On a clear night, you can make out the band of the Milky Way in the night sky. For millennia, astronomers looked upon it in awe, slowly coming to the realization that our Sun was merely one of billions of stars in the galaxy. ...
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Oct 7, 2016
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UCLA astronomers have made the first accurate measurement of the abundance of oxygen in a distant galaxy. Oxygen, the third-most abundant chemical element in the universe, is created inside stars and released into interstellar ...
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Aug 3, 2016
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An International team led by scientists at ETH Zurich in Switzerland used the W. M. Keck Observatory to study the role of star formation rates in metal contents of distant galaxies. What they discovered is the amount of metals ...
Astronomy
May 11, 2016
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A new University of Sussex study has cleared the air on what lies behind hot dust visible in the distant universe.
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May 6, 2016
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Astronomers have observed two black holes in nearby galaxies devouring their companion stars at an extremely high rate, and spitting out matter at a quarter the speed of light.
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Apr 28, 2016
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Astronomers have discovered a spectacular tail of gas more than 300,000 light years across coming from a nearby galaxy.
Astronomy
Feb 22, 2016
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Hundreds of hidden nearby galaxies have been studied for the first time, shedding light on a mysterious gravitational anomaly dubbed the Great Attractor.
Astronomy
Feb 9, 2016
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You might think that astronomers could easily tell the difference between a black hole and a white dwarf – but nature can be deceptive.
Astronomy
Jan 10, 2016
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A team of astrophysicists led by Dr Kalliopi Dasyra discovered fast winds of molecular and atomic gas that were caused by the interaction of the jet of a supermassive black hole with interstellar medium clouds in the nearby ...
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Dec 2, 2015
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(Phys.org)—An international team of astronomers led by Behnam Javanmardi of the University of Bonn in Germany has recently discovered 11 low surface brightness (LSB) systems located around nearby spiral galaxies. The researchers ...
