"Using this new math, something amazing happens: at T=0, the volume of the Universe is not zero, and the density is not infinite. In other words, the math still works, even at The Big Moment.&quo

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"… and it’s a bruiser, weighing in at 114 times the mass of the Sun. This blows away the previously most massive known star, which had a mere 83 solar masses." That's, like, pretty damn big.

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"During the observation period, Gliese 581 showed little change in brightness, indicating a level of stability that would prove beneficial to the growth of life..."

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"It’s got the mass of thirteen Jupiters but orbits its star in less than four days, making it the largest, most massive planet ever found in such a tight orbit."

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"There are nine main maps on this web page ... The first map shows the nearest stars and then the other maps slowly expand out until we have reached the scale of the entire visible universe."

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"This research opens up new ways of looking at both space weather and the unstable behaviour that affects the operation of fusion powered power plants."

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To celebrate the occasion, Bad Astronmy takes us on a guided tour through the Carina Nebula. Awesome images.

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Interview with Freeman Dyson. A man with some interesting ideas, and no mistake.

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"...the team examined 69 binary systems between 50 and 200 light years from Earth. The results are heartening indeed ... The implication is that planetary systems are as common around binaries as

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"Got that? We’re talking about mapping continents on planets around other stars, using equipment that could be within our capabilities soon."

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"Ironically, black holes aren’t too hard to find. They’re bright. Here’s a bunch of ‘em..." Space is not just big, it's quite pretty too - and great fun to think about.

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"By analyzing a carefully selected set of 544 distant galaxies, researchers are beginning to learn how galaxies take their mature forms, becoming the glorious objects we see today."

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"With all the press being given to the Large Hadron Collider under construction at CERN, it’s interesting to see that the black hole believed to exist at the Milky Way’s center — the object calle

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"Scientists taking their first "sniffs of air" from planets outside our solar system are a bit baffled by what they did *not* find: water."

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"Understanding dark matter, a major goal for cosmology, comes down to figuring out how normal matter interacts with its mysterious counterpart."

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"To see heat, you’d better be cold. In space, at least, because when you’re looking in infrared wavelengths, the heat of your instrumentation can overwhelm the image you’re trying to get." C

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"We want to analyze the light of a distant world to learn what elements are found in its atmosphere. These become clues to conditions there, and even markers of possible life." Centauri Drea

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"The main camera for NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is out of commission again, but this time, the agency believes it can never be fully revived." Just when they'd made a plan to fix the thin

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"The Webb telescope will be able to adjust its light mask with exquisite precision, something that previous technologies could not achieve to anywhere near this level of performance."

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"Max Tegmark views our universe as one among many possible mathematical structures, and he believes that all mathematical stuctures are indeed manifested physically, though only a minority contai

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"The [ESA]'s gamma ray observatory Integral has caught the centre of our galaxy in a moment of rare quiet. A handful of the most energetic high-energy sources surrounding the black hole [...] had

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"Amateur astronomer William Bianco doesn't huddle over a backyard telescope to hunt for undiscovered planets. He logs onto his computer." Three cheers for constructively geeky pastimes!

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Poetic headline of the week. Interesting picture, too.

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"Getting a probe to 200 AU from the Sun ‘as fast as possible’ is what Innovative Interstellar Explorer is all about."

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"The famous "pillars of creation" – clouds of dust and gas imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope, are no more – a supernova blast wave has blown them apart." Life goes on.

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"The Internet search company has struck a partnership with scientists building a huge sky-scanning telescope, with hopes of helping the public access digital footage of asteroids, supernovas and

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"Astronomers have mapped the cosmic "scaffold" of dark matter upon which stars and galaxies are assembled." Now that is pretty damn cool.

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"...a Russian Soyuz 2-1b rocket with the European COROT space observatory launched [...] from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. The French-led COROT mission will look for rocky planets around othe

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"It is unclear, however, what kind of object or objects exploded or merged to create the new black hole. The hybrid burst exhibits properties of the two known classes of gamma-ray bursts yet poss

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"Charting remote parts of the universe revealed that the distribution of galaxies has considerably evolved with time, depending on an individual galaxy's immediate surroundings."

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