Galaxy News

Posted February 16, 2011:

• Herschel Measures Dark Matter for Star-Forming Galaxies

Posted February 14, 2011:

• Astronomers Identify Thick Disc of Older Stars in Nearby Andromeda Galaxy

Posted February 2, 2011:

• Small Snack for Milky Way: Astrophysicists Find New Remnants of Neighboring Galaxy in Our Own
• Picture-Perfect Pure-Disc Galaxy

Posted January 26, 2011:

• Most Distant Galaxy Candidate Yet Seen: Hubble Sees Farther Back in Time Than Ever Before

Posted January 25, 2011:

• Spiral Galaxy: First Light for VIRUS-W Spectrograph

Posted January 20, 2011:

• Swift Survey Finds 'Missing' Active Galaxies
• No Direct Link Between Black Holes and Dark Matter, Scientists Find

Posted January 19, 2011:

• Partner Galaxies Wildly Different in New WISE Image
• Astronomers Release the Largest Color Image of the Sky Ever Made

Posted January 13, 2011:

• Chandra Images Torrent of Star Formation
• New Technique Could Pinpoint 'Galaxy X': Satellite Galaxies Located Based on the Ripples They Create in the Hydrogen Gas

Posted January 12, 2011:

• Most Distant Galaxy Cluster Identified
• Gravitational Lensing: Cosmic Magnifying Lenses Distort View of Distant Galaxies
• Close-Knit Pairs of Supermassive Black Holes Discovered in Merging Galaxies

Posted January 11, 2011:

• Planck Satellite Team Uncovers Secrets of the Universe
• 14 Billion Years of Cosmic History in One: Planck Mission Presents First Results

Posted January 10, 2011:

• Missing Link Between Young, Old Galaxies? Gas Jet Galaxy Could Explain How Starforming Galaxies Become Red and Dead
• In Distant Galaxies, New Clues to Century-Old Molecule Mystery
• Hubble Zooms in on a Space Oddity

Posted January 9, 2011:

• Dwarf Galaxy Harbors Supermassive Black Hole

Posted January 5, 2011:

• Andromeda’s Once and Future Stars
• Identity Parade Clears Cosmic Collisions of the Suspicion of Promoting Black Hole Growth

Posted December 21, 2010:

• Universe's Most Massive Stars Can Form in Near Isolation, New Study Finds

Posted December 20, 2010:

• New Collage of Nearby Galaxies from WISE Space Telescope
• How Often Do Giant Black Holes Become Hyperactive?

Posted December 17, 2010:

• Looking Back in Time to See Stars Bursting Into Life

Posted December 14, 2010:

• Hubble Spots a Celestial Bauble

Posted December 8, 2010:

• Black Holes and Warped Space Revealed by Powerful New Array of Radio Telescopes
• A Swarm of Ancient Stars

Posted December 2, 2010:

• Distribution of Gravitational Wave Sources Predicted

Posted December 1, 2010:

• Discovery Triples Number of Stars in Universe
• Searching the Heavens for Newborn Stars: NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy Ready to Take Flight

Posted November 28, 2010:

• Shrouded Burst of Stars: Spitzer Reveals a Buried Explosion Sparked by a Galactic Train Wreck
• Astronomers Probe 'Sandbar' Between Islands of Galaxies

Posted November 24, 2010:

• Massive Galaxies Formed When Universe Was Young, New Findings Suggest
• 'Russian Doll' Galaxy Reveals Black Holes' True Power

Posted November 22, 2010:

• Making Stars: How Cosmic Dust and Gas Shape Galaxy Evolution

Posted November 19, 2010:

• Hubble Captures New Star Birth in an Ancient Galaxy

Posted November 18, 2010:

• Planet from Another Galaxy Discovered: Galactic Cannibalism Brings an Exoplanet of Extragalactic Origin Within Astronomers' Reach
• Enigma of Missing Stars in Local Group of Galaxies May Be Solved

Posted November 11, 2010:

• Detailed Dark Matter Map Yields Clues to Galaxy Cluster Growth

Posted November 10, 2010:

• Atoms-for-Peace: A Galactic Collision in Action

Posted November 9, 2010:

• NASA's Fermi Telescope Finds Giant Structure in Our Galaxy

Posted November 8, 2010:

• Bars Kill Spiral Galaxies, Astronomers and Volunteers Discover

Posted November 3, 2010:

• Cosmic Curiosity Reveals Ghostly Glow of Dead Quasar

Posted October 27, 2010:

• Spiral Galaxies Stripped Bare

Posted October 26, 2010:

• Precocious Galaxy Cluster Identified by Chandra

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