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New Image Captures 'Stealth Merger' of Dwarf Galaxies

New images of a nearby dwarf galaxy have revealed a dense stream of stars in its outer regions, the remains of an even smaller companion galaxy in the process of ...  > full story

Milky Way's Black Hole Found Grazing on Asteroids

The giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way may be vaporizing and devouring asteroids, which could explain the frequent flares observed, according to ...  > full story

Most Detailed Infrared Image of the Carina Nebula Ever

ESO's Very Large Telescope has delivered the most detailed infrared image of the Carina Nebula stellar nursery taken so far. Many previously hidden features, ...  > full story

Classic Portrait of a Barred Spiral Galaxy

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1073, which is found in the constellation of Cetus (The Sea Monster). Our own galaxy, the Milky ...  > full story

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  NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer in Standby Mode

  February 9, 2012 — NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer, or Galex, was placed in standby mode Feb. 7, 2012 as engineers prepare to end mission operations, nearly nine years after the telescope's launch. The spacecraft is ... > full story
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  Hubble Zooms in on a Magnified Galaxy

  February 2, 2012 — Astronomers aimed Hubble at one of the most striking examples of gravitational lensing, a nearly 90-degree arc of light in the galaxy cluster RCS2 032727-132623. Hubble's view of the distant ... > full story
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  Do Black Holes Help Stars Form?

  February 2, 2012 — The center of just about every galaxy is thought to host a black hole, some with masses of thousands of millions of Suns and consequently strong gravitational pulls that disrupt material around them. ... > full story
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  Stellar Nursery: A Pocket of Star Formation

  February 1, 2012 — A new view shows a stellar nursery called NGC 3324. It was taken using the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. The intense ultraviolet radiation ... > full story
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  Scientists See 'Sloshing' Galaxy Cluster

  January 30, 2012 — Scientists have recently discovered that vast clouds of hot gas are "sloshing" in Abell 2052, a galaxy cluster located about 480 million light years from ... > full story
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  NuSTAR Spacecraft Arrives in California

  January 27, 2012 — NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, mission arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California Jan. 27 after a cross-country trip by truck from the Orbital Sciences Corporation's ... > full story
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  Giant Asteroid Vesta Likely Cold and Dark Enough for Ice

  January 25, 2012 — Though generally thought to be quite dry, roughly half of the giant asteroid Vesta is expected to be so cold and to receive so little sunlight that water ice could have survived there for billions of ... > full story
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  NASA's NuSTAR Ships to Vandenberg for March 14 Launch

  January 25, 2012 — NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, shipped to Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., on Jan. 24, 2012, to be mated to its Pegasus launch vehicle. The observatory will detect X-rays ... > full story
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  The Wild Early Lives of Today's Most Massive Galaxies: Dramatic Star Formation Cut Short by Black Holes

  January 25, 2012 — Astronomers have found the strongest link so far between the most powerful bursts of star formation in the early Universe, and the most massive galaxies found today. The galaxies, flowering with ... > full story
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  Helix Nebula in New Colors

  January 19, 2012 — Astronomers have captured a striking new image of the Helix Nebula. A new picture, taken in infrared light, reveals strands of cold nebular gas that are invisible in images taken in visible light, as ... > full story

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