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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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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 story

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