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Explosion of Galaxy Formation Lit Up Early Universe
September 5, 2012 — The universe was dark until the first stars began to form, but really lit up once massive hydrogen clouds began birthing galaxies of stars. A study by researchers using data from the South Pole ... > full storyMore: -
Astronomers Discover 'Pigtail' Molecular Cloud
September 5, 2012 — A research team has discovered a molecular cloud with a peculiar helical structure by observation with the NRO 45m Telescope at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. The team named it a ... > full story -
Record-Breaking Stellar Explosion Helps Astronomers Understand Far-Off Galaxy
August 30, 2012 — Astronomers took advantage of the most distant supernova of its type to probe a galaxy some 9.5 billion light years away. The light from the exploding star, allowed astronomers to confirm that the ... > full story -
Hubble Captures a Collection of Ancient Stars
August 25, 2012 — The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced a beautiful image of the globular cluster Messier 56 (also known as M 56 or NGC 6779), which is located about 33,000 light years away from Earth in ... > full story -
Spacetime: A Smoother Brew Than We Knew
August 23, 2012 — Spacetime may be less like beer and more like sipping whiskey. Or so an intergalactic photo finish would suggest. Physicists reached this heady conclusion after studying the tracings of three photons ... > full story -
Milky Way Now Has a Twin (or Two): Astronomers Find First Group of Galaxies Just Like Ours
August 22, 2012 — Researchers have found the first group of galaxies that is just like ours, a rare sight in the local Universe. The Milky Way is a fairly typical galaxy on its own, but when paired with its close ... > full story -
Big Picture of the Universe Confirmed, WiggleZ Survey of More Than 200,000 Galaxies Shows
August 21, 2012 — We know that stars group together to form galaxies, galaxies clump to make clusters and clusters gather to create structures known as superclusters. At what scale though, if at all, does this Russian ... > full story -
Big Bang Theory Challenged by Big Chill
August 20, 2012 — The start of the Universe should be modeled not as a Big Bang but more like water freezing into ice, according to a team of theoretical ... > full story -
Hubble Watches Star Clusters on a Collision Course
August 16, 2012 — Astronomers have caught two clusters full of massive stars that may be in the early stages of merging. The clusters are 170,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite ... > full story -
Phoenix Cluster Sets Record Pace at Forming Stars
August 15, 2012 — Astronomers have found an extraordinary galaxy cluster, one of the largest objects in the universe, that is breaking several important cosmic records. Observations of the Phoenix cluster with NASA's ... > full story
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