(Phys.org) -- While some galaxies are rotund and others are slender disks like our spiral Milky Way, new observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope show that the Sombrero galaxy is both. The galaxy, which is a round ...
Astronomy
Apr 25, 2012
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Astronomers are engaged in a lively debate over plans to rename one of the laws of physics.
Astronomy
Aug 31, 2018
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A dragon eating the Sun. Make that a giant toad. A demon. No, a vampire!
Space Exploration
Aug 18, 2017
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How much light does a supernova shed on the history of universe?
Astronomy
Jan 4, 2017
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Hot Jupiters, giant Jupiter-like exoplanets that orbit 20 times closer to their host stars than the Earth does to the Sun, can form and migrate towards their infant stars in as little as a few million years, researchers at ...
Astronomy
Sep 9, 2015
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A spectacular galaxy collision has been discovered lurking behind the Milky Way. The closest such system ever found, the discovery was announced today by a team of astronomers led by Prof. Quentin Parker at the University ...
Astronomy
Aug 17, 2015
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A team of three Dutch astronomers from the University of Amsterdam and Leiden University found a new way to form two black holes that orbit each other for quite a while and then merge. Their publication with computer simulations ...
Astronomy
Jun 27, 2017
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Scientists have created computer simulations of events soon after the Big Bang to better understand how stars today are being formed.
Astronomy
May 8, 2017
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Using the brand-new Sardinia Radio Telescope (SRT), a giant parabolic dish of 64 meters diameter, a team of astronomers from the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) and the University of Cagliari have produced ...
Astronomy
Jul 14, 2016
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(Phys.org) —An international team of astronomers has discovered that gas around young galaxies is almost barren, devoid of the seeds from which new stars are thought to form – molecules of hydrogen.
Astronomy
Jul 14, 2014
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