Science news articles about 'southern constellations'

... system is located about 20,000 light-years away right near the border between the southern constellations of Ara and Norma. "It's an exciting discovery ...

... galaxy, whose shape has led to it being nicknamed the Southern Pinwheel. This dramatic image of the galaxy Messier ... light-years away towards the huge southern constellation of Hydra (the sea serpent). It stretches ...

... intense star formation there. 30 Doradus is about 160,000 light years from Earth in the southern constellation of Dorado. It spans 800 light ...

... 2818A. Both the cluster and the nebula reside over 10,000 light-years away, in the southern constellation Pyxis (the Compass). NGC 2818 is one of very few planetary nebulae in our galaxy located ...

... , at a distance of about 13 million light-years in the southern constellation of Centaurus. It is an elliptical galaxy, currently merging with a companion spiral galaxy, resulting in areas ...

... does in 20 years." The object, which has long been known as an X-ray source, lies in the southern constellation Norma. During the past two ...

... . PKS 2155-304 is located 1.5 billion light-years away in the southern constellation of Piscis Austrinus and is usually a detectable but faint gamma-ray source. But when its jet undergoes ...

... PKS 0745-191, which lies 1.3 billion light-years away in the southern constellation Puppis. Between May 11 and 14, 2007, Suzaku acquired five images of the million-degree ...

... the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Located 170,000 light-years away in the southern constellation Dorado, the LMC is the largest of several ... 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. "These very-high-energy ...

... mysteriously stream at a million miles per hour along a path roughly centered on the southern constellations Centaurus and Hydra. A new study ...

... mysteriously stream at a million miles per hour along a path roughly centred on the southern constellations Centaurus and Hydra. A new study ...

... XTE J1550-564. The system lies 17,000 light-years away in the southern constellation of Norma and contains a black hole with about 10 times the sun's mass. The usually inconspicuous ...

... region in the Large Magellanic Cloud. NGC 2467 was discovered in the nineteenth century and lies in the southern constellation of Puppis, which represents the poop deck ...

... times that of the Sun. WR 22 lies in the southern constellation of Carina, the keel of Jason's ship ... part of this huge region of star formation in the southern Milky Way forms the colourful backdrop ...

... cluster Westerlund 1 [1], located 16 000 light-years away in the southern constellation of Ara (the Altar). From previous studies (eso0510 - http://www.eso.org/public ...