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New Image Details Jewel in Southern Sky (SPACE.com)
A new image shows Omega Centauri in all its splendor.
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Digging for Diamonds 24/7 Under Frozen Snap Lake (Wired News)
Plink. Plink. Tink. One billion dollars of up-front investment and it all comes down to this: a slow but steady trickle of milky white pebbles dropping from a funnel into an acrylic jar. The jar is locked inside a glass case that's inside a vault that's inside the high-security Red Area of a prefab aluminum building on the Canadian tundra. Every 24 hours, seven days a week, 365 days a year, ...
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CNN Student News Transcript: December 3, 2008 (CNN)
December 3, 2008
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Black Holes Burp Big Bubbles (SPACE.com via Yahoo! News)
Like cosmic bubble makers, some black holes spew out behemoth blobs of hot gas into their home galaxies.
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NASA Hubble Space Telescope Daily Report #4746 (SpaceRef)
NASA Hubble Space Telescope Daily Report #4746
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Supersonic Bubbles Blown By Black Holes Regulate Size (Universe Today)
Apparently, black holes can walk and chew gum at the same time. Or at least they can chew up gas and dust and blow supersonic bubbles with it at the same time. Analysis into the formation of large bubbles of plasma formed by supermassive black holes reveals that creating the bubbles may stunt the growth [...]
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Moon, planets converge in Concord's sky (Concord Journal)
The planets Venus and Jupiter were in conjunction and were joined by a thin crescent moon to provide a jewel-like setting of the three familiar celestial objects Dec. 1.
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Black Holes Burp Big Bubbles (SPACE.com)
Bubbles of hot plasma can keep black-hole growth in check.
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Bursts Spotted at Milky Way's Black Hole (SPACE.com)
Two telescopes simultaneously capture flare-ups from Milky Way's supermassive black hole.
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Telescopes Catch Flares From Black Hole In Milky Way (SpaceDaily)
by Staff Writers Paris, France (SPX) Nov 19, 2008 Astronomers have used two different telescopes simultaneously to study the violent flares from the supermassive black hole in the centre of the Milky Way. They have detected outbursts from this region, known as Sagittarius A, which reveal material being stretched out as it orbits in the intense gravity close to the central black hole.
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