
Black Hole Came from a Shredded Galaxy
Astronomers have found a
cluster of young, blue stars
encircling the first
intermediate-mass black hole
ever discovered. The
presence of the star cluster
suggests that the black hole
... > full story

Globular Clusters: Survivors of a 13-Billion-Year-Old Massacre
Our Milky Way galaxy is
surrounded by some 200
compact groups of stars,
containing up to a million
stars each. At 13 billion
... > full story

Planck All-Sky Images Show Cold Gas and Strange Haze in Milky Way Galaxy
New images from the Planck
mission show previously
undiscovered islands of star
formation and a mysterious
haze of microwave emissions
... > full story

New Image Captures 'Stealth Merger' of Dwarf Galaxies
New images of a nearby dwarf
galaxy have revealed a dense
stream of stars in its outer
regions, the remains of an
even smaller companion
galaxy in the process of
... > full story
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NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer in Standby Mode
February 9, 2012 NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer, or Galex, was placed in standby mode Feb. 7, 2012 as engineers prepare to end mission operations, nearly nine years after the telescope's launch. The spacecraft is ... > full story -
Classic Portrait of a Barred Spiral Galaxy
February 3, 2012 The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1073, which is found in the constellation of Cetus (The Sea Monster). Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is a ... > full story -
Hubble Zooms in on a Magnified Galaxy
February 2, 2012 Astronomers aimed Hubble at one of the most striking examples of gravitational lensing, a nearly 90-degree arc of light in the galaxy cluster RCS2 032727-132623. Hubble's view of the distant ... > full story -
Do Black Holes Help Stars Form?
February 2, 2012 The center of just about every galaxy is thought to host a black hole, some with masses of thousands of millions of Suns and consequently strong gravitational pulls that disrupt material around them. ... > full story -
Scientists See 'Sloshing' Galaxy Cluster
January 30, 2012 Scientists have recently discovered that vast clouds of hot gas are "sloshing" in Abell 2052, a galaxy cluster located about 480 million light years from ... > full story -
The Wild Early Lives of Today's Most Massive Galaxies: Dramatic Star Formation Cut Short by Black Holes
January 25, 2012 Astronomers have found the strongest link so far between the most powerful bursts of star formation in the early Universe, and the most massive galaxies found today. The galaxies, flowering with ... > full story -
Most Distant Dwarf Galaxy Detected
January 18, 2012 Scientists have long struggled to detect the dim dwarf galaxies that orbit our own galaxy. So it came as a surprise on Jan. 18 when a team of astronomers using Keck II telescope's adaptive optics has ... > full story -
How Star-Forming Galaxies Evolve Into 'Red and Dead' Elliptical Galaxies
January 11, 2012 Astronomers using the partially completed ALMA observatory have found compelling evidence for how star-forming galaxies evolve into 'red and dead' elliptical galaxies, catching a large group of ... > full story -
Hubble Zooms in on Double Nucleus in Andromeda Galaxy
January 11, 2012 A new Hubble Space Telescope image centers on the 100-million-solar-mass black hole at the hub of the neighboring spiral galaxy M31, or the Andromeda galaxy, the only galaxy outside the Milky Way ... > full story -
Mystery of Source of Supernova in Nearby Galaxy Solved
January 11, 2012 Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have solved a longstanding mystery of the type of star, or so-called progenitor, that caused a supernova in a nearby galaxy. The finding yields new ... > full storyMore:
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