Galaxy News

Posted February 23, 2012:

• First Ultraluminous Source in Andromeda Galaxy Unmasked as 'Normal' Stellar Mass Black Hole

Posted February 15, 2012:

• Black Hole Came from a Shredded Galaxy

Posted February 14, 2012:

• Globular Clusters: Survivors of a 13-Billion-Year-Old Massacre

Posted February 13, 2012:

• Planck All-Sky Images Show Cold Gas and Strange Haze in Milky Way Galaxy

Posted February 9, 2012:

• NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer in Standby Mode

Posted February 8, 2012:

• New Image Captures 'Stealth Merger' of Dwarf Galaxies

Posted February 3, 2012:

• Classic Portrait of a Barred Spiral Galaxy

Posted February 2, 2012:

• Hubble Zooms in on a Magnified Galaxy
• Do Black Holes Help Stars Form?

Posted January 30, 2012:

• Scientists See 'Sloshing' Galaxy Cluster

Posted January 25, 2012:

• The Wild Early Lives of Today's Most Massive Galaxies: Dramatic Star Formation Cut Short by Black Holes

Posted January 18, 2012:

• Most Distant Dwarf Galaxy Detected

Posted January 11, 2012:

• How Star-Forming Galaxies Evolve Into 'Red and Dead' Elliptical Galaxies
• Hubble Zooms in on Double Nucleus in Andromeda Galaxy
• Mystery of Source of Supernova in Nearby Galaxy Solved
• Rare Ultra-Blue Stars Found in Neighboring Galaxy's Hub

Posted January 10, 2012:

• El Gordo: A 'Fat' Distant Galaxy Cluster
• When Galaxy Clusters Collide: Collision Could Help Astronomers Better Understand 'Dark Matter'
• Farthest Developing Galaxy Cluster Ever Found

Posted December 28, 2011:

• 2012: Fear No Supernova
• 2012: Shadow of the Dark Rift

Posted December 21, 2011:

• Astronomers Discover Rare Galaxy at Dawn of Time

Posted December 19, 2011:

• Ultra-Compact Dwarf Galaxies Are Bright Star Clusters

Posted December 15, 2011:

• A Galaxy Blooming With New Stars

Posted December 14, 2011:

• Disaster Looms for Gas Cloud Falling Into Milky Way's Central Black Hole

Posted December 12, 2011:

• Early Black Holes Grew Big Eating Cold, Fast Food

Posted December 6, 2011:

• Extraordinary Long Gaseous Tails in Two Groups of Galaxies
• New All-Sky Map Shows the Magnetic Fields of the Milky Way With the Highest Precision

Posted December 5, 2011:

• Record Massive Black Holes Discovered Lurking in Monster Galaxies

Posted December 2, 2011:

• In the Dragonfish's Mouth: The Next Generation of Superstars to Stir Up Our Galaxy

Posted December 1, 2011:

• Strange New 'Species' of Ultra-Red Galaxy Discovered

Posted November 30, 2011:

• In a Star's Final Days, Astronomers Hunt 'Signal of Impending Doom'
• Astronomers Look to Neighboring Galaxy for Star Formation Insight

Posted November 29, 2011:

• Beast With Four Tails: Milky Way Devouring Neighboring Dwarf Galaxies

Posted November 28, 2011:

• In the Heart of Cygnus, NASA's Fermi Reveals a Cosmic-Ray Cocoon

Posted November 17, 2011:

• Galaxies Are the Ultimate Recyclers, NASA's Hubble Confirms

Posted November 16, 2011:

• Magnetic Fields Set Stage for Birth of New Stars

Posted November 15, 2011:

• Ancient Stars Shed Light on the Prehistory of the Milky Way

Posted November 13, 2011:

• Tarantula Nebula Glows With X-Rays and Infrared Light

Posted November 10, 2011:

• Hubble Uncovers Tiny Galaxies Bursting With Starbirth in Early Universe

Posted November 4, 2011:

• Hubble Directly Observes the Disk Around a Black Hole

Posted November 3, 2011:

• Scientists Study 'Galaxy Zoo' Using Google Maps and Thousands of Volunteers

Posted November 2, 2011:

• Observations of Gamma-Ray Burst Reveal Surprising Ingredients of Early Galaxies

Posted October 28, 2011:

• Planets Smashed Into Dust Near Supermassive Black Holes

Posted October 27, 2011:

• Astronomers Pin Down Galaxy Collision Rate With Hubble Data

Posted October 20, 2011:

• VISTA Finds New Globular Star Clusters and Sees Right Through the Heart of the Milky Way

Posted October 18, 2011:

• Starburst Captured: Students Photograph Exploding Star in Pinwheel Galaxy
• How the Milky Way Killed Off Nearby Galaxies

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