Webb telescope reveals deepest image of early universe
Humanity's view of the distant cosmos will never be the same.
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News tagged with colliding galaxies
When galaxies collide: Hubble showcases six beautiful galaxy mergers
It is during rare merging events that galaxies undergo dramatic changes in their appearance and in their stellar content. These systems are excellent laboratories to trace the formation of star clusters under extreme physical ...
Astronomy
Jan 7, 2021
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New collection of stars, not born in our galaxy, discovered in Milky Way
Astronomers can go their whole career without finding a new object in the sky. But for Lina Necib, a postdoctoral scholar in theoretical physics at Caltech, the discovery of a cluster of stars in the Milky Way, but not born ...
Astronomy
Jul 7, 2020
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First-ever photo proof of powerful jet emerging from colliding galaxies
A team of Clemson University College of Science researchers, in collaboration with international colleagues, has reported the first definitive detection of a relativistic jet emerging from two colliding galaxies—in essence, ...
Astronomy
Apr 7, 2020
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Looking for warm dark matter
In the last century, astronomers studying the motions of galaxies and the character of the cosmic microwave background radiation came to realize that most of the matter in the universe was not visible. About 84% of the matter ...
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Aug 5, 2019
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Why is the night sky black?
It sounds obvious. That's what night is. The sun has set and when you look up at the sky, it's black. Except where there's a star, of course. The stars are bright and shiny.
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Dec 2, 2015
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Best of Last Week – Nobel prize winners announced, new kind of fusion reactor and a new drug that destroys tumors
It was another banner week for physics as the Nobel Prize in physics was announced—Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura shared the prize for their work in inventing a new kind of LED. Also, mysteriously, a team ...
Revolutionary instrument delivers a sharper universe to astronomers
A unique new instrument at Gemini South in Chile takes the removal of atmospheric distortions (using adaptive optics technology) to a new level. Today's release of seven ultrasharp, large-field images from the instrument's ...
Astronomy
Jul 2, 2013
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NGC 6240: Colossal hot cloud envelopes colliding galaxies
(Phys.org) —Scientists have used Chandra to make a detailed study of an enormous cloud of hot gas enveloping two large, colliding galaxies. This unusually large reservoir of gas contains as much mass as 10 billion Suns, ...
Astronomy
Apr 30, 2013
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The survivors of a 13 billion year old massacre
(PhysOrg.com) -- Our Milky Way galaxy is surrounded by some 200 compact groups of stars, containing up to a million stars each. At 13 billion years of age, these globular clusters are almost as old as the universe itself ...
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Feb 14, 2012
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