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New All-Sky Map Shows the Magnetic Fields of the Milky Way With the Highest Precision
December 6, 2011 — With a unique new all-sky map, scientists have made significant progress toward measuring the magnetic field structure of the Milky Way in unprecedented detail. Specifically, the map is of a quantity ... > full storyMore: -
Record Massive Black Holes Discovered Lurking in Monster Galaxies
December 5, 2011 — Astronomers using the Keck, Gemini and MacDonald observatories have discovered the largest black holes to date: Two monsters with masses equivalent to 10 billion suns that are threatening to consume ... > full storyMore: -
In the Dragonfish's Mouth: The Next Generation of Superstars to Stir Up Our Galaxy
December 2, 2011 — Astronomers have found the most numerous batch of young, supermassive stars yet observed in our galaxy: hundreds of thousands of stars, including several hundreds of the most massive kind -blue stars ... > full story -
Strange New 'Species' of Ultra-Red Galaxy Discovered
December 1, 2011 — In the distant reaches of the universe, almost 13 billion light-years from Earth, a strange species of galaxy lay hidden. Cloaked in dust and dimmed by the intervening distance, even the Hubble Space ... > full story -
In a Star's Final Days, Astronomers Hunt 'Signal of Impending Doom'
November 30, 2011 — An otherwise nondescript binary star system in the Whirlpool Galaxy has brought astronomers tantalizingly close to their goal of observing a star just before it goes ... > full story -
Astronomers Look to Neighboring Galaxy for Star Formation Insight
November 30, 2011 — An international team of astronomers has mapped in detail the star-birthing regions of the nearest star-forming galaxy to our own, a step toward understanding the conditions surrounding star ... > full story -
Beast With Four Tails: Milky Way Devouring Neighboring Dwarf Galaxies
November 29, 2011 — The Milky Way galaxy continues to devour its small neighboring dwarf galaxies and the evidence is spread out across the ... > full story -
In the Heart of Cygnus, NASA's Fermi Reveals a Cosmic-Ray Cocoon
November 28, 2011 — The constellation Cygnus, now visible in the western sky as twilight deepens after sunset, hosts one of our galaxy's richest-known stellar construction zones. Astronomers viewing the region at ... > full story -
Galaxies Are the Ultimate Recyclers, NASA's Hubble Confirms
November 17, 2011 — New observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are expanding astronomers' understanding of the ways in which galaxies continuously recycle immense volumes of hydrogen gas and heavy elements. This ... > full storyMore: -
Magnetic Fields Set Stage for Birth of New Stars
November 16, 2011 — Astronomers have, for the first time, measured the alignment of magnetic fields in gigantic clouds of gas and dust in a distant galaxy. Their results suggest that such magnetic fields play a key role ... > full story
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