolutionA new project known as Galaxy Zoo is calling on members of the public to log on to its website and help classify one million galaxies.
2007-07-11
crowdsourcing astronomy galaxyNasa's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has captured its deepest view of the Universe, producing images of galaxies that have never been seen before.
2009-12-08
Hubble Space Telescope universe galaxyThe giant halo of dark matter that surrounds our galaxy is shaped like a flattened beach ball, researchers say. It is the first definitive measure of the scope of the dark matter that makes up the majority of galaxies' masses. The shape of this "dark matter halo" was inferred from the path of debris left behind as the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy slowly orbits the Milky Way.
2010-01-06
Milky Way galaxy dark matterA supermassive black hole may have been observed in the process of being hurled from its parent galaxy at high speed.
2010-05-12
black hole astronomy galaxy collisionA "galactic lens" has revealed that the Universe will probably expand forever.
2010-08-19
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