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Lone Black Holes Discovered Adrift in Space

Two international teams of astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based telescopes in Australia and Chile have discovered the first examples of isolated stellar-mass black holes adrift among the stars in our galaxy. All previously known stellar black holes have been found in orbit around normal stars, with their presence determined by their effect on the companion star. The two isolated black holes were detected indirectly by the way their extreme gravity bends the light from a more distant star behind them.

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Findings Boost Idea of Other-Worldly Ocean

When NASA's Galileo spacecraft swooped past Jupiter's moon Europa a week ago, it picked up powerful new evidence that a liquid ocean lies beneath Europa's icy crust. As the spacecraft flew 218 miles (351 kilometers) above the icy moon on January 3, its magnetometer instrument studied changes in the direction of Europa's magnetic field. Galileo's magnetometer observed directional changes consistent with the type that would occur if Europa contained a shell of electrically conducting material, such as a salty, liquid ocean.

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Star Formation Bubbles

Up in Nearby Galaxy Newly released images obtained with NASA'S Hubble Space Telescope show clusters of newly forming stars in various stages of evolution. The images, taken in July 1997 with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2, capture the "nearby" galaxy NGC 4214--only 13 million light-years from Earth. As hot, young stars develop, they blow bubbles in the stellar gas, such as the bluish heart-shaped bubble in the center of this image. Hundreds of massive blue stars, each more than 10,000 times brighter than the Sun, inflated by stellar winds and radiation pressure, expand the bubble as the most massive stars in the center reach the ends of their lives and explode as supernovae.

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