<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Space Cloud to Collide With Our Galaxy : RSS 2.0</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><webMaster>plime.com</webMaster><copyright>2008, plime.com.</copyright><lastBuildDate></lastBuildDate><pubDate></pubDate><generator>Plime/1</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><image><title>Space Cloud to Collide With Our Galaxy : RSS 2.0</title><url>http://www.plime.com/images/logo.gif</url><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link></image><item><title><![CDATA[Space Cloud to Collide With Our Galaxy]]></title><description><![CDATA[A colossal cloud of gas is racing toward a collision with our galaxy, and when it hits, the crash could trigger an intense burst of star formation.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/47014/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/47014/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[An Oxygen Factory in a Nearby Galaxy]]></title><description><![CDATA[This Chandra X-ray Observatory image shows the debris of a massive star explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy about 160,000 light years from Earth. The supernova remnant (SNR) shown here, N132D, is the brightest in the Magellanic clouds, and belongs to a rare class of oxygen-rich remnants. Most of the oxygen that we breathe on Earth is thought to have come from explosions similar to this one.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/54043/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/54043/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Space impact creates giant mushroom cloud]]></title><description><![CDATA[A mushroom-shaped hydrogen cloud rearing 1000 light years above the plane of our galaxy is the aftermath of a massive gas cloud that dive-bombed the Milky Way.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/48852/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/48852/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Big Space Thing Looks Like a Moth]]></title><description><![CDATA[A moth-like structure with a 22-billion-mile wingspan is hovering out in space. This giant is actually a massive cloud of dust surrounding a nearby, young star imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope that has shown astronomers that these dust disks can take on unexpectedly unusual shapes.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/46817/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/46817/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Flies In A Spider's Web: Galaxy Caught In The Making]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Hubble Space Telescope has found a large galaxy 10.6 billion light-years away from Earth that is stuffing itself with smaller galaxies caught like flies in a web of gravity. The galaxy is so far away that astronomers are seeing it as it looked in the early formative years of the Universe, only 2 billion years after the Big Bang.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/3065/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/3065/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Integral discovers the galaxy&#8217;s antimatter cloud is lopsided]]></title><description><![CDATA[The shape of the mysterious cloud of antimatter in the central regions of the Milky Way has been revealed by ESA&#8217;s orbiting gamma-ray observatory Integral. The unexpectedly lopsided shape is a new clue to the origin of the antimatter.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/47320/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/47320/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[New Galaxy Images Released for Hubble's 18th Birthday]]></title><description><![CDATA[NASA has released 59 new high-resolution images of galaxies colliding across the universe to mark the Hubble Space Telescope's 18th birthday.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/59492/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/59492/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Santa Claus found in Orion Nebula]]></title><description><![CDATA[Spectacular space discovery was revealed by ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory - a huge cloud of high-temperature gas in Orion nebula, shaped almost like  Santa Claus.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/43117/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/43117/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Mining For Molecules In The Milky Way]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists are using the giant  Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) to go prospecting in a rich molecular cloud in our Milky Way Galaxy. They seek to discover new, complex molecules in interstellar space that may be precursors to life.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/67867/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/67867/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA['Olympian Galaxy' Near Andromeda Gives Clues To How Galaxies Form]]></title><description><![CDATA[A newly discovered dwarf galaxy in the Local Group has been found to have formed in a region of space far from our own and is falling into our system for the first time in its history.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/21851/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/21851/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[New View of Distant Galaxy Reveals Furious Star Formation]]></title><description><![CDATA[A furious rate of star formation discovered in a distant galaxy shows that galaxies in the early universe developed either much faster or in a different way from what astronomers have thought. The galaxy is forming the equivalent of 4,000 Suns a year. This is a thousand times more violent than our own Milky Way galaxy.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44772/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44772/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Newborn Stars: Seeing Dark Filaments Inside A Molecular Cloud]]></title><description><![CDATA[Astronomers have measured the distribution of mass inside a dark filament in a molecular cloud with an amazing level of detail and to great depth. The measurement is based on a new method that looks at the scattered near-infrared light or 'cloudshine' and was made with ESO's New Technology Telescope.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/53859/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/53859/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[The &#163;5 a bottle mineral water - from a cloud in the South Seas]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rainwater collected on King Island, near Tasmania, will be sold under the name Cloud Juice for more than &#163;5 a bottle once it makes the 11,000-mile trip to Britain.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/29511/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/29511/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[ Near Real-Time Cloud Images ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sterling Udell has added NASA&#8217;s near real-time cloud data to his popular &#8220;Daylight Map&#8221;. Now you can see which parts of the Earth are in daylight and night combined with where it is sunny or cloudy.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/26845/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/26845/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Galaxy portrait reveals a blaze of newborn stars]]></title><description><![CDATA[Newborn stars shine like celestial sparklers in a new portrait of the nearby Triangulum Galaxy &#8211; the most detailed ultraviolet image of a galaxy ever taken. Astronomers will use the image, taken by NASA's Swift telescope, to create an &quot;age map&quot; of the galaxy's components to understand how galaxies evolve over time.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/52180/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/52180/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Is The Hercules Dwarf Galaxy So Flat?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Through some of the very first scientific observations with the brand-new Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) in Arizona, astronomers has found that a recently discovered tiny companion galaxy to our Milky Way, named the Hercules Dwarf Galaxy, has truly exceptional properties: while basically all of its known peers in the realm of these tiny dwarf galaxies are rather round, this galaxy at a distance of 430,000 Light Years appears highly flattened, either the shape of a disk or of a cigar.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/36245/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/36245/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Galaxy sports vast comet-like tail]]></title><description><![CDATA[Orphaned stars are being born in a vast tail of material stretching behind a faraway galaxy. The finding is evidence that orphaned stars &#8212; those not orbiting the center of a galaxy in normal fashion &#8212; are much more common than thought.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/36364/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/36364/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Gargantuan galaxy NGC 1132 &#8211; a cosmic fossil?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new image of the galaxy NGC 1132 which is, most likely, a cosmic fossil &#8211; the aftermath of an enormous multi-galactic pile-up, where the carnage of collision after collision has built up a brilliant but fuzzy giant elliptical galaxy far outshining typical galaxies.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/49559/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/49559/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Huge Black Hole Catapulted Through Space]]></title><description><![CDATA[A colossal black hole has been spotted exiting its home galaxy, kicked out after a huge cosmic merger took place.<br/><br/>The event, seen for the first time, was announced today.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/60069/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/60069/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Holiday wishes from the Hubble Space Telescope]]></title><description><![CDATA[Messier 74, also called NGC 628, is a stunning example of a 'grand-design' spiral galaxy that is viewed by Earth observers nearly face-on. Its perfectly symmetrical spiral arms emanate from the central nucleus and are dotted with clusters of young blue stars.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/43181/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/43181/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Chandra and Newton Spotted Two Galaxies Merging]]></title><description><![CDATA[The orbiting X-ray telescopes XXM-Newton and Chandra have caught a pair of galaxy clusters merging into a giant cluster. The discovery adds to existing evidence that galaxy clusters can collide faster than previously thought.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/28012/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/28012/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item></channel></rss>