News tagged with andromeda galaxy
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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 ...
May 23, 2011 |
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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.
Feb 15, 2011 |
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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 ...
Nov 26, 2010 |
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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.
Sep 02, 2009 |
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Milky Way a Swifter Spinner, More Massive, New Measurements Show
(PhysOrg.com) -- Fasten your seat belts -- we're faster, heavier, and more likely to collide than we thought. Astronomers making high-precision measurements of the Milky Way say our home Galaxy is rotating ...
Jan 05, 2009 |
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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.
Apr 30, 2012 |
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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.
Feb 23, 2012 |
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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 ...
Jan 11, 2012 |
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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.
Jan 11, 2012 |
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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 ...
Dec 15, 2011 |
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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 ...
Aug 24, 2011 |
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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 ...
Jul 21, 2011 |
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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 ...
Jul 11, 2011 |
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Spitzer photo atlas of galaxy 'train wrecks'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Five billion years from now, our Milky Way Galaxy will collide with the Andromeda Galaxy. This will mark a moment of both destruction and creation. The galaxies will lose their separate identities ...
May 25, 2011 |
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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 ...
Apr 27, 2011 |
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