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Microquasar Makes a Giant Manatee Nebula
January 19, 2013 A new view of a 20,000-year old supernova remnant demonstrates the upgraded imaging power of the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array and provides more clues to the history ... > full story -
Cheating to Create the Perfect Simulation: Physicists on Way to Describing Inside of Neutron Stars
January 17, 2013 Scientists have succeeded in simulating the strong atomic nuclear interactions to enable its calculability while at the same time preserving the typical characteristics of a neutron ... > full story -
Hidden Treasure in Large Magellanic Cloud
January 17, 2013 Nearly 200,000 light-years from Earth, the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, floats in space, in a long and slow dance around our galaxy. Vast clouds of gas within it ... > full story -
Light from Darkness: Brilliant Stars Emerging from Dusty Stellar Nursery
January 16, 2013 An evocative new image from the European Southern Observatory shows a dark cloud where new stars are forming, along with a cluster of brilliant stars that have already emerged from their dusty ... > full story -
Neon Lights Up Exploding Stars
January 15, 2013 An international team of nuclear astrophysicists has shed new light on the explosive stellar events known as novae. These dramatic explosions are driven by nuclear processes and make previously ... > full story -
NASA's GALEX Reveals the Largest-Known Spiral Galaxy
January 10, 2013 The spectacular barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 has ranked among the biggest stellar systems for decades. Now astronomers have crowned it the largest-known ... > full story -
Cloudy Mystery Solved: A Puzzling Cloud Near the Galaxy's Center May Hold Clues to How Stars Are Born
January 10, 2013 It's the mystery of the curiously dense cloud. And astronomers are on the case. Despite being very dense, the cloud -- situated near the crowded galactic center -- does not form many stars. But now ... > full story -
A Jumble of Exotic Stars: New VISTA Snap of Star Cluster 47 Tucanae
January 10, 2013 A new infrared image from the European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope shows the globular cluster 47 Tucanae in striking detail. This cluster contains millions of stars, and there are many ... > full story -
Mapping the Milky Way: Radio Telescopes Give Clues to Structure, History
January 9, 2013 Surveys of the Milky Way are vastly increasing the number of known sites of massive star formation, tracing the structure of the Galaxy and giving clues to its history, including evidence of possible ... > full story -
SOFIA Spots Recent Starbursts in the Milky Way Galaxy's Center
January 8, 2013 Researchers using the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) have captured new images of a ring of gas and dust seven light-years in diameter surrounding the supermassive black hole ... > full story
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