Astronomers identify some of the oldest galaxies in the universe
Astronomers have identified some of the earliest galaxies in the Universe.
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Researchers find destruction of oceans' worth of water per month in Orion Nebula
An international team, including Western astrophysicists Els Peeters and Jan Cami, has found the destruction and re-formation of a large quantity of water in a planet-forming disk located at the heart of the Orion Nebula.
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Feb 23, 2024
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The Explosive Disintegration of a Young Stellar System in Orion
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Orion Nebula is one of the most beautiful sights of the winter night sky, its gas and dust glowing from the intense ultraviolet radiation of a cluster of massive young stars.
Astronomy
Oct 23, 2009
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Webb reveals cosmic cliffs, glittering landscape of star birth
This landscape of "mountains" and "valleys" speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by NASA's new James ...
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Jul 12, 2022
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Clearing the cosmic fog of the early universe: Massive stars may be responsible
The space between the galaxies wasn't always transparent. In the earliest times, it was an opaque, dense fog. How it cleared is an important question in astronomy. New observational evidence from the University of Michigan ...
Astronomy
Oct 12, 2011
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The Helix nebula: Bigger in death than life
(Phys.org)—A dying star is refusing to go quietly into the night, as seen in this combined infrared and ultraviolet view from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX), which NASA has lent ...
Astronomy
Oct 4, 2012
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Star birth in Cepheus
(Phys.org) —Watching starbirth isn't easy: tens of millions of years are needed to form a star like our Sun. Much like archeologists who reconstruct ancient cities from shards of debris strewn over time, astronomers must ...
Astronomy
Apr 1, 2013
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Transforming galaxies
(PhysOrg.com) -- Many of the Universe's galaxies are like our own, displaying beautiful spiral arms wrapping around a bright nucleus. Examples in this stunning image, taken with the Wide Field Camera 3 on the NASA/ESA Hubble ...
Astronomy
Feb 13, 2012
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Embracing Orion
(Phys.org) —This new view of the Orion A star-formation cloud from ESA's Herschel space observatory shows the turbulent region of space that hugs the famous Orion Nebula.
Astronomy
Aug 26, 2013
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New ways developed to see the formation of stars in the Milky Way
A research team led by Adler Planetarium astronomer Dr. Grace Wolf-Chase has discovered new evidence of stars forming in our Milky Way Galaxy. By using a telescope equipped to detect infrared light invisible to our eyes, ...
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Jul 21, 2017
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