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  First Images from ALMA Telescope: Hidden Star-Formation in Antennae Galaxies Revealed

  October 3, 2011 — First visualizations of ALMA test data are made public with unprecedented views of once-hidden star-formation in the colliding galaxy pair, the ... > full story

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  • ALMA Opens Its Eyes: Science Begins at World's Most Complex Ground-Based Astronomy Observatory
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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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  Galaxy Caught Blowing Bubbles

  September 29, 2011 — Hubble's famous images of galaxies typically show elegant spirals or soft-edged ellipses. But these neat forms are only representative of large galaxies. Smaller galaxies like the dwarf irregular ... > full story
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  Stardust Discovered in Far-Off Planetary Systems

  September 29, 2011 — Searching for extra-solar planets -- which are planets outside of our solar system -- is very popular these days. About 700 planets are known at the moment, a number that is continuously rising due ... > 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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  • Astronomers Crack the Fried Egg Nebula
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  Giant Star Expels Multiple Dust Shells, Astronomers Find

  September 27, 2011 — An international team of astronomers has discovered not less than a dozen cold dust arcs around the giant star CW Leo. The team used the sensitive PACS instrument on board the Herschel Space ... > 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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  Black Hole, Star Collisions May Illuminate Universe's Dark Side

  September 19, 2011 — Researchers have unveiled a ready-made method for detecting the collision of stars with an elusive type of black hole that is on the short list of objects believed to make up dark matter. Such a ... > full story
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  NASA's Kepler Discovery Confirms First Planet Orbiting Two Stars

  September 15, 2011 — The existence of a world with a double sunset, as portrayed in the film Star Wars more than 30 years ago, is now scientific fact. NASA's Kepler mission has made the first unambiguous detection of a ... > full story

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  • Tatooine-Like Planet Discovered
  • From Star Wars to Science Fact: Tatooine-Like Planet Discovered
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  Turbulent Lives of Stars

  September 15, 2011 — The stars are boiling! This is because of the energy generated in the center of the star that wants to escape. If this does not happen quickly enough, the star starts to 'boil' in the outer layers ... > full story

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