News tagged with andromeda galaxy

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Rogue stars ejected from the galaxy are found in intergalactic space

It's very difficult to kick a star out of the galaxy.

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created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 15 | with audio podcast

Hubble views the star that changed the universe

(PhysOrg.com) -- Though the universe is filled with billions upon billions of stars, the discovery of a single variable star in 1923 altered the course of modern astronomy. And, at least one famous astronomer ...

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created May 23, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 51 | with audio podcast

Astronomers identify thick disc of older stars in nearby Andromeda galaxy

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of astronomers has identified for the first time a thick stellar disc in the Andromeda galaxy, the nearest large spiral galaxy to our own Milky Way.

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created Feb 15, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (18) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Spectacularly bright object in Andromeda caused by 'normal' black hole

(PhysOrg.com) -- A spectacularly bright object recently spotted in one of the Milky Way's neighbouring galaxies is the result of a "normal" stellar black hole, astronomers have found.

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created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

No strain for Andromeda: Galaxy is cosmic cannibal (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- A huge galaxy neighbouring our own Milky Way appears to have expanded by "digesting" smaller galaxies nearby, a new study has shown.

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created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 2

Collisions of two galaxies may have formed Andromeda (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- New computer simulations suggest the nearest galactic neighbors to our own Milky Way, the Magellanic Clouds and the Andromeda Galaxy, may have been shaped by the massive collision of two galaxies ...

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created Nov 26, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report

Hubble zooms in on double nucleus in Andromeda galaxy

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new Hubble Space Telescope image centers on the 100-million-solar-mass black hole at the hub of the neighboring spiral galaxy M31, or the Andromeda galaxy, the only galaxy outside the Milky ...

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created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

Andromeda's coat of many colors (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA's fleet of space telescopes has captured the nearby Andromeda Galaxy, also known as M31, in different wavelengths. Most of these wavelengths are invisible to the eye and each shows a different aspect ...

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created Apr 27, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Four unusual views of the Andromeda Galaxy

The Andromeda Galaxy is revealed in unprecedented detail in four archive observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. They show stars and structure in the galaxy’s disc, the halo of stars that ...

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created Jul 21, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Rare ultra-blue stars found in neighboring galaxy's hub

(PhysOrg.com) -- Peering deep inside the hub of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a large, rare population of hot, bright stars.

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created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A galaxy blooming with new stars

(PhysOrg.com) -- The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) has captured the beauty of the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 253. The new portrait is probably the most detailed wide-field view of this object and its surroundings ...

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created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Far-future astronomers could still deduce the Big Bang

(PhysOrg.com) -- One trillion years from now, an alien astronomer in our galaxy will have a difficult time figuring out how the universe began. They won't have the evidence that we enjoy today.

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created Apr 14, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 17 | with audio podcast

Andromeda in a new light

Two ESA observatories have combined forces to show the Andromeda Galaxy in a new light. Herschel sees rings of star formation in this, the most detailed image of the Andromeda Galaxy ever taken at infrared ...

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created Jan 05, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (23) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

VLT looks into the eyes of the virgin

(PhysOrg.com) -- ESO's Very Large Telescope has taken a striking image of a beautiful yet peculiar pair of galaxies nicknamed The Eyes. The larger of these, NGC 4438, was once a spiral galaxy but has become ...

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created Aug 24, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Building galaxies

(PhysOrg.com) -- Galaxies frequently collide with one another. Our own Milky Way galaxy, for example, and its nearest giant neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, are heading towards each other at a rate of about ...

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created Jul 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 10 | with audio podcast