News tagged with galaxy evolution
Related topics: hubble space telescope , galaxies , supermassive black hole
Why do the ionized gas clouds stream out from galaxies?
Using the Subaru Prime Focus Camera (Suprime-Cam) in their observations of the Coma Cluster, researchers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), Hiroshima University, the University of ...
Nov 22, 2010 |
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Giant ultraviolet rings found in resurrected galaxies
Astronomers have found mysterious, giant loops of ultraviolet light in aged, massive galaxies, which seem to have a second lease on life. Somehow these "over-the-hill galaxies" have been infused with fresh ...
Aug 11, 2010 |
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Extra large galactic survey puts limits on ultralight particles
Physicists have long known that neutrinos are among the lightest and most evasive fundamental particles. Now a survey of the galaxies is helping to narrow down the neutrino mass even further. It seems that ...
Jul 12, 2010 |
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Astronomers Discover Star-Studded Galaxy Tail
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer has discovered a galaxy tail studded with bright knots of new stars. The tail, which was created as the galaxy IC 3418 plunged into the neighboring Virgo cluster ...
Jun 17, 2010 |
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M81's 'Halo' Sheds Light on Galaxy Formation
(PhysOrg.com) -- Observations with Subaru Telescope's Prime Focus Camera (Suprime-Cam) have revealed an extended structure of the spiral galaxy Messier 81 (M81) that may hold a key to understanding the formation ...
Apr 13, 2010 |
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New Hubble treasury project to survey first third of cosmic time, study dark energy
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers will peer deep into the universe in five directions to document the early history of star formation and galaxy evolution in an ambitious new project requiring an unprecedented ...
Mar 15, 2010 |
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NASA's Great Observatories Celebrate International Year of Astronomy
(PhysOrg.com) -- A never-before-seen view of the turbulent heart of our Milky Way galaxy is being unveiled by NASA on Nov. 10. This event will commemorate the 400 years since Galileo first turned his telescope ...
Nov 10, 2009 |
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Galaxies Demand a Stellar Recount
(PhysOrg.com) -- For decades, astronomers have gone about their business of studying the cosmos with the assumption that stars of certain sizes form in certain quantities. Like grocery stores selling melons ...
Aug 19, 2009 |
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Starbursts in Dwarf Galaxies are a Global Affair
(PhysOrg.com) -- Bursts of star making in a galaxy have been compared to a Fourth of July fireworks display: They occur at a fast and furious pace, lighting up a region for a short time before winking out.
Apr 30, 2009 |
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Galaxy Evolution Explorer Mission Celebrates Sixth Anniversary
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer Mission marks its sixth anniversary studying galaxies beyond our Milky Way through its sensitive ultraviolet telescope, the only such far-ultraviolet detector ...
Apr 28, 2009 |
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Discovery poses challenge to galaxy formation theories
A team led by an Indiana University astronomer has found a sample of massive galaxies with properties that suggest that they may have formed relatively recently. This would run counter to the widely-held belief ...
Apr 10, 2009 |
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NASA's SkyView Delivers the Multiwavelength Cosmos
(PhysOrg.com) -- Some three million times a year, researchers, educators, and amateur astronomers all over the world ask NASA's SkyView virtual observatory to serve up images of some interesting corner of ...
Feb 04, 2009 |
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