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Astronomers Discover New Star-Forming Regions in Milky Way
May 26, 2010 — Newly-discovered star-forming regions are revealing new view of Milky Way's structure and promise new clues about the Galaxy's chemical ... > full story -
Clue to Origin of Milky Way Gas Clouds Discovered
May 26, 2010 — A study of hydrogen gas clouds in two different regions of the Milky Way shows that they are much more abundant above areas of intense star formation, indicating they are blown away from the Galaxy's ... > full story -
Supermassive Black Holes May Frequently Roam
May 25, 2010 — The supermassive black hole (SMBH) at the center of the most massive local galaxy (M87) is not where it was expected. Research, conducted using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), concludes that the ... > full story -
Nearby Black Hole Is Feeble and Unpredictable
May 25, 2010 — A decade-long study by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals that the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Andromeda galaxy was in a very dim, or quiet, state before 2006. However, on ... > full story -
Possible New Class of Supernovae Puts Calcium in Your Bones
May 19, 2010 — Astronomers have discovered several examples of an unusual type of exploding star that may be a new class of supernovae spewing calcium into the galaxy, which eventually ends up in all of us. ... > full story -
Most Distant Galaxy Cluster Revealed by Invisible Light
May 12, 2010 — An international team of astronomers from Germany and Japan has discovered the most distant cluster of galaxies known so far -- 9.6 billion light years away. The X-ray and infrared observations ... > full story -
X-Ray Discovery Points to Location of Missing Matter in Universe
May 11, 2010 — Using observations with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton, astronomers have announced a robust detection of a vast reservoir of intergalactic gas about 400 million light years ... > full story -
Black Holes: Gas Blowers of the Universe
May 11, 2010 — Supermassive black holes with the mass of many millions of stars have been detected at the centre of many large galaxies. A super-massive black hole acts like a lurking "monster" at the centre of the ... > full story -
Astronomers Find Recoiling Supermassive Black Hole
May 10, 2010 — Astronomers have found a possible supermassive black hole that is recoiling out of a distant galaxy at high speed. The black hole, visible with X-rays as a clear star, is not located in the center of ... > full story -
Hidden Side of Star Birth Revealed
May 6, 2010 — The first scientific results from ESA's Herschel infrared space observatory are revealing previously hidden details of star formation. New images show thousands of distant galaxies furiously building ... > full story
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