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NGC 4696: A Cosmic Question MarkBoston MA (SPX) Aug 13, 2010 Curling around itself like a question mark, the unusual looking galaxy NGC 4696 itself begs many questions. Why is it such a strange shape? What are the odd, capillary-like filaments that stretch out of it? And what is the role of a large black hole in explaining its decidedly odd appearance? This picture, taken by Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys, is not just a beautiful snapshot of NGC 4696, the largest galaxy in the Centaurus Cluster (galaxy cluster Abell 3526). It is also an illustration o ... read more |
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Houston TX (SPX) Aug 13, 2010After the completion of a successful seven-hour, 26-minute spacewalk Wednesday, the Expedition 24 crew members aboard the International Space Station enjoyed some off-duty time, conducted some routine maintenance and participated in a debrief with spacewalk specialists Thursday. During Wednesday's spacewalk, Flight Engineers Doug Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson removed the failed ammonia ... more 
Paris, France (ESA) Aug 12, 2010A newly developed image analysis technique has significantly improved the sensitivity limits reached by the IBIS imager on board INTEGRAL, resulting in the deepest survey ever compiled of the entire sky in the energy range between 17 and 60 keV. Pushing the instrument towards its very limits, the novel method discloses a vast number of previously undetected faint sources, galactic and extr ... more 
Boston MA (SPX) Aug 12, 2010A long-exposure Hubble Space Telescope image shows a majestic face-on spiral galaxy located deep within the Coma Cluster of galaxies, which lies 320 million light-years away in the northern constellation Coma Berenices. The galaxy, known as NGC 4911, contains rich lanes of dust and gas near its center. These are silhouetted against glowing newborn star clusters and iridescent pink clouds o ... more |
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Russian missile deployment 'extremely dangerous': GeorgiaTbilisi (AFP) Aug 12, 2010 Georgia on Thursday accused Russia of taking an "extremely dangerous provocative step" by deploying a sophisticated missile defence system in Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia. "It is absolutely beyond understanding what aims this extremely dangerous provocative step may serve, which poses a threat not only to the Black Sea region but to the security of Europe as a whole," the Georgian foreign ministry said in a statement. Saying the deployment would "put into jeopardy the security of civil ... read more |
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