Research team discovers unique supernova explosion
One-hundred million light years away from Earth, an unusual supernova is exploding.
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News tagged with dark nebulae
It looks like dark matter can be heated up and moved around
Look at a galaxy, what do you see? Probably lots of stars. Nebulae too. And that's probably it. A whole bunch of stars and gas in a variety of colorful assortments; a delight to the eye. And buried among those stars, if you ...
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Jan 11, 2019
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Glory from gloom
A dark cloud of cosmic dust snakes across this spectacular wide field image, illuminated by the brilliant light of new stars. This dense cloud is a star-forming region called Lupus 3, where dazzlingly hot stars are born from ...
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Jan 31, 2018
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A star's moment in the spotlight
The glowing region in this new image from the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope is a reflection nebula known as IC 2631. These objects are clouds of cosmic dust that reflect light from a nearby star into space, creating a stunning ...
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Feb 10, 2016
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A cosmic sackful of black coal
Dark smudges almost block out a rich star field in this new image captured by the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile. The inky areas are small parts of a huge dark nebula known as the Coalsack, ...
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Oct 14, 2015
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Where did all the stars go? Dark cloud obscures hundreds of background stars
Some of the stars appear to be missing in this intriguing new ESO image. But the black gap in this glitteringly beautiful starfield is not really a gap, but rather a region of space clogged with gas and dust. This dark cloud ...
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Jan 07, 2015
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'A drop of ink on the luminous sky'
This part of the constellation of Sagittarius (The Archer) is one of the richest star fields in the whole sky—the Large Sagittarius Star Cloud. The huge number of stars that light up this region dramatically emphasise the ...
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Feb 13, 2013
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'This is not a pipe': Curious dark nebula seen as never before
(Phys.org) -- Just as René Magritte wrote “This is not a pipe” on his famous painting, this is also not a pipe. It is however a picture of part of a vast dark cloud of interstellar dust called the Pipe Nebula. ...
Astronomy
Aug 15, 2012
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'Zombie' stars key to measuring dark energy
"Zombie" stars that explode like bombs as they die, only to revive by sucking matter out of other stars. According to an astrophysicist at UC Santa Barbara, this isn't the plot for the latest 3D blockbuster movie. Instead, ...
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Jun 30, 2011
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