Image: Hubble probes colorful galaxy
This image displays a swirling spiral galaxy named NGC 2906.
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New telescope design could capture distant celestial objects with unprecedented detail
Researchers have designed a new camera that could allow hypertelescopes to image multiple stars at once. The enhanced telescope design holds the potential to obtain extremely high-resolution images of objects outside our ...
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Mar 18, 2020
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Study determines fundamental parameters of four open clusters
Using data from various astronomical surveys, a team of researchers from China and India has investigated four poorly studied open clusters in our Milky Way galaxy. The new study, presented in a paper published March 5 on ...
Milky Way galaxy 'reverse engineered'
Like taking apart a piece of technology, the Milky Way galaxy has been reverse engineered to find out how it was assembled.
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New binary millisecond pulsar discovered in NGC 6205
Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), astronomers have detected a new binary millisecond pulsar (MSP) in the globular cluster NGC 6205. The newly found pulsar received designation PSR J1641+3627F. ...
Astronomers perform a comprehensive study of young open cluster NGC 1960
Indian astronomers have conducted a comprehensive photometric, kinematic and variability study of a young open cluster known as NGC 1960. Results of the research shed more light on the properties of this cluster and its member ...
The Milky Way's impending galactic collision is already birthing new stars
The outskirts of the Milky Way are home to the galaxy's oldest stars. But astronomers have spotted something unexpected in this celestial retirement community: a flock of young stars.
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Heavyweight in the heart of the Abell 85 central galaxy
In space, black holes appear in different sizes and masses. The record is now held by a specimen in the Abell 85 cluster of galaxies, where an ultra-massive black hole with 40 billion times the mass of our sun sits in the ...
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Astronomers investigate stellar content of the open cluster NGC 330
Using the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, astronomers have conducted a spectroscopic study of the young open cluster NGC 330. Results of the research, published on arXiv.org, ...
Blowtorch jets from a black hole drive starbirth
Supermassive black holes, weighing millions or even billions of times our Sun's mass, are still only a tiny fraction of the mass of the galaxies they inhabit. But in some cases, the central black hole is the tail wagging ...
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