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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 ...

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created May 20, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0




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Nomads of the galaxy

A recent study proposes the galaxy is crowded with nomad planets adrift in space. If this is the case, nomad planets may play a dynamic role in the universe.

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created May 23, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 7

Herschel reveals galaxy-packed filament

(Phys.org) -- A McGill-led research team using the Herschel Space Observatory has discovered a giant, galaxy-packed filament ablaze with billions of new stars. The filament connects two clusters of galaxies ...

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created May 17, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

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

Discovery of the Musket Ball Cluster

(Phys.org) -- Using a combination of powerful observatories in space and on the ground, astronomers have observed a violent collision between two galaxy clusters in which so-called normal matter has been wrenched ...

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created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Recycling galaxies caught in the act

(PhysOrg.com) -- When astronomers add up all the gas and dust contained in ordinary galaxies like our own Milky Way, they stumble on a puzzle: There is not nearly enough matter for stars to be born at the ...

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created Mar 30, 2012 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

Runaway planets zoom at a fraction of light speed

Seven years ago, astronomers boggled when they found the first runaway star flying out of our Galaxy at a speed of 1.5 million miles per hour. The discovery intrigued theorists, who wondered: If a star can ...

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created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (18) | comments 22 | with audio podcast

Stars made from galactic recycling material

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ordinary galaxies such as our own Milky Way contain a plethora of gas and dust. Nevertheless, there is not nearly enough matter to explain how galaxies produce new stars at the observed rates ...

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created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Dark matter core defies explanation

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using data from NASA's Hubble Telescope have observed what appears to be a clump of dark matter left behind from a wreck between massive clusters of galaxies. The result could ...

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created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (25) | comments 87 | with audio podcast

'Beam me up, Scotty:' ASU professor uses Star Trek themes to communicate science

Before firing up the dilithium crystals in your warp drive, you should know what you are getting into, said Lawrence Krauss, ASU Foundation Professor at Arizona State University. When applied to the known laws of physics, ...

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created Feb 19, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Missing dark matter located: Intergalactic space is filled with dark matter

Researchers at the University of Tokyo’s Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU) and Nagoya University used large-scale computer simulations and recent observational data of gravitational ...

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created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (40) | comments 72 | with audio podcast


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