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Posts tagged ‘Explorer’

Giant ring of Black holes discovered

February 11, 2011

ring of Black holesThis composite image of Arp 147, a pair of interacting galaxies located about 430 million light years from Earth, shows X-rays from the NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (pink) and optical data from the Hubble Space Telescope (red, green, blue) produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md.
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NEOWISE completes survey of asteroids and comets

February 4, 2011

NEOWISENASA’s NEOWISE mission has completed its survey of small bodies, asteroids and comets, in our solar system.
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Zeta Ophiuchi the runaway Star

January 28, 2011

Zeta OphiuchiA hot star 20 times larger than the Sun, Zeta Ophiuchi is the blue spot in the centre of this image taken with Nasa’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer.
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