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Friday, April 10, 2009

Matters Astronomical

Astronomers toast the cosmos with dazzling images

What is this cosmic hand reaching for? (Image: NASA/CXC/SAO/P Slane et al)
A round up the best images released in celebration of the International Year of Astronomy.

Also in Matters Astronomical:

Is dark energy getting weaker?

This multi-wavelength image of Abell 520 shows the aftermath of a complicated collision of galaxy clusters, some of the most massive objects in the universe. In this image, the hot gas as detected by Chandra is coloured red (Image: SCIENCE SOURCE/SPL)

Blasts from the past sketch a picture of a universe whose runaway expansion may finally be slowing

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