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Hubble's Close Encounter With the Tarantula
August 11, 2012 — Turning its eye to the Tarantula Nebula, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a close-up of the outskirts of the main cloud of the ... > full story -
Plenty of Dark Matter Near the Sun
August 9, 2012 — Astronomers have found large amounts of invisible "dark matter" near the Sun. Their results are consistent with the theory that the Milky Way Galaxy is surrounded by a massive "halo" of dark matter, ... > full story -
Astronomers Crack Mystery of the 'Monster' Stars
August 7, 2012 — In 2010 scientists discovered four ‘monster’ sized stars, with the heaviest more than 300 times as massive as our Sun. Despite their incredible luminosity, these exotic objects, located ... > full story -
Hubble Sees a Ten Billion Year Stellar Dance
August 4, 2012 — The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope offers a delightful view of the crowded stellar encampment called Messier 68, a spherical, star-filled region of space known as a globular cluster. Mutual ... > full story -
'Cry' of a Shredded Star Heralds a New Era for Testing Relativity
August 2, 2012 — Last year, astronomers discovered a quiescent black hole in a distant galaxy that erupted after shredding and consuming a passing star. Now researchers have identified a distinctive X-ray signal ... > full story -
A Blue Whirlpool in the River: Tranquil Galaxy Home to Violent Events
August 1, 2012 — A new image taken with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope shows the galaxy NGC 1187. This impressive spiral lies about 60 million light-years away in the constellation of ... > full story -
Brightest Stars Don't Live Alone: Most Stellar Heavyweights Come in Interacting Pairs, VLT Finds
July 26, 2012 — A study using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope has shown that most very bright high-mass stars do not live alone. Almost three quarters of them are found to have a close ... > full story -
'Seeds' of Massive Black Holes Found at the Center of the Milky Way Galaxy
July 20, 2012 — Many galaxies contain enormous amounts of molecular gas in small areas near their nuclei. Highly condensed molecular gas is a birthplace of lots of stars. Moreover, it is considered to closely relate ... > full story -
Astronomers Using the Hubble Space Telescope Report the Earliest Spiral Galaxy Ever Seen
July 18, 2012 — Astronomers have discovered the first spiral galaxy in the early universe, billions of years before many other spiral galaxies ... > full story -
Dark Galaxies of the Early Universe Spotted for the First Time
July 11, 2012 — Dark galaxies are small, gas-rich galaxies in the early Universe that are very inefficient at forming stars. They are predicted by theories of galaxy formation and are thought to be the building ... > full story
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