two from out there, somewhere
This first one is downright neighborly compared to the second one-
Largest extrasolar planet has density of cork
Astronomers say they have found the largest and least dense planet yet -a gas giant twice the size of Jupiter- orbiting the star GSC02620-00648 in the constellation Hercules, 1,435 light-years away. Called TrES-4, the celestial whopper is the 19th extrasolar world found to transit between its star and Earth, allowing researchers to get a bead on its radius from the amount of starlight it blocks.
Astronomers Find Largest Exoplanet to Date, California Institute of Technology
Quadruple galaxy pileup
If galaxies were businesses, the Securities and Exchange Commission would nix a newly observed merger. Astronomers have spied four hefty galaxies in the process of colliding into a single galaxy that may end up being 10 times as massive as our own Milky Way. Located in the galaxy cluster CL0958 4702, nearly five billion light-years away, the discoverers said in a statement that the starry globs mark the first observed collision between two big galaxies.
Spitzer Space Telescope Spies Monster Galaxy Pileup, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
pulled from sciam.com's August 10, 2007 "News Bytes of the Week"
Largest extrasolar planet has density of cork
Astronomers say they have found the largest and least dense planet yet -a gas giant twice the size of Jupiter- orbiting the star GSC02620-00648 in the constellation Hercules, 1,435 light-years away. Called TrES-4, the celestial whopper is the 19th extrasolar world found to transit between its star and Earth, allowing researchers to get a bead on its radius from the amount of starlight it blocks.
Astronomers Find Largest Exoplanet to Date, California Institute of Technology
Quadruple galaxy pileup
If galaxies were businesses, the Securities and Exchange Commission would nix a newly observed merger. Astronomers have spied four hefty galaxies in the process of colliding into a single galaxy that may end up being 10 times as massive as our own Milky Way. Located in the galaxy cluster CL0958 4702, nearly five billion light-years away, the discoverers said in a statement that the starry globs mark the first observed collision between two big galaxies.
Spitzer Space Telescope Spies Monster Galaxy Pileup, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
pulled from sciam.com's August 10, 2007 "News Bytes of the Week"