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Rare Ultra-Blue Stars Found in Neighboring Galaxy's Hub
January 11, 2012 — Peering deep inside the hub of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a large, rare population of hot, bright ... > full story -
El Gordo: A 'Fat' Distant Galaxy Cluster
January 10, 2012 — An extremely hot, massive young galaxy cluster is the largest ever seen in the distant universe. The newly discovered galaxy cluster has been nicknamed El Gordo -- the "big" or "fat one" in Spanish. ... > full story -
When Galaxy Clusters Collide: Collision Could Help Astronomers Better Understand 'Dark Matter'
January 10, 2012 — The collision of two clusters of galaxies 5 billion light years away could help astronomers better understand "dark matter," the invisible stuff that makes up a big chunk of our ... > full story -
Farthest Developing Galaxy Cluster Ever Found
January 10, 2012 — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a cluster of galaxies in the initial stages of construction — the most distant such grouping ever observed in the early universe. In a random sky ... > full story -
2012: Fear No Supernova
December 28, 2011 — Given the incredible amounts of energy in a supernova explosion -- as much as the sun creates during its entire lifetime -- another erroneous doomsday theory is that such an explosion could happen in ... > full story -
2012: Shadow of the Dark Rift
December 28, 2011 — One of the most bizarre theories about 2012 has built up with very little attention to facts. This idea holds that a cosmic alignment of the sun, Earth, the center of our galaxy -- or perhaps the ... > full story -
Astronomers Discover Rare Galaxy at Dawn of Time
December 21, 2011 — Astronomers have discovered that one of the most distant galaxies known is churning out stars at a shockingly high rate. The blob-shaped galaxy, called GN-108036, is the brightest galaxy found to ... > full story -
Ultra-Compact Dwarf Galaxies Are Bright Star Clusters
December 19, 2011 — A new statistical study sheds light on the so-called 'ultra-compact dwarf galaxies' (UCDs). A team of astronomers has investigated how many of these UCDs exist in nearby galaxy clusters and groups. ... > full story -
A Galaxy Blooming With New Stars
December 15, 2011 — The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) has captured the beauty of the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 253. The new portrait is probably the most detailed wide-field view of this object and its surroundings ever ... > full story -
Disaster Looms for Gas Cloud Falling Into Milky Way's Central Black Hole
December 14, 2011 — Astronomers have observed a cloud of gas several times the mass of Earth approaching the 4.3 million solar-mass black hole at the center of the Milky Way, and calculate that it will not survive the ... > full storyMore:
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