Galaxy News

Posted January 11, 2011:

• Toronto Astronomers Among Those Announcing First Scientific Results of Planck Satellite Mission
• 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
• Hubble Data Used to Look 10,000 Years Into the Future

Posted October 20, 2010:

• Most Distant Galaxy Ever Measured: Faint Glow from When the Universe Was Only 600 Million Years Old
• Star, Not So Bright: Model Explains Evolution of Unusual Black Hole Binary System

Posted October 18, 2010:

• The Many Infrared 'Personalities' of the Sculptor Galaxy

Posted October 14, 2010:

• Astronomer Leverages Supercomputers to Study Black Holes, Galaxies

Posted October 13, 2010:

• Galaxy Growth Spurts Explained: Young Galaxies Can Grow by Sucking in Cool Gas
• Ghosts of the Future: First Giant Structures of the Universe Hold 800 Trillion Suns

Posted October 12, 2010:

• Giant Star Goes Supernova and Is Smothered by Its Own Dust
• Wild 'Teenage' Galaxies Booming With Star Births

Posted October 11, 2010:

• Universe Likes to Form Galaxies Similar to the Milky Way

Posted October 7, 2010:

• 'Living Dinosaurs' in Space: Galaxies in Today's Universe Thought to Have Existed Only in Distant Past
• Hubble Astronomers Uncover an Overheated Early Universe

Posted October 1, 2010:

• NASA's Webb Telescope MIRI Instrument Takes One Step Closer to Space

Posted September 29, 2010:

• Milky Way Sidelined in Galactic Tug-of-War, Computer Simulation Shows

Posted September 22, 2010:

• An Elegant Galaxy in an Unusual Light

Posted September 16, 2010:

• Planck's First Glimpse at Galaxy Clusters Uncovers a New Supercluster

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