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Published on 11/3/2000 Photoed By Habo Telescope: Flaming Caused By The Collision Between Two Galaxies

Flaming Caused By The Collision Between Two Galaxies

Published on 11/9/2000 Galaxy NGC4214 Explode and Reorganize

Galaxy Explode and Reorganize

Published on 1/20/2001 Cosmology Theory Can Not Match The Changes Of The Universe

New Celestial Bodies Emerge

Published on 3/28/2002

Astronomers Find Large Galaxy Consisted of Dozens of Thousands of Young Stars

Published on 6/13/2002

Ice Found on Mars Catch Attention to Life in Universe

Published on 6/18/2002

Astronomers Found Newly Formed Supernova Relict

Published on 6/24/2002 New Cosmos Is Forming: Hubble Captures Collision of Several Galaxies, Creating a Torrent of New Stars

New Cosmos Is Forming: Hubble Captures Collision of Several Galaxies, Creating a Torrent of New Stars

Published on 8/4/2002 Like a pumpkin, Earth is a bit wider around the equator than the meridian. Since the end of the last glaciations, postglacial rebound of Earth’s crust has resulted in a net transfer of mass from the equatorial regions to high latitudes. This small mass transfer has been monitored for 25 years. This slight oblateness (by about 0.3%) results from axial rotation and large-scale mantle convection. But newest science findings suggest that since 1998, the mass transfer has changed direction.

Earth Getting Wider Around the Equator, the Reason Still an Enigma

Published on 8/4/2002 The center of our Milky Way Galaxy is inching toward an era of intense fireworks when stars will be born 100 times more frequently than today and many will die quick, explosive deaths, according to new research.

Report from American Astronomical Society: Milky Way is Inching Toward a New Era

Published on 8/18/2002 The recent discoveries in astronomy made many physicists start to rethink the origin of our universe. In the August 14 issue of Nature Journal, Leonard Susskind and his team from Stanford University think that the existence of our universe would require a miracle, or outside intervention or from "God".

Scientists Propose That the Existence of the Cosmos Would Require "External Help"

Published on 12/21/2002

A Young Galaxy Forming at 6000 Light-Years to Earth

Published on 12/23/2002 mysterious cloud of high-energy electrons enveloping a young cluster of stars has been discovered by astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. These extremely high-energy particles could cause dramatic changes in the chemistry of the disks that will eventually form planets around stars in the cluster.

Young Star Cluster Found Aglow With Mysterious X-Ray Cloud

Published on 1/2/2003 Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) Detects Numerous New Stars in the Milky Way

Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) Detects Numerous New Stars in the Milky Way

Published on 1/8/2003 New Discovery: Ring of Stars Circle the Milky Way

New Discovery: Ring of Stars Circle the Milky Way

Published on 1/9/2003 American Experts Speculate That Some Mysterious Dark Energy Dominates the Universe

American Experts Speculate That Some Mysterious Dark Energy Dominates the Universe

Published on 1/15/2003 Giant jets of subatomic particles moving at nearly the speed of light have been found coming from thousands of galaxies across the universe, but always from elliptical galaxies or galaxies in the process of merging -- until now. Using the combined power of the Hubble Space Telescope, the Very Large Array (VLA) and the 8-meter Gemini-South Telescope, astronomers have discovered a huge jet coming from a spiral galaxy similar to our own Milky Way.

NASA Publishes Hubble Space Telescope's New Discovery: Giant Radio Jet Coming from Spiral Galaxy

Published on 2/15/2003 On February 11, 2003, NASA released the best "baby picture" of the Universe ever taken, containing such stunning detail that it may be one of the most important scientific results of recent years. (AFP photo)

Astronomers Discover that an Unknown Force Caused the Inflation of the Universe to Accelerate

Published on 5/30/2003 According to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s report on May 27, 2003, Using the National Science Foundation’s Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) radio telescope, astronomers discovered the newly-exploded star hidden deep in a dust-enshrouded supernova factory in a galaxy some 140 million light-years from Earth.

Goddard Space Flight Center: Hidden Supernova Reveals Dust-Enshrouded "Supernova Factory"

Published on 5/31/2003 According to Science Daily Magazine’s report on May 27, 2003, a mammoth sky survey led by University of Florida astronomers has uncovered seven planet-forming disks in clusters of young stars, doubling the number of such disks discovered and expanding the territory that might yield new planets.

Astronomers Find Seven Planet-Forming Disks, Doubling Total

Published on 6/18/2003 Rho Cas (type semiregular) is a hypergiant star and one of the most luminous stars in our galaxy. Eruptions on these very rare, very massive stars produce huge mass ejections evidenced by dramatic spectral changes and optical dimming (an ejection in 2000 amounted to 10,000 Earths worth of material and caused a ~1.5-magnitude drop in visual brightness)

Marvelous Spectacle: Hypergiant Erupts

Published on 6/18/2003 Resembling the fury of a raging sea, this image actually shows a bubbly ocean of glowing hydrogen gas and small amounts of other elements such as oxygen and sulfur.

The photograph, taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, captures a small region within M17, a hotbed of star formation. M17, also known as the Omega or Swan Nebula, is located about 5,500 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius. The image is being released to commemorate the thirteenth anniversary of Hubble’s launch on April 24, 1990.

The image, roughly 3 light-years across, was taken May 29-30, 1999, with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. The colors in the image represent various gases. Red represents sulfur; green, hydrogen; and blue, oxygen.

Hubble Captures a Perfect Storm of Turbulent Gases

Published on 6/18/2003 M64 is the famous Black Eye galaxy, sometimes also called the "Sleeping Beauty galaxy". The conspicuous dark structure is a prominent dust feature obscuring the stars behind.

M64 was recently shown to have two counter-rotating systems of stars and gas in its disk: The inner part of about 3,000 light years radius is rubbing along the inner edge of the outer disk, which rotates opposite and extends up to at least 40,000 light years, at about 300 km/sec. This rubbing process is probably the reason for the observed vigorous star formation process, which is currently under way, and can be observed as the blue knots imbedded in the peculiar dust lane on one side of the nucleus. It is speculated that this peculiar disk and dust lane may be caused by material from a former companion which has been accreted but has yet to settle into the mean orbital plane of the disk.

Sleeping Beauty Galaxy

Turbulent Changes in the Cosmos: Strongest Supernova Explosion

Published on 6/18/2003 First, what we talked about here are handful abnormal nebulae. They are intensively heated and they contain large amount of ions, that is, charged atoms. Their radiant intensity depends on the amount of atoms that participate in this process and the amount of electrons that are lost. The hot "wind" blew away those special bubbles in the surrounding substances. In the photos taken, some bubbles show themselves as different colorful arcs.

Turbulent Changes in the Cosmos: The Most Beautiful Stars