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Odd Galaxy Couple on Space Voyage
September 6, 2012 — Two very different galaxies drift through space together in a new image taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The peculiar galaxy pair is called Arp ... > full story -
Globular Star Cluster With a Secret
September 5, 2012 — A new image from the European Southern Observatory's La Silla Observatory in Chile shows the spectacular globular star cluster Messier 4. This ball of tens of thousands of ancient stars is one of the ... > full story -
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 -
Hubble Spots a Supernova in NGC 5806
August 31, 2012 — A new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows NGC 5806, a spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo (the Virgin). It lies around 80 million light years from Earth. Also visible in this ... > 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 -
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 -
Intense Bursts of Star Formation Drive Fierce Galactic Winds
August 21, 2012 — Fierce galactic winds powered by an intense burst of star formation may blow gas right out of massive galaxies, shutting down their ability to make new ... > full story -
Hubble Sees a Lonely Galactic Island
August 18, 2012 — In terms of intergalactic real estate, our solar system has a plum location as part of a big, spiral galaxy, the Milky Way. Numerous, less glamorous dwarf galaxies keep the Milky Way company. Many ... > 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
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