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Birth of a star predicted

The astrophysicist João Alves, director of the Calar Alto Observatory in Almeria, and his colleague Andreas Bürkert, from the German observatory in the University of Munich, believe that "the inevitable future of the starless ...

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The turbulent birth of super star clusters in galaxy mergers

By combining two of the most advanced telescopes in the world -- the new Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) and the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of ESO -- a team of French astronomers from the Institut d'astrophysique ...

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created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

VLT takes most detailed infrared image of the Carina Nebula

(PhysOrg.com) -- ESO's Very Large Telescope has delivered the most detailed infrared image of the Carina Nebula stellar nursery taken so far. Many previously hidden features, scattered across a spectacular ...

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created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Do black holes help stars form?

(PhysOrg.com) -- The center of just about every galaxy is thought to host a black hole, some with masses of thousands of millions of Suns and consequently strong gravitational pulls that disrupt material around ...

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created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

The wild early lives of today's most massive galaxies

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using the APEX telescope, a team of astronomers has found the strongest link so far between the most powerful bursts of star formation in the early Universe, and the most massive galaxies ...

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created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Stellar embryos

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stars form as gravity coalesces the gas and dust in interstellar clouds until the material produces clumps dense enough to become stars. But precisely how this happens, and whether or not ...

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created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Tiny baby leaves Los Angeles hospital amid fanfare

(AP) -- One of the world's smallest surviving babies was discharged Friday from the hospital where she spent nearly five months in an incubator - but not before getting the Hollywood treatment.

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LA hospital prepares to send tiny baby home

(AP) -- One of the world's smallest surviving babies is headed home.

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Hubble pinpoints furthest protocluster of galaxies ever seen

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have uncovered a cluster of galaxies in the initial stages of development, making it the most distant such grouping ever observed in ...

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created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 42 | with audio podcast

Before they were stars: New image shows space nursery

(PhysOrg.com) -- The stars we see today weren't always as serene as they appear, floating alone in the dark of night. Most stars, likely including our sun, grew up in cosmic turmoil — as illustrated in ...

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created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Stars pop onto the scene in new WISE image

(PhysOrg.com) -- This enormous section of the Milky Way galaxy is a mosaic of images from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The constellations Cassiopeia and Cepheus are featured in this ...

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created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2


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