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  Too Much Dark Matter in Galaxy Cluster? 'Dark Core' May Not Be So Dark After All

  November 29, 2012 — Astronomers were puzzled earlier this year when NASA's Hubble Space Telescope spotted an overabundance of dark matter in the heart of the merging galaxy cluster Abell 520. This observation was ... > full story
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  Multi-Wavelength View of Radio Galaxy Hercules A

  November 29, 2012 — Spectacular jets are powered by the gravitational energy of a supermassive black hole in the core of the elliptical galaxy Hercules ... > full story
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  Giant Black Hole Could Upset Galaxy Evolution Models

  November 28, 2012 — Astronomers have discovered a black hole that could shake the foundations of current models of galaxy evolution. At 17 billion times the mass of the Sun, its mass is much greater than current models ... > full story

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  Biggest Black Hole Blast Discovered: Most Powerful Quasar Outflow Ever Found

  November 28, 2012 — Astronomers have discovered a quasar with the most energetic outflow ever seen, at least five times more powerful than any that have been observed to date. Quasars are extremely bright galactic ... > full story
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  Hubble Eyes a Loose Spiral Galaxy

  November 23, 2012 — The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has spotted the spiral galaxy ESO 499-G37, seen here against a backdrop of distant galaxies, scattered with nearby ... > full story
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  Hot Gas Bridges Galaxy Cluster Pair

  November 20, 2012 — Space telescope has made the first conclusive detection of a bridge of hot gas connecting a pair of galaxy clusters across 10 million light-years of intergalactic ... > full story
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  Hubble Traps Galactic Fireflies

  November 19, 2012 — A remote sensing instrument that will peer into the ultraviolet to offer clues to how Mars might have lost its atmosphere has arrived at Lockheed Martin for integration into NASA's Mars Atmosphere ... > full story
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  Candidate for Most Distant Galaxy Discovered

  November 15, 2012 — By combining the power of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, and one of nature's own natural "zoom lenses" in space, astronomers have set a new distance record for finding the ... > full story
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  Hubble Spots a Colorful Lenticular Galaxy

  November 9, 2012 — The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a beautiful galaxy that, with its reddish and yellow central area, looks rather like an explosion from a Hollywood movie. The galaxy, called NGC 5010, ... > full story
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  New Australian Telescope Set to Find 700,000 Galaxies

  November 9, 2012 — Australia's newest radio telescope is predicted to find an unprecedented 700,000 new galaxies, say scientists planning for CSIRO's next-generation Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder ... > full story

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