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New Image Captures 'Stealth Merger' of Dwarf Galaxies
February 8, 2012 — 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 merging with its host. The host ... > full story -
Milky Way's Black Hole Found Grazing on Asteroids
February 8, 2012 — 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
February 8, 2012 — 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, scattered across a spectacular celestial ... > full storyMore: -
Classic Portrait of a Barred Spiral Galaxy
February 3, 2012 — 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 Way, is a ... > full story -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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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