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Inseparable Galactic Twins
July 2, 2013 — Looking towards the constellation of Triangulum (The Triangle), in the northern sky, lies the galaxy pair MRK 1034. The two very similar galaxies, named PGC 9074 and PGC 9071, are close enough to one ... > full story -
NASA Decommissions Its Galaxy Hunter Spacecraft
July 1, 2013 — NASA has turned off its Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) after a decade of operations in which the venerable space telescope used its ultraviolet vision to study hundreds of millions of galaxies ... > full story -
Intergalactic Magnifying Glasses Could Help Astronomers Map Galaxy Centers
June 30, 2013 — Astronomers may have found a new way to map quasars, the energetic and luminous central regions often found in distant ... > full story -
Spiral Galaxies Like Milky Way Bigger Than Thought
June 27, 2013 — Let's all fist bump: Spiral galaxies like our own Milky Way appear to be much larger and more massive than previously believed, according to a new ... > full story -
Astronomers Spy on Galaxies in the Raw
June 26, 2013 — A radio telescope has detected the raw material for making the first stars in galaxies that formed when the Universe was just three billion years old -- less than a quarter of its current ... > full story -
Messier 61 Looks Straight Into Hubble's Camera
June 24, 2013 — The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new image of nearby spiral galaxy Messier 61, also known as NGC 4303. The galaxy, located only 55 million light-years away from Earth, is roughly ... > full story -
Hubble Spots Interacting Galaxies in Close Encounter
June 20, 2013 — The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced a vivid new image of a pair of interacting galaxies known as Arp 142. When two galaxies stray too close to each other they begin to interact, causing ... > full story -
Dusty Surprise Around Giant Black Hole
June 20, 2013 — ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer has gathered the most detailed observations ever of the dust around the huge black hole at the centre of an active galaxy. Rather than finding all of ... > full story -
Stacking Up a Clearer Picture of the Universe
June 13, 2013 — Researchers have proven a new technique that will provide a clearer picture of the Universe's history and be used with the next generation of radio telescopes such as the Square Kilometer ... > full story -
NASA's Chandra Turns Up Black Hole Bonanza in Galaxy Next Door
June 12, 2013 — Using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have discovered an unprecedented bonanza of black holes in the Andromeda Galaxy, one of the nearest galaxies to the Milky Way. Using more ... > full story
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