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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: -
Early Black Holes Grew Big Eating Cold, Fast Food
December 12, 2011 — Researchers have discovered what caused the rapid growth of early supermassive black holes -- a steady diet of cold, fast food. Computer simulations show that thin streams of cold gas flow ... > full story -
Extraordinary Long Gaseous Tails in Two Groups of Galaxies
December 6, 2011 — An international group of astronomers has discovered extraordinary long one-sided gaseous tails in two groups of galaxies that are amongst the longest structures ever observed in such environments. ... > full story -
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
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