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  Cool Clouds of Carina: APEX Reveals New View of Star Formation in the Carina Nebula

  November 16, 2011 — Observations made with the APEX telescope in submillimeter-wavelength light reveal the cold dusty clouds from which stars form in the Carina Nebula. This site of violent star formation, which plays ... > full story
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  Tarantula Nebula Glows With X-Rays and Infrared Light

  November 13, 2011 — The star-forming region 30 Doradus is one of the largest located close to the Milky Way and is found in the neighboring galaxy Large Magellanic Cloud. About 2,400 massive stars in the center of 30 ... > full story
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  Carbon-Based Organic 'Carriers' in Interstellar Dust Clouds? Newly Discovered Diffuse Interstellar Bands

  November 2, 2011 — The discovery of 13 diffuse interstellar bands with the longest wavelengths to date could someday solve a 90-year-old mystery. Astronomers have now discovered new bands using data collected by the ... > full story
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  'Pacman' Nebula Gets Some Teeth

  October 28, 2011 — To visible-light telescopes, this star-forming cloud appears to be chomping through the cosmos, earning it the nickname the "Pacman" nebula, like the famous Pac-Man video game that debuted in 1980. ... > full story
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  Astronomers Discover Complex Organic Matter Exists Throughout the Universe

  October 26, 2011 — Researchers from Hong Kong report that organic compounds of unexpected complexity exist throughout the Universe. They indicate that an organic substance commonly found throughout the Universe ... > full story
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  Starburst Captured: Students Photograph Exploding Star in Pinwheel Galaxy

  October 18, 2011 — In the Pinwheel Galaxy some 21 million light years from Earth, a supernova beams brightly, out-shining its cosmic neighbors and causing a stir among ... > full story
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  Astronomers Reveal Supernova Factory

  September 30, 2011 — A team of astronomers has detected seven previously unknown supernovae in a galaxy 250 million light years away. Never before have so many supernovae been discovered at the same time in the same ... > full story
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  Feast Your Eyes on the Fried Egg Nebula

  September 28, 2011 — Astronomers have used ESO's Very Large Telescope to image a colossal star that belongs to one of the rarest classes of stars in the Universe, the yellow hypergiants. The new picture is the best ever ... > full story

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  An Angry Bird in the Sky: Lambda Centauri Nebula

  September 21, 2011 — A new image from the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope reveals the Lambda Centauri Nebula, a cloud of glowing hydrogen and newborn stars in the constellation of Centaurus (The ... > full story
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  How Single Stars Lost Their Companions

  September 15, 2011 — Not all stars are loners. In our home galaxy, the Milky Way, about half of all stars have a companion and travel through space in a binary system. But explaining why some stars are in double or even ... > full story

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