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Best Time to Study the Cosmos Was More Than 13 Billion Years Ago
The universe is a
marvelously complex place,
filled with galaxies and
larger-scale structures that
have evolved over its
13.7-billion-year history.
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Giant Galaxy-Packed Filament Revealed
Astronomers have discovered
a giant, galaxy-packed
filament ablaze with
billions of new stars. The
filament is the first
structure of its kind spied
in a critical era of cosmic
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Baby Galaxies Grew Up Quickly
Baby galaxies from the young
universe more than 12
billion years ago evolved
faster than previously
thought, shows new research.
This means that already in
the early history of the
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Black Holes Turn Up the Heat for the Universe
Astrophysicists have just
discovered a new heating
source in cosmological
structure formation. Until
now, astrophysicists thought
that super-massive black
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NASA Lends Galaxy Evolution Explorer to Caltech
May 16, 2012 — NASA is lending the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, where the spacecraft will continue its exploration of the cosmos. In a ... > full story -
Free-Floating Planets in the Milky Way Outnumber Stars by Factors of Thousands: Life-Bearing Planets May Exist in Vast Numbers
May 10, 2012 — Researchers say life-bearing planets may exist in vast numbers in the space between stars in the Milky ... > full story -
Overfed Black Holes Shut Down Galactic Star-Making
May 9, 2012 — The Herschel Space Observatory has shown galaxies with the most powerful, active black holes at their cores produce fewer stars than galaxies with less active black holes. The results are the first ... > full story -
VISTA Views a Vast Ball of Stars
May 9, 2012 — A new image of Messier 55 from ESO's VISTA infrared survey telescope shows tens of thousands of stars crowded together like a swarm of bees. Besides being packed into a relatively small space, these ... > full story -
Is a New Form of Life Really So Alien?
May 8, 2012 — The idea of discovering a new form of life has not only excited astronomers and astrobiologists for decades, but also the wider public. The notion that we are the only example of a successful life ... > full story -
New Insight Into Atomic Nuclei May Explain How Supernovas Formed Elements Crucial to Humankind
May 8, 2012 — New insight into the behaviour of atomic nuclei may explain how gigantic star explosions, or supernovas, have formed the elements that are crucial to ... > full story -
One Supernova Type, Two Different Sources
May 7, 2012 — The exploding stars known as Type Ia supernovae serve an important role in measuring the universe, and were used to discover the existence of dark energy. They're bright enough to see across large ... > full storyMore: -
Hubble Sees the Eye of the Storm in Galaxy Cluster
May 7, 2012 — A new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope could seem like a quiet patch of sky at first glance. But zooming into the central part of a galaxy cluster -- one of the largest structures of ... > full story -
Under 'Dark Halo' Old Galaxies Have Many More Stars
May 1, 2012 — Some of the oldest galaxies in the Universe have three times more stellar mass, and so many more stars, than all current models of galaxy evolution ... > full story -
Old Star, New Trick: Astronomers Have Detected Arsenic and Selenium in Ancient Star for First Time
April 30, 2012 — For the first time, astronomers have detected the presence of arsenic and selenium, neighboring elements near the middle of the periodic table, in an ancient star in the faint stellar halo that ... > full story
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