News tagged with cluster of stars
Alien invaders pack the Milky Way
(PhysOrg.com) -- Around a quarter of the globular star clusters in our Milky Way are invaders from other galaxies, new research from Swinburne University of Technology (Australia) shows.
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How nature shapes the birth of stars
(Phys.org) -- Using state of the art computer simulations, a team of astronomers from the University of Bonn in Germany have found the first evidence that the way in which stars form depends on their birth ...
May 11, 2012 |
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'Ridiculously' dim bevy of stars found beyond Milky Way
(Phys.org) -- A team of American, Canadian and Chilean astronomers have stumbled onto a remarkably faint cluster of stars orbiting the Milky Way that puts out as much light as only 120 modest Sun-like stars. ...
Apr 27, 2012 |
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The survivors of a 13 billion year old massacre
(PhysOrg.com) -- Our Milky Way galaxy is surrounded by some 200 compact groups of stars, containing up to a million stars each. At 13 billion years of age, these globular clusters are almost as old as the ...
Feb 14, 2012 |
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A serendipitous gravitational lens
(PhysOrg.com) -- The path traveled by a light beam will bend in the presence of matter. This remarkable prediction, reached by Einstein in his theory of general relativity, was confirmed by observations of ...
Nov 21, 2011 |
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Millisecond pulsar in spin mode
Astronomers have tracked down the first gamma-ray pulsar in a globular cluster of stars. It is around 27,000 light years away and thus also holds the distance record in this class of objects. Moreover, its ...
Nov 03, 2011 |
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Giant galaxy Messier 87 finally sized up
The new observations reveal that Messier 87's halo of stars has been cut short, with a diameter of about a million light-years, significantly smaller than expected, despite being about three times the extent ...
May 20, 2009 |
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Kepler Captures First Views of Planet-Hunting Territory
NASA's Kepler mission has taken its first images of the star-rich sky where it will soon begin hunting for planets like Earth.
Apr 16, 2009 |
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Public to get access to spectacular infrared images of galaxies
For the first time, the general public will be able to browse detailed infrared images of more than 200 galaxies. The pictures, originating from data from the orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope, will be released ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 27, 2012 |
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