News tagged with milky way galaxy
Related topics: galaxies , stars , black holes , distant galaxy , star formation
Jumbo Jellyfish or Massive Star?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Some might see a blood-red jellyfish in a forest of seaweed, while others might see a big, red eye or a pair of lips. In fact, the red-colored object in this new infrared image from NASA's ...
Jun 17, 2010 |
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Astronomers Witness a Star Being Born
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have glimpsed what could be the youngest known star at the very moment it is being born. Not yet fully developed into a true star, the object is in the earliest stages of star ...
Jun 17, 2010 |
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Massive black holes 'switched on' by galaxy collision
(PhysOrg.com) -- The centre of most galaxies harbours a massive black hole. Our Milky Way galaxy is one of these - the exotic object there however is reasonably calm, unlike some super-massive gravity monsters ...
Jun 15, 2010 |
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Swift Survey finds 'Smoking Gun' of Black Hole Activation (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Data from an ongoing survey by NASA's Swift satellite have helped astronomers solve a decades-long mystery about why a small percentage of black holes emit vast amounts of energy.
May 26, 2010 |
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Astronomers Discover Clue to Origin of Milky Way Gas Clouds
A surprising discovery that hydrogen gas clouds found in abundance in and above our Milky Way Galaxy have preferred locations has given astronomers a key clue about the origin of such clouds, which play an ...
May 26, 2010 |
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The Far Infrared Galaxy
(PhysOrg.com) -- Our Milky Way galaxy, like other spiral galaxies, has copious amounts of dust in its spiral arms. The dust absorbs starlight, thereby blocking our optical views, but at the same time it re-radiates ...
May 24, 2010 |
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Hubble Finds Star Eating a Planet
(PhysOrg.com) -- The hottest known planet in the Milky Way galaxy may also be its shortest-lived world. The doomed planet is being eaten by its parent star, according to observations made by a new instrument ...
May 20, 2010 |
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The case of the grown-up galaxy
(PhysOrg.com) -- It seems, early on its life, our Universe was a place of extremes.
May 20, 2010 |
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A cluster and a sea of galaxies (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new wide-field image released today by ESO displays many thousands of distant galaxies, and more particularly a large group belonging to the massive galaxy cluster known as Abell 315. As ...
May 05, 2010 |
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UA Camera Begins Next Leg on Journey to Space
(PhysOrg.com) -- NIRCam, the UA-designed infrared eye of the upcoming James Web Space Telescope, passed a key test and is on its way to the GoddardSpace Flight Center in Maryland. The telescope, designed to ...
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May 04, 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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Space Telescope Moves on with One Detector
(PhysOrg.com) -- Mission engineers and scientists with NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer, a space telescope that has been beaming back pictures of galaxies for three times its design lifespan, are no longer ...
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Apr 13, 2010 |
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Studying Matter and Radiation from the Early Universe
(PhysOrg.com) --Almost 400,000 years after the universe was created in the big bang, matter cooled sufficiently for neutral atoms to form, thereby allowing the pervasive light to propagate almost completely ...
Apr 12, 2010 |
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Hiding Out Behind the Milky Way
(PhysOrg.com) -- A leggy cosmic creature comes out of hiding in this new infrared view from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE.
Apr 07, 2010 |
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Intense Star Formation in the Early Universe
(PhysOrg.com) -- Distant galaxies are not only far away in space. Because it takes time for their light to reach us, they are also very far away in time -- snapshots from the distant past.
Apr 02, 2010 |
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