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  Galaxy-Wide Echoes from the Past: VLT Observations Identify Very Rare New Kind of Galaxy

  December 5, 2012 — A new galaxy class has been identified using observations from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), the Gemini South telescope, and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT). Nicknamed ... > full story
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  Andromeda Wants You! Astronomers Ask Public to Find Star Clusters in Hubble Images

  December 5, 2012 — Astronomers are seeking volunteers to explore the galaxy next door, Andromeda. The Andromeda Project will use people power to examine thousands of Hubble Space Telescope images of the galaxy to ... > full story
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  Census of the Invisible Universe Reveals Extraordinary High Star-Formation Rates Across History of the Universe

  December 4, 2012 — By combining the observing powers of ESA’s Herschel space observatory and the ground-based Keck telescopes, astronomers have characterized hundreds of previously unseen starburst galaxies, ... > full story
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  Hubble Spots a Peculiar Compact Blue Dwarf Galaxy

  December 3, 2012 — The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured an impressive image of the irregular galaxy NGC 5253. NGC 5253 is one of the nearest of the known Blue Compact Dwarf (BCD) galaxies, and is located at a ... > full story
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  Too Much Dark Matter in Galaxy Cluster? 'Dark Core' May Not Be So Dark After All

  November 29, 2012 — Astronomers were puzzled earlier this year when NASA's Hubble Space Telescope spotted an overabundance of dark matter in the heart of the merging galaxy cluster Abell 520. This observation was ... > full story
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  Multi-Wavelength View of Radio Galaxy Hercules A

  November 29, 2012 — Spectacular jets are powered by the gravitational energy of a supermassive black hole in the core of the elliptical galaxy Hercules ... > full story
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  Giant Black Hole Could Upset Galaxy Evolution Models

  November 28, 2012 — Astronomers have discovered a black hole that could shake the foundations of current models of galaxy evolution. At 17 billion times the mass of the Sun, its mass is much greater than current models ... > full story

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  Biggest Black Hole Blast Discovered: Most Powerful Quasar Outflow Ever Found

  November 28, 2012 — Astronomers have discovered a quasar with the most energetic outflow ever seen, at least five times more powerful than any that have been observed to date. Quasars are extremely bright galactic ... > full story
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  Hubble Eyes a Loose Spiral Galaxy

  November 23, 2012 — The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has spotted the spiral galaxy ESO 499-G37, seen here against a backdrop of distant galaxies, scattered with nearby ... > full story
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  Hot Gas Bridges Galaxy Cluster Pair

  November 20, 2012 — Space telescope has made the first conclusive detection of a bridge of hot gas connecting a pair of galaxy clusters across 10 million light-years of intergalactic ... > full story

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