Image: Hubble glimpses bright galaxy group LEDA 60847
This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a group of interacting galaxies known as LEDA 60847.
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Webb Telescope captures massive star-forming complex
This image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope features an H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. This nebula, known as N79, is a region of interstellar atomic hydrogen ...
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Astronomers detect oldest black hole ever observed
Researchers have discovered the oldest black hole ever observed, dating from the dawn of the universe, and found that it is 'eating' its host galaxy to death.
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Jan 17, 2024
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Webb data suggest many early galaxies were long and thin, not disk-like or spherical
Columbia researchers analyzing images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have found that galaxies in the early universe are often flat and elongated, like breadsticks—and are rarely round, like balls of pizza dough.
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Jan 17, 2024
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Searching for dark matter in gaps between stars
Although dark matter makes up about 27% of the universe, astronomers have been unable to observe it directly.
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Jan 17, 2024
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Twins or cousins? Sub-Neptune exoplanets could provide an answer
Astronomers have discovered a pair of exoplanets orbiting an M dwarf star, one of which is the coldest M dwarf planet found by the TESS satellite observatory, making it accessible for follow-up studies of its atmosphere. ...
Astronomers produce most sensitive radio image ever of ancient star cluster
A global team of astronomers have created the most sensitive radio image ever of a globular cluster, an ancient ball of tightly packed stars.
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Jan 16, 2024
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Image: Hubble captures a monster merger
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features Arp 122, a peculiar galaxy that in fact comprises two galaxies—NGC 6040, the tilted, warped spiral galaxy and LEDA 59642, the round, face-on spiral—that are in the midst ...
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Jan 15, 2024
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The first 3D map of magnetic fields in our galaxy explains star-forming regions
A team of astronomers including those from the University of Tokyo have created the first-ever map of magnetic field structures within a spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy. Previous studies on galactic magnetic fields only ...
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Jan 11, 2024
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'Stellar paternity tests' match orphaned stars to their Milky Way origins
In the chaotic environment of open star clusters, strong gravitational interactions between bodies can launch individual stars far outside the cluster, even outside our galaxy, the Milky Way. Now, for the first time researchers ...
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Jan 10, 2024
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